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LABOUR ARTS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROJECT (LAKE Project) What is the LAKE Project? Through the LAKE project, the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre will operate as the leading Canadian cultural institution involved developing and facilitating labour arts education, curriculum, resources, and networks of artists and organizations involved in labour arts on a national scale. The project will engage with educational, community, labour, and arts and cultural communities in its development and delivery (see diagram below).
The cornerstone to the LAKE Project is the Canadian national labour arts online portal, labourarts.ca. Already in the preliminary stages of development, labourarts.ca will include a directory of artists and organizations involved in labour arts, including cultural industries and performing arts unions, the Canadian Labour Arts handbook, event listings, training and educational listings and resources, research resources on Canadian labour issues and events, sample labour arts projects, and a blog for the Canadian labour arts community. Labourarts.ca will draw upon the existing knowledge and expertise of artists and unions producing and supporting labour arts in Canada. WAHC also hopes to produce, in conjunction with these communities, some new resources that will benefit cultural workers and labour arts participants/audiences in developing the Canadian labour arts sector, including resource and curriculum guides for workplace, teacher training and classroom use, as well as a database of labour arts projects and resources from across Canada. This project is designed to expand the interactive capacity of labour arts production as a means of achieving social change, discussing social issues, and fostering new partnerships and collaboration amongst working people across Canada. This project also aims to foster the relationship between artists and unions nation wide using creative organizing as a tool for change. In addition to highlighting the value of the arts in documenting labour stories, the LAKE Project also supports the ongoing politicization of art as work, and the value of cultivating, supporting and engaging professionalized Canadian artists and cultural workers as a critical component of a healthy, diverse and creative society. Components of the LAKE Project:
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