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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