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.
Raw Material Company Organization / Visual Arts / Senegal
Raw Material Company is a center for art, knowledge and society. The underlying rationale of its program is the firm belief in visual arts as a potent tool capable of shifting perspectives, igniting engagement for art practices as a viable path for social and political transformation. …read more
RE-create Outreach Art Studio Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
RE-create is an open arts studio in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, where street-involved youth can begin to reconnect to themselves, others, and their community through the creative arts while gaining valuable life and work skills. From painting to poetry, performance art, photography and other mult……read more
Realwheels Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Realwheels is a Vancouver-based, professional theatre company that produces performances that deepen the audience’s understanding of the disability experience. We tell stories in which disability itself is not the focus of conflict, but rather forms the landscape upon which universal issues……read more
Red Dress Productions Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Red Dress Productions is a not-for-profit arts company that works with/in communities on large-scale, community-engaged mosaic public artworks and interdisciplinary art and performance projects. Red Dress Productions grounds itself in the knowledge that community engaged art is an important contr……read more
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts co-creates and facilitates multidisciplinary collaborative art engagement cross-culturally and primarily within the Native community. We work inter-generationally with social services agencies, community organizations, municipalities, band councils, neighborhoods, and ot……read more
Red Threads of Peace: Playback Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Red Threads of Peace is a playback theatre project in Winnipeg, MB that uses improvisational theater forms to tell personal stories from the audience to build social support and increase personal well-being. The project works with First Nation youth, newcomers, marginalized populations and senior……read more
Reel 2 Real Organization / Digital Media / Canada
Through public screenings, hands-on workshops, interactive panel discussions, and public forums, our mission is to involve youth in actively viewing and discussing professionally made films; expose youth to new ideas and cultural perspectives; offer high-quality cinematic entertainment outside th……read more
Reel Youth Organization, Training and Education / Digital Media / Canada
Reel Youth is a not-for-profit, media empowerment project supporting youth, adults and organizations to create and distribute engaging films about the issues they care about most. Reel Youth also offers programs for youth and adults in producing and distributing digital media. Vari……read more
Regent Park Focus Organization / Digital Media / Canada
Operating since 1990, Regent Park Youth Media Arts Centre is a community driven, not-for-profit organization located in Regent Park, Toronto. The organization is motivated by the belief that participatory media practices can play a vital role in building and sustaining healthy communities. Regent……read more
Rex Cultural Center Organization / Multidisciplinary / Serbia
REX Cultural Center is a place for contemporary, socially engaged art and analytical cultural practice. Through our programs, we research and present fields of culture and social engagement and fields in which different branches of art overlap. The aim of projects is to educate and empower i……read more
Rexdale Youth For Change (RYFC) Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Rexdale Youth For Change is a youth-led non-profit organization whose mission is to create awareness and engage the youth of Rexdale socially and politically, through the integration of education, arts and activism. …read more
RISE Edutainment Organization / Theatre / Canada
Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-sid……read more
Roadside Theater Organization / Multidisciplinary / United States
Roadside Theater’s mission is to enlist the power of theater, music, media, education, and other arts: To document, disseminate, and revitalize the lasting traditions and contemporary creativity of Appalachia; To tell stories the commercial cultural industries d……read more
S.A.F.E Kenya Organization / Multidisciplinary / Kenya
We're a Kenyan NGO and UK Charity that uses street theatre, film and community programmes to educate, inspire and deliver social change. …read more
Saathi Sweet 16 Organization / Multidisciplinary / India
Saathi is a non-profit organization that believes in valuing women in terms of self-independence and motivation and empowers womanhood to an all new level. It paves out a stress free path to relieve a woman from her daily routine and enter into this zone of happiness and self-satisfaction.&n……read more
Saathi Youth Trust Organization / Multidisciplinary / India
Saathi is a non-profit organization that projects a platform to outshine every youth who is aspiring to grow. We believe in growing with the youth, by the youth and for the youth. It's a young approach towards expanding our x generation and building a stage to make them perform on diaries of ……read more
Saint James Music Academy Organization / Music / Canada
Saint James Music Academy is a free afterschool program that teaches classical music to children and youth who live in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), most of whom live in low-income families. The DTES is a vibrant community and yet also struggles with significant social problems, inclu……read more
SaludArte Organization / Multidisciplinary / Uruguay
SaludArte is a nonprofit organization based in Uruguay that aims to promote health through the use of art and humor. We are independently run and free from any political or religious affiliation. In our view, health is understood as a state of physical, psychological and social well-being that tr……read more
Sarakasi Trust Organization / Multidisciplinary / Kenya
Sarakasi Trust responds to the need for the further development and promotion of culture, performing arts and entertainment in East-Africa focusing on acrobatics, dance and music. Sarakasi, established in Nairobi in 2001, strives to be a leading African actor in the creative economy enabling yout……read more
Sarasvàti Productions Organization / Theatre / Canada
Sarasvàti Productions is experimental and transformative theatre that presents significant social issues; engages in community collaboration; and supports emerging artists. …read more