Smart Data – Getting Your Data Working for You

Delivered by Young Associates

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 2:00 – 5:00pm

Location: Council for the Arts in Ottawa – Micaela Fitch boardroom
                   2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON K1N 6E2

Managing Your Data: Making it Work for You and Your Organization
What is a database? What do I want to get out of it? What data is relevant? How can I create consistency? This 2 hour seminar from Young Associates is designed to provide an overview of good database management practices for the arts and cultural sector. The seminar will cover goal setting, policies and procedures, and tips and tricks, and is geared to those working in both a spreadsheet or relational database environment.

Managing Data: Peer Exchange
The seminar will be followed by a 1 hour peer exchange. Stay and share best practices, challenges, goals, and questions around data management with your community members, and discuss case studies presented by the instructors.

The session is FREE

To Register: http://smartdateottawa.eventbrite.ca

Funded with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Trillium Foundation

We are calling upon visual artists, writers, filmmakers, poets, musicians, actors, and dancers who are creating artwork which addresses feminist issues to get involved, submit work, or collaborate in a discussion panel with their expertise. Explorations of particular interest are: violence against women, sexual assult, slut shaming, pro-choice issues, media analysis, racialization gender/trans identity, and economic and political agency.

SUBMISSIONS DUE: February 1st, 2013

Early submissions welcome!

Submissions will be reviewed by committee.

EXHIBITORS AND SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED: February 9th, 2013

Include a 500 word submission proposal with images, sound or video where applicable.

If you would like to get involved with the Feminist Art Conference in any capacity, or you have any questions, email coordinator Ilene Sova: mail@ilenesova.ca

Email submissions to: torontofac@gmail.com

For early registration email your name and contact info to: torontofac@gmail.com

Scarborough Arts’ is now accepting artistic submissions for its 28th Annual Juried Exhibition. The 2013 theme is: ChildSight.

What might we see from a child’s perspective?

Deadline for submissions: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2013 – 5:00pm
Applications are available at www.scarborougharts.com

We leave the interpretation of this theme up to the artist. Pieces for the exhibition should relate to the theme, and will be selected based upon a combination of: artistic quality, technical execution and/or conceptual strength, originality and impact.

Our 2013 exhibition will include an interactive, new media layer, presented in collaboration with our ongoing in-school program, Kaleidoscope. Scarborough kids from the Kaleidoscope intercultural arts program will learn how to interpret, discuss and critique artwork, using selected pieces from the exhibition. Audio recordings of these critique sessions will be captured and edited, accompanying the works for public listening in the gallery exhibition.

Artists are invited to submit up to 3 images of work, a detailed image list, artist statement, current CV, and a stamped self addressed envelope to the Scarborough Arts Council. Work in all media is eligible, but must be equipped to hang on a gallery wall. Unfortunately freestanding sculptural work cannot be considered.

Submission Fee:
* $20 for SA Members
* $30 for non-SA members, or
* $40 for a combined new Premium Artist membership & 2013 submission fee
Exhibition Location: Papermill Gallery @ Todmorden Mills – 67 Pottery Road, Toronto, ON.
Awards:
* Frank Faubert Memorial Award for Art – City of Toronto purchase Award
* Viktor Mitic Award for Fine Art
* (other awards TBA)

For more information: Scarborough Arts; 416.698.7322 or programs@scarborougharts.com

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