Event: TAPA Trade Forum, TAPA and Harbourfront Centre

Presented in association with

9:30am-10:00am: REGISTRATION
Location: Marilyn Brewer Community Space

9:45am: INTROS AND ICE BREAKER
Location: Studio Theatre

10:00am: KEYNOTE ADDRESS, City Building Through Artscape, Tim Jones, President & CEO; Artscape
Location: Studio Theatre
Economists are heralding the arrival of the creative economy, city leaders are advancing creative city movement all over the world, but what does this mean for performing arts companies? Artscape President and CEO Tim Jones will unpack the dense rhetoric around the ‘creativity agenda’ and explore how our arts community can play a leading role in this dialogue.

11:00am: Spinglobe: Participation Marketing in the Conversation Age, session 1A
Panelist: Sean Howard, Director of Strategy and Innovation; Lift Communications
Location: Studio Theatre
Sean will bust some of the myths surrounding social media and focus in on the behavioural truths changing our world. With organizations of every shape and size struggling with how to respond, deal with and even leverage social media, it is critical that we be begin to include it in our communications strategies. Sean presents an approach that allows us to rethink social media from a communications and engagement strategy point of view. The focus returns to accomplishing communication objectives versus just participating in a “hot” trend. This popular session “sold out” last year, don’t miss it!

11:00am: Tricks of the Trade: Marketing on a Shoestring, Demystifying Grants & Community Connections, session 1B
Panelists: Cathy Gordon, Creator/Producer; The Theatre Centre, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, General Manager; Native Earth Performing Arts, Bridget MacIntosh, Producer; The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
Location: Lakeside Terrace
Ever wonder how others get it all done? Join three experienced and creative minds from Toronto’s vibrant performing arts scene as they share their knowledge and experience. Over the course of the hour and half, you will have the opportunity to take part in three intimate round-table discussions where you will be taken through concrete examples and have a chance to discuss. A great way to add to your tool belt and inspire you to find your own approach. Please note: Limited capacity, register early!

12:30pm: LUNCH & MARKETPLACE
Location: Marilyn Brewer Community Space
A chance to chat one on one with representatives from various cultural and government organizations about the services offered for independent artists and organizations.

1:30pm: E-Marketing Essentials, session 2A
Panelist: Eugene Carr, Founder & President; Patron Technologies
Location: Brigantine Room
Keeping in touch quickly, clearly and safely with your audience is essential to any performing arts organization or artist. Eugene Carr from Patron Technology (New York) speaks about the current advances in patron technology and how your company can directly benefit.

1:30pm: HR Essentials: Creating a Healthy Work Environment, session 2B
Moderator: Ella Cooper, Director; Emerging Arts Professional Network
Panelists: Jeanne Lesage, Former Director of Human Resources; Toronto International Film Festival and Jennifer Winchester, Director of Operations; Soundstreams Canada
Location: Lakeside Terrace
Artists and administrators create the environment in which they work. Unions and HR departments make infrastructure decisions—but how do you ask questions about your contract, negotiate for your rights, and speak your mind? As an employer do you create a work environment that makes your proud? As an arts organization, how can you help maintain a healthy and communicative work environment for your employees even when the workflow becomes really demanding?

In discussion with Moderator Ella Cooper, Director of the Emerging Arts Professional Network, both panelists will provide diverse perspectives on how to ask questions about your contract, how to interview your potential employer, and for those who come representing organizations, the lively discussion will also help illustrate how the keep the lines of communication open and honest in the workplace.

3:00pm: Visual Branding Case Camp session, 3A
Panelists: Jeannette Hanna, Vice President, Brandy Strategies; CUNDARI SFP and Brent Nelsen, Director of Planning; Leo Burnett Canada
Location: Brigantine Room
Using actual examples of promotional materials of TAPA members, experts from two renowned advertising companies take you through key principles of effective print marketing. Find out what works, what doesn’t work and why.

Please note that if you would like your materials to be assessed by the experts in the session, you must submit them by Tuesday, April 22st. Please contact Alexis Da-Silva Powell for further details.

