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.
Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS) Organization / Music / Canada
The Vancouver Adapted Music Society supports and promotes musicians with physical disabilities in the Metro Vancouver area. They operate Western Canada's only fully-accessible recording studio, have a choir, and run programs for people with a wide range of musical abilities. …read more
Vancouver Moving Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Vancouver Moving Theatre is an award-winning Downtown Eastside-based, community-engaged professional theatre company founded by Terry Hunter & Savannah Walling. …read more
Vancouver Playback Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Vancouver Playback Theatre has provided numerous public and private performances and conducted highly creative team-building and conflict resolution workshops for a wide range of clients. Our audiences and clients span the health, education, and not-for-profit sectors, including social service ag……read more
VIBE Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Established in 1995, VIBE Arts is an award-winning charitable organization committed to providing children and youth in under-resourced communities with high quality community and school based arts and education. With a 20 year trajectory, VIBE Arts has become one of the most celebrated community……read more
Vichama Teatro Organization / Theatre / Peru
Vichama is a community of creators who work and struggle daily for the democratization of art and culture to be accessible to everyone. Vichama the theater is a living laboratory and a space that allows us to meditate and act on history. Our art actively involves the……read more
Victoria Target Theatre Society Organization / Theatre / Canada
Started in 1986 as a group of older adults with an interest in the performing arts, Victoria Target Theatre Society has grown into a company of mature actors who provide a voice for the concerns of seniors. Target uses theatre to address seniors’ issues because theatre stimulates and moves ……read more
VIDYA Organization / Theatre / India
VIDYA is a non-profit NGO. We’re a charitable organization that specializes in the education and empowerment of less-privileged children, youth and women through working with them at an individual level. Our nationally-recognized programmes include schools, remedial education, computer trai……read more
Wan Smolbag Theatre Organization / Multidisciplinary / Vanuatu
We are a non-government organisation based in Vanuatu with 16 full-time core actors working in theatre productions, radio drama and film work.Our aim is to create awareness and promote community action as well as to provide training and materials to schools, communities, NGO's and government ……read more
Wapikoni Mobile Organization / Digital Media / Canada
Mission: • Combat isolation and suicide among First Nations youth while developing artistic, technical, social, and professional skills • Broadcast films and various public awareness issues facing First Nations while enhancing a rich culture, too often o……read more
Wapikoni Mobile Organization, Training and Education / Digital Media / Canada
From Wapikoni in brief: Mobile studios fully equipped with cutting-edge technology that “travels to” First Nations communities. 30 communities from 9 different nations, visited to date……read more
Western Edge Youth Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Australia
At Western Edge Youth Arts we create a place where young people can make socially engaged art to change the world and discover some new perspectives along the way. …read more
Westside Circus Organization / / Australia
Westside Circus is Melbourne’s leading NFP for young people participating in circus. We believe young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, deserve access to creative and healthy activities. Our unique brand of contemporary circus is designed to to enhance physi……read more
Why Not Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Our vision is a world with limitless possibilities for all. Our mission is to make things better through art. To reinvent how stories are told to inspire new ways of thinking about creativity and civic engagement. We push. Never settle. Question everything. Rethink how stories are told. And wh……read more
William Head on Stage (WHoS) Organization / Theatre / Canada
William Head on Stage (or WHoS) is the only inmate-run prison theatre company in all of Canada that invites the public into the prison to experience their shows. WHoS has been creating shows for the public for the last 33 years at William Head Prison, which you will find tucked away on the windy ……read more
Willow Springs Creative Centre Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
We promote growth through creative expression and community development. Willow Springs Creative Centre provides inclusive, custom designed art, therapeutic gardening and food programming delivered by professional artists, gardeners and facilitators. …read more
Women’s Circus Organization / Theatre / Australia
The Women’s Circus is a non for profit arts organisation offering a year round circus and performance training program and producing socially engaged arts projects for women and their communities. …read more
Wonder’neath Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Wonder'neath is an independent artist studio for 12 permanent artists located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We have a Project Room available for rent for creative use. Our free Open Studio drop-in program happens on both Frida……read more
Workman Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Workman Arts is an arts and mental health company known internationally for its artistic collaborations, presentations, knowledge exchange, best practices and research in the area of the impact of the arts on the quality of life of people living with mental illness and addiction. …read more
WP Puppet Theatre (WPTS) Organization / Theatre / Canada
At WP Puppet Theatre (WPTS), we seek to spark curiosity; provide understanding about the world we live in; examine the issues of our time; consider solutions and inspire our audiences to become active, ethical and involved citizens through puppetry. …read more
YANTE Organization / Dance / Palestinian Territory
Our vision is to see people of all ages and social parameters participating in various art projects, within and for communities. Participants express themselves while believing that the uniqueness of an individual lays in the diversity of the whole. They gradually build a consensus through a bott……read more