What's New
National Youth Arts Week is six months away and planning is well underway. Projects and events are going to take place in communities across the country and we need your help! Visit www.youthartsweek.ca for more information about the week. There you'll find the tools you'll need to plan or find an event in your community.
Visit the site to get inspired - see examples of events your peers will be hosting in their communities and use our tools to plan similar events in your own community. If you've got an idea, visit our website and see how you can turn it into a National Youth Arts Week event!
It's going to be big! Make sure you're a part of it.
Current Events
Three Day Youth Theatre Workshops with Debaj (Ages 12+)
Over the last few months, with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotions and in partnership with Debajehmujig Theatre Group, ANCY has been bringing theatre workshops to the following areas of Ontario:
Peterborough, Brantford, Welland, Kingston, Ottawa, Sioux Lookout, Red Lake, and Toronto
Day 1 (3:30 - 8:00pm) - Theatre Improv & Story Creation
Day 2 (Morning) - Forum theatre performance "To Be - Or What!"
(Afternoon) - Forum theatre performance of "To Be - Or What!"
(3:30 - 8:00pm) - Theatre Improv & Story Creation
(4:00 - 5:00) - Performance presented by the Youth
Day 3 (10:00am - 3:30pm) - Theatre Improv & Story Creation with youth from various
local workshops
The workshops use theatre performance to explore issues around drugs, youth mental health and suicide awareness. The workshops include two weekday afternoon sessions and two full day weekend sessions. Our youth animators work with a diverse group of youth from a variety of local organizations around theatre, improv, and story creation. Youth are encouraged to attend at least two of the workshops, including the weekend for a final youth performance.
Contact info@artsnetwork.ca for more details
News
A huge success!
"2011 Harbourfront Symposium: Creative Communities for Children and Youth", Toronto, Ontario
In preparation for the upcoming 2012 National Youth Arts Week, the Arts Network for Children and Youth hosted a three-day symposium at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre. The conference brought together leaders in the children and youth arts sector, politicians and policy makers, and talented, motivated and successful youth from across the country. The conference featured creative 'hands on' workshops,dynamic roundtable discussions, keynote addresses from leaders in the field and national community networking, providing an important opportunity to strengthen Canada's children and youth arts sector.
At the conference, National Youth Arts Week and its website www.youthartsweek.ca were officially launched. Through brainstorming sessions and presentations on the possibilities of National Youth Arts Week events, young leaders left energized and ready to start planning for this ground-breaking event.
For more information about National Youth Arts Week, visit www.youthartsweek.ca or email info@youthartsweek.ca.
Submission to the Government of Canada's
Ministry of Finance 2012 Budget
The mission of the Arts Network for Children and Youth is to ensure that all children and youth have an opportunity to experience creativity and the arts for their personal growth, social development and community involvement. To accomplish this we envision the creation of a "children and youth art sector".
Our proposals to the Government of Canada's Ministry of Finance and the Ontario Standing Committee of Finance include recommendations to ensure that this sector begins to move forward and to stimulate sector growth. It adresses the broader community needs for this sector:
-the need for community place-based infrastructure "Creative Spaces for Children and Youth"
-the need for core operating funding to manage and deliver programs
-the need for trained artists in rural, urban, northern and First Nations communities who will make a life career in delivering community based arts programs to children and youth
Scroll down this page to "Links" and access the proposals in pdf format.
New Fact Sheets
Visit the Research & Reports section to view our new Case Making Fact Sheets:
Art and Education in Schools: A Multifaceted Connection
Creativity, "The Arts", and First Nations
Supporting Child Development in the Early Years Through Art!
The Arts Play a Role in Crime Prevention
Healthy Children Participate in the Arts
Inventory Mapping Project
“Tell Us Your Stories…”
The Arts Network for Children and Youth (ANCY) has just received Trillium funding to continue it's Inventory Mapping Project. In partnership with local municipalities and arts organizations ANCY will be hosting several local/regional "inventory mappings" of arts programs, organizations, artists and infrastructure specific to children and youth across Ontario.
This project is being undertaken for a variety of reasons:
If you are interested in your community hosting this 1/2 day session, please contact ANCY at info@artsnetwork.ca
* To offer an opportunity to local arts organizations and artists to tell us about the projects and programs that they offer to children and youth in their community.
* To collect an inventory of organizations, programs and artists that are delivering arts activities to children and youth in each community.
* To identify local organizations and leaders who are interested in supporting the stabilization and expansion of multi-delivery of programs.
* To present a cross-Canada scan of "creative spaces for children and youth infrastructure and art programs" being delivered across Canada.
* To open up discussion and encourage feedback from the local level as we continue to support and build the "Children and Youth Art Sector".
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People for Education is a group of parents working to support public education in Ontario's English, French, and Catholic Schools.
Proposals to the Ministry of Finance and the Ontario Standing Committee of Finance