Arts Council Windsor & Region Hosts a Culture Days Information Session

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Learn about tools and resources available to Culture Days participants at an information session hosted by the Arts Council Windsor & Region (ACWR) with Culture Days staff in attendance. Aimed at helping participants increase the impact and success of their Culture Days activities, this information session is open to artists, professional and volunteer-run cultural groups, libraries, museums, schools and anyone else wishing to participate in the third annual pan-Canadian celebration of arts and culture taking place on September 28-30, 2012.

EVENT DETAILS
DATE / TIME: Thursday, May 10 at 2pm
LOCATION: Artspeak Gallery, 1942 Wyandotte St. E, Windsor, On N8Y 1E4. 519-252-ARTS (2787)

Ontario Culture Days staff will be in attendance to answer questions and facilitate. The information session is free and open to all.

Please send your RSVP to the ACWR Office by email info@acwr.net or phone 519-252-ARTS (2787)

For a complete list of information sessions happening across the province, please visit: www.on.culturedays.ca

“Now in its third year Culture Days keeps growing bigger and better in Windsor. The information session is an opportunity to kick-start planning and organizing of 2012 Culture Days events in our community. We’re excited to bring the cultural sector together to collaborate on making this another successful year,” said Michelle Le Chien, Executive Director, ACWR Continue reading →

Innoversit​y Creative Summit

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Innoversity Awards to be presented for outstanding achievement in diversity and leadership

 
Join us as five individuals receive awards at the Innoversity Creative Summit 2012 to recognize their work in making the media more inclusive and innovative by embracing the increasing cultural diversity of Canada.

The awards will be presented:
May 8 @ a special reception at the Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library
Tickets to the Industry Reception & Awards Ceremony are included in the price of a 1 day or 2 day pass to the Summit.
Goto http://www.innoversitysummit.com  to get your tickets now.
 
Susan Marjetti, Managing Director, CBC Toronto,will receive the inaugural Outstanding Leadership Achievement Award for helping to attract larger, more diverse audiences in both private and public broadcasting in Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg and Fredericton. A champion of an inclusive media, Ms Marjetti believes successful TV and Radio programs must speak to and connect with an ever-evolving audience.  She has led well-known changes in broadcast programming. Since 2002, one of those programs – Metro Morning – has been the number one radio morning program in Toronto. It recently earned the top spot a record-breaking 42 times.
 
Innoversity will also present special “Angel Awards” to four individuals who have supported the organization’s efforts to make Canada’s media more creative and innovative by encouraging broadcasters to be more inclusive.

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Creative news and views for April 25, 2012

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Using collaboration and shared learning to help performing arts companies

 

Build Capacity   Build Audiences   Build Spaces

First steps towards inclusion

Creative Trust and Picasso PRO proudly wrapped up our two year Sun Life Performing Arts Access Program last month. This pioneering program, introduced to Creative Trust members on November 23, 2009, was designed to open up the city’s theatres to Blind/Low-Vision and Deaf/Hard of Hearing audiences. Using a pilot series of audio described and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performances, our goal was to help theatre, dance and music companies launch and integrate these services into their organizational cultures and programming.

In two short years we

  • Auditioned and trained 8 Audio Describers with renowned AD specialist Deb Lewis, moving the number of theatrical audio describers in Toronto to…8!
  • Purchased audio description kits, including headsets and accessories; created a handbook, and trained describers for the experience of live performance
  • Held a roundtable for members of the Ontario Association Of Sign Language Interpreters on the specifics of Theatrical Interpretation led by star interpreter Joanna Bennett, our ASL Project Advisor
  • Developed our chops with an in-house test-described show without public audience of Featuring Loretta at Factory Theatre Read more

Creating a page for your company using Facebook Timeline

 by Sue Edworthy

Facebook’s new timeline format has been slowing rolling out over the past few months (I adopted in December to get an advanced handle on it). Sure enough, it’s now the way your company page is laid out. It’s fairly easy to update and reorganize if you already have a page, as you’ve been automatically transferred – but what if you don’t?

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