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Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Youth Art Connection(YAC) Co-founders Ann Denny and Ryan Veltmeyer are always looking to partner with youth, artists and organizations doing great things in their communities. We believe in the power of youth and the arts to make positive community change.

Supporting Nova Scotians to start, grow and sustain Art Hives is one of our main missions for 2015.

Get in touch and lets find a way to partner and grow our communities through collaborative youth arts activities!

Team City Art Hive is run by members of Team Possibles Art Collective, in partnership with Halifax City Recreation programs and the Halifax Nova Scotia Down Syndrome Society. The hive is run out of the Chocolate Lake Recreation Centre on Tuesday afternoons from 12:00 - 3:00 pm: year round. ( except July & Aug). Team City Art Hive is a free public arts space that welcomes everyone of all abilities and serves as an exciting model of community cohesion, spirit, inclusion, openness, and creativity.

Our purpose is to provide art therapy and counseling programming for children, adolescents, adults and families in the Aurora area with a special focus on low-income, marginalized and low socioeconomic status populations in our community that have limited or no access to mental healthcare. Our mission is to provide a safe and encouraging environment for individuals to uncover the light of their hearts through the creative process of art making.

CEW began in 2012 as a grassroots project to serve refugee and immigrant women who attend the Adult Day Service program at Hamdard. The women served by CEW face challenges entering the work force or growing their social networks due to language barriers. Several women cope with mental illness as well as Post Traumatic Stress after witnessing extreme violence in their former homelands. Over the past year, CEW participants have been involved in every aspect of studio development.

Crafters Art Hive is a Community Art Hive where you can work on your arts and crafts! This is a creative space to share ideas and talents, to learn and teach one another and to develop friendships.

Painting, knitting, crochet, drawing, quilting, sculpting, beading, scrapbooking?  Whatever you create, you are invited!

The LivingRoom Community Art Studio is a registered charity based in Oshawa on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (covered under the Williams Treaty).  It is a virtual and mobile Art Hive place-making machine that provides opportunities for community members to make and share art for free in the service of promoting community development and individual well-being. We work with all ages, abilities and walks of life - including those most marginalised - to reduce the barriers that prevent individuals and families from engaging in arts informed activi

The Corner Brook Open Art Studio is a community art center that welcomes everyone as an artist, regardless of age or ability. It is all about respect and inclusion, where you can explore your creativity in a relaxing, stress-free environment. Drop in and use the wide variety of materials offered here or you can bring your own supplies – the choice is yours! The open art studio is about building self-respect, empowerment and community, and not so much about technical know-how.

ArtSpace is an open studio at Boyle Street Community Services, (http://boylestreet.org) a community resource agency on the north edge of downtown Edmonton. ArtSpace grew out of a "pop up" ArtSpace studio that has been held one evening a week during the Winter Warming program at BSCS.