“Confessions of a First-Time Organizer” is a great blog post written by Catherine (aka Kingston Through My Lens) and is the second installment in a series of posts that documents her experience and participation in Culture Days 2011. Click here to read Catherine’s previous post. Organizing Kingston Through My Lens has definitely been a whirlwind…

Article appeared in Lifestyles 55 (July, 2011) Jean Giguère, former chair of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and well-known arts volunteer in Winnipeg, was given the very first Arts Volunteers of the Year award at the fifth annual Mayor’s Luncheon organized by the Winnipeg Arts Council June 9. The awards luncheon is held every June to…

Nazanin Shoja, the OAC Culture Days Ontario Animator/Coordinator spoke with Cynthia Coons, Assistant Coordinator of the Waabi-ma’iingan (Grey Wolf) Traditional Teaching Lodge, about what they offered the residents of Thunder Bay, ON during Culture Days 2010. Culture Days – Who are you and what do you do? Cynthia Coons – Waabi-ma’iingan is a teaching lodge…

Here’s a great blog post written by Catherine (aka Kingston Through My Lens) that documents her experience as a first-time activity organizer. If you were to look in my desk, you would find a thick brown notebook filled with many of my hopeful community initiatives. The ideas in this notebook range from book swaps to…