MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION ONE: Friday May 25th, 10:30am – 12pm
FM1 You Are Here: Changing the Digital Map Holly Cunningham, Executive Director, Near North Mobile Media Lab, North Bay, Ontario With technology changing so rapidly and information at our fingertips, now more than ever where you're from isn't as important as what you know. This presentation will touch on issues to which we, working in rural and remote communities, can all relate: developing a project in multiple locations, adopting existing models to small communities, and the challenges and benefits of multi-community partnerships.
FM2 Rogues in Partnership Kate Butler, Co-Founder, Rural Rogues Production; Director, Haliburton Highlands Museum; SPARC Steering Committee member, Haliburton Highlands, Ontario Michael Clipperton, Co-Founder, Rural Rogues Production; SPARC Outreach Coordinator, Haliburton Highlands, Ontario In this interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn about overcoming common challenges of rural performing arts through unconventional partnerships, hear about successful ways in which local stories have been used to engage new audiences, and share ideas about keeping rural theatre relevant and sustainable through diversification.
FM3 Collaboration, Communication and Reconciliation through the Performing Arts Frank Blanchet, Musician, former VP of the Brighton Arts Council, retired Teacher/Facilitator in the Correctional Services of Canada, Brighton, Ontario John French, Executive Director, Brookside Music Association, Midland, Ontario During this presentation, Frank will share a collection of stories (some humorous, some not) about his experiences using the arts to break down barriers in order to establish meaningful and productive communication with inmates during his career with Correctional Service of Canada. John will share his experience with the conception, creation, and performance of a musical work that was both historically accurate and culturally sensitive and had an objective of providing hope for reconciliation. The work was commissioned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Champlain in Huronia.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION ONE: Friday May 25th, 10:30am – 12pm
FM4 Organizing for Success Inga Petri, CMRP – Principal, Strategic Moves, Ottawa, Ontario and Whitehorse, Yukon A frank discussion on boards, community, leadership, and oversight.
FM5 Growing Up Rural: The Importance of the Arts Alyssa Kostello, Idea Machine (writer, producer, performer, facilitator, event planner, Assistant Manager at SmartyPantz Escape Rooms) and grew up in the Tri-towns!, Vancouver, British Columbia Exploring personal experiences, participants will be guided to consider what the arts do for human development, particularly in rural and remote communities.
FM6 Arts in Education and Community Linda Albright, founder and Executive Director, Arts Network for Children and Youth, Toronto, Ontario Jessica Sokolowski, elementary educator, arts-based researcher and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Tiina Kukkonen, artist, arts educator, PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario In this panel discussion, Linda, Jessica, and Tiina will review research, models, and emerging practices in the arts education sector within both the classroom and the community at large.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION TWO: Friday May 25th, 2pm – 3:30pm
FA1 Theatre is a Visual Medium: So Look Like You Know What You’re Doing Joshua Bainbridge, Actor, Writer, Director, and Artistic Director, Proscenium Club, North Bay, Ontario Covering a myriad of topics from low budget marketing in the modern age to exploring ways to manipulate lighting and sound to make the aesthetic of a minimalist set feel boundless, Joshua will present his hands-on seminar about making theatre work in rural settings.
FA2 Canadian Network for Arts and Learning: Get on the Map! Jennifer Petrilli, Managing Director, Canadian Network for Arts and Learning/Le Réseau canadien pour les arts et l'apprentissage The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning / Le Réseau canadien pour les arts et l’apprentissage (CNAL/RCAA) is creating a digital map of arts and learning and we want YOU to help guide the development of this vital tool. In this session, CNAL/RCAA will take you on a tour of the map and lead discussions on this innovative resource for artists, educators, arts organizations, schools and the public. Join this session to get on the map, and to let us know how the map can support the important work that you do in your community.
