Culture For Kids In The Arts

To spread the joy of music and support children with the emotional, intellectual and healthy effects of singing, Culture for Kids in the Arts partners with the Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre to enable the Resonance Choir. We support the creative growth of children with different abilities by broadening their musical horizons. Available now at the link below is the entirety of our 2019 Annual Report [with a 2020 report incoming] ~ we hope you enjoyed our Flagship Progr...am recap series! linktr.ee/cka2020

Art is transformative Through art, kids gain creative skills, independence, and respect for the world around them. CKA delivers year-round impact via sustainable arts programs for children and youth. #WhyArtsMatter #storytelling #artsforall #cka2020

Arts for All creates professional development support and resources for artists and community agency workers, emphasizing the connection between arts education and the healthy whole development of children. In anticipation of our 2020 Annual Report, hope you’re enjoying our 2019 Flagship Program recap ~ more to come soon! #cka2020 #ArtsForAll #hamont #community #arts #Inspiration #Access #Wellness

Kinderfest is an intimate multi-arts festival that recognizes the early years as a period of unique opportunity for the development of our children. Enhancing their emotional and intellectual growth through the arts is a long-term investment in a strong and healthy society. On our second-to-last 2019 Annual Report feature, we look forward to bringing you exciting announcements for the new year #cka2020 #Kinderfest #hamont #ArtsForAll

The Arts help children to express themselves, explore, dream, and learn. Support this kind of wellness through a donation to help a child spark their own lives. Link below! www.ckarts.ca/donate #WhyArtsMatter #CKA #Imagination #ArtsForAll

What IS your spark? Support our campaign for inpiration, access and wellness through a donation to help a child spark their own lives. Link below! www.ckarts.ca/donate... #WhyArtsMatter #CKA #Community #ArtsForAll See more

In series with our Flagship Program recap, we continue with our #ArtWorks 2019 coups ArtWorks mentors young adults interested in pursuing careers in the cultural sector and building the new creative economy in working directly with practicing artists and art educators, who provide training and offer guidance as students put their knowledge into practice. #cka2020 #hamilton #hamont #ArtsForAll #Inspiration #Access #Wellness

Happy Confetti PD004 by Deeshani Fernando

MEET our STAFF! Our Emerging Cultural Workforce fulfills the respective roles of Program Coordinator/Administrator [Charlie], Communications Coordinator/Artist Educator Support [Devon] and Artist Educator/Program Support [Deeshani]. Read what our new staff is all about ~ and what they bring to the table ~ HERE: https://www.ckarts.ca/who-we-are/our-team/ We extend our gratitude to Canada Summer Jobs [Service Canada] and Scott Duvall for making these positions possible through their continued generosity

It is with great excitement that we unveil complete details involving our Artasia x ABACUS collaboration with @bgchamilton & @tyleraecap! In the face of increased necessity for distancing regulation, we feel fortunate to be able to virtually unify creatively with community from afar, and look forward to sharing our collaborations here in weeks to come #Artasia2020 #ABACUS #boysandgirlsclub #tylerschoolofart ... #distantlearning #virtuallearning #ArtsForAll #ArtasiaYouthAbacusProgram #hamont #hamiltonarts @hamilton_community_foundation See more

This is how we say hello in my language PD003 by Andrea Abeysekara

With a goal of connecting kids to creativity to build a better community, Culture for Kids in the Arts expands the learning potential of children and youth through high quality, community-based arts experiences and arts educator training and employment programs. The Arts help children to express themselves, explore, dream, and learn. Support this kind of wellness through a donation to help a child spark their own lives. Link below! www.ckarts.ca/donate... #WhyArtsMatter #CKA #WellnessCreativity #ArtsForAll See more

WHAT KEEPS YOU POSITIVE? Our teacher-artist forum with Tyler School of Art wrapped up with a discussion on ways to stay excited//motivated amidst a very turbulent climate. We thank our friends for engaging such a wonderful & necessary dialogue ~ here are some excerpts that greatly inspired us, in hopes that they will further inspire you https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNz8bmHSAQ/

In conjunction with a deep dive into our 2019 Flagship Program archives, here’s a peak at our After School Arts Program ~ a charitable organization of HCA which provides engaging, art education workshops led by practicing artists from across the region during the school year.

