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OPPORTUNITIES / OPPORTUNITÉS

This page includes tools for finding opportunities related to the dissemination of your practice, financial support, listings for events and activities, employment opportunities, and general call-out for projects.

Cette page comprend des outils permettant de trouver des opportunités liées à la diffusion de votre pratique, un soutien financier, des listes d'événements et d'activités, ainsi que des opportunités d'emploi et d’appel à projets.

Find Opportunities /
Trouvez des opportunités

Discover calls for opportunities, exhibitions, projects, publications and more— including, but not limited to, residency opportunities, grants & funding, rental spaces, prizes, and various professional development services.

Discover calls for exhibitions, projects and publications:

  • Akimbo’s listings
    Akimbo provides up-to-date information about exhibitions, publications, performances, screenings, lectures, launches, calls for submissions, and jobs, all related and relevant to the cultural sector in Canada. Searches can be filtered to Montreal, and other locations.
  • Calls Canadian Theatre Creators
    Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal promotes shows, readings, and calls for the theatre community.
  • RCAAQ’s calls for proposals
    View calls for jobs, residencies and more across Quebec via the Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec.
  • RAAV’s calls for proposals
    View call for proposals presented by the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec. 
  • ELAN’s call for submissions
    View call for submissions across multiple disciplines via the English Language Arts Network.
  • Submitting an artistic project through municipal venues & maisons de la culture
    This is an ongoing project submission platform to use one of the Maisons de la culture or other municipal venues.
  • RACAR RACAR
    The Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada takes submissions for articles, book & exhibition reviews, and other art history based proposals.

Discover bulletin boards that offer professional development opportunities:

  • Akimbo’s listings
    Akimbo provides up-to-date information about exhibitions, publications, performances, screenings, lectures, launches, calls for submissions, and jobs, all related and relevant to the cultural sector in Canada. Searches can be filtered to Montreal, and other locations.
  • Cultive 
    A digital platform dedicated to supporting professional development within the Quebec cultural sector. A section of the website is dedicated to professional training opportunities. You can also browse per discipline.  

Discover organizations that offer professional development opportunities:

  • ELAN’s workshops
    The English Language Arts Networks provides workshops for music, theatre, visual arts and writing practices.
  • RAAV’s programming
    This is a list of programs provided by the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec.
  • YES MONTREAL
    YES is a non-profit, English-language service provider that helps people find Quebec-wide employment, along with services on how to start and grow a business. YES also provides resources specific for Artists.
  • CODEM’s resources for independent workers in a creative career
    CODEM provides multiple services for individuals and businesses to expand their careers. 
  • LOJIQ
    LOJIQ promotes the professional and personal development of young Quebec adults by allowing them to carry out a project involving mobility in Quebec, Canada or internationally.
  • Academos
    Academos is a free mentorship app that allows you to chat with various professionals. 
  • Canada Council Research Library
    The Canada Council for the Arts is passionate about knowledge mobilization and the promotion of an innovative, data driven culture in support of public funding of the arts in Canada.
  • ilovecreatives
    @ilovecreatives is an online network for creatives to create and share their profiles, as well as offer services.
  • CAHD’s internships & opportunities
    Centre for the Arts in Human Development provides educational opportunities and training for those in Creative Arts Therapies.
  • QDF’s workshops
    Quebec Drama Federation provides training, development, and employability support for English-speaking theatre artists and cultural workers in Quebec

  • Artenda
    International residency and grant opportunities
  • Carrefour culturel de Notre-Dame-des-Prairies
    Cultural programming and open calls for short term projects once a year for research and creation.
  • CCOV
    For artists in dance. Open calls for short-term projects twice a year for simple and technical residencies.
  • RCAAQ’s residencies offers
    This points to a list of calls for Quebec-based residencies.
  • Conseil des arts de Montreal’s residencies
    Residencies provided by the Conseil des arts de Montreal covers various creative disciplines.
  • Resartis
    Res Artis: Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies is a network of arts residency operators from around the globe.
  • Residency Unlimited
    Residency Unlimited (RU) provides customized residencies for international and local artists and curators in New York City focused on network support, project/production assistance, and public exposure.

 

The following resources provide a list of prizes and distinctions across all creative disciplines:

Discover a list of grants for all creative practitioners:

Discover a list of grants specific to certain disciplines:

Discover other funding opportunities:

Discover employment opportunities within the cultural sector:

  • Akimbo’s listings
    Akimbo provides up-to-date information about calls for submissions and jobs related to the cultural sector in Canada. Searches can be filtered to Montreal, and other locations.
  • Backstage
    Backstage serves as the #1 resource for actors and performers to find high-quality roles to match their interests and career goals. Unlimited submissions, best-in-class casting tools, and more performance roles than any other casting service.
  • Cultive 
    A digital platform dedicated to supporting professional development within the Quebec cultural sector. A section of the website is dedicated to job postings. 
  • ELAN’s job opportunities
    This list of employment opportunities is provided by the English Language Arts Networks.
  • Entremetteur
    Entremetteur is a francophone freelance recruitment platform. 
  • Grenier’s employment listings
    This service lists general employment opportunities within the  cultural sector.
  • RCAAQ’s employment listings
    This list of employment opportunities is provided by Réseau Art Actuel, an initiative of the Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec.

