Event: 2009 Maytree Leadership Conference, Maytree

Telling Stories; Creating Change: Register now for 2009 Maytree Leadership Conference
Registration is now open for the 2009 Maytree Leadership Conference on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 12 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 89 Chestnut Street, Toronto.

This year’s conference theme is “Telling Stories; Creating Change”.  Real social change happens when we can enlist the help of others and engage them in our work.  We have to go outside our own walls and mobilize diverse audiences from business, the government, foundations and the nonprofit community.  Commitment and support come from connecting these audiences in an emotionally compelling way.  How can we learn to tell our stories better?

Come to network with Toronto leaders and explore the universal power of storytelling, the art of creating compelling stories and how to use individual and organizational narratives as powerful tools for change. This year’s keynote speaker is John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star.  He is followed by former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, Tim Murphy, in conversation with Deena Ladd of the Workers’ Action Centre, moderated by CBC Radio’s Mary Wiens.

Afternoon skill-building workshops include Online Communities and Offline Action, Building Your Public Narrative, Pitching Your Story to the Media and The New Front Page: Telling Your Organization’s Stories Online, Influencing Decision-Makers – The Narrative of Persuasion and much more.

The day will end with a tenth-year celebration of Maytree’s scholarship program along with the release of an anniversary publication telling the students’ stories and highlighting policy insights on Canada’s refugee policies and programs.

Click here for full conference program and registration.

Event: Launch Party, Theatrefront

Join the Theatrefront Ensemble as we celebrate the launch of our most ambitious season ever!
It’s a jam-packed night of entertainment to kick off a fabulous season.  Meet the cast and creative team of The Mill, see a sneak preview and enjoy performances from Theatrefront Ensemble members!

Tuesday September 8, 2009, 7 – 9pm
at the Steam Whistle Roundhouse
255 Bremner Blvd.

Tickets $100, or $200 with charitable tax receipt

online ticket sales here
arts community discounted tickets are only $50
…just quote ‘community’ as the discount code at eventbrite

Workshop: Fall 2009 Rusticle Gyms, Theatre Rusticle

FALL 2009 RUSTICLE GYMS Come Work Out with the Rusticles!!

Toronto’s “Best Movement Based Theatre Company”, Theatre Rusticle is pleased to offer a series of workshops called The Rusticle Gym starting September 12th, 2009.

Join Dora Award Nominated Artistic Director, Allyson McMackon (and special guests) for a series of 10 sessions focused on the fundamentals of source work, rivers and image based physical theatre.

The Gyms are exactly that…a place to work out artistic issues or muscles that have not been used for a while or that you do not even know are there!!  Instead of lifting weights, work out by engaging in physical improvisation designed to ignite the imagination and introduce new skills. The approach to the sessions is holistic and gyms are open to actors, dancers, musicians and students.

Sessions are available in 3 packages only:

• Single Gyms $20
• Package of 5 Gyms $95
• Package of 10 Gyms $180

Sessions are 3 hours in length and all prices include GST.
Single Gyms must be booked in advance. NO DROP-INS please.

When Are They?

• Saturday, September 12th    10 am – 1 pm
• Sunday, September 13th    11 am – 2 pm
• Monday, September 14th    6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
• Sunday, September 27th    11 am – 2 pm
• Monday, September 28th    6 pm – 9 pm
• Saturday, October 3rd    10 am – 1 pm
• Sunday, October 4th    11 am – 2 pm
• Monday, October 5th    6 pm – 9 pm
• Saturday, October 10th    10 am – 1 pm
• Sunday, October 11th    11 am – 2 pm

To make your booking and for more info, please email Allyson at theatrerusticle@hotmail.com
Space is limited so please book now.

Call for Submissions: Professional Theatre Training Program, Theatre Ontario

The Professional Theatre Training Program offers financial support for unique and flexible training with a chosen mentor in any theatrical discipline except performance. One can apply for professional development in one’s own discipline or a “change of direction” in a career. To apply, applicants must have at least two years of professional experience following their formal education.

