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.
OCAD University Organization, Training and Education / Multidisciplinary / Canada
OCAD University's Faculty of Art offers an Undergraduate Minor and a Postgraduate Certificate in Art & Social Change. "A minor in Art & Social Change offers students the opport……read more
Onaman Collective Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Pronounced ah-nah-mun, The Onaman Collective was formed in November of 2014 by Isaac Murdoch, Christi Belcourt and Erin Konsmo. We care so deeply about the youth and the future of our communities, each of us in our own way has been using our art for social change. We formed the collective for the……read more
One Love Theatre Organization / Theatre / Ethiopia
One Love HIV/AIDS Awareness Theater (OLT), blends dance, theater, music and gymnastics to disseminate HIV/AIDS awareness messages, promote gender equality and call for an end to female circumcision and abduction. Free for audiences in market-places and schools throughout Ethiopia, One Love ……read more
Organized Kaos Youth Circus Organization / Theatre / United Kingdom
Organized Kaos is a not for profit social enterprise, as a project we endeavor to be very social and very enterprising. The social aims of the company are encompassed in our acronym Keeping Adolescents Off The Streets, we do this by creating youth led circus activities in our space on a daily bas……read more
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid Organization / Music / Spain
The Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid (Solphonic Orchestra of Madrid) is a self-organized orchestra that was formed in the context of the social movement 15M and that has gained popularity for playing classical music in demonstrations and acts of social protest. …read more
Ottawa Valley Creative Arts Open Studio Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
The Ottawa Valley Creative Arts Open Studio is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing creative arts activities that support and enhance the physical, emotional, mental, and social health of participants. We hold arts workshops at the North Street Studio in Killaloe and bring mobile work……read more
Outa Hamra Organization / Theatre / Egypt
Outa Hamra is a theatre group that aims to create high standard drama practices serving to develop the society, with a focus on the marginalized, such as refugees, street children and low-income communities. Outa Hamra gives opportunities to learn and to express points of view that might otherwis……read more
Outreach Program, Penya Africa Organization / Music / Kenya
Penya Africa, founded in 2008 by Nynke Nauta and Robert Wawesh as a company limited by guarantee, is a non-profit music label based in Nairobi, Kenya. Music, believed to be one of the most powerful instruments for changing societies, is our tool of choice to enhance self-expression and foste……read more
Outside Looking In Organization / Dance / Canada
Outside Looking In offers a high school accredited dance program providing the opportunity to Indigenous youth and their communities to engage in long-term intensive education through dance. Should youth fulfill the academic and attendance requirements of the program, youth get the opportunity to……read more
Outta Place Organization / Multidisciplinary / United Kingdom
Outta Place is a not for profit arts organization founded in Hebden Bridge, Calderdale in 2010. We are passionate about using the digital and performing arts to help bring about social change for young people. To date we have explored the application of a range of art forms and have had the joy t……read more
Oxy-jeunes Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
For 30 years, Oxy-Jeunes has used artistic activity as a means of preventing dropouts, risk behavior and social isolation of 12-17 year olds, and offers spaces for expression and cultural participation. By conducting their own project design of an original work to its dissemination, young pe……read more
Palestinian Circus School Organization / Theatre / Palestinian Territory
By training Palestinian children and youth in circus arts, the Palestinian Circus School wants to develop a new art form in Palestine and strengthen the social, creative and physical potential of the Palestinians, seeking to engage and empower them to become constructive actors in society. By cre……read more
PAWA254 Organization / Multidisciplinary / Kenya
Home to some of Nairobi’s most creative photographers, graphic artists, journalists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, designers and poets. PAWA254 is a work-space that offers workshops, training’s, forums and events for all artists who are creating for social impact.PAWA254 empowers yo……read more
Peng! Organization / Multidisciplinary / Germany
Most of the time Peng! is a collective of smart and silly people producing creative political stunts and enriching campaigns with subversion, humour and civil disobedience. We specialise in subversive direct action, culture jamming, civil disobedience and guerilla communications. We use these tac……read more
People’s Palace Project Organization / Multidisciplinary / United Kingdom
People’s Palace Projects (PPP) is an independent arts charity that advances the practice and understanding of art for social justice. …read more
Performing Life Organization / Multidisciplinary / Bolivia
Performing Life’s mission is to help children and adolescents who are working and/or living on the streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia to improve their daily lives and create better futures for themselves through the arts. We empower youth by teaching them productive skills that keep them in sch……read more
Performing the World Organization / / United States
Since 2001, Performing the World is an international gathering to explore & celebrate performance as a catalyst for human and community development and culture change, and thereby, to create a new and more humane world. …read more
Peristyle Nomade Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
The Peristyle Nomade mobilizes artists and creators to create works that revalue and supply the workings of our communities. It sets up alternative distribution platforms; interdisciplinary art through impromptu interventions, ephemeral donations or lasting works, and group events. Nomade Peristy……read more
Phare Ponleu Selpak Organization / Multidisciplinary / Cambodia
Phare Ponleu Selpak meets the needs of underprivileged children, young adults and their families through 3 interwoven strands of intervention: Arts school, Social support and Educational programs. …read more
Philadelphia Folklore Project Organization / Multidisciplinary / United States
Established in 1987, we are an independent public folklife agency that documents, supports, and presents Philadelphia-area folk arts and culture - including the arts of people who have been here generations and those who have just arrived. We work to preserve and strengthen the folk cultural life……read more