3:00pm: Business & The Arts: How We Can Connect, session 3B
Moderators: Meredith Potter, Producer, Volcano/Peggy Baker Dance Projects/Dusk Dances; and Takashi Yamashita, Associate Director, GE Real Estate
Panelists: Nicole Anderson, President and CEO, Business for the Arts; Jason Dehni, Vice President, Business Development and Live & Health Domestic Insurance, Scotiabank Group; Alden Hadwen, Manager, Community Investment, Aeroplan; Gillian Hewitt, Head of Communications, Capital Markets, Royal Bank of Canada; and Greg Reed, former President & CEO of Dundee Bank, cultural advisor to Mayor Miller
Location: Lakeside Terrace
Join Executive Director of Business for the Arts Nichole Anderson, TAPA Board member Meredith Potter and guest business leaders and innovators to discuss how the arts and business communities interact and why. Hear case studies of successful arts/business partnerships and initiatives and meet some of Toronto’s leading arts advocates in the business world as they reveal what makes them passionate about supporting what we do.

4:00pm: SOAP BOX
Location: Lakeside Terrace
Your chance to let attendees know about an upcoming production, a new initiative you’re working on, a great show you saw, to make a statement about performing arts today–the Soap Box is a chance for your to have your say.

4:15pm: Developing Youth Audiences for Tomorrow
Location: Lakeside Terrace
Moderator: Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director; Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
Panelists: Cheryl Ewing, Executive Director; eyeGO to the Arts, Andrew Lamb, Director of Education & Outreach; Tarragon Theatre, Tina Rasmussen, Director of Performing Arts; Harbourfront Centre

5:15pm: END OF DAY DRINKS
Location: Marilyn Brewer Community Space

Event: TAPA Trade Forum, TAPA and Harbourtfront Centre

The Indie Trade Forum has re-emerged as the TAPA Trade Forum, reaching a wider cross-section of TAPA companies. Don’t miss this chance to network with fellow arts community members, to exchange ideas and inspire one another!

An event for both emerging and established artists, arts managers, producers and companies, the TAPA Trade Forum is coming up soon on Saturday May 03, 2008.

It all starts with keynote speaker Tim Jones, President of Artscape

10:00am, Studio Theatre

Other Sessions Include:

e-Marketing, Visual Branding Case Camp, Tricks of the Trade, Plus More!

To Register e.mail ALEXISDSP@TAPA.CA or call 416 536.6468 X30

Register By Wednesday April 30, 2008!

Advance Registration is Highly Recommended – Register Now To Receive Free Gifts!

$30 TAPA Members (bring a co-worker for only $10.00 Extra)*

$45 Non-Members

Any TAPA Members registered for “Email Marketing Essentials and Power Techniques” with Eugene Carr recieve a $5.00 discount to the TAPA Trade Forum.

For more information please visit http://www.tapa.ca/communique/workshops

TAPA TRADE FORUM Saturday, May 3, 2008 9:30am to 5:00pm (includes lunch!)

Presented by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts with Harbourfront Centre

*Co-worker from the same organization

Event: Theatre Museum Goes Backstage, Theatre Museum Canada

On the evening of Wednesday April 16, 2008 Theatre Museum Canada will be at the Textile Museum exploring ways that fabric is used in theatre, including a discussion on design & the backstage (and onstage) life of costumes.

Next week’s guest panelists include:

Astrid Janson (set & costume designer)
Sarah Armstrong (designer & fabric artist)
Philip Akin (director & actor)
The auditorium doors open at 6:30pm. The panel will start at 7:00pm.
If you come early, you can also see an amazing museum, The Textile Museum of Canada (55 Centre Ave)  is pay-what-you-can admission after 5:00pm on Wednesdays.
Link to Textile Museum of Canada website: www.textilemuseum.ca
To book your complimentary tickets, please e-mail (info@TheatreMuseumCanada.ca) or call Michael Wallace at (416) 413-7847

Please feel free to invite friends and family that may be interested.

