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Arts Impact
Mass Culture has a number of projects to help support the arts sector understand and share its impact.
React, Recreate, Revision
ReAct, ReCreate, ReVision is a SSHRC-funded research project employing arts-based research methodologies to surface and amplify marginalized and suppressed knowledges and resistances. It will explore cultural policymaking gaps and processes with young 2SLBGTQI+ and BIPOC artists as co-researchers, to increase their access and opportunities to make critical contributions to policies that affect them. Together, partners and researchers will mobilize diverse experiences and knowledges to co-create and impact processes of change towards community arts, and social justice informed policymaking. The project is facilitated by a team of artists and researchers from partner organizations including The Institute (a project of Sketch Working Arts), Mass Culture, and OCAD University. The project is coordinated by Dr. Alia Weston and Charlotte Lombardo.
Trajectories of Now Exhibition
On June 7, 2024 at Trajectories of Now Exhibition, FLIP and Mass Culture co-produced a day of conversation. 45 participants gathered, listened, and contributed to dialogue for shaping our collective path forward. The attendance included cross-sectoral and industry individuals including Artists, Leaders, Funders, Investors/Donors, Financial Advisors, Arts Organizations, Researchers and Government.
After listening to artists telling their stories and participating in discussions of FLIP principles and practices participants contributed their thoughts and reflections on dozens of sticky notes.
We gathered these participants to nourish the power of collaboration, in the strength of diverse voices converging towards a common goal. The following summary attempts to make sense of the variety and richness of these valuable contributions.
Staging Better Futures
SBF/MSMA is a cross-sectoral partnership mandated to enact decolonial, anti-racist, and intersectional feminist change in post-secondary theatre education across Canada. With a Partnership SSHRC grant (budget of $5.5 million over seven years) SBF/MSMA brings together 120 official partners to address the barriers to DC/AR/EDI in the post-secondary theatre sector. Mass Culture’s involvement in this research project is to lead the project’s governance study.
