ARCA is pleased to share with you our list of speakers/facilitators for Pathways Together:   AGAVF Patterns Collective TakeHome Artist Collective MARCC Kate Macdonald Alice Crawford Tara Davis Karina Cardona Claros Amber Berson Laurence Dubuc Tarin Dehod Jordan Baylon Tiphaine Girault Lori Beavis   There is less than one month until Pathways Together – »»

Lacey Price acknowledges the hard work in ARCs/Le Prix Lacey récompense le travail des CAAs + Internship at ARCA/Stage à l’ARCA + Coast-to-coast news from the ARCs & collectives network/Des nouvelles du réseau des CAAs et des collectifs autogérés d’un océan à l’autre + Podcast/Balado. >

In celebration of MAWA’s 30th anniversary, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) and Manitoba Artist-Run Centres Coalition (MARCC) have joined forces to present Who Counts: A Feminist Art Throwdown, three days of lectures, debates and events that will bring together feminists, artists and cultural workers from across Canada to discuss feminist art in Canada now. »»

On December 5th, The Manitoba Artist-Run Centres’ (MARCC) members gathered at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) for a meeting to cover quite a few topics. I attended the meeting in part to clarify the role of ARCA in advocacy, representation, research, and networking for the artist-run network across Canada. It was helpful to revisit why ARCA was formed in 2005 and why it was organised by regional associations (including two cultural associations).