Workshop

Award-winning writer, arts education, and community advocate Paulina O'Kieffe Anthony will be providing examples of previous successful grant recipients of the Ontario Arts Council Skills and Career Development for Indigenous and People of Colour grant (deadline May 19), breaking down key elements including artist statements, budget, work plans, and more, while also highlighting a number of professional development grants available to artists. The OAC’s Bushra Junaid will be answering your questions as well, so don’t miss out!

After offering emergency financial support to emerging artists affected by the coronavirus crisis, the National Theatre School (NTS) is proud to announce the next phase of its Art Apart initiative. Online classes for theatre artists, an exhibition of set and costume design artworks will be presented online for the first time, as well as two performances by graduating students, beginning May 1, 2020.

Les ateliers de révision du Musée se font virtuels! Soyez des nôtres en ligne au cours des prochaines semaines pour nous aider à mettre à jour les articles sur des artistes sous-représentés sur Wikipédia, ce en toute sécurité depuis chez vous. Chaque semaine, nous nous concentrerons sur un groupe d'artistes différent.

Des membres du personnel du Musée fourniront par Zoom de l’aide aux débutants, de 14 h à 14 h 30.

This mastermind workshop will help you fast-forward your ARTS EDUCATION BUSINESS so you can let go of draining jobs and focus on your artistic career growth!

After this event you will come out with a full set of marketing tools, a solid plan to follow, templates to use, an already proven list of clients (in the Greater Toronto Area) plus design your own programming in a format sought after by educators in the school system with help from the group mastermind.  

Everything you will need to Start booking teaching gigs right away!

Presented in partnership by Prologue Performing Arts and WorkInCulture, Back to School: Professional Development for Performing Artists Working in Schools will take participants through the complexities of working in schools and provide tools to support their arts education practice. While the workshops will be open to artists working in all disciplines, there will be focus placed on the performing arts due to Prologue’s organizational mandate. Designed for artists of all levels of experience!

Thursday May 7, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00pm

When: Wednesday, April 8 | 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Cost: $45 BC Alliance members | $85 non-members

This workshop will be online only, due to COVID-19.

Igniting Change is a suite of three workshops facilitated by Vicki Cummings to help you create bold solutions for unlocking the potential impact, growth and transformation of your organization. Participants may register for each workshop individually ($45 BC Alliance members/$85 non-members), as a suite of two ($75 members/$115 non-members), or for all three ($105 members/non-members). Please contact info@allianceforarts.com if you’re interested in this special pricing.

*Will be livestreamed

Do your financial projections reflect internal capacity? Is program delivery driving the organization at the expense of investing in organizational capacity? What are your capacity gaps and how can you address them? How can you plan and manage the growth of your organization? Let this workshop guide you as you develop your financial strategy.