FA3 The Lollipop Guild Formation: We're Not Suckers, We Don't Work for Free Patricia Fell, Artistic Director, Windsor Feminist Theatre Patrick Hannon, Navigator, Making Waves Trevor Malcolm, Professional Composer and Musician TJ Travis, Executive Director, Bloomfield House All participate in The Pelee Island Stone & Sky Music & Arts Series in various capacities, and work in the Windsor-Essex Pelee Island region of beautiful south-western Ontario. An open discussion identifying, amongst other realities, the regionally common cultural assumption that artists work for free because 'we love what we do', exploring ways in which to alter this misconception through accessible, sustainable, and culturally acceptable models.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION TWO: Friday May 25th, 2pm – 3:30pm
FA4 Unpacking the Dynamics between Presenter, Artist, and Audience: A Dialogue Rebecca Desmarais, Tour Producer, 2b theatre company, Halifax, Nova Scotia Inga Petri, CMRP – Principal, Strategic Moves, Ottawa, Ontario and Whitehorse, Yukon This session will attempt to unpack the intricate and dynamic relationship between presenter, artist, and audience. Each has their own context, intentions, and goals for why they choose to create, present, or experience a piece of work; in fact, each can operate largely independent of the other. Our contention is that those three entities form one continuous fabric, or ecology, that would significantly benefit from more open and thoughtful dialogue. Inga and Rebecca will identify some of the different, and perhaps seemingly competing, goals and intentions, leading a conversation about the interplay between them. They will explore the ways in which each relationship affects the outcomes of all. The session will investigate where some of the greatest tensions lie within these relationships, and how we might move forward to help one another realize our goals.
FA5 Networking with Networks Meaghan Froh Metcalf, Outreach and Program Manager, Culture Days, Toronto, Ontario Preetam Sengupta, Vice-President, Folk Music Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario Eric Goudie, co-leader, Community Presenters’ Network, Fergus, Ontario Networking between networks supports the performing arts in a myriad of essential ways. Individual networks offer a specialized service – they meet the specific needs of their members. However, when two or more networks work together to make connections, leveraging resources and collaborating on issues of common concern, they can speak with a very powerful voice. Networks give birth to other networks, and the cross-pollination of ideas, people, and best practices that occurs when members of various networks converge often leads to transformative initiatives and ideas.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION TWO: Friday May 25th, 2pm – 3:30pm
FA6 You Couldn't Ignore Me if You Tried Katie Huckson, Digital Creator North Program Lead, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Nathaniel Marchand, Digital Creator North Program Lead, Kenora, Ontario Steve Kozinski, Digital Creator North Program Lead, Temiskaming Shores, Ontario Laine Helbling, Digital Creator North Program Lead, Sioux Lookout, Ontario Brittany Sheridan, Digital Creator North Program Lead, Elliot Lake, Ontario Tyler Levesque, Digital Creator North Program Lead, Timmins, Ontario Engaging and motivating teens in a digital world: in this interactive and participatory discussion, we will be guided by the youthful leads of the Digital Creator North Program to reflect upon what it means to be working with young people today.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION THREE: Saturday May 26th, 10:30am – 12pm
SM1 Discovering Your Constellation: Connecting Culture in Rural and Remote Communities Dom Lafontaine, Director, le Conseil des arts Temiskaming Arts Council, Notre Dame du Nord, Québec Réjeanne Massie, Director, le Conseil des arts Temiskaming Arts Council, and Chair, le Conseil culturel ARTEM, Haileybury, Ontario Caroline Lamire, Consultante en développement de l’offre – Premières Nations, Abitibi- Témiscamingue, Québec Although the word ‘partnerships’ is not exclusive to rural and remote communities, we do seem to be more dependent upon them; perhaps we even uniquely define the word. Dom and Réjeanne from Le Conseil des arts Temiskaming Arts Council will recount how they have mobilized organisations and municipalities across their region over the past six years, working with all three main cultural communities (Francophone, Anglophone, and First Nations) to slowly but surely form a bilingual regional arts council. Caroline will share her experiences with and knowledge of Culturat, an arts and cultural hub in neighbouring Abitibi-Témiscamingue just across our provincial border. Culturat has achieved international recognition for their cultural development work based on the principles of Agenda 21 for Culture. Come to share, listen, and consider the possibilities for your communities’ unique cultural constellation.
SM2 What We Measure Counts, What We Count Matters Inga Petri, CMRP – Principal, Strategic Moves, Ottawa, Ontario and Whitehorse, Yukon A practical proposal for meaningful performance measurement for rural, volunteer-driven organisations.
