2025 MixAbilities Inclusive Arts Training Program – Community Access

H’art Centre invites Kingston’s artists and arts educators to apply to attend the upcoming round of MixAbilities inclusive arts training. We designed MixAbilities to help local artists/educators learn to:

1) Increase your awareness and understanding of inclusive and accessible arts.

2) Effectively and empathetically support an interested community of all abilities to participate or contribute to the arts.

3) Develop your skills and confidence as inclusive artists/educators, and;

4) Increase your knowledge and understanding of the value of arts for this population.

Our primary goal is to grow our roster of trained community artist-instructors and to spread awareness of our inclusive arts approach. If you think you might like, one day, to join our artist roster and share your artistic discipline and expertise with H’art Studio artists, you’ll need to complete this program.

Eligibility: Community artists and/or arts educators are eligible to apply. In your letter of interest, please indicate your developed skills through training or practice, any recognition you have received in your artistic tradition, history of public presentation or publication, and how you are practice your art. Spaces are limited, please send a short letter of interest and bio or resume. Please let us know if you need to submit your interest in a different format.

H’art Centre is strongly committed to equity and values diversity. H’art Centre encourages expressions of interest from equity groups. Applications from disability-identified persons are strongly encouraged.

Expressions of interest and resumes can be submitted via email to: hartinfo@hartschool.ca. We will contact you with details about the next available session.

We would like to thank the Anna and Edward C. Churchill Foundation for their continued support of our MixAbilities Inclusive Arts Training program in 2025. We would also like to acknowledge the City of Kingston, the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our organization.

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