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Accessible by Design

London

  • Services / Consulting
Accessible by Design is a digital accessibility consultancy. We work with arts and cultural organisations to ensure that they can create accessible digital experiences for everyone.

The Other Ordinary (TOO)

The Other Ordinary (TOO) is Canada’s only company of touring disabled artists. TOO was founded in 2015 after the original members met during a University of Regina class co-taught by Listen to Dis’ ar ...

CRIP RAVE Collective

Toronto, ON

CRIP RAVE™ is a Toronto-based collective and event platform showcasing crip-identifying talent and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Mad and Sick body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spac ...

MSVU Art Gallery

Halifax, NS

  • VIsual Arts
Opened in 1971, MSVU Art Gallery is dedicated to contemporary art with an emphasis on women as cultural subjects and producers. Exhibitions explore various forms and highlight the achievements of arti ...

EVERYSEEKER

EVERYSEEKER presents contemporary music and sound in beautiful Kjipuktuk | Halifax, Nova Scotia. We approach curation with an open-minded, genre-fluid curiosity, responding to both local communities a ...

Arts Access

Raleigh, NC

Arts Access’s mission is to enable children and adults with disabilities to have full access to and participate in the arts and cultural life of our community. Our vision is that arts organizations wi ...

DEAF, What?

Toronto, ON

  • Deaf and Disability-led
Deaf, what? is an exciting multimedia exhibit developed by Toronto-based artist Sage Lovell in collaboration with photographer Alice Lo that highlights the experiences and contributions of activists, ...

1S1 Theatre

1S1 is a Deaf-led theatre company founded by Dawn Jani Birley. Dawn was born to a third-generation Deaf family in Saskatchewan and identifies herself as culturally and linguistically Deaf. She is a m ...

Inevitable Foundation

New York, NY

Inevitable Foundation exists to fund the next generation of disabled screenwriters.

X University School of Disability Studies

Disability Studies at Ryerson is the first in Canada to provide a degree education exclusively from a disability studies perspective. The program is built upon foundations of inclusion and social just ...

TheSpace

Ottawa, ON

We are a new and exciting community gathering place for individuals with Austism and Intellectual Disabilities.Our vision is to fashion a social initiative based upon a relational approach --supportin ...

Woezo Africa

Calgary, AB

  • Performing Arts
The performing arts organization artistically and creatively uses dance, music, theatre and storytelling to keep the cultural value of the African heritage alive.

Eyelevel

Halifax, NS

  • Arts Centre
Eyelevel is an arts worker/artist-run organization mandated to present and support the development of socially-relevant and thought-provoking artistic practices locally, regionally and nationally. Eye ...

The Ikouii Creative

GA

The Ikouii Creative is a disability-led organization committed to providing opportunities and support for artists with disabilities as well as transforming cultural institutions into an engaging and m ...

Third Space Gallery

Saint John, NB

  • Arts Centre
Third Space is an itinerant artist-run centre for contemporary art in Saint John, New Brunswick. We are committed to representing local, regional and national professional contemporary artists.

Centennial College

Established in 1966, Centennial College is Ontario’s first community college, with five campuses and seven satellite locations in the Greater Toronto Area.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn, NY

  • Culture
Where great art and courageous conversations are catalysts for a more connected, civic, and empathetic world. The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its worl ...

Inclusive Canada

Formerly known as RAAR - Rural Alberta Against Racism, Inclusive Canada has since branched out nation-wide to help create opportunities and experiences for all marginalized people across Canada. Inc ...

Blissful Dance

Blissful Dance is a dance company created by Kyra Newton. Our mission is to provide you with accessible classes in different cultural dance forms. We offer dance classes with closed captions or ASL in ...

Church-Wellesley Village

Toronto, ON

The Village is a comfortable and supportive community that offers the connectedness of a small town, in the heart of the City. The Village is an urban destination, connected to transit with businesses ...

Company 605

Vancouver, BC

Company 605 continues to push into new territories and awaken a fresh and exciting aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form, with extreme physicality derived from the human experience.

Theatre Replacement

Vancouver, BC

Theatre Replacement is an ongoing collaboration between James Long and Maiko Yamamoto. Whether working together or apart, the pair work with a wide range of collaborators and use extended processes to ...

