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Workshops from Theatre Ontario

• Proposal Writing: Creative Approaches to Creative Proposals, with Denise Bolduc on September 9 at 4pm in Toronto – A workshop for individuals and theatre organizations applying for funding and sponsorships: Change the grant-writing nightmare to a positive creative experience by learning relevant tools and valuable information to improve your chances of success.  Just in time for the Canada Council Granting Deadline on September 15!
• Playwriting: Idea to First Draft, with Lindsay Price on September 14 in Toronto – A workshop for emerging playwrights: Sometimes the hardest step in the playwriting process is the first. Where do I find inspiration? How do I develop an idea? What if my idea fizzles out halfway through?
• Playwriting: How to Self-Edit and Critique, with Lindsay Price on September 15 in Toronto – A workshop for emerging plays: Plays are not written in the first draft. Plays come to life in rewrites. But re-write how? What if we don't know how to move our work forward? What if we don't know how to critique our own work? What if we aren't sure how to process feedback from others? This workshop offers tools and techniques for playwrights who have a play “under construction.”

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Upcoming on The Bulletin Board

• Next in the Young Associates Summer Seminar series: Accounting Is Not Math: Knowledge For Your GM and Board Members is today, Integrate Database Management Into Your Workflow is August 21
• Submission deadline for Tarragon Theatre’s RBC Emerging Playwrights Competition is August 19, seeking full-length plays (min. 80 minutes) written in English by professional playwrights who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents and have less than five years of professional playwriting experience
• Submission deadline for Buddies In Bad Times’ Strange Sisters is also August 19; seeking new, not previously produced performances (10 minutes or less), durational pieces, and multidisciplinary art work

New on The Bulletin Board

• New this year, Bandcamp will bring new musical acts to the Theatre Passe Muraille Bar Space on the last Friday of each month. They are seeking musicians and musical performers of all ages and backgrounds to fill their Bar Space with music all season long. Bandcamp is a unique program offering emerging musicians an affordable performance opportunity in a downtown, beer-filled venue. While everyone is welcome to submit, they particularly encourage submissions from musicians working in diverse forms or world music. All performances begin at 10:30pm, and musicians must be available for a same-day afternoon sound check.  Submission deadline is August 23.
• Audit The Season is a brand new project from Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre where participants have access to the rehearsal and artistic development processes for every production in our season.  Professional and aspiring theatre-makers, as well as engaged audience members, can observe and unpack elements of the creative process from the inside. Those enrolled will see every play of the season; witness rehearsals at various stages (from first reads to dress rehearsals, from studios to the stage); have conversations with playwrights and directors including Richard Rose, Sean Dixon and Erin Shields; and discuss stages of play and production making with members of Tarragon's artistic team.  The program starts September 18.
• Alameda Theatre Company is holding a Playwriting Masterclass with Guillermo Verdecchia on September 21 and 22 in Toronto.

"Audit The Season" at Tarragon Theatre
(Image from No Great Mischief, 2012
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)

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