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Northern Arts & Food Project

Training, workshops, and creative business supports for northern artists and food makers — with Creative Manitoba and local collaborators.

The Northern Arts and Food Project is a partnership between Creative Manitoba, imagiNorthern, and local collaborators. It offers northern artists training, workshops, and creative business supports.

Free online workshops — with options for local in-person satellites — cover pricing, money management, bookkeeping, and small-business fundamentals for artists, musicians, artisans, and food makers in communities including The Pas, Thompson, Churchill, and Flin Flon.

Learn more at Creative Manitoba.

Northern Arts and Food Conferences

Championed by University College of the North, the conference brings presenters and leaders from Northern Manitoba together each year.

  • Year 1 — Flin Flon, March 21–23, 2023. Keynote: Jesse Wente. Report is in ImagiDrive (Google Drive original could not be mirrored automatically).
  • Year 2 — The Pas, expanding into food as well as art, with Creative Manitoba, Food and Beverage Manitoba, and CEDF/Look North. Year 2 / strategy PDF
  • Year 3 — Thompson, May 2025. Keynote: Michaëlle Jean. Year 3 report