Bulletin boards for finding cultural events and activities:

  • Akimbo’s listings
    Akimbo provides up-to-date information about exhibitions, publications, performances, screenings, lectures, launches, calls for submissions, and jobs, related and relevant to the cultura sector in Canada. Searches can be filtered to Montreal, and other locations.
  • CreativeMornings
    CreativeMornings are a series of free face-to-face and online events for the creative community to come together through inspiring talks and breakfast in over 200 cities, including Montreal.
  • Festival Filministes
    Feminist film festival with short and long features
  • International remote and in-person design events and community
  • RCAAQ’s events
    This is a list of events happening in Montreal, and Quebec more broadly, provided by Réseau Art Actuel, an initiative of the Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec.
  • Universes in Universe
    Universes in Universe publishes information on art destinations, biennials, exhibitions, art projects, and articles. They cooperate with institutions, event organizers, galleries, groups and individuals worldwide.

Find services according to your discipline / Trouver des services liés à votre discipline

View representative councils and associations for Art Education:

  • AQÉSAP
    AQÉSAP is a resources for educators that actively collaborates within the various working committees of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
  • CSEA/SCEA
    The Canadian Society for Education through Art represents art educators, students and artists in schools, universities, and art galleries. 
  • NAEA
    The National Art Education Association invests in innovative initiatives to support instructional practice, research, and leadership in visual arts education. 

Discover networks and communities for Art Education:

  • INSEA
    The International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) is a non-governmental organization and official partner of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
  • ELAN ACE Initiative
    ACE Initiative for Arts, Communities, Education aims to connect and develop projects with and for members of their community.
  • Art Hives Network
    Art Hive is a community art studio that functions as a pop-up in local libraries, community studios or galleries. Art Hive provides a downloadable guide and various resources for starting, running and promoting an art hive.

View external toolboxes for Art Education:

  • TEMPO Resource Library
    The TEMPO Resource Library includes tools, strategies, and resources for teaching, performing and making online. The collection also contains examples of creative approaches to using online platforms, reimagining them as artistic mediums. 
  • CSEA Resources
    This list of art resources and teacher resource kits is provided by the Canadian Society for Education through Art. 

View representative councils and associations for Art History:

  • UAAC/AAUC
    The Universities Art Association of Canada provides a national voice for its membership, composed of university and college faculty, independent scholars and other art professionals in the fields of art, art history and visual culture. Institutions may also join, with members’ views and scholarship presented through an annual conference, and a scholarly journal.

View external toolboxes for Art History:

Discover research centres for Art History:

  • ARTEXTE
    ARTEXTE has a catalogue of contemporary Canadian art publications, as well as an open access repository for Canadian art publishers to upload their publications digitally and have it available to be downloaded from the library.

Discover podcasts related to Art History:

  • Momus Podcast
    The Momus podcast explores a variety of timely themes relating to contemporary art and the present moment. Momus publisher and podcast host, Sky Goodden, delves into back rooms, biennials, and white cubes, bringing Momus's unique brand of fresh, urgent criticism into conversation with leading artists, curators, and art writers from around the world.
  • The Lonely Palette
    The Lonely Palette is an art history podcast hosted by Tamar Avishai, a lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Discover magazines related to Art History:

  • RACAR RACAR
    The Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada reflects the range and diversity of art history practices in Canada and internationally by publishing reviews of recent books and exhibitions. They also offer space for artists to present, reflect upon, and discuss their work, as well as a forum for current concerns, debates, and polemics in art history.

Discover news related to Art History:

  • Artnet News
    Artnet News offers current updates and news on the art world and market.
  • Artsy
    Artsy is an online platform for discovering, buying and selling fine art. Artsy also offers art criticism, coverage of exhibitions, fairs and auctions across the world.
  • Artforum
    Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary arts.  They feature in-depth articles and reviews, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, personal essays, commissioned works, and numerous full-page advertisements from galleries around the world.

View representative councils and associations for Contemporary Dance:

  • Regroupement Québécois de la danse
    The Regroupement québécois de la danse represents individuals and professional organizations working in dance, with the aim of promoting and contributing to the improvement of conditions in dance practices.
  • CAPACOA
    The Canadian Association for the Performing Arts (CAPACOA) is a national arts service organization for the performing arts touring and presenting community. Their membership allows for numerous development and mentorship programs, to participate in their annual conference and network opportunities.

