H’art Centre is an award-winning, accessible arts hub where people with disabilities and those facing barriers can study, enjoy and produce works in the arts throughout their lives. It strives to be a leader in the Disability Arts movement and it champions accessibility, indirect learning, understanding, public engagement, and community collaboration. We offer the following programs:
H'ART STUDIO
We deliver a high-quality arts program for adults with developmental disabilities. It offers visual arts, theatre, dance, music, media arts, and literary arts workshops and the opportunity to create alongside qualified instructors and professional artists. THE BOX
We provide access to the performing arts to those facing barriers through THE BOX, a 3,500 square foot accessible performing arts space. We support, promote and advance a diverse and inclusive population within accessible performing arts experiences. Home to Able Artists, an ongoing series of workshops by professional Canadian artists with disabilities and leaders in the inclusive arts field. THE MIX
THE MIX is a warm and welcoming 4,000 square foot space where people with disabilities, people who are D/deaf, MixAbilities-trained artist facilitators, and inclusive arts groups learn, develop, rehearse, exhibit, and collaborate. With this new space, we bring inclusive theatre groups together for residencies and offer on-site community outreach workshops. The Mix is an incubator for new inclusive arts leaders, accelerating positive change in Kingston and beyond. We offer our award-winning inclusive arts training program, MixAbilities, in The Mix. It gives volunteers, artists, and arts educators unique access to our inclusive arts facilitation techniques. We reach out so people of diverse abilities can participate in the arts throughout their lives and as they age. H’art Centre’s newest initiative takes a community arts outreach approach to ensure all people have access to meaningful arts-based programming.
