SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS! OAC STRATEGIC PLANNING SURVEY

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The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) has embarked on a process to develop a new strategic plan and we are currently in the information gathering stage. As a first step in our consultations with the arts community, we invite you to share your thoughts and experience with us by completing a short survey. The survey asks for your perspectives on the opportunities and challenges currently facing Ontario artists and arts organizations. We will use the survey responses to inform the development of our new strategic plan over the next few months – with the launch of the new plan next spring.

Strategic plans guide organizations in fulfilling their mandates by creating goals, and crafting strategies to achieve these goals. At OAC, we are committed to including a broad range of perspectives in our strategic planning process so that we can be confident that our plan best meets the needs of the Ontario arts community and reflects our current realities. While we will never be all things to all people, we do want to do our best to reflect Ontario and Ontarians, so it’s important that we hear from you as we begin this planning journey.

We recognize that this is a busy time of year with many of you looking forward to the summer season. We hope that you will take a few moments to participate in this survey. The link is below.

Please help us reach beyond the pool of Ontario artists and arts organizations already familiar with OAC. To do this, please pass this email to one to three people who are artists or who work with arts organizations who you think would provide interesting, informed perspectives, but may not yet have had contact with OAC.

Deadline to complete the survey: midnight Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, July 7, 2013.

Complete the survey by clicking here.

The survey is also available in alternative formats such as large print, an MS Word document, or via an oral submission. If you require an alternative format, please contact Sheena Lessard at slessard@arts.on.ca or 416-961-1660 ext. 6297 (toll-free 1-800-387-0058 ext. 6297) by Wednesday, July 3, 2013.

The ASL version of this announcement is available on the OAC website:  http://www.arts.on.ca/Page5102.aspx

Submissions are accepted from 15 June – 15 September 2013.

Monitor 10 is dedicated to the presentation of experimental short films and videos by/and/or about South Asians from Canada and around the world. We invite independent and innovative short films and videos that explore the aesthetic and form of the moving image and its relation to narrative. 

Monitor 10 encourages new, experimental and risk-taking work that challenges the viewer’s active engagement.

Selected works will be screened in April 2014 in Toronto, Canada. Monitor 10 will be programmed by independent curator and artist Shai Heredia.
 
Guidelines 

Works must be under 20 minutes and produced in or after 2011.
Submissions from first time directors are welcome.
Artist fees will be paid.

Submissions MUST include all of the following


• Name of artist or director
• Full contact information (address, phone, email, website)
• Title of work
Date of production (No earlier than 2011)
• Brief synopsis of the work (300 words max)
• Brief biography of the artist (200 words max)
• Artist CV
• 3 High-resolution production stills

Submissions can be sent via email with a URL link to the artist/director’s YouTube/Vimeo account (please provide passwords if necessary and make the link downloadable).
The subject heading must state MONITOR10_ARTISTLASTNAME to submissions@savac.net
Submissions can be sent on DVD (NTSC) enclosed with the following:

Send all materials to
SAVAC – MONITOR 10
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 450
Toronto, ON Canada
M5V 3A8

Inquiries can be sent to sharlene@savac.net with the subject title: MONITOR 10
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.
Please note that ONLY selected artists will be contacted by 21 December 2013.

Submissions will only be returned if the package includes a self-addressed stamped envelope (in Canadian postage) or send a cheque payable to SAVAC for the return postage amount.

For more information, please contact


Sharlene Bamboat, Artistic Director
SAVAC [South Asian Visual Arts Centre]
416.542.1661
sharlene@savac.net