Art City: A grassroots approach to community development through community arts

Winnipeg

http://www.creativecity.ca/resources/project-profiles/Winnipeg-ArtCity.html

Art City's brightly painted storefront has become an integral part of its Winnipeg neighbourhood, and a focal point for community members to get to know each other and develop self-esteem and pride. Art City has made the arts a vehicle for empowering the area’s residents and developing a local sense of community. Art City's mandate is to create a positive and expanding cultural impact on the unique needs of the community by fostering self-expression in participants, encouraging a sense of ownership, self-respect and pride in their work and community, being a part of the neighbourhood, a place that is safe, comfortable, supportive and offering free-of-charge, quality programming with local, national, and international professional artists.