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Coming Up from Theatre Ontario

• Struggling with funding for your project?  Check out our free Grant Writing Information Session for Theatre Individuals and Groups with Pat Bradley on September 23 in Toronto, and our Crowdfunding Basics: Tips for Artists and Arts Organizations with Nancy Kenny on October 7 in Ottawa (ICYMI: Read Nancy's "Free Money" post on our blog)
• Upcoming Community Theatre Discussion Forums in Sault Ste. Marie on September 28, London on October 20, and Merrickville on November 9: sharing and identifying opportunities to partner, and provide services and support such as advocacy, training, and resources
• Are you an actor wondering about what an agent does and why should you have one?  Join us for Ask An Agent: Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know with Alicia Jeffery on September 30 in Toronto
• Application deadline for the Professional Theatre Training Program is October 1, offering financial support for unique and flexible training with a chosen mentor in any theatrical discipline except performance
• Application deadline for the Youth Theatre Training Program is October 15, offering financial support for accessible theatre programs involving youth aged 14 to 21 led by professional theatre artists

Check out all of our upcoming courses and workshops, including our Adjudicators Symposium, the business of acting, financial basics, the Ontarians With Disabilities Act, and self-producing

Upcoming on The Bulletin Board

• Tarragon Theatre’s Audit The Season starts today, for professional and aspiring theatre-makers, as well as engaged audience members, interested in observing and unpacking elements of the creative process from the inside
• Application deadline for Buddies In Bad Times’ Young Creators Unit, for queer-identified artists 25 and under is September 20
• Alameda Theatre Company’s Playwriting Masterclass with Guillermo Verdecchia for emerging and established theatre artists seeking the opportunity to engage with the craft of playwriting begins September 21
• Jumblies Theatre’s Oral History and Art-Making workshop in Sudbury for artists from any discipline and tradition with some prior experience, through their own practices, of oral history or interview-based arts projects, and an active professional interest in this work, starts September 26
• Ontario Arts Council upcoming deadlines for Artists in the Community / Workplace, Arts Education Projects, and National and International Residency programs is October 1

Guillermo Verdecchia, Alameda Theatre's
Playwriting Masterclass instructor

New on The Bulletin Board

• Théâtre Action’s 2013 Happening Théâtral Communautaire (HTC) will take place at Toronto’s Collège français in partnership with the amateur theatre troupe Les Indisciplinés.  French Ontario theatre lovers can gather to discuss, exchange and learn. The participants will be invited to collaborate and create collective work during the weekend. Every amateur theatre troupe in attendance will have the opportunity to present a ten minute excerpt from their season’s production. A professional director, Pierre Simpson, will be rehearsing with all the groups to link the excerpts and create flow for this collective production that will take place Saturday evening.  Participants will also have the chance to take part in training offered by professional theatre artists Luc Thériault, Lisa L’Heureux and André Perrier, will participate in a round table consultation on the subject of amateur theatre troupe management and will see a production by Les Indisciplinés de Toronto.  Theatre Ontario members are eligible for the discount rate.  The conference is October 18 to 20.
• Tarragon Theatre invites applications for Urjo Kareda Residency Grant for an Emerging Theatre Artist.  The residency grant supports the training and artistic residency of an emerging theatre artist.  The successful applicant will spend twenty weeks at Tarragon Theatre working in collaboration with professional artists to pursue training and artistic goals.  The first deadline is October 21.
• Want to fast-track your play to success at the 2014 Toronto Fringe Festival?  Apply to the Toronto Fringe Festival New Play Contest.  The contest closes October 25.
• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is accepting submissions for Theatre Creators’ Reserve grants through the Ontario Arts Council.  Buddies wishes to support the variety of needs and approaches individual creators or collectives may have in creating original work; interested in projects that are in all stages of development; supporting theatre creators who are working on new play texts and performance creation-based models.  Deadline is November 29.
• Theatre InspiraTO's Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest is open to everyone without age or geographic restriction.  There are no submission fees.  The creative challenge for the contest is that the staging of the play must involve two or more dimensions.  Deadline is December 18.

Check out these items, and other postings from our members of workshops, funding opportunities, calls for submission, and more—on Theatre Ontario’s Bulletin Board on our website

Theatre Ontario individual members can also access auditions, job postings, and volunteer opportunities on our Theatre Ontario Individual Member Resources on our website