Fall 2026

in collaboration with Success Beyond Limits

Offsite at Success Beyond Limits

 
After a long history of collaboration, we are pleased to be teaming up again with Success Beyond Limits to establish The Goldfarb Gallery’s inaugural Youth Arts Advisory Council.

Empowered with creative agency, five high-school-aged youths will assume paid leadership roles, defining and directing the disciplinary focus of the program. Selected in consultation with Success Beyond Limits, these initial five will constitute the inaugural Youth Arts Advisory Council. Their first task will be the development of a program to be delivered to 15 additional high-school youths.

The Youth Council will start by selecting a pool of potential established artist-collaborators working in visual arts, music, dance, spoken word, and performance. Once they’ve decided who they want to potentially work with, they will conduct one-on-one interviews. These meetings will be intensive, with only a single artist interviewed at each meeting. Ultimately, the Youth Council will select one artist they want to collaborate with for the extended program they will bring to their peers.

To ensure that this program is youth-driven and that youth voices and vision are honoured, participants will be consulted at every stage of the program’s development. Members of the Council will also take on program design responsibilities as they make financial decisions about the project budget and shape the culminating event. This program marks a departure for the Gallery as it commits itself to exploring and facilitating a more youth-focused approach that privileges and centres youth decision-making.