- Jane Marsland has prepared the Metcalf Foundation’s first Innovation Fellowship paper in the performing arts—Shared Platforms and Charitable Venture Organizations: A Powerful Possibility for a More Resilient Arts Sector. “Three possible models for shared platforms are compared, hoping to stimulate sectoral dialogue around the idea and to galvanize the community to develop and implement models that will work for them.”
- Social design is “the strategic implementation of social media to deepen or broaden the nature of an artistic project.” Michael Wheeler shared these concepts last year in two Theatre Ontario workshops, and has written an excellent overview of social design on his new site.
- Diane Ragsdale writes on Jumper about our long tug-of-war between arts and commerce: “We weren’t meant to blend in…we in the arts. We are the antidote…the resistance…the challengers of the status quo. Though we may be in it, we are not meant to be of this market-driven world.”
- Not-for-profit status places us in a contract with the public trust, as American writer Andrew Taylor observes on the Artful Manager—is your theatre organization fulfilling its public trust?
- We are sad to share the news of the death of James Costley of Burlington. Jim was one of our founding members at Theatre Ontario, and served as our first part-time Executive Director; as well as a founding member of Theatre Burlington
- There is just over a month to the deadline for the Ontario Arts Council’s Theatre Projects grant program
- The Ontario Ministry of Labour has published several new health and safety guidelines for live performance, including the revised guideline for Stage Combat/Stunts and Weaponry, plus new guidelines for Risk Assessment for Productions, Scenery, Mechanised Scenery and Automated Systems, and Temporary Performance/Event Structures
- Theatre Orangeville is selling off their old theatre seats as they prepare to install new ones
TO Toasts
- …to all of the recipients of the 2012-2013 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Toronto professional theatre, opera, and dance, presented by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
- …to the recipients of the 2013 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts
- …and to the recipients of the 2013 Toronto Arts Foundation Awards, including Sun Life Financial, sponsors of the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival who received the Arts and Business Award; and Daniel Karasik, Artistic Director of Tango Productions who received the Emerging Artist Award
Assembled by Brandon Moore, Communications Coordinator
