Meet the Artist: Recap

Since June 2021, we've been chatting with artists from across Ontario. We've learned about their favourite foods, childhood influences and we've even gotten advice for presenters! Not only are these artists fantastic creators, but they are inspirational thinkers. 

We invite you to visit us on Youtube or click below to read the blogs.

NETWORK NEWS & EVENTS

Contact ONtour 2022: Orillia Edition (Applications Now Open)

We are pleased to announce that Contact ONtour will take place in-person in Orillia, Ontario, during the week of September 14th-18th, 2022!

Contact ONtour will take place in-person in Orillia, Ontario, during the week of September 15th-17th, 2022. The conference will include showcases, pitches, networking opportunities, professional development workshops, and important industry conversations. Contact ONtour will be connecting artists and presenters through a variety of methods including showcases (15 min), pitches (7 min) and a digital catalogue.

Applications to showcase or pitch at the in-person conference are now open.

We encourage performing artists of all disciplines and all regions of Canada to apply. We especially invite applications from artists who identify as Indigenous, Black, or People of Colour, artists with disabilities, Deaf artists, as well as artists from the LGBTQ2S+ community, to send in their applications. Ontario Presents is committed to ensuring equity, inclusivity, and representation in our sector, and the jury will be placing emphasis on representation from these communities during the selection process.

Please direct any questions to Cheryl at cheryl@ontariopresents.ca. 

Submit your application via IWantToShowcase.ca by March 31st, 2022.

Annual Member's Spring Retreat 2022

Registration is now open for the 2022 Ontario Presents Annual Member's Spring Retreat! After 2 long years we are excited to join with our members in person for this member gathering! The event will be held from June 15th -17th, 2022 at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario.

OP's partnership with Huntsville Festival of the Arts promises our members some very unique and exciting experiences! Key retreat events will take place on Wednesday, June 15th through to Friday, June 17th. Retreat highlights include:

• Time spent with colleagues to discuss successes and challenges
• Sharing Ontario Presents' new and exciting work at our Annual General Meeting
• World Music concert experience and Local music showcase
• Introduction to Ontario Presents New Touring Platform
• Workshops on key practices in presenting

INDUSTRY NEWS & EVENTS

Provincial Covid-19 Updates

After almost two years of COVID-19 restrictions and public health mandates, the provincial government has announced a timeline for removing all public health restrictions, including mask mandates. 
Effective March 14: 

• Mandatory vaccination policy for employees in long-term care homes is lifted
• Unvaccinated workers in hospitals and other high-risk healthcare settings will no longer have to partake in regular rapid testing

Effective March 21: 

• Masking requirements will be removed in most settings including: schools, restaurants and bars, gyms, movie theatres, shopping centres, etc. 
• Remaining measures in schools including cohorts and on-site symptom screening are removed
• Remaining regulatory requirements for businesses are removed, including passive screening and having a COVID-19 safety plan. 

Effective April 27: 

• Mask requirements are removed in all remaining settings
• All remaining orders under the Reopening Ontario Act expire
• Remaining health-care directives are lifted, however, the government will still direct health-care workers to wear personal protective equipment
• After this date, masks will not be mandatory but will be encouraged and highly recommended for those who are immunocompromised, at high risk, or who choose to still use them.  

For more information, please visit here.

FleX Spotlight Sessions

The FLeX Spotlight Sessions provided by Work In Culture, is open to participants who are interested in learning more about how Canadian arts & heritage festivals can build and implement stronger collaboration strategies. Brief outlines of the next two sessions are below: 

Collaborating With Artists - Wednesday, 16th March 10am-12pm EST
How can festivals and presenters collaborate more closely with artists to create extraordinary commissions, inspiring year-round community engagement programs and effective talent development frameworks?  

Featuring guests from manchester jazz festival (UK) and Queens Council on the Arts (NYC) + Owais Lighwala as "context translator"  
Register Here.

Featuring guests from 64 Million Artists (UK) and EVVI - Evénement Vivant (France) + Kevin Matthew Wong as "context translator"  
Register Here.

Find out more and register before March 16th here.

Call for Submission: Gathering Divergence Spring 2022

CPAMO is offering arts professionals the opportunity to display, showcase or facilitate a workshop to a wide range of artists/ audience  at their 2022 conference this Spring. Artists will also receive publicity and a copy of their performance.

This year's theme Moulding The Future: Rethinking Strategies for the Arts Sector Now will address emergent ways of rethinking the sector as we emerge out of the pandemic, focusing on the responsibility of the sector to strategize, implement supportive systems that benefit IBPOC artists / organizations and the Arts Sector at large. 

This event will take place online and in-person from May 11th- 13th, 2022.

Artists will be compensated according to the following: 

1. Dance / Theatre  / Music Honorariums $400 – $1000 (based on the number of artists)
2. Literary Readings up to $300
3. Exhibition fees for Visual Artists will be based on CARFAC Standards 
4. Workshops $300 (1 hour maximum, all disciplines)

To find out more, visit the website here and send submissions to programming@cpamo.org.

Deadline for submissions: March 25th, 2022 

Digital Dusk Speaker Series 

Digital Dusk is a month-long conference and digital speaker series that invites Canadian arts festivals, institutions, workers and artists to come observe the strategies, conversations, and art being created within Atlantic Canada, as we collectively shifted from physical to digital space in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker series is presented by the Atlantic Art at Night Festivals Alliance. 

March 16, 2022, 4:00pm - BLURRED LAND(SCAPES)
A roundtable asking curators about their experiences, and how the process of curation manifests within the current artistic landscape, politically and practically.

March 23, 2022, 4:00pm AT - COLLECTIVE CONNECT
Keynote discussion asking how community/collective based artists, researchers, leaders, organizers continued their practices, engaging and mobilizing during COVID-19.

Register using the links above, or by visiting *AANFA (Atlantic Art at Night Festival Alliance)

Pacific Contact 2022 Registration Now Open

Registration is now open for Pacific Contact 2022, happening Thursday, April 7 to Saturday, April 9 in Coquitlam & Burnaby. 

Pacific Contact is the BC Touring Council’s annual showcase and booking conference for performing arts touring and presenting. The conference includes showcases, a Contact Room (trade show), workshops, meetings, social and networking opportunities. Conference activities take place at the Executive Plaza Hotel in Coquitlam with showcases at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby. 

Regular rates are available up to March 23rd. After March 23, rates increase by $50. The deadline to register is March 30.
  
New! A new Networking Delegate option is available to artists and artistic companies interested in attending as non-exhibitors (no booth in the ContactRoom) to see what Pacific Contact is all about. Some restrictions apply. 

To register, visit this link.