The Disability Collective

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Theatre
  • Poetry
  • Performing Arts
  • Music
  • Media Arts
  • Literary Arts
  • Dance
  • Arts Centre
The Disability Collective is a community of disabled artists dedicated to celebrating and showcasing disability in the arts. TDC strives to de-stigmatize disability and challenge perceptions of what d ...

Bakau Consulting

  • Services / Consulting
Cicely Blain Consulting is a diversity and inclusion consulting firm that cares about you and your clients. Land Acknowledgement. Our work takes place on the stolen, unceded and traditional territorie ...

Creative Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB

Creative Manitoba strengthens, represents and connects Manitoba’s arts and creative industries.

STEPS Public Art

Toronto, ON

STEPS fosters dynamic and inclusive communities through public art and creative placemaking. We transform urban spaces into vibrant places through cultural planning, community arts and artist capacity ...

Phoenix the Fire

Toronto, ON

This company is a theatre as well as a community hub for those who need a start, providing workshops, resources, and facilitating partnerships to leverage QTIBPOC artists and their endeavours.

Opulent Mobility

Burbank, CA

Opulent Mobility began with A. Laura Brody's first mobility artwork in 2009 and expanded to a small group exhibit in 2013. The 2015-2019 exhibits included artists from all around the US and the world. ...

Outsiders and Others

Vancouver, BC

Outsiders and Others is a not for profit arts society with a focus on bringing non-traditional artists to the forefront. This includes outsider, folk, self-taught, visionary, intuitive, and artists w ...

BEING Studio

Ottawa, ON

  • VIsual Arts
BEING is a diverse community of artists with developmental disabilities. At BEING, artists have access to the space, the tools, and the representation to create and commercialize their visual art and ...

Multi Lens Existence

London, ON

  • Deaf and Disability-led
Multi-lens project explores ways to tell stories through contemporary body movements, with or without art mediums.

Nia Centre for the Arts

Toronto, ON

  • Arts Centre
Nia Centre for the Arts is a Toronto-based charitable organization that supports, showcases and promotes an appreciation of arts from across the Afro-Diaspora.

Eden Mills Writers’ Festival

Eden Mills, ON

  • Festival
  • Literary Arts
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival celebrates the power of words – whether written, spoken or signed – to ignite our imaginations and reveal worlds and ideas beyond our own experience. We aim to encoura ...

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts

Edmonton, AB

  • Arts Centre
Since it was founded in 2003, the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts has been home to one of Edmonton’s most interesting art collectives, made up entirely of artists with developmental disabilities. Wh ...

Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Winnipeg, MB

  • Arts Centre
Video Pool Media Arts Centre aims to inspire curiosity and creative expression through technological empowerment and open exploration in all media art forms, cultivating experimental artistic practice ...

InterdepenDance Collective

Victoria, BC

The InterdepenDance Collective is passionate about Disability Justice and interconnections among communities. We are a group of artists who are active in cross-disability dance, and who experience bar ...

Kingston Circus Arts

Kingston, ON

  • Circus Arts
At Kingston Circus Arts, we strongly believe that circus can be for everyone. We teach circus arts to bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages and situations. We welcome the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. We ...

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Kitchener, ON

  • VIsual Arts
KWAG is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery, connecting people and ideas through art, with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations, the ...

Power Productions

St. John's, NL

  • Theatre
  • Performing Arts
Power Productions is committed to creating diverse and accessible theatre projects, professional development opportunities and community collaborations with a focus on the disability, Deaf and MAD art ...

Spill-PROpagation

Ottawa, ON

SPiLL is an Artist Center for Creation and Production in Sign Language in Canada. Its main three artistic activities are: Creation, Collaborative Production, and Research-Creation.

OBORO

Montreal, QC

  • VIsual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Arts Centre
Founded with the conviction that living transcultural artistic experiences contribute to the betterment of humankind, OBORO is an artist centre that favours the development of art practices locally, n ...

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Banff, AB

  • VIsual Arts
  • Arts Centre
Founded in 1933, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and creative development. What started as a single course ...

Community Arts Council of Vancouver

Vancouver, BC

  • Arts Council
The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) was the first arts council in North America. Since its beginning in 1946, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver has been a contributor to shaping the c ...

