Digital Creator Kenora

Digital Creator North spaces encourage youth and emerging artists to explore digital technologies at six partnering locations with a focus on creating positive change through technology and creativity. These spaces are designed to be located in easy to access public spaces — libraries, galleries and museums. The Digital Creator Program will operate as drop-in, out-of-school learning environments for youth to develop skills in digital media using a participatory culture model and be staffed by full time mentors. This project is aimed to have a positive cultural impact on Northern Ontario by increasing participation in the media arts sector in six small to mid-sized communities. The Digital Creator sites will be located in the following partnering communities — New Liskeard, Timmins, Elliot Lake, Sault Ste. Marie, Kenora and Sioux Lookout. These spaces inspire creative experimentation, peer networking/collaboration, civic engagement, and hands-on learning using various media arts disciplines. Participants can practice video production, audio recording, graphic design, and coding/programming among other periphery disciplines. These teen to young adult learning spaces or “hubs” provide a variety of programming and content to engage program-led projects, after-school drop-ins, peer-to-peer learning and encouraging participants to become active producers of digital culture. These hang-out spaces are for collaboration with friends, exploring technology, sharing ideas and finding one-on-one mentorship. Digital Creator North not only connects young people to technology, media, creative arts, mentors and institutions, but encourages civic engagement through the digital arts.