Event: Putting Creativity to Work on Impossible Challenges

As part of our ongoing ArtsEngage Learning Community, Ontario Presents is excited to announce our next Spotlight Session!

Putting Creativity to Work on Impossible Challenges
Virtual, free event
Wednesday, January 27th from 2:00 - 4:00pm ET

 
We are thrilled to welcome award-winning theatre artist Marty Pottenger for a stimulating conversation about the role the arts can play in fostering productive civic dialogues and addressing tough social challenges.

In these times of deepening inequity and polarization, live performance’s unique transformative potential can play a powerful role. Through her organization Art At Work, Marty partners with communities, organizations and municipal governments to put creativity to work addressing non-arts-based challenges like racial discrimination, high staff turnover, labor management tensions, workforce morale, community resilience.

As COVID forces all of us to interrogate our roles in society, we are excited to welcome an artist who has been putting art to work in performances, theatres, festivals, and workshops long before the current pandemic.
 
Want to hear a bit from Marty in advance? Check out her TEDx talk here!
 
This interactive, virtual conversation is available to interested members of the performing arts community free of charge. Email info@ontariopresents.ca to register. Space is limited- first preference will be given to Ontario-based presenters and artists. As this will be an interactive session, we ask that you register only if you are able to participate for the full session.

Resources: What If?, Communication, and more

All available resources from the ArtsEngage Learning Community can be found here. This includes notes, recordings, and resources from past Spotlight events, notes from cohort conversations, and information about upcoming Spotlights.

New Resources:

A partial recording, notes, and links to resources are now available from our November Spotlight session, What If?: Imagining New Ways of Working in the Performing Arts. This session, led by special guests Arkady Spivak (Talk is Free Theatre) and Brendan Chandler, turned into a very inspiring conversation with over 40 participants from the arts sector. We are so grateful to our speakers and to everyone who joined us to imagine positive change for our sector. If you missed the conversation, we highly recommend watching the short video clip and reading the recap blog post!