Bricks & Glitter

Toronto, ON

  • Festival
Bricks and Glitter is a community arts festival, celebrating two-spirit, trans and queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger, and abundance.

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Vancouver, BC

  • Film
  • Festival
The Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) is a vibrant space for queer arts, culture, and community. It showcases dynamic and thought-provoking films from British Columbian filmmakers as well as other ...

Winnipeg Fringe Festival

Winnipeg, MB

  • Festival
  • Theatre
  • Performing Arts
The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival has enjoyed tremendous growth since it was founded as part of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1988 and currently ranks as the second-largest event of its kind ...

Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)

St. Catharines, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Arts Centre
Niagara Artists Centre is a not-for-profit, charitably registered, member-driven collective formed by and dedicated to serving the working artists and community of Niagara.

Fall for Dance North

Toronto, ON

  • Festival
  • Dance
Fall for Dance North (FFDN) is Toronto’s premier international dance festival and an Ontario not-for-profit organization and registered charity. Founded in response to the crucial need to fortify the ...

Xenia Concerts

Toronto, ON

  • Music
  • Classical Music
The mission of Xenia Concerts Inc. is to offer high quality music and arts performances, presentations, and educational programs, in an environment that welcomes those who might not have access to suc ...

DanceWorks

Toronto, ON

  • Dance
DanceWorks began as a collective of independent dance artists in 1977 and has grown to become Toronto’s leading presenter of independent dance. Strong in the belief that dance has the power to illumin ...

Toronto Outdoor Picture Show

Toronto, ON

  • Film
Toronto Outdoor Picture Show (TOPS) is a local not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing high quality, diverse, and engaging outdoor film programming to communities across the city. The festiv ...

posAbilities

Burnaby, BC

  • Services / Consulting
posAbilities provides a broad range of services to persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Our team of approximately 600 employees includes community and residential support worker ...

Halifax Pride

Halifax, NS

  • Festival
Beginning in 1988 with Halifax's very first Pride March, members of the city's gay and lesbian community organized Pride Week without the benefit of legal protections. Amidst growing unrest about ramp ...

Culture Days

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Culture
Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture. At the end of each September, millions of people attend thousands of participatory arts and culture events across the country. Culture Days ...

London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA)

London, ON

Established in 2012, LOMAA is an emerging, enthusiastic and devoted non-profit artist-run collective that fosters collaboration, investigation and innovation by tapping into the talent and serving the ...

Cool Arts Society

Kelowna, BC

  • VIsual Arts
The Cool Arts Society is a non-profit charitable organization that is dedicated to providing art opportunities to adults with developmental disabilities.

Queens of the Glamazon

Halifax, NS

  • Performing Arts
The Queens of the Glamazon is a registered non-profit co-operative. We seek to produce high calibre drag performances, represent drag and LGBTQ2S+ artists on regional, national, and international stag ...

All Bodies Dance

Vancouver, BC

  • Dance
We are an inclusive dance company located on unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories (Vancouver, BC, Canada). Our work brings together ...

National AccessArts Centre (NaAC)

Calgary, AB

  • Arts Centre
The Indefinite Arts Centre is Canada’s oldest and largest disability arts organization, providing artistic training, creation, and exhibition opportunities for people with developmental, physical, and ...

Momo Movement / Indefinite Arts Centre

Calgary, AB

  • Dance
Momo Movement is shaping how disability is felt, perceived, understood, experienced, hailed and resounded through performance. By working individually with each performer, Momo is innovating one size ...

Cyborg Circus Project

Toronto, ON

  • Dance
  • Disability
  • Circus Arts
A disability led dance and circus company with a mandate to provide pathways to professionalization for disabled movement artists in Toronto.

foldA Festival of Live Digital Arts

Kingston, ON

  • Festival
  • Theatre
  • Media Arts
See shows. Talk about shows. Work with creators on their shows. Digital is here. foldA celebrates it. foldA’s programming is structured to support artists creating theatre in a digital age.

Toronto Queer Film Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
The Toronto Queer Media & Arts Centre is a nonprofit arts collective that grew out of the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF), which launched in 2016 in response to an urgent need for exhibition space ...

