Value of Arts Presenting workshop

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 – 9:30am to 4:00pm
Goodwill Industires, Third Floor
255 Horton Street, London, ON N6B 1L1

To register:
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/value-of-arts-presenting-tickets-10227355295

Contact:Deanne Kondrat, Communications Coordinator, dkondrat@london.ca, 519-661-2500 x 8484

Inga Petri has been travelling Canada sharing lessons from her study Value of Presenting: A Study of Arts Presentation in Canada commissioned through the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA).

Considering Attending?
If you are in the presenting arts (music, film and/or theatre) and looking for new marketing insights and to build audiences, this day is for you!

MORNING SESSION – Free of Charge

9:30am to 11:30am:
The Value of Presenting
The Value of Presenting is a powerful narrative focused on evolving vibrant communities fueled by the performing arts and its community-engaged partnerships.

In this context, Inga shares what it means when 3 in 4 Canadians report attending, even though presenters continue to be preoccupied with audience development. She will dispel the myth of younger Canadians not being as engaged with live performance and discuss the surprising role media-based consumption of the performing arts plays in Canadians’ lives. And she will offer a new way to look at audiences more broadly in terms of a) markets that generate revenue and b) communities that presenters wish to serve and engage with beyond paid attendance.

In so doing, she will address business model issues related to audiences, public engagement and sustainable organizations.

AFTERNOON SESSION (Interactive Workshop and Networking Lunch) $20.00

12:00pm to 4:00pm:
How to lead the audience to new artistic experiences
What it takes to build audiences for new artists/types of shows in a community. Focus on brand/reputation building and exploring effective, contemporary marketing practices. The workshop will explore the crucial difference between features of a product and achieving a visceral, emotional response to marketing campaigns that build reputation over time through examples. This workshop also connects to earned revenue models, community development and fund development. Inga explores artistic vision and marketing – and what the role of artistic vision is versus the role of marketing and how they can work really well together.

Fundamental forces – profound demographic change, powerful mobile technologies, increasing market fragmentation, continuing economic uncertainty – are challenging the assumptions underlying the performing arts ecosystem.

Drawing on participants’ experiences, Inga will facilitate an interactive discussion of implications for:

§  audience development

§  understanding your community

§  community engagement

**If you would like to attend the whole day please register for both the morning and afternoon sessions.

SPEAKER BIO:

Inga Petri has designed and implemented strategies throughout the private, not-for-profit and public sectors. Applying a creative, collaborative approach, she consistently rallies teams around common objectives and inspires action, leveraging her experience on both the client and agency sides of marketing practice.

With experience in diverse sectors – from the performing arts, museums and arts services organizations to international trade promotion organizations, national membership associations and technology companies – clients benefit from an uncommon breadth of experience and expertise.

Inga helps organizations reach their customers where they live—connecting online, by traditional media or in person. She provides strategic counsel based on solid research; she develops brand, web, communications and marketing strategies; and she is committed to achieving results.

London Host Team: Palace TheatreThe London Fringe Festival Theatre and The Grand Theatre.

Thank you to our funders: CAPACOA (Canadian Arts Presenting Association,) CCI-Ontario Presenting Network and The City of London.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE. 

Talking Points: A Special Cocktail Reception with Kenneth Montague and Jérôme Havre

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In celebration of Black History Month, the Textile Museum of Canada is pleased to present:

Talking Points
A Special Cocktail Reception with Kenneth Montague and Jérôme Havre

Wednesday February 26, 2014 at 6 pm
@ Textile Museum of Canada

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW
General admission $12, TMC Members $10
Advance tickets required. Call 416-599-5321 x2228
or email programs@textilemuseum.ca to purchase

Join us for a gallery walkthrough with Kenneth Montague, director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, in conversation with artist Jérôme Havre, providing an overview of Havre’s influences and references in a context of black representation in contemporary visual arts. This program is offered in conjunction with the TMC’s exhibition Fictions and Legends: Heather Goodchild and Jérôme Havre.

On view until April 13, Fictions and Legends features the imaginative worlds embodied in the work of Goodchild and Havre, as well as their use of visual storytelling to invent biographical and mythical histories that hint at the presence of secret societies and systems of belief, mystical practices and alternative cultural codes. Fictions and Legends is curated by Sarah Quinton and organized by the Textile Museum of Canada with the support of the Anne Angus Contemporary Program Fund.

Image: Jérôme Havre, Untitled (Hybrid Series), 2010, fabric, kapok. 75 cm tall. Photo: Paul Litherland

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Call for submission: “Work It.” – Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition

Deadline: 3 March 2014, 5:00pm

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There’s little doubt that “do what you love” (DWYL) is now the unofficial work mantra for our time. The problem is that it leads not to salvation, but to the devaluation of actual work, including the very work it pretends to elevate — and more importantly, the dehumanization of the vast majority of laborers.  

– Miya Tokumitsu, Issue 13, Jacobin Magazine.

In partnership with gallerywest in Toronto, SAVAC is pleased to announce an open call for its 8th annual juried members’ exhibition, Work It.. For this exhibition, SAVAC invites proposals for critical and innovative artworks that explore issues surrounding the topic of art and labour.

Potential themes include, but are not limited to: precarity, gendered labour, art production in the time of austerity, working to survive vs. ‘doing what you Love (DWYL)’.

SAVAC, an artist-run centre based in Toronto plays a unique role in promoting contemporary visual art by South Asian identified artists within Canada. The annual juried members’ exhibition is a platform to showcase the broad range and scope of critically engaged artwork being produced by artists from SAVAC’s membership, and invites new members to join and submit work for the annual exhibition.

Become a SAVAC member for $30/year, here.

Submissions can cover all formats including painting, drawing, print-making, photography, sculpture, performance, film, video, sound and new media installations. Submissions will be juried SAVAC’s Artistic Director, Sharlene Bamboat, gallerywest owner and program director, Evan Tyler, special guest jurors Min Sook Lee (filmmaker) and Amber Landgraff (curator/artist).

The exhibition will take place at gallerywest (1172 Queen Street West) in Toronto from 1 – 29 June, 2014.

Guidelines

Works must be produced during or after January 2012. Submissions from emerging artists, and students are welcome. Artist fees will be paid.

Submissions must include the following:

– Name of artist
– Full contact information (address, phone, email, website)
– Title of work
– Dimensions of work
– Date of production (No earlier than January 2012)
– Brief synopsis of the work (300 words max)
– Brief biography of the artist (200 words max)
– Artist CV 6-10 high-resolution images (300 dpi, at least 5 inches wide)

Video submissions can be sent via email with a URL link to the artist/director’s YouTube / vimeo account (please provide passwords if necessary). Digital submissions should be sent to submissions@savac.net and must follow the format: ANNUALMEMBERSHOW2014_ARTISTLASTNAME. Submissions can be sent via post to:

SAVAC – “Work It.” Exhibition 
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 450
Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8 

All deliveries from international participants must be marked: “NO COMMERCIAL VALUE”. Please do not claim any monetary value over $50 on your package for insurance or otherwise or you will be charged customs, duties and taxes. All submissions must be sent prepaid. SAVAC will not accept collect or C.O.D. shipments and will not accept shipments incurring expenses for duties, taxes or customs brokerage.

Deadline: 3 March 2014, 5:00pm 

Questions?
Contact Sharlene Bamboat, Artistic Director
sharlene@savac.net or 416-542-1661