Check out Mass Culture’s areas of focus below.
Arts Impact
Mass Culture has a number of projects to help support the arts sector understand and share its impact.
Arts Service Organizations
Since our inception, Mass Culture has continually collaborated with and done research in support of Arts Service Organizations.
Governance
Mass Culture collaborates with members of the arts community to take a thoughtful, in-depth look at governance and the alternative ways it can be structured, examining the processes, relationships, and power dynamics that shape decision-making, authority, and accountability within organizations and systems. Grounded in a shared understanding of what governance is and what it requires, this work helps shape the values and frameworks that guide collective action.
Research in Partnership
These are the research projects that we’re doing in collaboration with individuals and organizations from the sector.
Space Project
with Why Not Theatre
As real estate becomes increasingly expensive, cultural spaces become harder to acquire and operate. With Space Project, we aim to reduce barriers and provide greater access to spaces for artists who need it most. By connecting artists to property managers and community leaders, we’re seeking to find a sustainable method of offering affordable space to artists.
ReAct, ReCreate, ReVision
with Foundation for Leadership, Imagination, and Place (FLIP) & OCADU
ReAct, ReCreate, ReVision is a SSHRC-funded research project employing arts-based research methodologies to surface and amplify marginalized and suppressed knowledges and resistances.
Staging Better Futures
with Brock University
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.