Upintheair Theatre

Vancouver, BC

  • Theatre
Upintheair explores issues and ideas examining the contemporary world around us. With a keen eye on the immediate future, we foster possible futures by producing theatrical works of speculative fictio ...

rEvolver Festival

Vancouver, BC

  • Festival
rEvolver: brings audiences the full range of contemporary theatrical practice, from script-based theatre to devised and site-specific works, staged readings of work-in-progress, and in-depth discussio ...

Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB

Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba is a regional not-for-profit artist run charitable organization dedicated to the full inclusion of artists and audiences with disabilities into all facets of the ar ...

The Segal Centre

Montreal, QC

  • Theatre
The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to nurturing, producing and presenting world-class English-language theatre and to showcasing the best professional a ...

AfterWords Literary Festival

Halifax, NS

  • Festival
  • Literary Arts
The AfterWords Literary Festival is the creation of a small volunteer group of professional writers keen to bring the very best Canadian and international writers to audiences in Halifax. We’re primar ...

Willow Arts Community

St. Catharines, ON

  • VIsual Arts
Willow Arts Community provides an inspired environment where individuals with lived experience of mental illness/substance use are encouraged to explore creative expression.

ArtsPond

Toronto, ON

Incubating healthy human ecosystems through collective actions fusing social innovation and the arts on-the-ground and in-the-cloud.

Room Magazine

Vancouver, BC

  • Literary Arts
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Femi ...

National Arts Centre (NAC)

Ottawa, ON

  • Theatre
  • Performing Arts
  • Dance
  • Music
The National Arts Centre raised its curtains for the first time in 1969. A bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for Canada’s most creative artists, the NAC strives to be artistically adventurous in each ...

Queer Arts Festival / SUM Gallery

Vancouver, BC

  • Festival
The Pride in Art Society (PiA) produces, presents and exhibits with a curatorial vision favouring challenging, thought-provoking work that pushes boundaries and initiates dialogue, including through t ...

Realwheels Theatre

Vancouver, BC

Realwheels Theatre creates and produces performances that deepen understanding of the disability experience. We tell stories in which disability itself is not the focus of conflict, but rather forms t ...

TOsketchfest

Toronto, ON

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival is Canada’s preeminent comedy festival focusing on scripted, ensemble work.

Kelowna Actors Studio

Kelowna, BC

  • Theatre
  • Performing Arts
Kelowna Actors Studio positions itself in the local cultural scene as a comprehensive home for the theatre arts, offering educational, volunteer and performance opportunities for children and adults i ...

Progress Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Festival
Progress is an international festival of performance and ideas presented in partnership by SummerWorks Performance Festival and The Theatre Centre. The festival is collectively curated and presented b ...

British Council

Toronto, ON

  • Arts Council
Founded in 1934, the British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create international opportunities for the people of th ...

Chinook Series Festival

Edmonton, AB

  • Festival
Where big ideas & exciting performances come to play! Chinook Series strives to thoughtfully curate collisions between artists and audiences to deliver 11 days of stirring contemporary performances, w ...

Regent Park Film Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
The Regent Park Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing local and international independent works relevant to people from all walks of life, with a focus on inviting those of us from low income and p ...

Kudoz / Curiko

Burnaby, BC

Kudoz is an experience platform connecting people with and without disabilities to splendid things to do, together. Locals host one-hour experiences, anything from podcasting to learning Korean. Youth ...

Sick + Twisted Theatre

Winnipeg, MB

  • Theatre
Sick + Twisted is a theatre company dedicated to creating work exploring the experience of living with a disability.

Canadian College of Performing Arts

Victoria, BC

  • Performing Arts
  • Education
The Canadian College of Performing Arts is extremely proud to be a unique training institution offering the highest level of performing arts instruction with a national scope and vision. Through our t ...

Citadel Theatre

Edmonton, AB

  • Theatre
The Citadel Theatre is one of the largest not-for profit theatres in North America, drawing patrons from a large geographic region that includes the greater Edmonton area as well as central and northe ...

Lunchbox Theatre

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
Bartley and Margaret Bard and Betty Gibb were looking for a way to present live theatre during the lunch hour to downtown shoppers and workers, so in 1975 they founded Lunchbox Theatre. Located in Cal ...

