Our ProGRAMS

Art Club & Days of Art

Delivering free and low-cost arts programming to students across the City of Thunder Bay, Art Club is multidisciplinary, professionally and locally led, and culturally enriching. CAHEP's Art Club program has two components. The first - the regular Art Club Program - delivers multidisciplinary art projects to three designated schools on a bi-monthly basis. The second part of the Art Club program Days of Art - focusses on providing arts, cultural, and heritage educational experiences to as many students as possible in the City of Thunder Bay.

painting with a quiet mind (yoga), art club, kingsway

creative movement with christine 2, days of art, st. james

recycyled robots 3, art club, sherbrooke

recycyled robots 1, art club, sherbrooke

CAHEP allows our school to access art supplies, delivers instruction, and provides more opportunity for hands-on one-to-one support in classrooms. This one-to-one support makes the arts more accessible to children and helps them to build connections with other people in our community, ask questions, and lean into new ways of thinking and doing things.

Kait Larsen

Grade ¾ Teacher

Hear CBC Radio Coverage -Art Club School Program

Mary-Jean Cormier takes us to Algonquin Avenue Public School where students were getting creative with clay yesterday. It's part of a community arts program that's been running for the past two years -- for a large part virtually. But it's now back in-person.

judy birch trees acrylic paint 1, speak up, kingsway

judy birch trees acrylic paint 2, speak up, kingsway

community arts

Our Community Arts Program, which consists of several different streams, provides free, multidisciplinary arts programming to children, youth, adults, Elders, and seniors in partnership with neighbourhood organizations, community groups, and cultural associations in mostly under-resourced areas of Thunder Bay. All of the streams within our Community Arts Program help build self-confidence, increase social inclusion, and foster community building through co-creation and teamwork in spaces where access to arts programming is limited. Just as important, our Community Arts Program develops creativity and creative thinking skills, which are internationally recognized as important 21st-century competencies.