FLOURISH

COLLECTIVE

Community-Engaged Arts for Social Wellness

Research. Teaching. Advocacy

Based in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

OUR

STORY

Launched in September 2020 at the University of Toronto Scarborough, FLOURISH: Community-Engaged Arts for Social Wellness is an arts-led, community-engaged multimodal initiative that explores how creative arts engagement enriches social connection and wellness across the lifecourse.

OUR

PROJECTS

We support the development of community-engaged arts-wellness initiatives across Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In partnership with locally-engaged organizations we seek to produce meaningful evidence that reflects how high-quality arts experiences—in multiple forms, venues and roles—catalyze interactions crucial to social wellness.

  Crip Ritual
  Mobilizing Creative Arts
  No Cloud Without Sky
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COMMUNITY

PARTNERS

We support the development of community-engaged arts-wellness initiatives across Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In partnership with locally-engaged organizations we seek to produce meaningful evidence that reflects how high-quality arts experiences—in multiple forms, venues and roles—catalyze interactions crucial to social wellness.

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WHO WE

ARE

We support the development of community-engaged arts-wellness initiatives across Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In partnership with locally-engaged organizations we seek to produce meaningful evidence that reflects how high-quality arts experiences—in multiple forms, venues and roles—catalyze interactions crucial to social wellness.

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EVENTS AND

 OUTPUTS

FLOURISH is a collection of distinct, yet resonant research and creative  projects that have a shared  vision: to demonstrate the ways community-engaged creative arts engagement is an impactful intervention for enhancing social connection and wellness. In contrast to traditional, often clinical, definitions of “wellness” each of our Cluster’s contributing projects prioritize the meaningful outcomes of arts engagement as defined by a community.

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The FLOURISH Collective is supported in part by funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the University of Toronto Connaught Fund