An essay by Alissa Firth-Eagland discussing the essence of communities. Communities are beckoned into being. They respond to needs, expressions, opportunities, or sets of conditions.These structures of belonging shift over distance and time. They have varying configurations,communication styles, and reasons… Read More

Le changement - vite survenu ou gagné en lutte longue et rude - résulte d’un soigneux mélange de détermination individuelle et de volonté collective. Il se produit quand des conditions apportent à l’individu le pouvoir d’agir en rapport avec l’expérience… Read More

Between a Rock and a Hard Place was a one-day immersion into the music and landscapes of Sudbury, Ontario: a series of eleven outdoor concerts in eleven different locations took place on August 18th, 2012. Dutch artists Bik Van der Pol… Read More

Musagetes’ Executive Director, Shawn Van Sluys, delivered a lecture titled “The Sacred” at the University of Lethbridge on September 22, 2014. Using the examples of artistic projects in Lecce and Sudbury, Van Sluys talked about the relationship between how people make… Read More

Musagetes Program Coordinator Danica Evering spoke at TEDxGuelphU last November. This is a talk about stories, about pens and swords, and the people and communities who wield them. About the power they can have for change, as well as needing… Read More

A summary of the organizational thinking developed during Musagetes’ Retreat in January 2015. This year the retreat focused on the transformative power of the arts and our need to contribute with greater urgency to a movement toward broader and more… Read More

Cities need to be created and designed by people of good will. Exercising good will is hopeful. It expresses deep belief in reciprocation, co-intentionality, and a shared design of our future. Canada has a 400-year history of assimilation and Indigenous… Read More

A workbook to accompany the Between a Rock and a Hard Place publication. As a series of creative exercises for a group of participants, the SenseLabs are Musagetes' approach to cultural mediation—a process of building bridges between the cultural and… Read More

On November 20, 2014, the Culture Days, CAPACOA, and the Cultural Knowledge Exchange (CKX) Summit invited Shawn Van Sluys, executive director of Musagetes, and Alain Dubuc, economist and journalist with La Presse, to debate the value of the arts. Simon… Read More

In early 2012, Musagetes and the Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) invited Rebecca Belmore to develop a new project in Sudbury, Ontario. After a research visit in September 2012, Rebecca returned for a production residency in May 2013 during which she… Read More