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.
Movimiento de Teatro Popular Sin Fronteras Organization / Multidisciplinary / Nicaragua
Since its inception, Movimiento de Teatro Popular Sin Fronteras has been developing, managing and periodically running various projects, training, as well as exchange and promotion of the artistic work of the groups with which it works. While the emphasis of these projects is popular theater……read more
Moving Into Dance Organization / Dance / South Africa
MID is a trailblazing, nationally acclaimed, professional dance company, as well as accredited training organisation which has produced a multitude of award winning and productive dancers, choreographers, arts administrators and teachers throughout South Africa and internationally. Since its ince……read more
MU Organization / Visual Arts / Canada
MU’s mission is to beautify the city of Montreal by creating murals that are anchored in local communities. At the heart of its approach is the desire to see and experience art on a daily basis, to trigger a social transformation and to turn Montreal into an open-air art MUseum! …read more
Mural Arts Program Organization / Visual Arts / United States
We believe art ignites change. We create art with others to transform places, individuals, communities and institutions. Through this work, we establish new standards of excellence in the practice of public and contemporary art. …read more
Musagetes Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Musagetes is an international organization that makes the arts more central and meaningful in people's lives, in our communities, and in our societies. Musagetes also run ArtsEverywhere, a forum concerned with the ro……read more
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal: “Sharing the Museum” community programme Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
The “Sharing the Museum” programme is based on three key principles: Open-mindedness, an attentive ear and action! To date, almost 200,000 visitors – immigrants, refugees, people with mental-health challenges, at-risk youth, senior citizens……read more
Music Liberatory Organization, Training and Education / Music / Canada
Music Liberatory aims to dramatically increase the number of female instrumentalists by providing meaningful, fun, and free music programming for women and girls. We believe that everyone is born with musical ability and that females in particular are systemically deni……read more
Myths and Mirrors Community Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Myths and Mirrors helps to build community and gives people a voice through collaborative art making, story sharing and infusing art into our everyday lives. Everyone is welcome. …read more
Nalamdana Organization / Theatre / India
Since 1993, this creative collaboration has created street plays on a variety of health issues, and Nalamdana has reached more than half a million people through street theatre, and many more through other media like tele-dramas, interactive media and print. Nalamdana’s performances are tar……read more
Native Women in the Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Native Women in the Arts was established in 1993, and is a not-for-profit organization for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit women from diverse nations and artistic disciplines who share a common interest in culture, art, community and the advancement of Indigenous peoples. …read more
NDG Seniors Atelier Organization / Visual Arts / Canada
The NDG Senior's Atelier is a community art studio catering to seniors, initiated to create a space for the community to come together and connect through the act of art making. Created for the community by the community, the NDG Senior's Atelier offers the use of free materials in a welc……read more
NDG Seniors Atelier Organization / Multidisciplinary, Visual Arts / Canada
The NDG Senior's Atelier is a community art studio catering to seniors, initiated to create a space for the community to come together and connect through the act of art making. Created for the community by the community, the NDG Senior's Atelier offers the use of free materials……read more
Neighbourhood Arts Network Organization, Training and Education / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Neighbourhood Arts Network is dedicated to celebrating and supporting community engaged artists and organizations across Toronto. Our free membership includes professional development, community events, online resources, strategic community partnerships and signature awards. …read more
New Urban Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / United States
Founded in 1997, New Urban Arts is a nationally-recognized community arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island. Our mission is to build a vital community that empowers young people as artists and leaders to develop a creative practice they can sustain t……read more
Next Up Organization, Training and Education / Multidisciplinary / Canada
From Next Up's About page: Next Up is growing. 2015-16 marks the tenth year since it was started in BC, its eighth year in Alberta, it's seventh year in Saskatchewan, where we have now started a program in Regina. It's ……read more
Ninasam Organization / Multidisciplinary / India
Founded in 1949 by a small band of enthusiasts in the little village of Heggodu, Karnataka, Ninasam has, over these five decades, evolved into a many-winged cultural institution that has won wide recognition. It has been acclaimed as a unique experiment in fusing culture and activism, art practic……read more
No.9 Contemporary Art and the Environment Organization / Visual Arts / Canada
No.9 is an arts organization that uses art and design to bring awareness to environmental concerns. We deliver programs in schools and in the public domain designed to encourage the use of creative thinking to resolve environmental issues and to p……read more
None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa Organization / Digital Media / Kenya
None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa is a digital media project that collects the stories of, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Africans from the African Continent and the Diaspora. None on Record adds to the growing histories told by LGBT Africans all over the world. LGBT Africans……read more
NUMBI Organization / Multidisciplinary / United Kingdom
NUMBI is a kind of dance that happens in Somalia where one lets go of one’s inhibitions and gets free. It is that ethos, with the emphasis on freedom, that inspired NUMBI founder, Kinsi Abdulleh, to set up the organisation in 1998. We’re about celebrating the international and local v……read more
OBORO Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Founded with the conviction that living transcultural artistic experiences contribute to the betterment of humankind, OBORO is an artist centre that favours the development of art practices locally, nationally and internationally. OBORO’s sphere of activity encompasses visual and media arts……read more