The Good Host

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
What makes for a good host? We think it's being welcoming, anticipating your guest's needs, and simply wanting everyone to enjoy themselves. With Inside Out Theatre's Good Host Program we work to op ...

Geordie Theatre

Montreal, QC

  • Theatre
Geordie Theatre entertains, provokes thought, fires up the imagination, and challenges our audiences of all ages with the unique power of professional live theatre. We celebrate theatre’s powerful imp ...

Akimbo

Toronto, ON

Akimbo is a Toronto-based company that promotes contemporary visual art, video, new media and film locally, nationally and internationally via the internet, mobile and social. Established in November ...

Red Dress Productions / ReDefine Arts

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Performing Arts
Red Dress Productions is a Toronto non-profit that creates interdisciplinary, community-engaged, public art projects.

Belfry Theatre

Victoria, BC

  • Theatre
As a professional adult theatre company, we are dedicated to producing contemporary plays, with an emphasis on Canadian work, and to promoting artistic, cultural, and educational events in the Greater ...

JAYU

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
JAYU is a registered Canadian charity and a leader in the space where the arts and human rights intersect. We believe strongly that the arts provide the strongest platform to share human rights stor ...

Persephone Theatre

Saskatoon, SK

  • Theatre
Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre was founded in 1974 by the actors Janet and Susan Wright and director Brian Richmond, who was to become the theatre’s first artistic director. It was by design that its ...

Sum Theatre

Saskatoon, SK

  • Theatre
Sum is a Saskatoon based independent theatre company. Incorporated in 2011, we are guided by values of innovation, community, sharing, inclusion, citizenship, excellence, accessibility and fun. We are ...

Vancouver Fringe

Vancouver, BC

  • Festival
  • Theatre
The Vancouver Fringe is a celebration of all kinds of theatre. Produced annually by the Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society over 11 days in September, with over 500 volunteers supporting 700+ performance ...

Vertigo Theatre

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
Vertigo Theatre is located at the base of the Calgary Tower in the heart of downtown Calgary, and is home to the organization, its two performance venues and the BD&P Mystery Theatre Series. Our arti ...

Prairie Theatre Exchange

Winnipeg, MB

  • Theatre
Born of the community in 1972, Prairie Theatre Exchange offers a full mainstage season of five contemporary plays, a family show during the winter holidays, and a LEAP series of shows that push the bo ...

Globe Theatre

Regina, SK

  • Theatre
Globe Theatre is a national centre of excellence in the production of theatre-in-the-round and in fostering the work of Saskatchewan artists.

Theatre NorthWest

Prince George, BC

  • Theatre
Theatre NorthWest is a regional theatre dedicated to bringing our audience a wide range of plays drawn from the contemporary Canadian and International repertoire. Actors and other theatre professiona ...

Carousel Theatre for Young People

Vancouver, BC

  • Theatre
Carousel Theatre for Young People empowers young people and families through playful, imaginative and accessible theatre experiences that develop emotional literacy.

Alberta Theatre Projects

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
Alberta Theatre Projects is a Calgary-based, not-for-profit, professional theatre company that celebrates the art of live theatre. From its home in The Martha Cohen Theatre at Arts Commons, the compan ...

Royal Canadian Theatre Company

Langley, BC

  • Theatre
The Royal Canadian Theatre Company is a professional theatrical and event entertainment producing not-for-profit society.

One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
  • Performing Arts
Once a punk rebel upstart troupe of ‘creatives’ – actors, writers, poets, jugglers, musicians and a dancer – on the cusp of a cultural renaissance that was Calgary. Over 35 years OYR has shape-shifte ...

Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI)

Montreal, QC

  • Performing Arts
MAI is neither an institution nor a self-managed artist center. We often speak of MAI as a strange beast because of its multidimensional modus operandi and the peculiarity of its mandate. He is an inc ...

Arts Club Theatre Company

Vancouver, BC

  • Theatre
The Arts Club Theatre Company is the largest theatre company in Western Canada. Each year, over a quarter of a million people experience the best in professional theatre at its three venues: the Stanl ...

The Cultch

Vancouver, BC

  • Theatre
The Cultch is Vancouver’s most diverse and innovative arts and cultural hub. We operate three theatres, a gallery, and various multi-use spaces in the heart of East Vancouver. We offer dynamic contem ...

Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company (RCAT)

St. John’s, NL

  • Theatre
The Resource Centre for the Arts (RCA) aims to provide accessible, supportive and well-resourced programs and venues, with a primary focus on the creation, development, and advancement of the performi ...

Inside Out Theatre

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
We are a Deaf and disability theatre company in sunny Calgary Alberta equally invested in artistic excellence, community development, and deepening our cultures’ accessibility. We offer community-bas ...

Theatre Calgary

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
Theatre Calgary traces its origins to the 1960s grassroots movement for local professional theatre. The company formed from the city’s two most prominent amateur theatre groups: Workshop 14 and the Mu ...

Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre

Antigonish, NS

  • Theatre
Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre is committed to developing an understanding and appreciation for theatre within the community through the production of high quality professional work. Within this m ...

Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Winnipeg, MB

  • Theatre
Manitoba Theatre for Young People has been creating and presenting professional theatre productions for children and families since 1982, when Actors Showcase was reformed under Founding Artistic Dire ...

StoryBook Theatre Society

Calgary, AB

  • Theatre
StoryBook Theatre is one of Canada's largest Theatres for Young Audiences. We have been delighting children of all ages for over 40 years. StoryBook has become the bridge between the professional and ...

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Winnipeg, MB

  • Theatre
The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre exists to celebrate the widest spectrum of theatre art. Deeply rooted in the province of Manitoba, which gave it life and provides for its growth, Royal MTC aspires t ...

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Vancouver, BC

  • Festival
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Music
  • Film
  • Performing Arts
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences wit ...

Breakthroughs Film Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
The only festival in Canada devoted exclusively to short films made by emerging women & non binary directors.

VocalEye

Vancouver, BC

  • Theatre
VocalEye is a non-profit society, registered charity and the first live descriptive arts service for the blind in Canada. Our mission is to provide greater access to theatre, arts and cultural events ...

Edmonton Fringe Theatre

Edmonton, AB

  • Theatre
Since 1982, the Edmonton International Fringe™ Theatre Festival has been delighting, shocking, and surprising audiences. We were founded by Brian Paisley, who at the time was the Artistic Director of ...

Inside Out Film Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
Inside Out is a not-for-profit registered charity that exists to challenge attitudes and change lives through the promotion, production and exhibition of film made by and about lesbian, gay, bisexual ...

Hot Docs Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Festival
  • Film
Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, offers an outstanding selection of over 200 films from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences of more than 200,000.

The Word on the Street

Toronto, ON

  • Literary Arts
  • Poetry
  • Festival
The Word On The Street is a national celebration of literacy and Canadian writing. Each September, we host hundreds of readings for visitors of all ages. Join us as we share vital stories about where ...

VibraFusionLab

London, ON

VibraFusionLab investigates multi-sensory artistic modalities in the creation and presentation of art by and for people of all abilities and explores broader applications of the sensory interpretation ...

CRIPSiE

Edmonton, AB

  • Disability
  • Performance
  • Performing Arts

Mirvish Productions

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
  • Performing Arts
David's father, Ed Mirvish, had made headlines in 1963 when he purchased and saved from demolition Toronto's historic Royal Alexandra Theatre, one of the oldest and most famous legitimate theatres in ...

Ontario Arts Council

Toronto, ON

  • Government
OAC is an agency that operates at arm's length from the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries. The OAC's grants and services to professional, Ontario-based artists and arts organ ...

Neighbourhood Arts Network

Toronto, ON

Neighbourhood Arts Network is a strategic initiative of Toronto Arts Foundation. We offer accessible arts programming, awards, and exciting partnership opportunities to Toronto-based artists, arts edu ...

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Media Arts
  • Festival
imagineNATIVE is the world's largest presenter of Indigenous screen content. The organisation is recognised locally, nationally, and internationally for excellence and innovation in programming and as ...

Ryerson University

Toronto, ON

  • Education
Ryerson University is at the intersection of mind and action. What our students learn in the classroom is enhanced by real-world knowledge and experience. We champion diversity, entrepreneurship and i ...

Critical Distance Centre For Curators (CDCC)

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Culture
  • Arts Centre
Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) is a not-for-profit gallery, publisher, platform, and partner supporting curatorial community, discourse, and production across disciplines and beyond bord ...

