Recreation Programming for Arts and Culture in Melgund Township

Global Dignity Canada hosts a virtual news conference to celebrate the second annual National Kindness Week. Introduced as a private member’s bill (S-223), the Kindness Week Act became law in June 2021, designating the third week of February as National Kindness Week. Taking part in the news conference are MPs Michael Barrett (Leeds–Grenville–Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, Ont.), Emmanuella Lambropoulos (Saint-Laurent, Que.), and Blake Desjarlais (Edmonton Griesbach, Alta.), as well as Jamie Bell (Winnipeg chair of Global Dignity Canada) and Paul Luftenegger (interfaith minister and singer/songwriter). The event is moderated by Global Dignity Canada’s Giovanna Mingarelli (chair) and Olivia Bechthold (executive director). (no interpretation)

Programs returning in January 2023!

In 2023, the township will see many exciting opportunities emerging for exhibition, curation, community building, professional and organizational development training.

Arts and culture programming will return in January 2023 with a special exhibition for Canada’s second National Kindness Week.

In February 2023 the project aims to host its first guest curators. 2023 Winter Arts Workshops will be held in partnership with visiting @1860 Winnipeg Arts team members. Also in 2023, the program plans to explore expanding on this September’s highly successful artists retreat with a new artists-in-residence pilot program.

For more information, see our Events Calendar.

The Gallery on 603 Project: Incubating recreational arts and culture for a healthy, resilient community.

Enhancing the Our People Our Climate Program

The Gallery on 603 Project is a grassroots, volunteer-driven, seasonal community arts and culture collective supporting diverse emerging youth and professional artists and cultural connectors in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. 

Permanent and travelling exhibit spaces are located on two floors along with inspiring video exhibits to view. Exhibits will be changed and refreshed often so visitors can experience the community’s diversity of material and immaterial culture. 

As well as hosting live events, The Gallery on 603 Project is a repository of interviews, films, essays, publications, performance, residencies, talks and games. 2023 will feature new works specially commissioned for The Gallery on 603.

We believe in open-source programming and citizen-led processes, where we share our facilities and resources with a diverse range of artists, individuals and organizations.

Emerging Inuk youth artist Tony Eetak at the Niizhwaaso Collaborative Research Centre at Qaumajuq. He will curating this year’s National Kindness Exhibition with the Our People Our Climate project.
In addition to recreational arts, culture and heritage programming, the Community also hosts presentations and workshops on topics like chocolate making, climate change, digital arts and deep geological repositories for nuclear waste. Photo: Jamie Bell
In addition to recreational arts, culture and heritage programming, the community also supports presentations and workshops from visiting artists and researchers. Topics range from artisanal chocolate making and climate change visualization, to digital arts, cultural entrepreneurship and the socio-economic impacts of deep geological repositories for nuclear waste.
Follow the Northern Lights by @1860 Winnipeg artist Tony Eetak.
Follow the Northern Lights by @1860 Winnipeg artist Tony Eetak. Digital photography was a popular theme this summer in collaboration with the Our People Our Climate Project.

Thank you to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program for making our arts incubator project possible. We could not have done it without their support.

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