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VIBE Arts named partner of Gardiner Museum’s 2019 Community Arts Space

VIBE Arts is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Gardiner Museum’s 2019 Community Arts Space: What We Long For. VIBE is proud to contribute Hair We Are, one of six projects that seek to reconsider Toronto’s unique and varied local histories of art and social activism. The youth project will run from Thursday, July … Read more

VIBE Arts to Co-Present ResilienTOgether: a Panel Discussion, Concert Series and Photography Exhibitions as part of Youth Week 2019

VIBE Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming collaboration with the City of Toronto’s Youth Equity Strategy (TYES) with support from Solid Waste Management. On Saturday, May 4th, 2019, VIBE will be co-presenting a series of free arts programming and performances as part of Youth Week 2019. Join us in the Toronto City Hall Rotunda … Read more

Animating Historic Sites: Return and Relearn at Zion Schoolhouse

Through February and March 2019, VIBE Arts teamed up the Toronto Arts Council to Animate the City of Toronto’s historic Zion Schoolhouse. This project took shape as four, day-long artist residencies culminating in three days of public March Break programming where VIBE Artists reimagined and re-constructed traditional subjects of the 1910 schoolhouse. VIBE Artist Ruben … Read more

Looking back at VIBE Arts’ ‘The Chronicles’: Black History Month Programming 2019

This February, VIBE Arts earned an outstanding opportunity, in collaboration with community arts organizations RISE and Freedom Fridayz, to host a three-part series of Black History Month programming. Funded by Canadian Heritage, The Chronicles series set out to honour the legacies of Black Canadians, past and present, through artful activities, activations, and conversations. Part one … Read more

PRESS RELEASE: Introducing Boreal Creates – VIBE Launches Programming in Northern Ontario Communities

At VIBE Arts, we have been building relationships to expand the reach of our impact. In 2017, we worked with national partners and participants for our 150+ Reasons We Love Canada project. This winter, VIBE has had the privilege of collaborating with Indigenous artist and arts assistants, in Northern Ontario communities, to design a series … Read more

New Year, New Members

The VIBE Arts Board of Directors fundraise, advise, govern, oversee policy and strategic direction, as well as assist with the leadership and promotion of VIBE Arts. Members of our board play a crucial role in our organization. Each member joins us with unique life and career experience and helps our organization achieve its goal of … Read more

5 Ways to Give Back to Community Arts this Season

The holiday season is filled with countless ways to feel the warmth of giving. One of the most gratifying ways to feel good in 2019 is by giving back to your community.  At VIBE, every day we are lucky enough to witness how community arts impacts thousands of lives across Ontario. The source of this … Read more

PRESS RELEASE: VIBE Arts x StART Mural Completed, Launch Event Tuesday, September 10th 2018

This July, VIBE Arts teamed up with StreetARToronto (StART) and began the process of transforming a huge stretch of brick wall into a piece of art. The finished mural, located at Centennial East Recreation Centre at 1967 Ellesmere Road in Scarborough, features multiple species of butterflies and has been named ‘Kaleidoscope’, after the word meaning … Read more