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Contact ONtour 2022
Thank you to all of our artists, agents, facilitators, presenters, and delegates for joining us in Orillia for Contact ONtour 2022! Ontario Presents is always eager to hear how we can continue to improve our gatherings in order to better serve the touring and performing arts community. We invite you to check your inboxes and share your thoughts and suggestions in the Contact ONtour 2022 survey.
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Meet the Artist: Kate Kamo McHugh
This month we invite you to meet featured artist Kate Kamo McHugh. A dance and theatre artist from Kitchener, Kate has shared a short video with us about her current work in progress, Twenty Grains of Rice: Seeds of Reclamation, which is an exploration of her Japanese Canadian identity, incorporating a variety of artistic elements such as dance, improvised music, text and digital art. Follow the link below for this 3-minute introduction to the project!
Kate is part of Gathering Knowledge, Sharing Voices: Touring in the New Normal—a learning community for IBPOC dance and theatre artists. This project was designed to give participating artists a chance to build their knowledge and skills around touring and being presented.
Click here to learn more about Kate Kamo McHugh.
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Call for Presenters: Canada Arts and Culture Recovery Program
 As part of the 2022-23 Canada Arts and Culture Recovery Program (CACRP), the Canada Arts Presentation Fund was allocated $4 million in additional funds to provide relief to non-profit organizations in the professional arts presentation sector that own or operate a presentation venue and that are experiencing significant viability and business continuity challenges.
This program will provide targeted support to existing program recipients that own or operate an indoor facility as a presentation venue, whether purpose-built or adapted, as well as other not‑for-profit organizations that can demonstrate they regularly provide such type of venues for the professional live performing arts. Support will be provided for costs related to operating a venue for the period of April 1st, 2022, to March 31st, 2023.
To determine your eligibility for this new initiative, visit the CAPF website. Applications for the program are due on Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
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Call for Applications: Digital Discoverability Program
CAPACOA invites performing arts presenters and producers to participate in a Digital Discoverability Program as part of the Linked Digital Future Initiative. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to join a cohort of 20 organizations working with Culture Creates to optimize their event information and increase readability among search engines (e.g., Google, Bing) and recommendation systems (e.g., Siri, Alexa), making it easier for local audiences and tourists alike to discover your event.
An information session will be held on Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Interested organizations are encouraged to submit an application form by Wednesday, October 12th, 2022. Please note that applications may close at an earlier date if spaces are already filled.
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Attention Artists! Apply Today: ArtStarts Artist Directory
 Are you an artist looking to expand your arts practice? Build sustainable opportunities by touring your performance, classroom residency, or classroom project in schools across British Columbia. ArtStarts is accepting applications to present, showcase, and join their Artist Directory for the 2023/24 school year. For more information or to apply, visit the ArtStarts website. Applications to join the Artist Directory are due Monday October 24th, 2022.
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APA Call for Proposals—Re-engaging Audiences
The Atlantic Presenters Association is requesting proposals for the development and delivery of a marketing campaign to support the re-engagement of audiences and increase audience attendance at theatres, festivals, and live performing arts spaces throughout the Atlantic region. The deadline for proposal submissions is Thursday, October 6th, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. AST. Learn more and apply.
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Together There: Join the New Residency from ArtsPond
ArtsPond is currently accepting applications to join Together There: a 16-week residency program designed to explore a hopeful vision for a just digital future in arts and culture. Eight creative and caring visionaries from Canada will be provided $4,500 along with an additional $1,000 for supplies and materials for their residency. Applicants from Indigenous, Racialized, Disabled, and suburban, rural, and remote communities outside the core are encouraged to apply.
There are residency positions created specifically for individuals “Outside the Core”; this include suburban, rural, and remote arts and culture practitioners. For more information on how to apply, visit the Together There webpage.
The deadline to submit applications is Monday, October 10th, 2022. Applicants who identify as D/deaf and/or disabled can submit their applications until Monday, October 24th, 2022.
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Registration is Open for the New York 2023 ISPA Congress
 The International Society for the Performing Arts is officially launching the New York 2023 ISPA Congress, Urgency of Now. Scheduled for January 10-12, 2023, this year’s conference marks the first fully in-person congress since 2020.
The ISPA hopes to explore and establish a dialogue focusing on tangible actions taken towards the pressing needs of the performing arts sector, and how to meet the challenges of the present moment and uphold our commitments to change at the 2023 ISPA Congress, hosted at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.
Early bird registration discounts of up to 15% are available through October 28th, 2022. Join the conversation and register for the New York 2023 ISPA Congress today.
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Ontario Presents is a performing arts community of presenters, artists, agents, and producers. Our mission is to foster effective working relationships among artists, agents, producers, and presenters in their mutual endeavours to stage great performing arts experiences that open citizen’s minds and hearts to the world and the peoples around them.
Ontario Presents honours past, present and future Indigenous Peoples as the original stewards and caretakers of the lands we present, showcase, and engage upon. Recognizing embedded colonial structures in the performing arts sector, including ways of thinking and knowing, inspires our ongoing responsibility to decolonize our work practices, to remain committed to Indigenous resurgence and reclamation, as well as platform the stories of Black, People of Colour, Deaf/Disabled and LGBT2Q+ voices across the province.
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SPARC SYMPOSIUM 2022! 
OSAC SHOWCASE 2022! 
Biennale CINARS 2022! 
Mundial Montréal 2022!
