IMAGINE Arts Incubator

IMAGINE Arts Incubator Program 2025-2026

At the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (“the Isabel”) at Queen’s University, we embrace the essential need for human creativity.

The Isabel’s IMAGINE Arts Incubator has been developed to foster creativity and innovation and to enable Kingston and national professional artists, creators, and educators to explore, invent, collaborate, and produce.

The IMAGINE Arts Incubator is designed to assist artists in developing works by learning new vocabularies, methodologies, and paradigms of inclusive cultural engagement and entanglement, multi-platform performance delivery, creation, collaboration, creative placemaking, audience engagement, and access to the arts.

The Isabel initiated the IMAGINE Arts Incubator program to support creation-based residencies, filming/recording/streaming initiatives for original works, socially engaged arts projects tackling the issues of our time, and creative placemaking for community engagement in the arts.

Embracing Indigenization-Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Racism, and Accessibility (I-EDIAA), the IMAGINE Arts Incubator program encourages cross-disciplinary and intercultural collaborations, supporting the work of artists.

The IMAGINE Arts Incubator provides an excellent opportunity for professional artists and creators to immerse themselves in artistic research and development to explore new collaborations, styles, concepts, and performance practices.

THANK YOU

We thank Bader Philanthropies Inc. for their generous support of the IMAGINE Arts Incubator program and their belief in artists and creativity.