Our Emerging Cultural Workforce + Tyler School of Art friends come together tomorrow for a virtual teacher-artist panel at 9-10:15AM! Link below ~ join us [mics off] if you please! https://temple.zoom.us/j/92608535683

We’re famous for keeping a light on in the window PD002 by Charlie Star

We would like to publicly thank and acknowledge a multitude of friends + organizations who - through their collaboration, time and resource - are making our Artasia 2020 trajectory possible! A comprehensive list of our partners, an accompanying blurb detailing this year's accomplishments thus far, and a glimpse into Artasia's future is available at the link below: https://www.ckarts.ca/what-we-do/artasia/artasia2020/ We gratefully acknowledge: Canada Council for the Arts | Co...nseil des arts du Canada, Service Canada, Matthew Green Hamilton Centre, Bob Bratina [Hamilton MP East], Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario, the City of Hamilton, Johansen-Larsen Foundation, HCF [Hamilton Community Foundation] Dougher Community Foundation, HCF Mailoch Foundation Fund and Turkstra Lumber for their contributions and generosity. Thank you: McMaster University, Today's Family Early Learning and Child Care, Suzie Miller [Pen Pal Project] and Karyn Callaghan for informing, inspiring and furthering our collective vision through our continued partnerships. We hope you enjoyed a view into our virtual adventures this past Summer, and sincerely hope you follow us into an exciting + transitional Fall season. Much to come! Sincerely, Artasia 2020 Staff

This summer, we had the immense pleasure of working with two #FocusOnYouth students: Amy & Leanne! Here, Leanne speaks about her experience with CKA. Their field of expertise extended from virtual delivery co-teaching to asset development & tech support; we are immensely grateful to have worked with these two young professionals. Heres hoping for many future collaborations!! Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board

WEEK 5: Playgrounds On our FINAL WEEK of delivery, we asked our friends to build parks for our Virtual Park!! Its been an incredible few weeks of delivery, and we are grateful to our pals at @todaysfamilyont #TodaysFamily for their wonderful creations & collaboration!

WEEK 4: Emojis Do you speak emoji? We asked our friends to create their own emojis in response to various prompts; as you can see, their digital world intuition is on point!

WEEK 3: Avatars Here we have a variety of our students puppets, designed to show off their wonderful human traits and respective qualities! We asked them to identify their unique strengths while expressing themselves simultaneously, and we think these creations speak for themselves

WEEK 2: Window Art Keeping with the times at hand, we asked our friends to create Window Art pieces based on their brainstormed messages of happiness, gratitude, and unity in the face of distancing. The future looks bright!!

Week 1: Sidewalk Art We asked our friends from Todays Family to create sidewalk squares as a means of sharing their expression to the community. We couldnt be happier with the results!!!

Meet our 2020 Artasia staff!! In the face of global pandemic and a slew of distancing challenges, #Artasia2020 remains committed to delivering virtual programming to kids across the greater Hamilton area. With a variety of artistic initiatives planned for CKA, we hope you will buckle up and ENJOY as we share our trajectory over upcoming weeks!

Creativity begins in your neighbourhood. This year, we invited children to explore parks and the environment through artistic expression. #ArtPark is a collection of artworks developed by children across the greater Hamilton area showcased in a #3D virtual environment. Stop by York Boulevard to try on our #VR headset and have some fun with your kids at our free play area in the Family Zone!... #SuperCrawl #HamOnt #ArtPark #Artasia #supercrawl2019 @ York Blvd Parkette Park

Get a good nights sleep. Alert yer folks. Tell the neighbours dog. Shout it from the rooftops. Supercrawl is officially underway, and our virtual reality exhibit launch is TOMORROW! Our #RoadToSupercrawl has reached its point of arrival! We are elated & excited to show you the finished result of our summer endeavours, let alone to be a part of such a landmark Hamilton incentive. Our tent is located in the centre of the Family Zone (York Blvd & James St); we hope to see YOU there!

