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.
Funambules Media Organization / Digital Media / Canada
Funambules Media is a work cooperative who directs and produceds socially engaged videos. It offers training workshops in "citizen video" and organizes cultural celebrations promoting and disseminating art films. By offering a standalone media force, Funambules ……read more
Gallery Gachet Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Gachet is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space built to empower participants as artists, administrators and curators. …read more
Gary Friedman Productions Organization / Theatre / Australia
The aim of our community development work has been to pass on puppetry skills to local community groups, thus giving communities the ability to take their own messages to their people. Some of the topics we have been involved with are HIV/AIDS, Prison work, Abuse, Corruption, Democracy Education ……read more
Gashanti Unity Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Gashanti Unity is a group of young Somali women in Toronto. Our mission is to provide girls and young women a safe atmosphere to develop their gifts, abilities, and positive relationships. We do this through the provision of leadership and mentoring programs, consultation and information services……read more
Generarte Organization / Multidisciplinary / Peru
Generarte is an association dedicated to research, education and artistic diffusion in which everyone can participate, create and act for their own personal and collective development. We base our work on dialogue and seek the joint construction of a healthy society, wh……read more
GeriActors Organization / Theatre / Canada
We are an intergenerational theatre company called GeriActors & Friends, producing original plays based on stories and issues from our lives. We also offer outreach theatre programs for seniors throughout Edmonton. …read more
Germinalia Organization / Multidisciplinary / Mexico
Mission: Promote and develop participatory and creative actions to find effective solutions to problems facing socially disadvantaged populations in Mexico, particularly children and youth in areas such as education, arts and culture, science, research, human and sustainable development.……read more
Global Arts Corp Organization / Theatre / United States
From Rwanda to Kosovo, Cambodia to the North of Ireland, Global Arts Corps has used the transformative power of theatre to bring together people from opposite sides of violent conflict, unrest and war in 17 countries on 4 continents, reaching over 75,000 audience members, and facilitating reconci……read more
Goddard College Training and Education / Multidisciplinary / United States
Goddard College offers a Masters in Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts. "The Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) engages artists from a variety of practices, including visual arts, dance, music, theater, performance art, social practice, ……read more
Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre Organization / Theatre / Canada
Mission: to produce and present innovative cultural theatre experiences that engage and empower First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth, artists and the greater Saskatchewan community. …read more
Graffiti Art Programming Inc. Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Graffiti Art Programming Inc., known as GAP Inc. or The Graffiti Gallery, is a not-for-profit community youth art centre, using art as a tool for community, social, economic and individual growth. It is the only one of it's kind in North America for artists of all ages and genres from traditi……read more
Grass Stage Organization / Theatre / China
Grass Stage has focused on deepening the connection between theatre and society, and has made use of a wide range of venues and situations for performances and discussions. Grass Stage events are not only spaces for bringing together diverse elements of society, but also provide, in a countr……read more
Greentop Organization / Theatre / United Kingdom
Greentop is a Circus school, charity and social enterprise. Providing professional training, school workshops, kids parties & team building. Greentop’s vision is of: “A thriving circus arts sector in the North of England, where circus is an artform that touches everyone in the Nor……read more
Groundation Grenada Organization / Multidisciplinary / Grenada
Groundation Grenada is a social action collective which focuses on the use of creative media to assess the needs of our communities, raise consciousness and act to create positive radical growth. Our mission is to provide active safe spaces to incubate new modes of resistance, building from the l……read more
Groundwater Workshops Organization / Theatre / Canada
Groundwater Workshops, formerly Ask an Actor, was created by Erin Shields in 2004 to provide high quality drama workshops to teachers and students. We deliver programs that respond to social and curriculum needs, often conducting school-wide initiatives that engage students of all ages. We have v……read more
Group 705 Organization / Theatre / Kyrgyzstan
The group was formed in 2005 on the basis of the Children's Media Center with the support of ArtEast. The main activities of the initiative group are street performances, animation and experimental theater of the absurd. Our mission: to overcome the unbearable absurdity of life through simple……read more
Groupo Contrafilé Organization / Multidisciplinary / Brazil
The Contrafilé (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2000) investigates possible relationships between art, politics and education and how they extend the right to creative production of the city. Develops public intervention work promoting creative encounters with different people, groups and communities.…read more
GuanaRED Organization / / Costa Rica
We are a network of artists, cultural managers and promoters who promote the "collective experience of art and culture" in different communities in Costa Rica, seeking to promote social transformation. …read more
Gudran Association for Art and Development Organization / Multidisciplinary / Egypt
Gudran Association for Art and Development is a coalition of artists, writers, photographers, directors, dramatists, and musicians motivated by what we call “the artists’ social responsibility-” to abandon the traditional spaces of exhibition and performance, activate our artist……read more
H’art Center Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
We are a non-profit, charitable arts hub that provides people with disability and those facing barriers with opportunities to study, practice, create and produce works in the arts. …read more