Performance Celebration (ASAP)

Wesley Urban Ministries Tuesday, May 29 at HCA – Hess Street Elementary School, 4pm Wednesday, May 30 at HCA – Queen Victoria Elementary School, 4:30pm Beyond the Bell YMCA Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford Friday, May 25 at HCA – Queen Victoria Elementary School, 4:30pm Bennetto Elementary School, 5:45pm Friday, June 1 at HCA – St. Lawrence Elementary School, […]
Performance Celebration (ASAP and ArtWorks)

Beyond the Bell YMCA Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford Friday, May 24, 2013 at HCA – Bennetto Elementary School, 4pm Dr. Davey Elementary School, 5:15pm Friday, May 31, 2013 at HCA – St. Brigid Elementary School, 4pm Friday, June 7, 2013 at HCA – Queen Victoria, 4pm Adelaide Hoodless Elementary School, 4:45pm Friday, June 14, 2013 at HCA – […]
Performance Celebration – ASAP and ArtWorks

Beyond the Bell YMCA Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford Friday, May 16, 2014 at HCA – St. Patrick Elementary School, 3:45pm Adelaide Hoodless Elementary School, 5:15pm Friday, May 23, 2014 at HCA – St. Lawrence Elementary School, 3:45pm St. Brigid Elementary School, 5:15pm Friday, May 30, 2014 at Cathy Wever Elementary School, 3:45pm Canada: Colony to Country – A […]
Performance Celebration – ASAP and ArtWorks

YMCA Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford Friday, May 22, 2015 at HCA – Queen Victoria Elementary School & Adelaide Hoodless Elementary School, 5:15pm Friday, May 29, 2015 at HCA – St. Lawrence Elementary School, 4pm & Bennetto Elementary School, 5:15pm CKA and the children and youth from the After School Arts Program presented Africa: Saving the Rain.
Voices of Children/Seeing Potential Exhibition

Inaugural year featuring 500 young artists from across Hamilton. ARTASIA is a new Culture for Kids in the Arts city-wide arts education initiative combining visual arts and recyclable materials. It is arts education, children, youth mentors, arts apprentices, corporations and community organizations working together to create a public art installation that expresses the children’s future […]
Seeing Potential: The Street Corners Project

Wesley Urban Minisitries, 155 Queen St N: Sound Farming YMCA Jamesville Community Centre, 209 MacNab St N: Arcadia Eva Rothwell, 460 Wentworth St N, More Than Trucks and Trains Boys and Girls Club, 45 Ellis Ave, Imaginations Taking Off Today’s Family, Delta United Church, 47 Ottawa St S, Monkeying Around This year, the children of […]
City Voices, Supercrawl Exhibition

City Voices was an interactive media installation created in partnership with the Factory Media Centre. In this dynamic installation, creative collaborators Aaron Hutchinson, Amy McIntosh and Andrew O’Connor created a public portrait of urban transformation through sound, video, interactivity and interviews of a city in flux. Building on Artasia inspired themes of exploring children’s voices […]
Children’s Charter of Rights for the Parks Exhibition

Reaching over 500 school-aged children at 15 locations around the city, Artasia 2012 focused on creating a Charter of Rights for the Parks and merged this concept with building a herd of 15 life-size caribou made of aluminum. We worked with local Artist and Community Collaborator, David Hind, who combined his aluminum-based art practice with […]
Inclusion, Sense of Belonging, Compassion Exhibition

The children participating in Artasia’s summer program presented a reimagining of the parks of Hamilton as inclusive spaces where everyone in a community feels the same sense of belonging and where compassion is fostered between humans and nature. CKA was proud to present an interarts installation entitled Barren Blossom Memory with filmmaker Tyler Tekatch and […]
Regeneration Exhibition

re-gen-er-a-tion noun the action or process of regenerating or being regenerated, in particular the formation of new animal or plant tissue To regenerate is to renew, restore and grow. The term is most often applied to living organisms such as genomes, cells and ecosystems. But what happens when this word guides a process of art […]