What We Are
Arts in the Margins is a Montreal-based non-profit corporation dedicated to helping build healthy, self-sustaining communities via the creative arts. Our activities include the following:
-Curation of creative music performance with a focus on improvised music, new music, sound art, electronic music and folk music
-Offering free art workshops and artist talks for youth and adults, across a range of media and techniques
-The development of arts-based projects with our community partners, across a wide range of art-forms, all focused on building stronger communities
-Artist management and support to third-parties in the development of their own arts-based projects, in keeping with AIM’s goals and values.
What We Stand For
“In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy, pleasure, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks, “Workers for Artistic freedom”
AIM is a Montreal-based registered Non-Profit Organization dedicated to helping build healthy, self-sustaining communities via the creative arts. Our activities range from the implementation of classes and workshops in the arts (including new media and digital arts), through the curation of performances and offering guidance and support to third-parties in the development of their own arts-based projects, all against a backdrop sensitive to issues of social justice, community health, environmental impact, inclusion, and the long-term sustainability of cultural programs and initiatives. AIM asks, What is it to be a cultural community in the 21st century that values diversity, that recognizes our settler status, that is ecologically conscious, that embodies principles of inclusion, that leverages the potentials of the digital domain, and that views the development of artists and artistic scenes not just episodically or for the short term, but strives for permanence and long-term commitments? Guided by our deep commitment to social justice, we therefore focus on working with historically marginalized communities and BIPOC and LGBTQIA2+ artists and organizations. AIM engages in community partnerships focusing on arts education broadly construed but does not stop there. By also offering production and programming services we seek to ensure that the vast artistic creativity residing in our varied communities can be: nurtured and grown, widely known and appreciated, documented and disseminated, (while at the same time bringing world-class artists into these communities) all under one roof, and with continual guidance, support and cooperation.