The next application deadline is October 1, 2009.  For full guidelines and application forms, please visit www.theatreontario.org

Look under the ‘training’ menu heading or please contact Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre Coordinator, Tim Chapman at 416-408-4556, extension 12 or tim@theatreontario.org

Workshop: Getting Started for Actors, Theatre Ontario

Wednesday September 23, 2009 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Up to 2 hours with our professional theatre coordinator, answering the most frequently asked questions about the BUSINESS of acting.  Find out about:

• the realities of showbiz
• pictures and resumés
• Equity and ACTRA
• agents & casting directors
• maintaining and improving your acting skills

FREE! ***Theatre Ontario Members Only***
Reserve your spot now – no latecomers please
Inquire with Tim Chapman at 416-408-4556, x12 or tim@theatreontario.org

Audition: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hart House Theatre

Hart House Theatre is now accepting submissions for its November 2009 production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Directed by: Jeremy Hutton (HHT’s King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Othello)

To request an audition, please email your headshot and resume to the attention of the Production Manager, Doug Floyd @
auditions@harthousetheatre.ca

Deadline for submissions: Monday September 21st, 2009 (early submissions are encouraged)

Only those contacted for an audition will be seen.

Audition dates – September 26 & 27, 2009
The non-equity, non-paying production runs Nov 20 – Dec 5, 2009.
We strongly encourage actors of all ethnic backgrounds to audition.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Please prepare one Shakespearean monologue, no longer than two minutes.
• Please be familiar with the play; you may be asked to read from it.
• Please bring a headshot and resume to the audition.

DANCERS WANTED
Separate dance auditions will be held for this show.  If you are a dancer please mention that in your submission and provide details of your dance background.

All auditions will be held at Hart House:
7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto

About Hart House Theatre
Hart House Theatre, established in 1919, is the University of Toronto’s Performing Arts Leader.  Since its inception, the theatre’s unique mix of young professionals, alumni, and students has garnered the theatre a reputation as not only a cultural destination for the U of T community but one for all of Toronto.

Workshop: 09/10 Creative Classes and Workshops, Hart House Theatre

IMAGINATION IS FREEDOM: find yours through the arts

In the heart of the University of Toronto, at the centre of the city, Hart House is proud to announce the inaugural session in a new series of classes and workshops. Join some of Canada’s most accomplished artists, teachers, and directors as they present classes and workshops that use performance, film
making and photography to encourage artistic expression, skill development and personal growth. This new series provides communities inside and outside of the University of Toronto with access to engaging, enlightening and provocative opportunities for learning and enrichment in the
performing and media arts.

These creative classes are not just for actors and directors but for anyone who wishes to exercise their imaginative spirit, improve their communication skills, increase self confidence, challenge their wit, learn to speak and move with authority or to express themselves artistically. Hart House has assembled some of this city’s most respected and accomplished theatre professionals to share their expertise in a series of eight-week classes designed for both beginners and intermediates. Instructors include such industry experts as Kevin McCormick, David Smukler, Peter
Van Wart, Alan Powell and Tracy German.

A full list of offered classes & workshops can be found here.

Registration for Creative Classes begins on SEPTEMBER 1ST at www.harthouse.ca/classes

For more information on course content or registration please contact: creativeclasses@harthouse.ca

Internship: 12 to 20 Weeks, Jumblies Theatre

Jumblies internships are open to artists from all disciplines, cross-disciplines, forms and traditions, established and emerging, from across Canada. We also consider international applicants, although they are not currently eligible for our bursaries. Initial internships run from 12 to 20 weeks, and, in some cases, can be followed by extended positions and mentoring relationships that lasts for a year or more.

Our internship process involves:

• Taking part in the Arts4All Essentials orientation course
• Making a individualised learning, work and evaluation plan
• Shadowing and assisting Jumblies artists in workshops and activities with a variety of projects and participating groups
• Contributing to ongoing company and project work
• Choosing specific mentors and a primary Jumblies project
• Designing an integrated project to suit  interests within current Jumblies activities
• Taking part in Jumblies seminars and workshops as offered during the internship period
• Demonstrating competency in core skill areas
• Developing future plans with Jumblies’ guidance as needed.

Qualifications: There are no formal educational qualifications, but applicants should have prior artistic experience and/or training ( formal or informal), a coherent body of creative work and the ability and confidence to work in a self-directed way.

Schedule: Although there is flexibility (e.g. part-time jobs or a short hiatus for another arts commitment can often be accommodated if we know if advance), this is an intensive and fairly full-time proposition, and we expect the internship to be the artist’s primary focus during its time-span. The internships are work-learn positions within Jumblies operations, and we provide bursaries to cover basic living expenses.

