Die Active Wins Community Award

OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY PROJECT AWARD

Six individuals and groups were recognized during the 2015 Annual Mayor’s Community Safety Awards ceremony for their work to make Thunder Bay a safer community. Die Active strengthens community safety by empowering youth to contribute to and reshape the cultural landscape of Thunder Bay. Large scale murals contribute to community safety by fostering community pride & beautifying the downtown core. The content of the murals celebrates diversity, understanding and community. VIDEO

Canadian Art Magazine

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Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO) have awarded their Emerging Cultural Leader Awards to arts administrator and musician Holly Cunningham, artist and arts administrator Jenna Faye Powell and artist Lora Northway. ARCCO also announced that artist and educator Clive Robertson was awarded the Achievement Award, which is given in recognition of “his longstanding contribution to artist-run culture and cultural production.”

Emerging Cultural Leader Award (ARCCO)

An artist and youth outreach worker in Thunder Bay, Ont. has won an award from a provincial arts organization. Lora Northway has been named one of this year's Emerging Cultural Leaders by the Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO). The first-time award celebrates people who are "exceptional, emerging, creative champions." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/lora-northway-thunder-bay-artist-named-2015-emerging-cultural-leader-1.3314610

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Cover of Grain Magazine

Feature Artist: Grain Magazine

Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, diverse, and challenging writing and art by some of the best Canadian and international writers and artists. Also featuring an Interior spread on my work.

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Graffiti Art Bike Tour by DieActive

tbay hearts northbay

finished a bigass wall in north bay as a gift to their city while we attended the dream big conference. xo