MONITOR 8: New South Asian Short Film + Video — *2 days left to submit your work!!*

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  Call for submissions

  MONITOR 8: New South Asian short film and video

  DEADLINE: November 16, 2011

  SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) invites submissions for its eighth annual experimental short film and video screening program, Monitor 8. View guidelines »
Monitor 8 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 8 encourages new, experimental and risk-taking work that challenges the viewer’s active engagement.

Selected works will be screened at the eighth annual short film and video screening program, Monitor 8 on 22 March 2012, at Innis Town Hall in Toronto, Canada. The program will also tour to at least 2 additional cities within Canada.

TAPA Announcement of Second Annual Arts Day at the City

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ARTS DAY AT THE CITY BRINGS ART DIRECTLY TO CITY COUNCIL

Second Annual Arts Day at the City

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 11, 2011…Toronto, ON… The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) along with Friends of the Arts will meet with over twenty five individual City Councillors on Monday November 14 to discuss the importance of and impact of the arts on Torontonians.

Arts supporters, donors, artists and arts administrators will spend the morning in meetings with councillors representing a range of wards from across the city.  Discussions will focus on the Creative Capital Gains Report issued in May 2011 which City Council unanimously supported.   A key message is to remind Council that they voted for the City’s per capita spending on arts and culture to be increased from $18 to $25.   In addition participants will be discussing the importance of enhancing Toronto’s global position as a cultural capital, and the City’s leadership role in promoting our rich cultural assets to its citizens and visitors alike.

“This is TAPA’s Second Annual Arts Day at the City”, said TAPA’s Executive Director Jacoba Knaapen, “and we are very pleased to be extending our reach to include arts workers and private sector partners this year and working together in partnership with Friends of the Arts  effectively representing thousands of artists from across the city. We are looking forward to our discussions with a majority of city councillors”.

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Workshop II on Cultural Competence and Curatorial Development – November 29, 2011

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Workshop II on Cultural Competence and Curatorial Development:
Building Partnerships between Presenters and Aboriginal and Ethno-
Racial Performing Artists
November 29, 2011 :  1-5pm
Centre for Social Innovation – Suite 120
215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7

Beginning with a presentation by Patty Jarvis of Prologue to the Performing Arts, this workshop will discuss the importance of arts education in schools and the importance of such education to building communities.  Following the presentation, this workshop will pair presenters and performing arts organizations based on the guidelines and criteria drafted at the first session and including ideas related to arts education in schools.

To register please visit: http://cpamonovemberworkshop.eventbrite.com/

For more information, please contact:
charles c. smith
Project Lead of CPPAMO
Lecturer, Cultural Pluralism and the Arts/University of Toronto Scarborough
Artistic Director, the wind in the leaves collective
charlescsmith@sympatico.ca

Victoria Glizer
Project Assistant
info.cpamo@gmail.com