Mass Culture / Mobilisation culturelle

05/19/2026

La version française est maintenant disponible!

Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer la publication de la version française du *Sondage exploratoire auprès des artistes sur l'IA* — et nous avons hâte que vous la découvriez!

Plus tôt cette année, nous avons mené ce sondage auprès de 750 artistes canadiens pour mieux comprendre leurs perspectives sur l'intelligence artificielle : leurs préoccupations, leurs espoirs, et leur niveau d'engagement avec ces nouvelles technologies. Les résultats sont fascinants, nuancés, et nous le croyons vraiment importants pour la communauté artistique canadienne.

Maintenant que ces résultats sont accessibles en français, nous souhaitons rejoindre encore plus d'artistes, de professionnels du milieu culturel et de décideurs à travers le pays. Parce que cette conversation sur l'IA et les arts doit se tenir dans les deux langues officielles, et au-delà.

Rapport en français : https://canva.link/nokyfd3wkwhyx7h

Merci à tous ceux et celles qui ont participé au sondage et qui continuent de contribuer à cette réflexion collective. Votre voix compte.

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05/14/2026

Question: What kinds of financial tools and infrastructure would actually support arts and cultural organizations?

Share your organization’s experiences today. Your insights will help inform what comes next. Since launching The Mass Culture Podcast, ep 2, we’ve had many conversations and to answer this question, we need more information from you. Because if we want a resilient and equitable cultural sector, we need to understand how money actually moves through it, and how it might move differently.

TAKE THE SURVEY - https://bit.ly/MC-banking-survey
Takes 5 minutes to complete. Survey closes on June 21, 2026.
We'll anonymize and share insights with you this Summer.

Watch The Mass Culture Podcast, ep 2: A Bank for the Arts: Why Canadian Arts Orgs Need Their Own Financial Tools - https://bit.ly/MCpodcast_ep2

05/11/2026

Artists across Canada - Help us shape public life
Join us! Our first session is on June 15.
Sign up today.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Mass Culture × Public Imagination Network are pleased to share a new partnership dedicated to strengthening the role of artists in public policy discourse across Canada. Our collaboration aims to build stronger, more responsive connections between policy processes and the lived experiences, questions, and insights of artists.

Get Involved - A Call for Artists to Help Shape Public Life
We are inviting artists from across Canada to join us by filling out this form here: https://massculture.ca/get-involved/

An orientation session will take place on June 15, 2026 from 2-4pm EDT via Zoom. Six other meetings will happen throughout the year.

Public Imagination Network (PIN) is a network for artists and thinkers from across disciplines who are passionate about creative responses to issues of public governance and social justice.

05/07/2026

RESULTS ARE IN - The Curiosity Poll for Artists on AI gathered responses from 750 artists representing a broad range of artistic disciplines, geographic regions, and relationships to AI.

After reading through the incredible insights shared by artists across the survey, Mass Culture began noticing important nuances in how different groups of artists were thinking and feeling about AI. We’re sharing these insights with you.

Click here to read the report in English: https://canva.link/5qvrw08mfbeubpb

La version française sera bientôt disponible.

Check out this design designed by Mass Culture .

05/01/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: Mass Culture × Public Imagination Network are pleased to share a new partnership dedicated to strengthening the role of artists in public policy discourse across Canada. Our collaboration aims to build stronger, more responsive connections between policy processes and the lived experiences, questions, and insights of artists.

Get Involved - A Call for Artists to Help Shape Public Life
We are inviting artists from across Canada to join us by filling out this form here: https://massculture.ca/get-involved/

An orientation session will take place on June 15, 2026 from 2-4pm EDT via Zoom. Six other meetings will happen throughout the year.

Public Imagination Network (PIN) is a network for artists and thinkers from across disciplines who are passionate about creative responses to issues of public governance and social justice.

04/21/2026

How are artists navigating AI right now?
We’re gathering perspectives through a Curiosity Poll for Artists on AI and over 250 artists have already contributed.

Take 5 minutes to share your experience and help shape what comes next.

Deadline: April 27

English: https://survey.zohopublic.ca/zs/JLBwR0?lang=en
French: https://survey.zohopublic.ca/zs/JLBwR0?lang=fr

04/14/2026

📣 CALLING ALL ARTISTS!
AI is moving fast. Decisions are being made. But where are the artists?
At the recent National Summit for AI & Culture, one thing was missing for us - the voices of artists, the people most impacted.
We believe this gap is an opportunity and a responsibility. We’ve launched a short Curiosity Poll for Artists to understand how you’re actually engaging with AI. This is is not a technical survey. It’s a listening exercise. We’re curious about what you think?

👉 Take 5 minutes and share your perspective by April 27: https://survey.zohopublic.ca/zs/JLBwR0

Let’s make sure the future of AI in arts and culture is shaped with artists, not without them.

03/26/2026

🎧 We're so excited to announce the second episode of The Mass Culture Podcast is now live.

Join host Michelle Yeung as she speaks with Jamie Bennett (Consultant, Lord Cultural Resources) and Rudy Ruttimann (Founding Director, Foundation for Leadership, Imagination and Place (FLIP)), as they explore what new financial systems might look like for the arts.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: https://massculture.ca/podcast

The Mass Culture Podcast is presented in partnership with The Arts Firm.

03/25/2026

In Mass Culture's newest blog post, Engagement Coordinator Bita Baakhlagh reflects on January's DNA Expo. She delves into questions surrounding what and whose data is systemically in/excluded, and when we think about The Future, whose future are we really considering?

Check out her blog article now: massculture.ca/blog

03/24/2026

🎧 We're so excited to announce the second episode of The Mass Culture Podcast is now live.

Join host Michelle Yeung as she speaks with Jamie Bennett (Consultant, Lord Cultural Resources) and Rudy Ruttimann (Founding Director, Foundation for Leadership, Imagination and Place (FLIP)), as they explore what new financial systems might look like for the arts.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. https://massculture.ca/podcast

The Mass Culture Podcast is presented in partnership with The Arts Firm .