Announcement: Regent Park School of Music Needs Instruments!, Regent Park School of Music

Founded in 1999, RPSM provides high quality, affordable music education to youth-in-need in Regent Park and other high priority areas in the City of Toronto including Parkdale, Jane & Finch, Malvern, St. Jamestown, and Lawrence Heights. This year alone, we will reach more than one thousand disadvantaged youth in Toronto. Currently located in a little house on Queen Street East, our staff, faculty and volunteers work tirelessly to ensure the safety and growth of our students.

We are excited to be starting a new chapter for our community music school with our move to the new Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre this September. The increase in students means that we require more instruments and have launched an instrument drive in partnership with Long & McQuade. We are looking for guitars, violins, cellos, percussion instruments, recorders, woodwind, brass, etc… any and all donations are welcome! Please take your instrument to Long & McQuade’s Bloor & Ossington location (925 Bloor St. W.)  for appraisal and any necessary repairs. You can leave your instrument at Long & McQuade and we will pick it up.

If you would like a tax receipt for your donation, please download and fill out the form and put it in the case of the instrument that you are donating. If you have any questions, please call 416-364-8900 or go to our website: rpmusic.org

If you don’t have a spare instrument around but would still like to help, please consider donating to our instrument drive online. Click here to go to our secure CanadaHelps page.

87% of our revenue is spent directly on our programs and ensuring the highest quality of training for our students. For private lessons, it costs $1500 to support a full year of music education for one student; this includes an instrument, faculty salary, books, sheet music, and exam / festival fees. With lesson fees as low as $1, we rely heavily on external funding to ensure that our annual operating costs are covered.

Thank you for your support and for giving the life-changing gift of music lessons to youth-in-need. We appreciate your generosity very much!

Job Posting: Emerging Videographer for an Exciting New Initiative, Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)

The Toronto Alliance for the Perfoming Arts (TAPA) is seeking an emerging videographer for an exciting new initiative.

Job Description:
TAPA’s hipTIX program sells $5 student tickets to theatre shows across Toronto. Our new initiative, the hipTIX Youth Invasion, is a video series which invites youth to interview theatre artists and designers or create a review of certain plays which offer hipTIX. We are looking for an emerging videographer looking for experience and exposure to film and edit our upcoming video. This video will be part of Theatre Development Fund’s new initiative, the online Theatre Dictionary (www.theatredictionary.org). The video will be part of their launch in October which will give wide exposure, especially across the U.S.

Specifications

• Flexible schedule to accommodate youth filming (possibly around school time)
• Available to film the Theatre Dictionary video in the last week of August or first week of September, 2012 (video is no longer than 90 seconds, and filming would not take more than 2 hours)
• Able to provide your own equipment
• Open to and comfortable working with youth (approx. ages 13-21)
• Able to fully edit the video by mid September

Compensation:

• $75 honourarium. Future opportunities to work as the hipTIX video series resident videographer may be available for discussion after completion of the first video.

How to Apply:
Please email Tamara Weisz at tamaraw@tapa.ca expressing interest. Include a resume and a sample of your work if applicable. Questions may be answered Mon-Thurs, 9:30am-5:30pm by phone at 416-536-6468 ext 21.

Volunteer: Volunteer Job Postings, Toronto Arts Volunteer Network

Toronto Arts Foundation sends a bi-monthly bulletin to our mailing list of over 1,100 arts volunteers in Toronto notifying them of volunteer opportunities in the arts, short-term, long-term as well as Board of Director positions. We welcome your volunteer job posting.

If your organization needs volunteers, the Toronto Arts Volunteer Network can help you get the word out!

It is now time to send in your calls for volunteers for events taking place between September 15 and November 1, 2012. Enter the details of your organization and volunteer job you are seeking to fill directly on our website. We will include this listing in the next Volunteer Bulletin going out on September 10, 2012.

SUBMIT YOUR LISTING HERE.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS Monday, August 31, 2012.

ABOUT TORONTO ARTS VOLUNTEER NETWORK
As part of our mandate to increase the resources available to arts organizations in Toronto, Toronto Arts Foundation would like to share our wealth of volunteers with you. Over the past years, we have developed a large database of enthusiastic and qualified volunteers who are looking to donate their time and energy to interesting projects in the arts. We send out a bi-monthly volunteer bulletin to over 1,100 arts volunteers across the city. In each newsletter we outline various volunteer opportunities including a position description, skills required, time commitment and any other pertinent details. Then qualified volunteers respond to opportunities that are of interest to them directly to the organization posting the job. In 2010, over 25,000 volunteers donated 540,000 hours to arts events supported by Toronto Arts Council.

ABOUT THE VOLUNTEER WEBSITE AT TORONTO ARTS FOUNDATION

Our Toronto Arts Volunteer web page is located on the Toronto Arts Foundation site. There is also a VOLUNTEER button on every page of TAC and TAF that connects to the Volunteer page, making it easy for  anyone to find a volunteer job, post a call to volunteers in our bulletin, or read stories from others volunteers about why they volunteer in the arts.

Scrolling down the Volunteer page will take you to  Find a Volunteer Job, Advertise a Volunteer Job, Volunteer Stories and the latest copy of the Toronto Arts Volunteer Bulletin. While the Bulletin is sent  out every two months, you can enter your posting anytime you like.