Today, Artasia sends warm wishes & good vibes to our fellow students! Best of luck to everybody beginning their semester today!

On behalf of the Artasia & CKA staff, we would like to wish you all a very happy Labour Day!

Picking up where we left off on our recap series! Our Week 4 project best exemplifies our ongoing theme of Parks Planning; here, we created and customized parks from the ground up!

HEY HUMANS! If our Week 3 creatures could talk on their own, wed like to think theyd say... Come to Supercrawl!

We would like to extend a HUGE thank you to Scott Thompson & the kind folks at AM 900 CHML for having us on their airwaves! Yesterday, Scott chatted with our Program Manager (Victoria Long) about the CKAs upcoming Supercrawl installation. Click the link below to hear a snippet of their interview! https://www.instagram.com/p/B1eU-krHvUX/?igshid=2tjtc99fnh1o... Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge the CHML/Y108/Fresh FM/Global News Childrens Fund for making free delivery to Artasia participants possible!

Continuing our recap series, heres a snapshot of our Week 2 program delivery! Here, we transformed our 2D creatures (as seen in our Week 1 recap) into 3D figures!

Tune into AM 900 CHML at 2:30 for an exclusive interview with our Program Manager, Victoria Long! Victoria will be discussing a variety of the CKAs projects & summer initiatives, as well as giving a sneak peek into our upcoming Supercrawl exhibit!

Heres a glimpse of our 2019 #ArtPark; an environmentally themed virtual reality exhibit showcasing a collection of childrens art across the city. This installation will be premiering at our Supercrawl exhibit on September 14 & 15! Supercrawl #RoadToSupercrawl #Artasia2019

You heard it! Our countdown to supercrawl is officially on! Weve got lots in store for you this year, INCLUDING: a virtual reality exhibit, hands-on-terrain, childrens art from across the city, and so much more!! We cant wait to see you there!

Although weve wrapped up site delivery for the summer, #Artasia2019 is still in the works at its home base today is Day 2 of 5 while we watch our little critters create creatures!

As we embark on our #RoadToSupercrawl, our esteemed mentor Ben uncovers a key ingredient to our virtual reality exhibit: THE OCULUS QUEST!

Our final week of Artasia is slowly coming to a close HOWEVER. We had a wonderful time creating hexagon art and site banners with our talented students! As this years program deliveries come to a finish, we look forward to redirecting our energy towards our next incentive: SUPERCRAWL! #RoadToSupercrawl #Artasia2019 Supercrawl

If you had the chance to create a park of your own, what would you put in your park? Here we have one of our Stoney Creek sites [RL Hyslop] with their terrain and park creations!

Wrapping up our series of guest presentations! Earlier this week, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek MP Bob Bratina stopped by the Conservatory to share his wisdom about working in the arts to our apprentices, mentors & educators. We are grateful for Bobs stories and experiences, as well as his investment in the Hamilton Arts scene. Thank you, Bob! @ Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts

Here we have our week 4 delivery from our Boys and Girls Clubs of Hamilton Ellis site! Weve taken multiple components from our previous weeks, and are beginning to combine them together through tactile learning and building. This is a compilation of various trees and insects within our parks, constructed by our wonderful students!

Artasia had the pleasure of having Scott Duvall drop in to our week 4 Prep session! The Hamilton Mountain MP shared kind words of wisdom and encouragement amongst the Artasia Team; he has shown immense support towards the CKA initiative. Thanks for stopping by, Scott!

