1.0 Purposes

Nourish positive change and care with, by, and for creatives of all kinds.

Mission

Our mission is to nurture thriving ecosystems of care in all realms of life via the wisdom and creativity of arts and culture.

Vision

Our vision is to empower artists and other creatives from the margins to guide radical social change and real community care within and beyond their usual surroundings.

We realize our vision by equipping creatives of all kinds to overcome obstacles and crises that hamper their potential to nurture bright and caring futures in a chaotic world. By doing so, we believe we will help boost their capacity to grow springs of wellness with, by, and for us all.

Mandate

Our mandate is to strengthen prosperity and wellbeing by cultivating knowledge, ecosystems, and platforms of creative care in both human and natural life.

We work with artists, curators, educators, producers, and other creatives from across Canada and beyond to co-create meaningful responses to the complex challenges that amplify vulnerabilities in their lives, communities, and planet wide.

We seek to unpack and address the many root causes and wicked consequences of precarity. These include spatial, social, environmental, economic, digital, disability, accessibility, and other concerns. Our aim is to promote justice and support thriving and caring cultural ecosystems in solidarity with other social impact movements.

For example, in alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, to date we have worked on arts and culture-led remedies and therapies to urgent issues that threaten our society. These include gentrification, digitalization, economic exploitation, pandemic disruption, regional and disciplinary disconnection, and social injustices such as racism, colonialism, and ableism. In the future, we also aim to encourage creative responses to environmental disasters, such as the climate crisis and freshwater conservation.

Seeds for change

We embrace four values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that help creatives to guide social change. They are: 

Theory of care

We believe four steps will help cultivate vibrant cultures of care within and beyond arts and culture. They are:


Revision #10
Created 6 December 2024 07:38:28 by ArtsPond
Updated 10 December 2024 02:04:09 by ArtsPond