Tangled Art + Disability

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Deaf and Disability-led
Tangled Art + Disability is boldly redefining how the world experiences art and those who create it. We are a not for profit art + disability organization dedicated to connecting professional and emer ...

Workman Arts

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Film
Workman Arts is a multidisciplinary arts organization that promotes a greater understanding of mental health and addiction issues through creation and presentation. We support artists living with ment ...

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Toronto, ON

  • Film
The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema is an historic, century-old cinema located in Toronto’s vibrant Annex neighbourhood. It is a year-round home for first-run Canadian and international documentaries, as ...

Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO)

Toronto, ON

  • Music
Committed to serving local and national communities through vibrant performances and expansive educational activities, the TSO offers a wide range of programming that resonates with people of all ages ...

Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture

Vancouver, BC

  • VIsual Arts
Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture, in Vancouver BC, gives artists with disabilities a voice. This can mean everything from facilitating a disability art group, to bringing an international film to ...

Ahuri Theatre

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
  • Theatre
Ahuri Theatre is an award winning international collective of artists. We strive to bring together that which is usually separated, and to discover the likeness between things which are thought unlike ...

Toronto Public Library

Toronto, ON

  • Library
Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world. Every year, we have millions of users visiting our branches and taking advantage of our online services. We empower Tor ...

Theatre Orangeville

Orangeville, ON

  • Venue
  • Theatre
There is sheer joy to be found in making and sharing live theatre. We invite you to watch, listen, think, feel, question, challenge, empathize and most of all, imagine. For as soon as audience and art ...

Shakespeare in the Ruff

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
We get it. Shakespeare can be boring. We’re here to change that. We strive towards the seamless integration of Outdoor Theatre, Education, and Community Building. Underpinning all of our work is the ...

Peggy Baker Dance Projects

Toronto, ON

  • Dance
Peggy Baker Dance Projects is dedicated to offering experiences of significance, personal connection, and transformative potential to our audience through the power and beauty of the art of dance.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
Founded in 1968, TPM is Canada’s original alternative theatre company, currently developing and producing new Canadian plays. TPM is striving to articulate a distinct Canadian voice that reflects the ...

Common Boots Theatre

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
We are an artist-run, independent company in downtown Toronto. We produce large-scale outdoor winter theatre and collaboratively created comedies that explore political institutions, public vocations, ...

Young People's Theatre

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE (YPT) is the oldest professional theatre company in Toronto and is a national producer and presenter of theatre for young audiences – the first in North America and the largest ...

Thousand Islands Playhouse

Gananoque, ON

  • Theatre
Behind all of the activities, events and productions that take place at the Thousand Islands Playhouse, there is a strong desire to develop a creative, dynamic, and compassionate community. By encoura ...

Harbourfront Centre

Toronto, ON

  • Dance
  • VIsual Arts
  • Film
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Festival
  • Literary Arts
Harbourfront Centre, on Toronto's waterfront, is an innovative not-for-profit cultural organization that creates events and activities of excellence that enliven, educate and entertain a diverse publi ...

Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (MNjcc)

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
The MNjcc is home to a 3800+ member state-of-the-art Fitness Centre, the 285 seat Al Green Theatre, four schools, three choirs, a wide range of arts and cultural activities, Jewish Life programming, a ...

Nightwood Theatre

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
Nightwood Theatre is Canada's National Women's Theatre Company

Grand Theatre

London, ON

  • Theatre
A leading cultural hub, the Grand is proudly located in the heart of downtown London, Ontario. We are a place for all Londoners, for everyone, to gather, celebrate, and be inspired by exceptional thea ...

Generator

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
Generator is a mentoring, teaching, and innovation incubator that expands the skills, tools, and competencies of independent artists, producers and leaders. From intensive programs to online tools, Ge ...

The Musical Stage Company

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
The Musical Stage Company is the largest and leading charitable musical theatre company in Canada. Established in 2004 as Acting Up Stage Company, we strive to make Canada a leader in musical theatre.

Stratford Festival

Stratford, ON

  • Festival
  • Theatre
Located in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, we are North America’s largest classical repertory theatre company. Each season, we present a dozen or more productions in four distinctive venues. We produce cl ...