View external toolboxes for Contemporary Dance:

  • Artist Producer Resource
    Artist Producer Resource is a free, searchable online encyclopedia of information, resources, tools, and templates for producing independent performance work in Canada. 
  • Studio 303
    Taking the Leap is an online guidebook for the production and presentation of work by emerging contemporary dance choreographers in Montreal.
  • Tangente 
    As part of its mandate to support artists in the early stages of their career, Tangente gathers here various resources for emerging artists.

View a list of presenters for Contemporary Dance:

View representative councils and associations for Creative Arts Therapies:

  • Canadian Association of Music Therapists
    The Canadian Association of Music Therapists promotes music therapy in supporting, advocating and certifying professional music therapists in Canada. They offer numerous membership types.
  • North American Drama Therapy Association
    The North American Drama Therapy Association aims to support and advance the profession of drama therapy. Membership is offered to gain access to their research and publications, conferences and training, as well as network opportunities.
  • Quebec Art Therapy Association
    The Quebec Art Therapy Association aims to promote practices in creative therapies. They provide a ‘Find an Art Therapist’ feature and accept membership applications.
  • Canadian Art Therapy Association
    The Canadian Art Therapy Association brings together art therapists to raise standards and advance the profession. They provide a list of programs to become an art therapist, a ‘Find an Art Therapist’ feature and accept memberships.

View external toolboxes for Creative Arts Therapies:

Discover networks and communities for Creative Arts Therapies:

  • Art Hives Network
    Art Hive is a community art studio that functions as a pop-up in local libraries, community studios or galleries. Art Hive provides a downloadable guide and various resources for starting, running and promoting an art hive.
  • CATS alumni Facebook group
    This group is for all graduates of Concordia's Creative Arts Therapies program, in all modalities - to share info and resources, and just to have a space to hang out together.  

Find centres and clinics that practice Creative Arts Therapies:

  • Point-Saint-Charles Art Therapy Centre
    The Pointe-St-Charles Art School is a community-driven Fine Art School in Montreal, with an Art Therapy Centre and programming available for all ages.
  • Impatients
    Les Impatients offers creative workshops and encourages exchanges with the community by sharing the creations of its participants.
  • Canevas Center
    Canevas center brings together four humanist and creative art therapists, offering art therapy services to people of all ages wishing to regain well-being by awakening their creative potential.
  • Montreal Therapy Centre
    The Montreal Therapy Centre provides services for individuals, couples, and families, as well as group workshops.
  • CAHD
    Centre for the Arts in Human Development provides educational opportunities through student education and training, volunteering, and internships.

View representative councils and associations for Design and Computation Arts:

  • IMAA
    The Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) is a member-driven non-profit national organization working to advance and strengthen the media arts community in Canada. Representing over 100 independent film, video, audio, and new media production, distribution, and exhibition organizations in all parts of the country, the IMAA serves over 16,000 independent media artists and cultural workers.
  • La Guilde
    La Guilde du jeu vidéo du Québec is a non-profit organization that brings together independent and international video game developers, creators, educational institutions and entrepreneurs in related fields established in Quebec.
  • SDGQ
    The Society of Graphic Designers of Quebec is an active forum where Quebec designers from various practices and backgrounds can meet, get to know each other better, and expand their network. 
  • Xn Québec
    With more than 155 member studios, Xn Quebec brings together producers of digital experiences in Quebec. They represent the interests of the industry with public and governmental institutions, encourages meetings between creators, and promotes the excellence of digital creativity in Quebec and internationally.
  • International Council of Design
    The International Council of Design is an international organisation representing the professions of design
  • Cumulus
    Cumulus represents a dynamic ecosystem for internationalization and global mobility, knowledge exchange, and collaboration in art and design pedagogy, research, and practice.

View external toolboxes for Design and Computation Arts:

  • AIGA
    The Professional Association for Design (AIGA) supports creative practitioners working in design through membership, professional development workshops, opportunities and resources.
  • IDEO Design Thinking
    IDEO Design Thinking provides recourse specific to all things design.
  • IMAASource
    IMAASource is a searchable collection of resources and tools for media artists & practitioners
  • Quartier artisan
    Quartier artisan's mission is to support the growth of craft businesses, and they provide a Toolbox specific to artisanal practices such as design and general arts & crafts.

View a list of providers for Design and Computation Arts:

Discover research centres for Design and Computation Arts:

  • Global Emergent Media Lab
    As part of Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab is a research platform centered on the critical study of global new media. The GEM Lab is open to graduate students, faculty, and other researchers and practitioners.
  • Milieux
    Milieux is an interdisciplinary graduate research institute for New Media Arts, digital culture and information technology at Concordia University.

