Nurturing Local Culture:
Stories from Creative People and Places
 

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

Nurturing Local Culture: Stories from Creative People and Places
Virtual, free event
Tuesday, February 23rd from 10am - 12pm ET
 

What does it take to support long-term, community-led arts work? What can we learn from global initiatives that can be applied to our Canadian context?

Join us as we explore these questions with three spectacular guests from England’s Creative People and Places initiative.

Creative People and Places is a large-scale Arts Council England initiative, which funds over 30 long-term action-research projects that are taking community arts to a new level across the country.

CPP is all “about more people choosing, creating and taking part in brilliant art experiences in the places where they live.” Projects are based in areas with fewer opportunities to get involved with the arts, and are founded in long-term partnerships with grassroots and community organisations.

In this creative session, our three speakers will each share one ingredient that has made CPP a success:

• Power and distributed leadership - Jenny Williams, Project Director of CPP project Revoluton Arts
• Bringing creativity and representation into research & evaluation - Elizabeth Lynch, CPP Critical Friend
• Peer learning and working at your best - Amanda Smethurst, CPP National Peer Learning Manager

Participants will have a chance to learn together and explore how these ingredients can be adapted to their own contexts.

This is the first time our friends from CPP have shared their experiences with a Canadian audience. Don’t miss this unique opportunity for cross-cultural learning!

This interactive, virtual conversation is available to interested members of the performing arts community free of charge. Email info@ontariopresents.ca to register. Please let us know of any accessibility needs and we will do our best to provide necessary accommodations. 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.