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.
Dance Exchange Organization / Dance / United States
The mission of the Dance Exchange is to create dances that arise from asking: Who gets to dance? Where is the dance happening? What is it about? Why does it matter? …read more
Dance United Organization / Dance / United Kingdom
Dance United positively changes the lives of marginalised and hard-to-reach people through high-quality dance training and performance. We create bespoke dance projects and interventions to meet the needs of different groups of people who are struggling with difficult circumstances – for ex……read more
Dans La Rue Organization, Training and Education / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Mission Fondé par le Père Emmett Johns « Pops » en 1988, Le Bon Dieu dans la rue vient en aide aux jeunes sans-abri ou en situation précaire. Avec dévouement, empathie et respect, et grâce au soutien de la communauté, nous veillons à leurs besoins i……read more
Danza Mobile Organization / Dance / Spain
Disabilities. Art. Social integration. Professional integration. Rehabilitation. Standardization. These are some of the key pieces of a puzzle that Danza Mobile proposed to build in 1995 witha project creating space where the world of arts and disability join. …read more
Darb 1718 Organization / Multidisciplinary / Egypt
Darb 1718’s long-term vision is to promote social change, to sensitize people and to expand their horizons through the inspiration and education of artists and the broader community. …read more
DAREarts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
DAREarts is a Canadian charitable organization that uses educational experiences in the arts to empower children and youth facing life challenges, with confidence, courage and leadership skills to unlock their potential and ignite change in their lives and communities. …read more
Darpana Academy of Performing Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / India
Darpana is an arts center where the arts meet society, to inform, educate and transform. Started 66 years ago as a teaching and performance institute, it has grown into a contemporary symbiosis affirming the role of creativity in culture, researching into our origins and reaching out to the unsai……read more
Debajehmujig Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group is a professional community based non-profit organization dedicated to the vitalization of the Anishinaabeg culture, language and heritage, through education and the sharing of original creative expression with Native and Non-Native people. …read more
Destreet Art Foundation Organization / Multidisciplinary / Uganda
Destreet Art Foundation provides Uganda's young generation, both girls and boys from the age of 6 years onwards, the knowledge, skills and capacity for personal and community development through the arts. Our goal is to work together to discover and promote each child's talent. We help gh……read more
Deveron Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / United Kingdom
Deveron Arts has no building, instead the town is the venue; acting as studio, gallery and stage for artists of all disciplines invited from around the world to live and work here. For this we use found spaces throughout the town and its surrounding areas: supermarkets, churches, g……read more
DNAWORKS Organization / Multidisciplinary / United States
In 2006, Adam McKinney and Daniel Banks, Ph.D., co-founded DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to furthering artistic expression and dialogue, focusing on issues of identity, culture, class, and heritage. We catalyze performance and action through the arts in the intersecting com……read more
Dodolab Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
DodoLab is the experimental creative practice of Lisa Hirmer and is focused on developing provocative approaches to working with the public and the nebulous reality of public opinion. Often modeled as a type of performative research, the work explores and responds to the public’s relationsh……read more
Drake Music Organization / Music / United Kingdom
Non-disabled people can make music in many ways and at many different levels. Our vision is a world where disabled people have the same range of opportunities, and a culture of integrated music-making, where disabled and non-disabled musicians work together as equals. …read more
dramAcum Organization / Theatre / Romania
dramAcum is an NGO active in generating new drama, innovative drama techniques and production of shows. DramAcum use drama as a tool for social action. …read more
DramAidE Organization / Theatre / South Africa
Our main aim and objective is to use participatory drama and other interactive educational methodologies for HIV/AIDS, life-skills and sexuality-education. These methodologies are participatory, non-judgemental, culturally sensitive and accessible to all ages, levels of education and cultural bac……read more
Dramatic Change Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
Dramatic Change is a non-profit organization working to empower communities in Canada and abroad through participatory arts processes reflecting the culture, desires, and life experiences of the people in the community. …read more
East Bay Center Organization / Multidisciplinary / United States
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts engages youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions. …read more
East End Arts Organization / Multidisciplinary / Canada
East End Arts (EEA) is the city’s sixth Local Arts Service Organization (LASO), a group of organizations funded by the City of Toronto to serve a specific geographic area whose role is to encourage artistic growth in both emerging and established artists, contribute to the ec……read more
El Colegio del Cuerpo Organization / Dance / Colombia
El Colegio del Cuerpo is a cultural and an educative space – plural and democratic – that offers the opportunity to construct a new ethics of the human body, indissolubly connected to an aesthetic and artistic search; simultaneously associated with contemporary cultural, social, polit……read more
El Sistema Organization / Music / Venezuela
El Sistema's approach to music education emphasizes intensive ensemble participation from the earliest stages, group learning, peer teaching and a commitment to keeping the joy and fun of musical learning and music making ever-present. The backbone of El Sistema training is preparation for pa……read more