SM3 The Power and the Magic of the Mask Teodoro Dragonieri, Multi-disciplinary Artist and Educator, Toronto, Ontario In this interactive presentation, attendees will become acquainted with the artistic nature, cultural connections, and universal significance of the mask, gaining insights into ways of utilizing masks in their own communities through theatrical presentations, educational programming, and carnivalesque celebrations.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION THREE: Saturday May 26th, 10:30am – 12pm
SM4 Compensation Conversations Clayton Windatt, Board Member of CARFAC Ontario, Executive Director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective/Collectif des commissaires autochtones Ashley Manitowabi, Lands Arts Animator, Debajehmujig Creation Centre, Manitoulin Island, Ontario Bruce Naokwegijig, Artistic Director, Debajehmujig Creation Centre, Manitoulin Island, Ontario Moderated by David Barnard
SM5 AfterWhys: Breaking the Silence on Suicide and Seniors Catherine Frid, Playwright, Puslinch Township, Ontario Ross Coulter, Creation Group Member, Guelph, Ontario This combination panel discussion and theatrical performance will reveal how sharing stories and co-creating a play with rural seniors whose lives have been touched by suicide helps in breaking down the barriers to conversation.
SM6 Cultural Spaces in Unique Places Kendra Fry, Advisor, Faith & the Common Good Laura Montgomery, Senior Program Advisor | Conseillière principale, Ontario Region, Department of Canadian Heritage | Région de l’Ontario, Ministère du Patrimoine canadien
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION FOUR: Saturday May 26th, 2pm – 3:30pm
SA1 Which Way Does Your Compass Point? David Newland, Ambassador, Adventure Canada, Cobourg, Ontario Heidi Langille, Performer/Presenter, Siqiniup Qilauta (Sunsdrum), Plantagenet, Ontario Lynda Brown, Performer/Presenter, Siqiniup Qilauta (Sunsdrum), Ottawa, Ontario Drawing on their experience performing extensively in rural contexts, David, with Heidi and Lynda of Sunsdrum, will explore, through slides and performance featuring both Inuit traditional and contemporary music, lessons they have learned about collaboration and reconciliation, and what it means to be Northern.
SA2 Beyond the Performance Jack Langenhuizen, Motus O Dance Theatre, Stouffville, Ontario Jowi Taylor, Six String Nation Guitar, Toronto, Ontario A panel discussion offering a rare opportunity to hear from two individuals, equally sagacious, amiable, and passionate about the performing arts, yet each offering a unique perspective, about sustainable models (wait, did we just say ‘sustainable’ in reference to performing arts in rural communities? There’s a point of discussion!) of successful community engagement 'beyond the performance' in rural and remote communities. Paul McLaren of Chat Noir Coffee Books in New Liskeard will also be on site to talk about how Chat Noir hosts coffee houses and other outreach events in conjunction with performing arts activities in the region. This workshop will be held at Chat Noir (great coffee, great conversation!).
SA3 Bloom Where You're Planted: Generations Meet When Rural Roots Tangle Down Deep Kevin Closs, Independent Arts Professional and Arts Educator, Manitoulin Island, Ontario Ryan Bommarito, co-founder, Rural Stages Productions, Norfolk County, Ontario Clare Blackwood, co-founder, Rural Stages Productions, Norfolk County, Ontario Kevin, well-established singer/songwriter from Manitoulin Island, and Ryan and Clare, young co-founders of Rural Stages Productions in Norfolk County on the north shore of Lake Erie, will discuss and let us all dream about how, when our rural roots tangle down deep, we can grow through our common experiences in rural communities.
MAY 24 – 27 MAI 2018
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
SESSION FOUR: Saturday May 26th, 2pm – 3:30pm
SA4 Digital Innovation in Action: Deepen and apply new digital concepts Inga Petri, CMRP – Principal, Strategic Moves, Ottawa, Ontario and Whitehorse, Yukon Inga will lead you through a practical, hands-on process to evaluate your digital online footprint. She will share new, leading-edge criteria for assessing your digital presence, and address how you cannot only have your content “on” the web, but literally “in” the web. You’ll become familiar with leading practices in web development, discoverability and the power of open, linked data. In this workshop, you will develop your unique digital action plan to radically improve your own (or your organization’s) presence in the digital world.
SA5 Business Planning for the Arts and Creative Industries Michael Martyn, General Manager, Huronia Cultural Campus, Orillia, Ontario As a creative person, your ideas are your most valuable asset. Communicating your ideas through your artwork is one thing, but how do we take a concept for a creative business and explain it to the bean counters? Drawing upon your skills as a creative and making them work to the requirements of a structured business plan, by the end of this session you will: • have reflected upon why you wish to pursue arts employment; • understand the different roles you can expect to be in as a business person; • clarify the context within which you will function as an arts business; • understand the basic terminology and techniques of business planning.