Discover production centres for Design and Computation Arts:

  • Technology Sandbox
    The Technology Sandbox is a community space for learning by doing,making, playing, and sharing knowledge with one another.  
  • Map of all Fab Labs in province
    This list of digital fabrication laboratories located around Quebec is user and community generated and maintained.
  • échoFAB
    echoFab is a prototype of a neighborhood community digital workshop.
  • List of Fab Labs in the world
    This list of digital fabrication laboratories located around the world is user and community generated and maintained.
  • Concordia Next Generation University: Digital Art
    The Digital Arts initiative aims to be part-think tank, part-incubator, and part-networker, with research centres that make space for creative collaboration and experimentation.

Discover suggested readings for Design and Computation Arts:

  • FLOSS+art
    FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software philosophy, open content and digital art. It provides first-hand insight into its social, political and economic myths and realities.
  • Design Books by Womxn & People of Color
    View a curated list of Design books published by Women and People of Color.
  • The Designed by Women project
    The Designed by Women project encourages a deeper understanding of women's contributions to design.

Discover magazines related to Design and Computation Arts:

  • Makezine
    Make: Community aims to elevate makers, nurture a global cultural movement, and celebrate creativity, innovation and curiosity. The Makezine is a magazine project that covers topics ranging from craft and design, creative home projects, workshops to digital fabrications.

Discover news related to Design and Computation Arts:

  • It's Nice That
    It’s Nice That is a platform for design, offering advice, insight and inspiration for the next generation of creatives. They aim towards engaging works online, in print and through events programmes.

Discover apps and tools for Design and Computation Arts:

  • Blush
    This app is an easy way to create and personalize illustrations from collections offered by their represented illustrators. They provide free and paid services.
  • Framer
    Framer is a design and prototyping tool, with additional resource links and tutorials. Framer offers free and paid services for specialized accounts.
  • Font Awesome
    Font Awesome is a tool that gets vector icons and social logos on websites.
  • FOUND COLOR Archive
    Found color is an archive of exploration of accidental color schemes.
  • Webflow
    Webflow is a tool for building professional and custom websites, with no code. Users can sign up for free by email or Google account.
  • Canva
    Canva is a free graphic design platform that provides professionally designed templates.

View representative councils and associations for Cinema:

  • IMAA
    The Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) is a member-driven non-profit national organization working to advance and strengthen the media arts community in Canada. Representing over 100 independent film, video, audio, and new media production, distribution, and exhibition organizations in all parts of the country, the IMAA serves over 16,000 independent media artists and cultural workers.
  • L’AQTIS 514 AIEST
    The Quebec Association of Image and Sound Technicians is an organization that represents, defends, and supports the interests of those in audiovisual production.
  • RÉALS Québec
    The Association des Réalisateurs et Réalisatrices du Québec is an association defending the interests and the professional, economic, cultural, social and moral rights of those working in film,  performing, and recording arts.

View external toolboxes for Cinema:

  • CISF
    The Canadian Independent Screen Fund (CISF) provides support specifically for Black and People of Color (BPOC) filmmakers to promote equity and representation in the industry.
  • IMAASource
    IMAASource is a searchable collection of resources and tools for media artists & practitioners
  • Montreal Film Group
    The Montreal Film Group brings together those in the film and TV industry to promote community and learning, along with holding networking events.

Discover networks and communities specific to Cinema:

  • BLACK on BLACK FILMS
    BLACK on BLACK FILMS is a Montreal film collective made up of directors, producers, screenwriters of Afro-descendant origins working to promote and develop an Afro-centric cinematographic corpus in Quebec.
  • Cinema Politica
    Cinema Politica is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network made up of the local and campus community. They screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad.

Discover research centres for Cinema:

  • Global Emergent Media Lab
    As part of Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab is a research platform centered on the critical study of global new media. The GEM Lab is open to graduate students, faculty, and other researchers and practitioners.
  • VCR Concordia
    VCR Concordia contains the Concordia Digital Image & Slide Collection : The collection currently holds over 30,000 high resolution digital images that can be downloaded and used for educational and research purposes, including subjects of artifacts, paintings, photographs, ceramics, fibre works, drawing, sculpture, architecture, performance and contemporary art. VCR Concordia also contains the Moving Image Collection comprised of over 41,000 titles dating from 1895 to the current year. Lastly, VCR Concordia contains the CWAHI : a collaborative endeavour that fosters and circulates scholarly research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada. 
    The CWAI contains the Women Artist Database and Documentation Centre
  • Media Queer
    The goal of the Queer Media Database Canada-Québec Project is to maintain a dynamic online catalogue of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) Canadian film, video and digital works. This is a bilingual online research and curatorial tool provides free access to researchers, students, artists, academics, curators, cinephiles, critics, and community members. 
  • Artlist
    Artlist provides royalty-free music licensing and sound effects for video, film and Youtube.