Luminato Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Dance
  • Music
  • VIsual Arts
  • Theatre
Luminato Festival Toronto is an international arts festival dedicated to performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries. Luminato works closely wit ...

Ottawa Fringe Festival

Ottawa, ON

  • Festival
  • Theatre
The Ottawa Fringe Festival provides all performing artists, both emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their work – regardless of content, form or style – and makes the Festival as ...

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is Toronto’s leading destination for artistically rigorous alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage ...

Soulpepper Theatre Company

Toronto, ON

  • Theatre
Located in its multi-venue home the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto's Distillery Historic District, Soulpepper is Toronto’s largest not-for-profit theatre company. Founded and guided b ...

Toronto Fringe

Toronto, ON

  • Festival
  • Theatre
Toronto Fringe is a grassroots, charitable organization that runs the Toronto Fringe Festival each July, the Next Stage Theatre Festival each January, and various year-round programs that benefit yout ...

SummerWorks Performance Festival

Toronto, ON

  • Festival
  • Theatre
SummerWorks is widely recognized as one of the most important platforms for launching new work in Canada. We are interested in continuously re-imagining and innovating the possibilities of performance ...

Deaf Spectrum

Toronto, ON

  • Performing Arts
  • Deaf and Disability-led
Deaf Spectrum aims to create greater accessibility for local Deaf communities in the Greater Toronto Area by providing services in American Sign Language.

Intrepid Theatre Company

Victoria, BC

  • Theatre
Intrepid Theatre Company was founded in 1986 to produce the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival. Almost 30 years later, our original mandate continues to serve the company’s artistic and strategic plans, ...

Bluenose Ability Arts & Film Festival (BAAFF)

Halifax, NS

  • Festival
  • Film
Bluenose Ability Arts & Film Festival was created to provide opportunities for individuals of all ages, abilities, and identities to connect with, share in, and gain a greater understanding of disabil ...

reachAbility Association

Halifax, NS

  • Services / Consulting
reachAbility provides supportive and accessible programs that build capacity for inclusion and equalize the playing field for people facing barriers.

Propeller Dance

Ottawa, ON

  • Dance
Propeller Dance has been an innovator in the field of contemporary integrated dance and diverse performance practices in Canada since 2007. Propeller Dance is committed to excellence — creating, teach ...

Neptune Theatre

Halifax, NS

  • Theatre
For 57 years, Neptune Theatre has contributed to the cultural, social and economic well-being of Halifax and the province. For generations audiences have delighted in the stories we share on our stage ...

ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
In 2016, the American-born ReelAbilities Film festival crossed the border and launched in Toronto, Ontario, making this the first official international chapter of RAFF. Now in our fourth year, ReelA ...

Margin of Eras Gallery

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
The Margin of Eras Gallery is a multidisciplinary arts space dedicated to showcasing the work of new generation artists who live and work on the margins.

SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival

Edmonton, AB

  • Festival
  • Deaf and Disability-led
SOUND OFF is Canada’s national festival dedicated to the Deaf performing arts. SOUND OFF brings Deaf artists from across the country to share their stories, their talents and the beauty of American Si ...

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
  • Culture
Founded in 1914, the Royal Ontario Museum showcases art, culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America, Canada’s largest and mos ...

Home Made Visible

Toronto, ON

  • Film
The Canadian archives are lacking in home movie footage from Indigenous people and Visible Minorities. As old film and videotapes threaten to fall apart with time, Home Made Visible works to preserve ...

Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization

Regina, SK

Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. is Saskatchewan's first and only not for profit disability-led disability arts organization based in Regina. Listen to Dis Community Arts Organization ...

CUE Art Projects

Toronto, ON

  • VIsual Arts
CUE is a radical arts initiative dedicated to supporting new generation artists who live and work on the margins.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

Toronto, ON

  • Film
  • Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to beco ...

Autism Nova Scotia

Halifax, NS

  • Services / Consulting
Autism Nova Scotia strives to build community capacity to enhance understanding, acceptance, and inclusion of families and individuals living with ASD across the province.

Humber College

Toronto, ON

  • Education
Humber emphasizes hands-on, career-focused learning. We offer a broad range of credentials including bachelor's degrees, diplomas, certificates and postgraduate certificates — and will help you chart ...