Project lands funding

The Community Arts & Heritage Education Project has received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation in support of a two-year initiative that will bring arts and heritage education models and strategies to Fort Frances, Atikokan, Dryden, Sioux Lookout, Kenora, Red Lake, Nipigon, Red Rock, Schreiber, Terrace Bay, Marathon, Sault Ste. Marie, Manitoulin Island, Sudbury, and North Bay.
Over the next two years, the participating communities, in collaboration with CAHEP, will roll out this exciting initiative.

The communities each have identified and chosen a path specific to their community. This path will enhance the work of arts and heritage education in each of their communities.
CAHEP and the communities will work together to help build capacity in arts and heritage education.
This initiative has the communities choosing specific workshops, training and mentoring, projects, programs, events, community arts projects, and resource creation that they will work on over the next two years.
It puts the communities front and centre in choosing and working towards what their community wants and needs, and it leaves the skills, strategies, and models within each community for future development in arts and heritage.
Arts and heritage education is a catalyst for creative thinking and lifelong learning. This two-year initiative ensures that the partner communities will have access to models and strategies that will build their capacity in the way that best works for each partner community!
The next meeting of the Fort Frances CAHEP project is set for tomorrow (Jan. 15) at 4 p.m. at the Fort Frances Museum. For more, contact Pam Hawley at 274-7891.