Discover production centres for Cinema:

  • Technology Sandbox
    The Technology Sandbox is a community space for learning by doing,making, playing, and sharing knowledge with one another.  
  • Le Grand Costumier
    Le Grand Costumier has a collection of more than 100,000 pieces available to media productions and the performing arts.
  • Map of all Fab Labs in province
    This list of digital fabrication laboratories located around Quebec is user and community generated and maintained.
  • échoFAB
    echoFab is a prototype of a neighborhood community digital workshop.
  • List of Fab Labs in the world
    This list of digital fabrication laboratories located around the world is user and community generated and maintained.
  • Concordia Next Generation University: Digital Art
    The Digital Arts initiative aims to be part-think tank, part-incubator, and part-networker, with research centres that make space for creative collaboration and experimentation.

Discover magazines related to Cinema:

  • Nouvelles Vues (Founded by MHSoC MA student Bruno Cornellier)
    Nouvelles views  is a bilingual open-access scholarly journal devoted to the practices, theories and history of cinema in Quebec. It was founded by a MA student, Bruno Cornellier, from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
  • Offscreen (online film journal)
    Offscreen is a Montreal-based, online film journal that covers film festivals, retrospectives, film forums, and both popular and more academic events.
  • Synoptique (online film journal)
    Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies is a double-blind peer-review, open access journal, housed in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.

View representative councils and associations for Music:

  • IMAA
    The Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) is a member-driven non-profit national organization working to advance and strengthen the media arts community in Canada. Representing over 100 independent film, video, audio, and new media production, distribution, and exhibition organizations in all parts of the country, the IMAA serves over 16,000 independent media artists and cultural workers.

View external toolboxes for Music:

Discover Music networks and communities:

  • !earshot Distro
    !earshot digital distribution system helps musicians send digital musical submissions to campus and community radio stations.  
  • CJLO
    CJLO is Concordia University's only radio station. 100% non-profit, and run almost entirely by volunteers, the station is located in the heart of the Loyola campus in the NDG borough of Montreal.
  • FairPlay
    A coalition of musicians and music lovers fighting for equity initiatives in the music industry.
  • N10.AS RADIO
    n10.as is an online radio station in Montréal that features a live chat room on their main page for listeners to interact with one another.

View a list of presenters for Music:

Discover research centres for Music:

  • Artlist
    Artlist provides royalty-free music licensing and sound effects for video, film and Youtube.

Discover magazines related to Music:

  • Canadian Musician
    Canada's magazine for professional and amateur musicians. Published since 1979, the magazine covers prominent Canadian artists, the latest gear, technique and the business of music

View representative councils and associations for Studio Arts:

  • IMAA
    The Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) is a member-driven non-profit national organization working to advance and strengthen the media arts community in Canada. Representing over 100 independent film, video, audio, and new media production, distribution, and exhibition organizations in all parts of the country, the IMAA serves over 16,000 independent media artists and cultural workers.
  • RAAV
    The Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV) is the representative association for visual artists in Quebec. RAAV acts as a professional support system and central point of information for artists, and offers professional development and memberships with opportunities.

View external toolboxes for Studio Arts:

  • IMAASource
    IMAASource is a searchable collection of resources and tools for media artists & practitioners
  • Quartier artisan
    Quartier artisan's mission is to support the growth of craft businesses, and they provide a Toolbox specific to artisanal practices such as design and general arts & crafts.
  • RAAV’s tools and resources
    The Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV) is the representative association for visual artists in Quebec. RAAV acts as a professional support system and central point of information for artists, and offers professional development and memberships with opportunities.

Discover research centres for Studio Arts:

  • ARTEXTE
    ARTEXTE has a catalogue of contemporary Canadian art publications, as well as an open access repository for Canadian art publishers to upload their publications digitally and have it available to be downloaded from the library.
  • VCR Concordia
    VCR Concordia contains the Concordia Digital Image & Slide Collection : The collection currently holds over 30,000 high resolution digital images that can be downloaded and used for educational and research purposes, including subjects of artifacts, paintings, photographs, ceramics, fibre works, drawing, sculpture, architecture, performance and contemporary art. VCR Concordia also contains the Moving Image Collection comprised of over 41,000 titles dating from 1895 to the current year. Lastly, VCR Concordia contains the CWAHI : a collaborative endeavour that fosters and circulates scholarly research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada. 
    The CWAHI contains the Women Artist Database and Documentation Centre
  • Artsy
    Artsy is an online platform for discovering, buying and selling fine art. Artsy also offers art criticism, coverage of exhibitions, fairs and auctions across the world.
  • Artnet
    Artnet News offers current updates and news on the art world and market.
  • Artlist
    Artlist provides royalty-free music licensing and sound effects for video, film and Youtube.