Here we have a combination of our week 2 and week 3 programming; Skin & Bones & Hey Humans! In these lessons, we created 3D versions of our guardian creatures to protect our parks. We then gave these creatures sounds to communicate with each other! #Artasia #Artasia2019 #ArtsForAll #ArtWorks #hereweart #community #arts #artseducation #parks #curriculum #education #cka

We at CKA would like to share this awesome event with you! The HCA Dance Theatre is proud to present Dusk Dances Hamilton for the 6th year in a row, July 25th - July 28th 2019! This is an outdoor festival that bring high quality contemporary and traditional dance to Bayfront park. Hope to see you there! @ Bayfront Park

Last week, we were so fortunate to meet Marianne & Susan Larsen - of the Johansen-Larsen Foundation - to present our summer program goals and CKA incentives! Marianne & Susan have exercised immense support & generosity to our Arts Educator Apprentice program, Artasia & the CKA initiative as a whole. For these reasons, we are extremely grateful to them, as well as the Johansen-Larsen initiative. Thank you for sharing your time with us, and thank you for championing the Arts & Education in Hamilton!

The CKA staff would like to a HUGE THANK YOU to all of our generous newspaper donors!! We would like to acknowledge NoFrills, Red Crow Coffee, House of Java, Rad Pizza Company, Soup Stop, Mezza Caffe, Terryberry Library, Hamilton [Hamilton Public Library] & Urbanicity Hamilton for making this weeks program delivery possible! For anybody who may be interested, we are still accepting donations until tomorrow [Tuesday] afternoon! Thank you all for your contributions, and your continued support of the arts in Hamilton!

This week, we had the absolute pleasure of meeting & discussing our summer program incentives with Filomena Tassi! Filomena has demonstrated unfaltering support & generosity towards Canada Summer Jobs, our Arts Educator Apprentice program, Artasia & the CKA initiative as a whole. For these reasons, we are extremely grateful to Filomena. Thank you for sharing your time with us, and for thank you for championing the Arts in Hamilton!

What does respect mean to you? How can you respect your park? Here is an excerpt from our week 1 delivery, courtesy of the children at Central Memorial Artasia; needless to say, we can get behind rules of respect!

Humans are part animal, insect, fruit, vegetable, wind, air, sun, moon.... Heres some work from our Guardian Creatures activity! This activity involved our students creating a hybrid creature to protect their parks. What do you think some of the pictured creatures are?

Artasia is looking for newspapers! Our upcoming week of programming requires your generous donations of extra newspapers you may have laying around. Any newspaper donations can be dropped off between today and next Tuesday at the front desk of the HCA at 126 James Street North. With your generous donations, our Artasia participants will be able to create creatures in collaboration with this years theme of protecting parks.

Last but certainly not least, we have Sophie! Sophie Morgan has a BFA in Art Education from Concordia University. She hopes to use her education to empower and engage communities as an art educator and administrator through programming. She is a multidiscplinary artist, self proclaimed hip-hop head and proud Hamiltonian . She is interested in exploring spatial theory , the human form and in using hip hop as a way to empower marginalized communities welcome Sophie!

Here we have Devon! Devon is a freelance musician , composer/arranger , multi-instrumentalist , producer & educator based out of Hamilton & Toronto . He is an honor roll graduate of Mohawk Colleges Applied Music program as a bass major, and will be entering his final year of Humber Colleges Bachelor of Music program in the fall ! Outside of his involvement in the arts community and an appreciation for all things music , Devons passions can be found through peanut butter sandwiches , reruns of the Office , road trips with good friends , and - most importantly - being your pal welcome, Devon!

Meet Sukaina! Sukaina is going into her last year at McMaster University , pursuing an honours degree in Bachelors of Arts, majoring in Multimedia and Political Science. She loves digital art, graphic design and anything that allows her to express her creativity. She is passionate about social justice issues and cares deeply about making a space for marginalized people in the arts welcome, Sukaina!

Here is Adam! A spooky ghost whos here to tell you about his pretentious ideas of film and writing . A 4th year McMaster student who enjoys creative writing and directing both in film and on the stage. Also rewatches Starship Troopers, Citizen Kane and A Ghost Story religiously. Would you like to know more? Welcome, Adam!