Antyx Community Arts

Antyx is a community arts company that uses the arts and community development processes to create opportunities for youth 12-24 to become more engaged in their community and experience increased community connection. Our community arts strategy involves developing collaborative community arts projects that engage youth and communities. Projects are planned with community partners and direct input from youth. Past projects have included: community murals, performances of plays reflecting community issues, video and music projects. Antyx works in communities across Calgary. Antyx community arts projects can have a neighborhood focus or they may be focused on addressing community identified issues. Arts are used in development processes to build community capacity and to creatively and critically engage people in processes that address important community issues. Our work has a focus on engaging youth in their communities, school and neighbourhoods. Antyx uses the arts to engage youth and spark their curiosity and commitment. Community arts projects provide opportunities for youth to make tangible contributions to their community and be recognized for those contributions. The arts open the door to self-reflection and self-expression, allowing youth to explore who they are and their place in the world. Collaboration is central to our work. Antyx is well placed as a community resource that provides creative support through community arts processes to a wide variety of community groups and organizations that are working on many different issues. We currently work with numerous community groups and organizations including: Trellis, Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association, Immigrant Services Calgary, Calgary Bridge Foundation, 12CSI, Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth and many Calgary schools.