Bursary: Artists from anywhere in Canada, who are not registered in another full-time educational program, are eligible for bursaries for our initial internships. For extended internships, artists generally need to find their own means of support (we can often suggest some possible sources).

Application Process: We plan to start 3 or 4 new interns in January 2010, following the December Arts4All Essentials. We will make our choices in the light of our current priorities and activities.

If you are interested, please send a short letter and a CV or bio to info@jumbliestheatre.org, as soon as possible, and we will send you an application package. Please return the application information by Sept. 21st, 2009. After this we will contact all applicants  and arrange interviews for those where we feel there is potentially a good fit.

Workshop: Arts4All Essentials, Jumblies Studio Theatre

• An intensive course on the principals, practices and underpinnings of Jumblies and of art that engages with and creates community
• Everything (or many things!) you need to know to launch your own project
• A prelude for Jumblies internships

December 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 2009 – 10am – 6pm, plus some evening social options, and a final celebration at Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre and other Jumblies project locations

Open to artists of all ages, disciplines and traditions, from Toronto, across Canada and abroad, and also suitable for others with a professional or special interest in community-engaged arts practices.

Format:
Presentations, discussions, guest presenters, hands-on workshops, creative explorations, videos, resources to take home.

Topics include:

• Definitions, values & principles
• Developing your vision
• Project start-up
• Budgets and grant-writing
• Arts-based and oral history research
• Documentation and evaluation
• Facilitation
• Aesthetics and ethics
• Inter & multi disciplinary approaches
• Diversity (of culture, age, ability)
• Conflicts and challenges
• History of community plays/arts

Meals: First lunch, coffee/tea and snacks throughout provided, otherwise, bring or buy your own
Cost: $300

Bursaries: Where affordability is a barrier, our access bursaries can be used to reduce or waive fees, or to help cover out-of-town costs.  Each individual case is considered according to need and available funds.  If relevant please ask; if you can afford the fee, we greatly appreciate your contribution and your consideration for others who really need to support.

Accommodation: For out of town registrants, we can help you find free or affordable billets.

Certification: Attendees will receive a certificate of completion from the Jumblies Studio.

To Register: Please request an application form from info@jumbliestheatre.org.

We will accept about 20 people into the course, partly on a first-come first serve basis, but also with a view to creating a compatible and diverse group and including our new  interns. We will collect and consider all applications arriving before Sept. 21st and reply with confirmation of places by Sept 30. After that, we will continue to accept applications only if there is space left or on a waiting list.

If there is sufficient demand, we may offer the course in Toronto again later in the season, and we will also be offering an adapted version of Arts4All Essentials in Vancouver in November of 2009 (in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre), and possibly in Halifax sometime in 2010. Once you are accepted, we will request a deposit of $50 to hold your place.

Contact: 416 203 8428, info@jumbliestheatre.org

Workshop: Musicians and Hearing Loss Prevention and Protection with Dr. Marshall Chasin, Audiologist, Artists Health Centre Foundation

Saturday September 12, 2009

Al & Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre
Toronto Western Hospital (3rd floor, West Wing)
399 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON

This workshop is suitable for musicians of any genre, and will cover the main causes of hearing loss and techniques to prevent further damage. Participants will explore the difference between loudness and intensity and the effects of long-term exposure. Other topics of focus will include:

• Appropriate ear protection
• Environmental modification
• Improved monitoring

Dr. Marshall Chasin, AuD, M.Sc. is an Audiologist and the Director of Auditory Research at the Musicians’ Clinics of Canada in Toronto. He is also the Coordinator of Research at the Canadian Hearing Society, Director of Research at ListenUp Canada, Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto (in Linguistics) and an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario (School of Communication Sciences & Disorders). Dr. Chasin has been involved with hearing and hearing aid assessment since 1981 and is the author of over 200 clinically based articles. He has lectured extensively, and is the author of several books including “Musicians and the Prevention of Hearing Loss”, “Noise Control- a primer” and “Hear the Music”. He has recently edited a new book on musicians called “Hearing Loss in Musicians” through Plural Publishing.

Workshop: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Workshop fee: $25 / Students & Seniors: $15
20% Discount for TAPA Members

To register please contact us at:

Phone: 416.351.0239
Email: info@ahcf.ca
Or visit our website to print off and mail in a registration form here.

Pre-registration is required, as space is limited.

For your comfort, this is a scent-free workshop. Please refrain from wearing any perfume, cologne, aftershave or scented products. Thank you.