Discover production centres for Studio Arts:

  • La Remise
    La Remise is a non-profit solidarity cooperative that stores common use tools made available for loans. They also offer workspaces, and wood, sewing and bike workshops.
  • Technology Sandbox
    The Technology Sandbox is a community space for learning by doing, making, playing, and sharing knowledge with one another.  
  • Map of all Fab Labs in province
    This list of digital fabrication laboratories located around Quebec is user and community generated and maintained.
  • échoFAB
    echoFab is a prototype of a neighborhood community digital workshop.
  • List of Fab Labs in the world
    This list of digital fabrication laboratories located around the world is user and community generated and maintained.

Discover podcasts specific to Studio Arts:

  • Into This
    Into This is a podcast hosted by Marx Ruiz-Wilson featuring conversations with Montreal-based creative professionals.
  • Momus Podcast
    The Momus podcast explores a variety of timely themes relating to contemporary art and the present moment. Momus publisher and podcast host, Sky Goodden, delves into back rooms, biennials, and white cubes, bringing Momus's unique brand of fresh, urgent criticism into conversation with leading artists, curators, and art writers from around the world.
  • The Conversation Podcast
    Explores the contemporary art world through conversations with a range of participants from the center to the fringes and back again.

Discover suggested readings specific to Studio Arts:

Discover magazines related to Studio Arts:

  • Canadian Art
    Canadian Art is a quarterly art magazine published in Toronto and focusing on Canadian contemporary art. The magazine publishes profiles of artists, art news, interviews, editorials, and reviews of modern art exhibitions.
  • Bordercrossings
    Border Crossings is a magazine published quarterly from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It investigates contemporary Canadian and international art and culture. The magazine includes interviews with artists, profiles, exhibition reviews, and portfolios of drawings and photographs.
  • Vie Des Arts
    Depuis 1956, la revue Vie des Arts couvre l'actualité des arts visuels au Québec, au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde, en lui consacrant des articles.
  • Ceramics Monthly
    Ceramic Monthly is a magazine dedicated to serving active potters and ceramic artists worldwide.
  • Espaces art actuel
    Espace magazine is published three times a year by the Centre de diffusion 3D— a not-for-profit corporation and periodical dedicated to promoting contemporary sculpture. Espace posts call for papers on a regular basis and accept advertising proposals.

Discover news related to Studio Arts:

  • Artsy
    Artsy is an online platform for discovering, buying and selling fine art. Artsy also offers art criticism, coverage of exhibitions, fairs and auctions across the world.
  • Artnet News
    Artnet News offers current updates and news on the art world and market.

Discover apps & tools for Studio Arts:

  • Canva
    Canva is a free graphic design platform that provides professionally designed templates.

 

View representative councils and associations for Theatre:

  • Associated Designers of Canada
    The Associated Designers of Canada is a national professional non-profit arts service organization dedicated to promoting the art of live performance design in Canada, including the design of scenery, costumes, lighting, projection, and sound.
  • Quebec Drama Federation
    The Quebec Drama Federation is an arts service organization dedicated to supporting, representing, and lobbying on behalf of English-language theatre in Quebec.
  • Professional Association of Canadian Theatres
    PACT is a national arts service organization serving over 160 member companies, of various sizes, from coast to coast to coast. Browse job listings and oppertunities through their ARTSBOARD.
  • International Organisation of Scenographers Theatre Architects and Technicians
    OISTAT is a global network for theatre practitioners celebrating design, technology and architecture in live performances.

View external toolboxes for Theatre:

  • Artist Producer Resource
    Artist Producer Resource is a free, searchable online encyclopedia of information, resources, tools, and templates for producing independent performance work in Canada. 
  • Conseil Québécois du Théâtre
    The Conseil québécois du théâtre (CQT) represents and supports the development of Quebec theatre practitioners. Their ‘Documentation’ section lists relevant resources for professionals working in theatre.
  • Quebec Drama Database
    The QDF’s Database is a categorized webpage where you can browse resources specifically assembled with the Quebec English Theatre community in mind. 

View a list of providers for Theatre:

  • LEVEL UP 
    Engaging in Meaningful Conversation on Digital Tools in Live Performance, LEVEL UP offer paid design experiments and collaborations. It is a platform for meeting new people and learning new skills.

Discover production centres for Theatre:

  • Le Grand Costumier
    Le Grand Costumier has a collection of more than 100,000 pieces available to media productions and the performing arts.

