Welcome to Compuserve Canada's comprehensive list of links to Canadian arts and artists. This is the most extensive list of Canadian links, but the scene is always changing, so please emailus if you have a site to add to our list.

Please explore our categories:

Cultural policy & general
Visual Arts
Museums
Dance
Music
Opera
Literature
Theatre
New Media/Webzines

Cultural policy & general

Three cool sites:
Canada Council for the Arts
The Canadian Inventory of Digital Initiatives
The Art Bank

More in alpabetical order:

Canadian Conference of the Arts
Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal
Canadian Heritage
Culture Net
Banff Centre for the Arts
National Archives of Canada
National Library of Canada

Visual Arts

Three cool sites:
Pride and Dignity - Aboriginal Portraits
Canada's Digital Collections
Portrait Photography of Roloff Beny

More in alpabetical order:
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of the South Okanagan
Artfocus Magazine
Artwave Online tour of Canada's art museums and galleries, Java and non-Java
Canadian Architectural Archives
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Canadian Artists on the Web Artist Merike Lugus maintains this site, which she says is "the largest list of Canadian painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers & installation artists" who show their work on the web
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Confederation Centre of the Arts Prince Edward Island
Espace Magazine devoted to Canadian sculpture.
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Federation of Canadian Artists
Glenbow Museum Alberta
grunt gallery Vancouver, British Columbia
Kamloops Art Gallery
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Musée du Québec
National Gallery of Canada
Society of Canadian Artists
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Yukon Arts Centre

Museums

Three cool sites:
Royal Ontario Museum
Canadian Museums Association
Glenbow Museum

More in alpabetical order:

Artefacts Canada
Association Museums New Brunswick
British Columbia Museums Association
CultureNet
Museums Alberta
Ontario Museums Association
Ontario Science Centre
Living Prairie Museum
Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
Yukon Historical and Museums Association

Dance

Akimbo Dance Contemporary dance in Kamloops, B.C.
Arkan Dance Company
Arte Flamenco!
Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Ballet British Columbia
Canadian Association of Professional Dance Organizations
Canadian Children's Dance Theatre
DanceArts Vancouver
Dance Centre (Vancouver)
Dancemakers
Dance Ontario Association
Dancer Transition Resource Centre
Danny Grossman Dance Company Toronto
Danse Trielle Laval, Que.
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks Calgary
Dogs in Space
Edmonton International Folk Dancers
Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists Toronto
Halifax Dance
Holy Body Tattoo Dance & Performance Company Vancouver
Hungarian Folkdance Chamber Group
International Folk Dancers Of Ottawa
Katherine Labelle Dance Society Vancouver, B.C.
Kokoro Dance Vancouver, B.C.
InMotion Dance Company Oakville, Ont.
Moving Pictures A Toronto festival of dance on film
National Ballet of Canada Toronto
Off Centre Dance Company Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Ontario Folk Dance Association
Les Petits Ballets
Springboard Dance Calgary
Toronto Swing Dance Society

Music

Three cool sites:
Sir Ernest MacMillan Portrait of a Canadian Musician
Glenn Gould Archive
Oh What a Feeling History of Canadian music

More in alpabetical order:

Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Canadian Music Centre Scores, parts and recordings of music by 500 Canadian composers
Canadian Music Archives
Canadian On-line Musicians' Association
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Edmonton Philharmonic Orchestra
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
New Hamilton Orchestra
Orchestra London
Orchestras Canada
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
Renaissance Singers Kitchener-Waterloo
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
SOCAN Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
Tafelmusik
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Vancouver Island Symphony
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Virtual Gramophone A collection of Canadian historical sound recordings
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Opera

In alpabetical order:

Autumn Leaf Perfomance/ SONiC BOOM Contemporary music-theatre and opera
Canadian Opera Company
Opera Ontario Hamilton and Kitchener/Waterloo, Ont.
L'Opéra de Montréal
Modern Baroque Opera Company Vancouver
Tapestry New Opera Works
Opéra de Québec
Vancouver Opera

Literature

Three cool sites:

The Art of Illustration A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Children's Book Illustrators
Margaret Atwood Official Site
Out of this World Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy.

