ArtsCan Circle sends teams of artists and musicians to remote Indigenous communities to conduct hands-on workshops in music, songwriting, drama, and visual arts. These workshops aim to build self-esteem in Indigenous youth and provide positive outlets for self-expression. ArtsCan also donates musical instruments to participating communities to ensure ongoing access to the arts.

1. Presented By:
Bo Pelech
Carol Teal
ArtsCan Circle Executive Director

3. ArtsCan Circle sends teams of musicians and artists
to remote Canadian Indigenous communities and
links creative artists with Indigenous youth at risk.
The teams conduct hands-on workshops in playing
instruments, songwriting, singing, drama and visual
arts to build self-esteem amongst native youth and
encourage positive outlets for self expression through
the arts.
ArtsCan also delivers donated musical instruments to
each participating community to ensure access to
instruments on an on-going basis

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8. Build totems, perform rituals, give gifts and try to become the most
respected member of your clan by being the most generous player.

9. The facts:
Source : Assembly of First Nations

10. The facts:
Infant mortality rates are more than double the
Canadian rate (17 compared to 8 per 100).
Violent deaths in First Nation communities are nearly
3 times the national average (157 compared to 54
per 100,000 population).
Over-crowding in reserve homes (about 30%) has
risen to 16 times the Canadian rate (1.8%).
Nearly 40% of reserve homes have no central
heating, compared to only 5% of Canadian homes.
Source : Assembly of First Nations

12. “ Government welfare cheques instill in their recipients a
false sense of entitlement. The results are a perverse
psychology marked by inferiority complex, victim
thinking, lack of confidence, learned helplessness,
inability to cope with adversity, an absence of self-responsibility
and accountability, and ultimately an
inability to feel the empowerment that self-sufficiency
can bring. Worse, such attitudes are passed on from
generation to generation until too often they become
normalized.”
Calvin Helin

13. “History tells us the most successful cures for poverty
come from within...no empowerment is as effective as
self empowerment”.
David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

16. ``As free beings admiring, learning, and observing...we
enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and
experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are
engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible to the conscious
mind but are recognized intuitively as meaningful, then
we are engaged in art.``
Albert Einstein