Common Weal: Local artists working together

Common Weal Community Arts is a provincial arts organization that links professional artists with communities to promote cultural identity and social justice through collaboration and creative expression. Common Weal links artists and communities to animate long-term positive and social change.

We strive to inspire ideas for social change through art. By linking professional artists with communities to engage in collaborative art projects, we empower people – and their communities – to tell their stories in their own voices.

Common Weal Community Arts facilitates the production of participatory art projects, based on creating partnerships between communities and artists, through a philosophy of inclusion and cooperation, and in order to create opportunities and choices for individuals and communities.  This is achieved through:

•    The production art that promotes critical thinking;
•    Embracing cooperation, diversity and inclusiveness;
•    A commitment to projects of high artistic merit;
•    Affirming and developing a creative consciousness by challenging the status quo with honesty and integrity;
•    Recognizing and engaging alternative voices and world views;
•    Prioritizing the engagement of Indigenous peoples.