More in alpabetical order:

Arsenal Pulp Press
Association for the Export of Canadian Books
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Association of Canadian Publishers
Association of Manitoba Book Publishers
Books Canada Ottawa bookstore carrying mainly Canadian content
Brick Literary Journal
Canadian Authors Association
Canadian Book Publishers' Council
Canadian Book Review Annual
Canadian Booksellers Association
Canadian Children's Book Centre
Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing Education, research, and information centre based at Simon Fraser University
Canadian Literary Awards
Canadian Literature A quarterly review
Canadian Poetry An online archive at University of Toronto
Catchfire Press
CANCOPY Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency
Children's Literature Web Guide
Coach House Books
Douglas Coupland (Official)
Eden Mills Writers' Festival
Editors' Association of Canada
Freedom to Read Week
Harbourfront Reading Series (Toronto) Includes info on 20th Annual International Festival of Authors.
History of the Book in Canada
It's Still Winter: A web journal on Canadian poetry and criticism
Inkspot
January Magazine
League of Canadian Poets
L.M.Montgomery Institute
Maison des écrivains En francais
McClelland and Stewart
McGraw-Hill Ryerson
National Library of Canada Of special interest: the libarary runs a Canadian literature discussion group
Northwest Passages: Canadian literature
On Spec: Science fiction magazine
Orca Book Publishers
Ottawa International Writers Festival
PEN Canada
Polestar Book Publishers
Porcupine's Quill
Playwrights Union Of Canada
Robert J. Sawyer's Canadian Science Fiction Index
Roussan Publishers Inc.
Stephen Leacock Museum
Sonotek Publishing Ltd.
Spotted Cow Press
Thistledown Press
Word on the Street Inc.
The Writers Guild of Canada
The Writers' Union of Canada
Wordplay Bookstore (Nfld.)
Young Alberta Book Society

Theatre

Three cool sites:

Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre on the WWW
Canadian Stage Company Take a "virtual tour" of this Toronto theatre
Cirque du Soleil

More in alpabetical order:

Alberta Theatre Projects Calgary
African-Canadian Dramatic Arts Society
Atlantic Theatre Festival Wolfville, N.S.
Association of Community Theatres of Manitoba
Bard on the Beach Vancouver
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Toronto
Canadian Actors' Equity Association
Canadian Stage Company Toronto
Great Canadian Theatre Company Ottawa
Centre for Indigenous Theatre Toronto
Edmonton Fringe Festival
Factory Theatre Toronto
Firehall Arts Centre Vancouver
First Light Productions St. John's, Nfld.
Grand Theatre London, Ont.
Hamilton Theatre
Headlines Theatre Vancouver
Manitoba Theatre Centre Winnipeg
Mirvish Productions
National Arts Centre
National Theatre School of Canada Montreal
Necessary Angel
Neptune Theatre Halifax
Northern Light Theatre Edmonton
One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre Calgary
Royal Alexandra Theatre
Ruby Slippers Production Society Vancouver, feminist and interdisciplinary theatre
Rumble Theatre Productions Vancouver
School of Performing Arts Ottawa
Shaw Festival Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
Shakespeare by the Sea Halifax
Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival Saskatoon
Stratford Festival Stratford, Ont.
Tarragon Theatre Toronto
Theatre Calgary
Téâtre Périscope Quebec City
Theatre Passe Muraille Toronto
Toronto Theatre Alliance Toronto
Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Canning, N.S.
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Vancouver TheatreSports League
Vancouver Fringe Festival
Winnipeg Jewish Theatre
Winnipeg Fringe Festival
Young Peoples Theatre

New Media/Webzines

Canadian Film Centre
Canartscene.com
Citzine: The Web Magazine for Canadians
CultureNet
Cyberstage
Echo Center
IMAT Interactive Multimedia Arts & Technologies
January Magazine
Multimediator: Canada's Multimedia Guide
NWHQ
Pyrowords
Shift
Student Bytes from the Vancouver Film School