Directory Listing
Welcome to the ICASC directory of national and international art for social change organizations, networks, educational programs and opportunities.
This is a curated list focusing on art for social change – by no means a comprehensive community arts listing.
If you are looking for more complete Canadian community arts listings, we highly recommend ArtBridges’ directory at http://artbridges.ca/community/community_map.
This is a living resource. We will be updating and revising it as new information becomes available. You can filter this list by selecting from the various options below.
489 results found.
Hamilton Youth Poets (HYP) Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Hamilton Youth Poets (HYP) was created in 2012 to give our community's youth the opportunity to develop their creative skills and have their voices heard. HYP has grown steadily and evolved into an arts organization that engages Hamilton youth in the act of telling their own stories thro……read more
Harbourfront Centre Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Harbourfront Centre, on Toronto's waterfront, is an innovative not-for-profit cultural organization that creates events and activities of excellence that enliven, educate and entertain a diverse public. …read more
Health Action Theatre by Seniors (HATS) Organization / Theatre / Canada
HATS is an innovative, community-based health care program for seniors. HATS uses a form of educational theatre to raise awareness about difficult issues facing seniors. At the same time, this educational theatre (performed by volunteer seniors) also promotes a positive problem-solving forum……read more
Health Arts Society and Artworks Program Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Health Arts Society aims to meet the need for high quality live professional arts programs for people in health care sites. The Artworks program's goal is to maintain seniors' interest in creative pursuits to the best of their ability. …read more
Heartefact Organization / Multidisciplinary / Serbia
Heartefact was founded in 2009 as an organization dedicated to raising critical awareness and building open and free societies through creative and artistic exchange on important social issues related to human rights, freedom of speech and social responsibility. We support and encourage contempor……read more
Highlight Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / United Kingdom
We are Highlight Arts. You may know us from our previous name, Reel Festivals. Highlight Arts organizes festivals, events and workshops to uncover stories about people and places affected by ‘conflict’ in its many different forms: inequality, prejudice, war or environmental disaster. ……read more
Hip Hop Theatre Initiative Organization / Theatre / United States
Mission: To integrate the rigors of theatre training with the performance elements and politics of the youth-driven, grassroots, activist culture of Hip Hop To train participants to lead arts-based workshops and to facilitate dialogue about the social issues pertainin……read more
Hua Dan Organization / Theatre / China
Hua Dan Limited is a Hong Kong-registered charity dedicated to using the power of participation in theatre workshops as a tool for individual and community transformation. Through such workshops, we assist migrant workers and their children in mainland China, who are either migrants themselves or……read more
I.AM (Intergenerational Arts Movement) Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
From the About page: "I.AM (Intergenerational Arts Movement) is an arts initiative providing affordable arts-related services to all members of York Region in order to explore their creative potentia……read more
Idensitat Organization / / Spain
IDENSITAT is an arts project investigating ways of impacting the public sphere through creative proposals related to place and territory in their spatial, temporal and social dimensions. …read more
iHuman Youth Society Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
iHuman Youth Society is a non-profit organization that engages Edmonton’s traumatized youth who exhibit high-risk lifestyles – to foster positive personal development and social change. Founded in 1997, we develop and implement arts-based programming that functions as a positive engag……read more
iKapa Dance Theatre Organization / Dance / South Africa
iKapa utilises artistic excellence in dance as a mechanism to create socially relevant, publicly engaging, audience-centered performances. These performances are inspired by social trends around current issues in ways that are entertaining and inspiring, and that instil an appreciation for innova……read more
iMOVe Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
In My Own Voice (iMOVe) Arts Association delivers arts and technology based programs to marginalized youth and adults in their home communities. …read more
Impact Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / United Kingdom
Established in 1994, Impact Arts is a forward-thinking community arts organisation which uses the arts and creativity to enable and empower social change. …read more
In Forma Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
In Forma Theatre has been making art, building inclusive communities and promoting social justice in the Greater Toronto Area since 2007. With anyone. Anywhere. …read more
In-Definite Arts Organization / Visual Arts / Canada
In-Definite Arts expresses the idea that the potential of all people is, in fact, “indefinite.” In service to this belief, In-Definite Arts promotes opportunities for people with developmental disabilities to express themselves and to grow and develop through their involvement in art.……read more
Incite Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Australia
Incite Arts is a community-led arts organisation that works with young people, people with disability, Aboriginal communities and other communities in Alice Springs and the central desert region. …read more
Indepen-dance Organization / Dance / United Kingdom
Mission: To create opportunities for people with diverse abilities and their carers to enjoy, express and fulfil their potential through dance. …read more
IndigenEYEZ Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Colonization imposed a burden of pain and shame on Indigenous people that continues to impact our communities today. We built defenses to protect ourselves, but too often that meant that instead of expressing ourselves, we were silent. IndigenEYEZ offers powerful tools for us to strengt……read more
InSite Drama Organization / Theatre / Hungary
InSite’s vision is to facilitate facing the most pressing problems of our times through drama and to enable changes in understanding of individuals’ concerning their values and stance; so that they are able to act responsibly in society and become active agents of change.…read more