Workshops

ArtsCan Circle held a five-day workshop at Dene Tha’ Community School in Chateh, northern Alberta, with one of our long-time musicians Cindy Paul. The Instruments were shipped ahead and donated to the school. Students of all ages wrote songs and played guitars and percussions. They got up and performed their

This week March 9 – 13, ArtsCan Circle returns to Attawapiskat in northern Ontario for a week of creative visual arts workshops with students from Vezina Secondary, supported in full from the Slaight Family Foundation.
Cindy and Lisa will collaborate with students in a project called “Paint the Walls”. While

During the week of April 8 – 12, ArtsCan Circle returns to Fort Albany to Peetabeck School with Mob Bounce! Mob Bounce bring their “hip hop & sacred space” workshops connecting contemporary music to culture in an all-encompassing creative exploration. Get ready for an exciting week ahead!

During the week of February 25 – March 1 ArtsCan Circle sent singer-songwriter Cindy Paul (Natuashish, Pikangikun) and Jessamyn Flynn (Attawapiskat) to Gjoa Haven for music and art workshops at Qiqirtaq Jr High School. in the words of our founder, Mike Stevens “I call Gjoa Haven, ‘Joy Haven’ because it’s

ArtsCan Circle were awarded a TD MusiCounts instruments grant and it’s all coming together really soon.
We successfully secured three Apple MacBook Pro computers with a production education suite, six 88-weighted keyboards, six acoustic guitars with cases with microphones, stands and headphones! We have a three exceptional artist facilitators doing

Our recent creative workshops were so rewarding with many engaged students actively involved, opening up and sharing their thoughts and feelings. We held creative workshops in visual arts, songwriting, singing, composing and engineering. Check out our facebook for the visual art floor cloth and stay tuned for the song that

ArtsCan Circle announces our long-awaited return to Natuashish! From October 14 – 21 ArtsCan will take singer-songwriters Ryan Ainsworth, Cindy Paul & Randy Brethour to work with students at the Mushuau Innu Natuashish School in creative song and sound workshops.
Read More on the artists here…Natuashish OCT 2018 -Workshop Blog

Gary Atkins is an engineer and producer, an Apple Certified trainer and is on board to set up a recording studio and run workshops on using LOGIC recording software with the youth of Fort Albany.
Gary is the Technology Co-ordinator for the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). As a Sibelius

ArtsCan Circle is very proud to have strong female representation on our trip to Fort Albany this way. Read about our female artists here…

Gloria Hope is an Indigenous visual artist, sculptor, mural painter, author/illustrator and facilitator of art and nature. She graduated from Seneca College Visual Arts

During the week of April 8th-15th, ArtsCan Circle returns to Fort Albany First Nation community in Northern Ontario to conduct multidisciplinary art workshops with the Elementary and Secondary students of Peetabeck Academy School. We’re so excited to bring our team of world class artists to this community for our second