Discover community-based organizations and networks:

  • Membership with ELAN
    The English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) is a not-for-profit organization that connects, supports, and creates opportunities for Quebec’s English-speaking artists and arts communities.
  • Membership with DAM
    Diversité artistique Montréal’s (DAM) mission is to promote inclusion and cultural equity by supporting immigrant and racialized artists of all disciplines in the development of their careers.
  • Membership with the Feminist Media Studio
    The Feminist Media Studio supports and critically engages with the complex mediations of gendered and queer social life in the context of the unfinished histories of European and American empire, enslavement, and colonization. It supports collective and collaborative study, as well as activism, and curatorial and artistic engagements drawn from the political potency and aesthetic experimentation of feminist media practice.  While full membership of the Feminist Media Studio is restricted to faculty, postdoctoral students, and graduate students at Concordia University, the Studio offers a practice-based lab and a research lab.
  • Membership with Cinema Politica
    Cinema Politica is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network made up of the local and campus community. They screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad.
  • Find a Museum in Quebec
    This guide of Quebec museums is provided by the Société des musées du Québec.

Discover multi-disciplinary research centres:

  • ARTEXTE
    ARTEXTE has a catalogue of contemporary Canadian art publications, as well as an open access repository for Canadian art publishers to upload their publications digitally and have it available to be downloaded from the library.
  • NGC Library & Archives
    National Gallery of Canada Library has books, periodicals, exhibition and auction catalogues, microforms, audiovisual materials and electronic formats included in their catalogue.
  • BANQ
    This resource leads to the digital database of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
  • Internet Archive
    Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
  • Milieux
    Milieux is an interdisciplinary graduate research institute for New Media Arts, digital culture and information technology at Concordia University.
  • Sustainable Concordia Resource Library
    The Sustainability Resource Library is a free library that includes books and zines, mostly in English, specializing in environmental justice, gender and race issues, economics and globalization, anti-colonialism and more.
  • VCR Concordia
    VCR Concordia contains the Concordia Digital Image & Slide Collection : The collection currently holds over 30,000 high resolution digital images that can be downloaded and used for educational and research purposes, including subjects of artifacts, paintings, photographs, ceramics, fibre works, drawing, sculpture, architecture, performance and contemporary art. VCR Concordia also contains the Moving Image Collection comprised of over 41,000 titles dating from 1895 to the current year. Lastly, VCR Concordia contains the CWAHI : a collaborative endeavour that fosters and circulates scholarly research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada. 
    The CWAHI contains the Women Artist Database and Documentation Centre

Discover multi-disciplinary production centres:

  • Centre for Expanded Poetics
    The Centre for Expanded Poetics is an experimental research laboratory for the interdisciplinary study of structure, form, and fabrication. The Centre consists of two spaces: a reading room for study and seminar presentations and a workshop for production.
  • La Remise
    La Remise is a non-profit solidarity cooperative that stores common use tools made available for loans. They also offer workspaces, and wood, sewing and bike workshops.
  • Technology Sandbox
    The Technology Sandbox is a community space for learning by doing,making, playing, and sharing knowledge with one another.  

Discover multi-disciplinary podcasts:

  • Momus Podcast
    The Momus podcast explores a variety of timely themes relating to contemporary art and the present moment. Momus publisher and podcast host, Sky Goodden, delves into back rooms, biennials, and white cubes, bringing Momus's unique brand of fresh, urgent criticism into conversation with leading artists, curators, and art writers from around the world.
  • Into This
    Into This is a podcast hosted by Marx Ruiz-Wilson featuring conversations with Montreal-based creative professionals.
  • The Conversation Podcast
    The Conversation Podcast explores the contemporary art world through conversations with a range of participants from the center to the fringes and back again.

Discover multi-disciplinary videos and media:

  • Art 21
    Art21 provides unparalleled access to the artist’s voice to diverse audiences around the world, using the power of digital media to introduce millions of people to contemporary art and artists.

Discover multi-disciplinary suggested readings:

  • Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
    Each volume in the series is a definitive anthology on a particular theme, practice, or concern that is of central significance to contemporary visual culture. The artists and writers included in these books, like the guest editors who conceive them, represent the diversity of perspectives, generations, and voices defining art today.