Event: Roundtable Reading of Doongaji House, Rasik Arts

Rasik Arts last roundtable of the season (until September) is coming up on Tuesday, April 29. They will be reading Doongaji House by Indian writer Cyrus Mistry which won the Sultan Padamsee Award and is about the aging patriarch of a family that has fallen on hard times. It is called a “play that moves from comedy to pathos and sentimentality, through heights of great dramatic tension and moments of deep tragedy. Though rooted in the life of one small, unique community, the play’s themes are universal and existential: the common human yearning for joy in life thwarted by incomprehensible forces.”
To add more spring in your step — The 5th Elementt is offering a 15% discount on dinners ordered between 5pm and 6pm on our Roundtable night! Just say you are with Rasik Arts to receive the discount. Remember, the offer is only good between 5pm and 6pm, and only on April 29th. If you decide to stay after your scrumptious meal and join Rasik Arts at 7pm in the back room of the 5th Elementt for the Roundtable, you can enjoy coffee or tea, compliments of their sponsor, MyBindi!
You may choose to read along silently, or participate by reading a role. There is no admission charge.
Tuesday, April 29 
Rasik Arts Roundtable sponsored by MyBindi.com your online destination for cool South Asian stuff!
7-9:30pm
5th Elementt, 1033 Bay St. (South of Bloor – on the East side, set back on the corner of Irwin & Bay – across from St. Mary and St. Joseph streets)

Event: International Day of Dance, Dance Umbrella

Call for Submissions: Intern Directors and the Directors Project, Theatre Ontario and Shaw Festival

APPLICATIONS FOR 2009
DEADLINE: JUNE 27, 2008

A Guide to Applicants:

Each year, the Shaw Festival hires two Intern Directors for a period of about six months. They look for promising professional directors near the beginning of their careers. Applicants should have a fair bit of professional experience, but probably not in a company as large as the Shaw Festival. The contracts run approximately from mid-March to late August, depending on the production schedule for the particular season. These positions are salaried at an apprentice level, which at The Shaw is around $600 per week.

The Intern Directors work under the mentorship of the Directors of the Academy, which is the Shaw Festival’s professional development and public education wing. Each intern is assigned to two or three successive shows as an Assistant Director. One of these shows is usually in the Festival Theatre (860 seats) and another in a smaller one (330 seats). For the most part, being an Assistant Director involves observing the senior directors at work in rehearsal, doing research as required, acting as a sounding board as required. (Getting them coffee is not required.) The Interns also assist the company in educating audiences about theatre in general and the Shaw’s productions and programmes in particular. The Intern positions usually have free time built into some portions of the season, so that Interns are free to take Academy classes and pursue other theatrical projects that interest them.

The “Directors Project” is the culmination of the Intern Directors’ season, and has become a very important event to the Shaw company as a whole. It consists of a double-bill of two one-acts directed by the two Intern Directors. In consultation with Neil Munro, the company’s Associate Director, each Intern chooses a play from the period of the Shaw Festival’s mandate (1856-1950). These plays are given three performances to invited audiences (artistic directors, sponsors, company members, family and assorted friends of the Festival) in a studio setting. While production resources are limited as to costumes, sets, props, lighting and sound, there are normally apprentice designers, stage managers and other personnel assigned to the project. All casting is done in consultation with Neil Munro, but basically you can use any member of the Shaw Festival ensemble whom you can talk into being in the show. (The project is in excess of the actors’ contracted workload, and so they take part in the project on a volunteer basis.) Each one-act has between 50 and 60 hours of rehearsal over 5-6 weeks, scheduled by our Production Stage Manager.

Since its inception in 1988, the Directors Projects has been sponsored annually by Sun Life Financial and Theatre Ontario.

Applications for the Intern Director positions are made through Theatre Ontario, with a June 30 deadline to begin residency the following March. There is no application form – just submit a resumé with a covering letter, explaining why you would like to be an Intern Director at the Shaw Festival. Please do not send support materials that you wish to have returned. Applicants must be Canadian citizens. Hiring decisions are made exclusively by the Shaw Festival.

If you have questions about the application process, please contact:
Tim Chapman Theatre Ontario – 416-408-4556
or email tim@theatreontario.org

Submit applications by mail to:
Tim Chapman
Theatre Ontario,
215 Spadina Ave. Suite 210
Toronto, ON M5T 2C7

ATT: Shaw Directors Project

NO SUBMISSIONS via FAX or email will be accepted.
Applications must be received at Theatre Ontario by June 27th, 2008.

Call for Submissions: Access and Career Development Program, Ontario Arts Council

The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) has over 50 programs available to support the arts by people of diverse cultural backgrounds.

As part of its response to continuing systemic barriers for arts professionals of colour and Aboriginal arts professionals, OAC created the Access and Career Development program.

The next deadline is May 1, 2008.

The program funds professional development and skill-building opportunities that advance the applicants’ artistic work and careers.

