TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Overview Strategic Funding .................................................................................................................. 2 Arts Discipline Funding ......................................................................................................... 3 Loan Fund ............................................................................................................................. 4 Operations ............................................................................................................................. 5 Preliminary Results of Increased Grants Funding ............................................................................. 6 2013 Allocations Summary ................................................................................................................ 7 Income Statement & Program Balances for the quarter ended December 31, 2013 ........................ 8 Strategic Funding 2013 Partnership Programs .......................................................................................................... 9 Strategic Partnerships ........................................................................................................... 10 Strategic Allocations .............................................................................................................. 11 Recipient Details ................................................................................................................... 12 Arts Discipline 2013 Descriptions o Annual & Multi-year Operating ................................................................................. 24 o Project ...................................................................................................................... 48 Recipient Details o Annual and Multi-Year Operating Allocations .......................................................... 74 o Project Allocations .................................................................................................... 81 o Appeals .................................................................................................................... 95 o Music Creation program ........................................................................................... 97 o Visual Artists program .............................................................................................. 98 o Media Artists program .............................................................................................. 99 o Writers program ....................................................................................................... 100 Rescinded Allocations ........................................................................................................................ 101 Board of Directors .............................................................................................................................. 102 Committees and Juries ...................................................................................................................... 103 INTRODUCTION Toronto Arts Council’s 2013 allocation from the City of Toronto is $15,713,600, representing an increase from the previous year of $4 million in the grants budget ($14,279,500) and $200,000 in the arts services and operations budget ($1,434,100). The funding increase is already making a far-reaching impact on TAC, Toronto’s artists and the city. It has allowed TAC to offer stability to existing organizations while providing significant new support for culturally diverse arts organizations, emerging arts groups and community-engaged arts projects, with a focus on the inner suburbs and youth. TAC has developed its strategic priorities, and its approach to disbursing the new funding, in a way that it is both responsive to the needs of the City’s evolving arts community, and to the City’s priorities. In 2009, recognizing the City’s changing demographics and arts practices, TAC hosted a series of public consultations, undertook a visioning exercise and developed a plan to guide the Board of Directors in making decisions on how a significant increase to the grants budget would be allocated across programs. Further city-wide consultations, held in conjunction with City Culture in April 2013, supported the objectives of TAC’s funding plans as follows: Arts Discipline Funding Growth & Sustainability: Begin to address major funding inequities in the operating program, and address the funding gaps in the projects and individual programs. Strategic Funding Community Connections: Enhance support for community engaged arts initiatives with a focus on youth arts and expanded audience access in diverse communities and outside the downtown core. Innovation & Partnership: Lead change through targeted funds, develop and encourage partnerships, leverage timely opportunities, and encourage and be responsive to innovation. TAC’s new funding initiatives are directly aligned with the City’s Principles for Use of New Funding (Creative Capital Gains Update, May 2013). Our direction with all new funding initiatives has been innovative, artist-centred and collaborative. We are committed to utilizing existing resources, assets and knowledge to strengthen the capacity of the entire sector and to inspire new thinking around the arts. Artist Centred: TAC has begun to address major funding inequities in the operating program, and address historic funding gaps in the projects and individual programs. 50% of new funding has been allocated to existing TAC programs, aimed at strengthening the sector. Additionally, our strategic partnerships are creating exceptional paid opportunities for artists to share their work with new audiences and communities, and develop their practice through community collaborations. Asset-Based Community Development: The new funding has been a catalyst for supporting asset- based community initiatives. TAC’s strategic partnerships have created access for artists to existing institutional resources, knowledge, and assets in local libraries, schools and heritage sites. Our Platform A and ArtReach partnerships leverage existing grassroots expertise to reach youth and diverse communities. TAC’s investment in partnerships are leveraged to maximize the resources available for local arts activities. These investments create opportunities for communities to build the capacity and the desire to develop future arts programs. Collaboration: TAC new funding initiatives have fostered collaborations between artists and teachers, principals, students, parents, library staff, heritage services, youth, settlement agencies and local communities – across disciplines. Investments in Platform A, ArtReach and the Neighbourhood Arts Network have created opportunities for exchanges, learning, and sharing of best practices. Our partnership with Business for the Arts explored new models of partnering with the private sector. In addition to fostering collaborative exchange between artists and communities, TAC’s partners bring valuable business, marketing, and promotional resources to artistic collaborations. Community Ownership: TAC’s partnerships have nurtured a dialogue with local communities at the grassroots level, empowering local audiences to access arts programming in a meaningful and accessible way. The new funding has allowed TAC to create programs that respond to the needs of local communities, in many cases through the work of artists and organizations with a track record of living and/or working in those communities. For example, Dwayne Morgan, an award-winning spoken word artist and National Poetry Slam Champion, was the recipient of a three-month residency grant to work at 1 Cedarbrae Library Branch in Scarborough, which is his own community. In another example of local empowerment, FIXT Point performance company will create a theatre piece at Mimico Library created through a process of community-engaged research. Diversity: With a focus on rolling out programs to areas outside the core, and encouraging a greater spread of programs across city wards, TAC is increasing access to diverse artists and audiences. An increase to a music creation program saw a 153% increase in applications from artists outside the downtown core and 57% of all applicants were applying to TAC for the first time. All of TAC’s assessment committees and juries are selected to reflect the diversity of our City and its evolving arts practices. Equity/Inclusivity: TAC’s funding helps to make the arts in Toronto accessible and affordable and supports hundreds of programming activities that are free to the public. TAC’s delivery of programs with partners working at the local and community level has created new points of access for emerging, youth and community artists. Local arts activities outside the core increase access to the arts to traditionally underserved communities, with several of our new funding initiatives providing arts activities to children, youth and communities directly in their schools, libraries and community centres. Excellence/Quality: Excellence is always a top priority for TAC, and our partners and clients are among the most celebrated and recognized in the country. We continue to employ best practices and expertise in peer-review adjudication and assessment to our partnership programs and strategic funding initiatives. By creating opportunities

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