Discover multi-disciplinary magazines:

  • Canadian Art
    Canadian Art is a quarterly art magazine published in Toronto and focusing on Canadian contemporary art. The magazine publishes profiles of artists, art news, interviews, editorials, and reviews of modern art exhibitions.
  • Bordercrossings
    Border Crossings is a magazine published quarterly from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It investigates contemporary Canadian and international art and culture. The magazine includes interviews with artists, profiles, exhibition reviews, and portfolios of drawings and photographs.
  • Esse
    Esse arts + opinions, is a contemporary art magazine that focuses on disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices and all forms of socially inclined, site-specific or performative intervention. It favours analyses that address artworks within their contexts.
  • Vie Des Arts
    Depuis 1956, la revue Vie des Arts couvre l'actualité des arts visuels au Québec, au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde, en lui consacrant des articles.
  • Espaces art actuel
    Espace magazine is published three times a year by the Centre de diffusion 3D— a not-for-profit corporation and periodical dedicated to promoting contemporary sculpture. Espace posts call for papers on a regular basis and accept advertising proposals.
  • Inuit Art Quarterly
    As the only national organization dedicated to supporting Inuit artists working in all media and geographic areas, the Inuit Art Foundation has sought to empower and support Inuit artists’ self-expression and self determination, while increasing the public's access to and awareness of artists’ work for more than 31 years.

Discover multi-disciplinary news:

  • Artnet News
    Artnet News offers current updates and news on the art world and market.
  • Artforum
    Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary arts.  They feature in-depth articles and reviews, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, personal essays, commissioned works, and numerous full-page advertisements from galleries around the world.
  • Artsy
    Artsy is an online platform for discovering, buying and selling fine art. Artsy also offers art criticism, coverage of exhibitions, fairs and auctions across the world.

Discover multi-disciplinary apps and tools:

  • Webflow
    Webflow is a tool for building professional and custom websites, with no code. Users can sign up for free by email or Google account.
  • Canva
    Canva is a free graphic design platform that provides professionally designed templates.
  • FOUND COLOR Archive
    Found color is an archive of exploration of accidental color schemes.
  • Font Awesome
    Font Awesome is a tool that gets vector icons and social logos on websites.

External toolboxes /
Boîtes à outils externes

The contents you will find in this category include a non-exhaustive list of the external toolboxes for further references to tools and resources.

Le contenu de cette catégorie comprend une liste non exhaustive des boîtes à outils externes pour des références supplémentaires à des outils et des ressources.

  • Access Toolkit for Artworkers
    This is a practical resource for artworkers, such as curators, producers and arts administrators working independently or in galleries, museums and arts organisations. This toolkit contains practical information on how to plan, produce, and exhibit accessible art projects including information on access riders, financial planning, slow production, display, and creating an accessible workplace. 
  • CARFAC
    Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens is incorporated federally as a non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada's professional visual artists.
  • CEAD
    This online resource centre is provided by OCAD University's Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers.  
  • COCo
    The Centre for Community Organizations is a charitable organization whose mission is to support the health and well-being of community organizations in Québec. The Toolbox provides a collection of practical tools for community groups and nonprofits. 
  • Creative Connector
    Creative Connector is an online arts hub for Deaf and Disabled artists and creatives who want to find community and discover accessible opportunities in the arts.
  • Concordia's Decolonial Toolbox
    This toolbox offers the public an educational pathway to understanding contemporary Indigenous realities. The pathway gathers carefully-selected resources produced by Indigenous people and organizations that are accessible and promote Indigenous expertise.
  • Cultive
    A digital platform dedicated to supporting professional development within the Quebec cultural sector. The Culture et moi is a campaign that aims to highlight all of the various career opportunities.
  • ELAN
    The English-Language Arts Network is a support-system, resource provider and community network for Quebec’s English-speaking creative practitioners. Through their ‘Resources’, more information can be found on community organizations, associations, workshops, and tutorials.
  • FASA's Resource Handbook
    FASA's Resource Handbook outlines ressources for students accross campus, as well as in the wider montreal area relating to community, necessities, art making and cultural spaces.
  • La Machinerie
    The Machinery is an organization that shares resources, practical tools and expertise using a diversified approach for creative practitioners. The Machinery’s Toolbox contains more than 200 practical and strategic tools designed to improve management of artistic projects and cultural organizations by providing professional frameworks, templates, guides, outlines and methods for planning, organization and simplified management in the area of culture.
  • Quatre95
    Quatre95 is part of the URBANIA family and provides information on life skills, including but not limited to, finances and general entrepreneurship.
  • Réseau art actuel
    Réseau Art Actuel is a network for exhibition and institution spaces, dedicated to the promotion of current and contemporary art, and to the activities and practices of the network of artist-run centers.
  • TEMPO Resource Library
    The TEMPO Resource Library includes tools, strategies, and resources for teaching, performing and making online. The collection also contains examples of creative approaches to using online platforms, reimagining them as artistic mediums. 

Get in touch!

Not finding what you are looking for? Visit the Toolbox sitemap.

For questions, accessibility concerns, or more information on specific resources, contact us at artvolt@concordia.ca. As an expandable depository of online resources, feel free to send your suggestions as well!

This initiative is made possible by the generous support of the Peter N. Thomson Family Innovation Fund.

 
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