“The program is an important access point for artists and arts administrators experimenting with the many different approaches to professional development and training,” said Sara Roque, Acting Aboriginal Arts Officer and Officer responsible for Northern Arts, Access, and Career Development Programs. “The beauty of the program is it allows artists to create their own self determined path to further their artistic and administrative development and/or creation at any stage of their careers – emerging, mid, or senior level.”

Click here for program guidelines and application forms, or contact the individuals listed below.

Program inquiries – English:
Sara Roque, Acting Aboriginal Arts Officer and Officer responsible for Northern Arts, Access, and Career Development Programs
416-969-7454 / 1-800-387-0058, ext. 7454
sroque@arts.on.ca

Program inquiries – French:
Ashleigh Hodgins, Program Assistant
416-969-7424 / 1-800-387-0058, ext. 7424
ahodgins@arts.on.ca

Media inquiries:
Hamal Docter, Communications Coordinator
416-969-7434 / 1-800-387-0058, ext. 7434
hdocter@arts.on.ca

The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is the province of Ontario’s primary funding body for professional arts activity. Since 1963, OAC has played a vital role in promoting and assisting the development of the arts and artists for the enjoyment and benefit of Ontarians.

Event: Special Performance of Rough House, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People

Andy Massingham stops in Toronto with Rough House on this hugely successful national tour. Join us for a special evening with Andy, including a post-show Q&A and informal reception. Special Artists’ Price: $12 ea. (prices include GST; service chgs extra).
ROUGH HOUSE
Created & Performed by Andy Massingham
Produced by Nightswimming
Directed by Brian Quirt
On the Mainstage to April 20, 2008
A dynamic combination of hilarious slapstick and delightful shadow play, Rough House exemplifies physical theatre at its best. Only one character and one act, the story is told entirely through superlative movement and lighting technique.
“Andy Massingham joins theatrical greats like Ann Randolph and Rick Miller as one of the best one-man shows in North America. You must see Rough House!”
- Jaymz Bee, JAZZ.FM91
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People | 165 Front St. E., Toronto | Call 416 862-2222; Visit www.lktyp.ca

Event: The TAPA Trade Forum, TAPA and Harbourfront Centre

The Indie Trade Forum has re-emerged as the TAPA Trade Forum, reaching a wider cross-section of TAPA companies. Don’t miss this chance to network with fellow arts community members, to exchange ideas and inspire one another!

An event for both emerging and established artists, arts managers, producers and companies, the TAPA Trade Forum is coming up soon on Saturday May 03, 2008.

It all starts with keynote speaker Tim Jones, President of Artscape

10:00am, Studio Theatre

Other Sessions Include: e-Marketing, Visual Branding Case Camp, Tricks of the Trade, Plus More!

To Register e.mail ALEXISDSP@TAPA.CA or call 416 536.6468 X30

Register By Wednesday April 30, 2008!

Advance Registration is Highly Recommended – Register Now To Receive Free Gifts!

$30 TAPA Members (bring a co-worker for only $10.00 Extra)*

$45 Non-Members

Any TAPA Members registered for “Email Marketing Essentials and Power Techniques” with Eugene Carr recieve a $5.00 discount to the TAPA Trade Forum.

For more information please visit http://www.tapa.ca/communique/workshops

TAPA TRADE FORUM Saturday, May 3, 2008 9:30am to 5:00pm (includes lunch!)

Presented by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts with Harbourfront Centre

*Co-worker from the same organization

Call for Submissions: Silver Ticket Award, TAPA

Deadline Extended to Wednesday April 16, 2008

Since 1980, the Silver Ticket Award has been presented annually at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards by TAPA to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the Toronto stage and to the development of Canadian Theatre.

The distinguished past winners of the Silver Ticket Award meet every year to evaluate the nominations submitted and to award the new Silver Ticket recipient. The jury considers those special people who have not only excelled in their own careers, but have also contributed to the development of Canadian Theatre by helping and encouraging others.

Please send the following information to Sandra Lefrançois, Dora Manager by email at sandral@tapa.ca by Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 5 p.m. Mailed or faxed nominations will not be accepted.

Nominator’s Name, Title, Company, Phone and email
Name of nominee
Nominee’s bio
Why you feel that the nominee should be awarded the Silver Ticket (up to 2 pages)
Please indicate clearly that your nomination is for the Silver Ticket Award.