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.
Institute of Network Cultures Organization / Multidisciplinary, Visual Arts, Digital Media / Netherlands
The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Our projects evolve around digital publishing, alternative revenue models, online video and design, digital counter cul……read more
Instruments of Change Organization / Multidisciplinary, Music / Canada
From Instruments of Change's About page: Instruments of Change uses the arts as an educational tool to empower people to become instruments of transformative change in their own lives. By expanding community access to cultural acti……read more
Instruments of Change Organization / Music / Canada
Through our arts-based community development projects, which serve schools, hospices, shelters, community centres and prisons, we create synergetic experiences that give both our facilitating artists and our participants a means of expression to find their authentic voice using a variety of artis……read more
Intermedia Arts/Creative Community Leadership Institute Organization / Multidisciplinary / United States
Intermedia Arts builds understanding among people by catalyzing and inspiring artists to make changes in their lives and communities. We provide creative people of all ages with the opportunities, tools, and support to come together across disciplines, sectors, and boundaries to connect, create, ……read more
International Centre of Art for Social Change and the Art for Social Change Research Project Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC) and the Art for Social Change Research Project (ASC!) About ICASC: What is Icasc? About ASC! Project: What is th……read more
Intersect HIV & Violence Against Women & Girls Project Organization / Multidisciplinary / India
INTERSECT employs a new concept and organizing principle to create powerful, multi-disciplinary Intersect Coalitions for social mobilization across countries worldwide to end the co-epidemics of HIV and Violence Against Women and Girls. …read more
Intersections Media Opportunities for Youth Society (Intersections) Organization / Digital Media / Canada
Intersections Media Opportunities for Youth Society (“Intersections)” is a non-profit charitable organization founded by the late William Vince (“Bill”), an Oscar-nominated Vancouver filmmaker and advocate for youth at risk. Our program offers an employability and life ski……read more
Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) Organization / Multidisciplinary / Indonesia
Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) is a not-for-profit organization that focuses on discourses of local rural life through arts and cultural activities such as festivals, performances, visual art, music, video, ceramics, exhibitions, artist in residencies, monthly discussion, radio broadcast and educati……read more
Jeunes musiciens du monde Organization / Music / Canada
Jeunes musiciens du monde aims to enable young people from at-risk backgrounds to develop their abilities and their aspirations by offering free music lessons, musical expression and individual support activities. Young Musicians of the World accompanies youth from infancy to adulthood. Each……read more
Journées de la culture / Culture Days Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Les Journées de la culture sont réalisées grâce à l'engagement renouvelé de milliers de partenaires et de collaborateurs de réalisation du Québec. Près de 10 000 artistes, artisans et organismes s'investissent chaque année pour offrir des activités gratuites de découvertes des……read more
Jumblies Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Jumblies expands where art happens, who gets to be part of it, what forms it takes and which stories it tells. This impulse has led us outside of specialized art places, and to place participants at the core of our projects, as a bridge between artists and audience. We say “Everyone is welc……read more
Jumblies Theatre (Training) Training and Education / Theatre / Canada
Jumblies Theatre offers a variety of workshops and courses through Jumblies Studio, which is "a flexible, integrated and itinerant full-time program for learning, mentorship and exploration in Arts that engage with and create Community." From the Atelier Jumblies Studio ……read more
Junebug Productions Organization / Theatre / United States
Mission: To create and support artistic works that question and confront inequitable conditions that have historically impacted the African American community. Through interrogation, we challenge ourselves and those aligned with the organization to make greater and deeper contributions towar……read more
Just Bgraphic Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Just BGRAPHIC is a not-for-profit organization evolving as a social enterprise. Our social conscience is rooted in the belief that youth exposed to opportunity and supported with the right resources can develop the resilience and confidence to make their dreams come true. Ultimately, Just BGRAPHI……read more
Just Seeds Organization / Visual Arts / United States
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration o……read more
Kashmir Art Quest Organization / Multidisciplinary / India
Kashmir Art Quest has been working towards the advancements of arts, artists, art education and community development in conflict-hit Kashmir ever since its foundation in August 2009. It is one of our foremost goals to create a situation in Kashmir where an international art scene might exist. We……read more
Katherine Boydell Organization / Multidisciplinary / Australia
Katherine Boydell Qualitative arts-based health research scientist working in the child and youth mental health field Twitter: @KBoydell …read more
Kehewin Native Dance Theater Organization / Dance / Canada
Kehewin Native Dance Theatre is community workshops, interactive performances and classroom visits. Training has become an integral part of Kehewin annual operations. Kehewin has developed its own training process, which we have named NAH (this means ‘here’ or ’take this’ ……read more
Kenya AIDS Intervention/Prevention Project Group (KAIPPG) Organization / Theatre / Kenya
KAIPPG is a community-based volunteer organization which operates in western Kenya, addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS, poverty and malnutrition. In their HIV/AIDS education and prevention work they made use of the arts such as theatre. They are trying to form a broad-based arts coalition of g……read more
Kibera Community Youth Programme (KCYP) Organization / Multidisciplinary / Kenya
KCYP is a unique, community-based organization formed and run by young people in the Kibera slum, Nairobi. Their programs include: youth development and empowerment; reproductive health; arts for development and social change; and, environment and sanitation. …read more