The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective (NRCC) has been awarded a $30,000 Canada Council for the Arts “Arts Abroad” project grant for an international artists’ exchange and artists’ tour of the region.
The Broken Forests Endangered Boreal symposium and performance series will be produced by the NRCC this summer (August 15 – 30).
Up to 20 artists from across Canada and from other countries will travel from various communities in the south and from Timmins and Kirkland Lake to participate in performance events, arts discussions and mini arts residencies in North Bay and Kirkland Lake.
The group will also travel to Wikiwemikong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island and Temagami First Nation.
The Broken Forests group of curators and artists has been working for five years to create arts events that will shine light upon forests all over the world, create art about the exploitation and extraction processes that deplete the forests of their bio-diversity and produce arts events that will nurture our wilderness areas and sacred sites says a news release.
The NRCC is an arts collective that has banded together to organize arts events like: Culture Days, NOVAH Gallery and Gallery 222 exhibitions, Creativity conferences, and visual art exhibitions across northeastern Ontario. The group was incorporated as a not-for-profit cultural organization in 2016.
“The Broken Forests project presents a great opportunity for us to connect our local artists with arts audiences in other countries, and it is also going to galvanize 'arts tourism' across the region because we will be working with tourism service providers on an annual basis to bring artists and audiences interested in culture to the area,” said Dermot Wilson, executve director for the NRCC.
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