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Collective Creations Weekend Intensive
 Our first Theatre Ontario Weekend Intensive will explore Collective Creations, running November 29 to December 1 at The Grand Theatre in London.
In Collective Creations: Crafting a Performance Piece, Jim Warren, and another guest instructor yet to be announced, will introduce you to the approach and tools needed to create and continue developing stories to perform on stage, whether individually or collectively with a group.
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Collective Creations Weekend Intensive
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Directors Day at the Shaw Festival
 A highlight of our year at Theatre Ontario is travelling to Niagara-on-the-Lake to see the Directors Day performances of the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival. The 2013 intern directors, Rose Plotek and Paul Van Dyck, are a dynamic pair with careful insight and attention-to-detail that brought their productions to life.
Mairin Smit writes about the Directors Day at the Shaw Festival on the Theatre Ontario Blog
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Congratulations 2014 Intern Directors
Congratulations to Alistair Newton of Toronto and Rachel Peake of Vancouver who have been chosen as the Intern Directors for the 2014 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival.
Read more about Alistair and Rachel on the Theatre Ontario website
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Thinking of Producing a Show or Starting a Theatre Company?
 If you want to do a show but have never produced professionally before, and if you want to know what questions to ask first, this session is for you!
Self-Start is a practical seminar facilitated by Mairin Smit, Program Coordinator. Our next Self-Start session is on November 20 at 2pm.
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Self-Start workshop
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Targeting Your Audience
 How do you make the most with the minimal marketing resources? The world is changing quickly and the methods for reaching your audience are rapidly expanding. Is it the method or the message that makes the difference? Where do you find your audience? How do you bring them to your activity? How do you keep them and grow them - in numbers and in programming interest?
Join us for "Targeting Your Audience: Surviving and Thriving on Less and Less" with Cheryl Ewing, co-hosted by The Grand Theatre in London, on December 7 at 9:30am.
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Targeting Your Audience workshop
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Providing Training Opportunities for Ontario's Theatre Community
 In the next month, there are a number of terrific workshop opportunities available from Theatre Ontario.
Struggling with funding for your project?
For adjudicators passionate about their own professional development - Adjudicators Symposium on October 19 in Toronto - An opportunity for emerging and established adjudicators, as well as the theatres and regions that hire them, to benefit from professional development, networking, and information exchange, to discuss training needs and opportunities, and to develop methodologies for the future.
For actors looking for answers to the FAQs about the business of acting - Getting Started with Mairin Smit on October 23 in Toronto - This workshop is for actors beginning their professional careers.
For self-employed artists seeking some basic financial skills - Financial Basics for Artists with Tessa-Marie Shillingford on October 28 in Toronto (FREE!) - Learn some basic financial skills to enable you to take control of your finances and make the best possible money decisions for now and the future.
For organizations exploring the impact of the new Accessibility Standards |
Tips and Must-Dos for Preparing an Application to the Ontario Arts Council
 Join us on November 26 in Toronto as Pat Bradley, Theatre Officer of the Ontario Arts Council, will share her perspective, information, and tips about project grants, particularly the OAC's three theatre project programs: Theatre Projects, Playwright Residency, and Theatre Creators' Reserve.
This is a free information session for those with limited grant writing experience and/or knowledge of Ontario Arts Council programs. There will be time for a Q & A.
From a past participant: "It gave me the confidence to apply...because there are people who care about the arts on the other side."
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Grant Writing Information Session
This workshop will travel in early 2014 to London and Ottawa.
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Community Theatre Conversations
 Community theatre conversations that have been taking place in communities across the province. So far Theatre Ontario has held five Community Theatre Discussion Forums in Aurora, Kingston, Georgetown, Oshawa, and Sault Ste Marie, with another two forums scheduled in London (October 20) and Merrickville (November 9), and we're exploring other possible forums.
Carol Beauchamp writes about our Community Theatre Discussion Forums on the Theatre Ontario Blog
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Funding Youth Training Programs
There's still time for consultations prior to the October 15 deadline for the Youth Theatre Training Program (YTTP).
YTTP provides training dollars to fund accessible theatre programs involving youth aged 14 to 21. YTTP assists Ontario organizations that wish to undertake projects providing training to youth in various theatrical skills and disciplines, led by professional theatre artists. This program is funded by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Youth Theatre Training Program
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Honouring Contributions to Community Theatre in Western Ontario
 Theatre Ontario is now inviting nominations for our 2014 Michael Spence Award for Contribution to Community Theatre.
This award honours an individual for a sustained contribution, generosity of spirit, involvement, and commitment to community theatre within his/her region. It is presented annually to an individual from the region that is hosting the Theatre Ontario Festival -- which in 2014 is Western Ontario.
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Michael Spence Award for Contribution to Community Theatre
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Protecting Our Most Vulnerable
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Festival 2014 is Coming to Sarnia
Plans are underway for an exciting Theatre Ontario Festival 2014, running May 14 to 18 in Sarnia. The annual Theatre Ontario Festival is:
- a showcase of outstanding community theatre productions
- a classroom for passionate, dedicated community theatre artists
- a celebration of excellence in community theatre
- a destination bringing together theatre lovers from across the province
Bookmark www.theatreontariofestival.ca to find all of your Festival information.
You can also Like Theatre Ontario Festival 2014 on Facebook |
Honouring Innovation in Arts and Culture
 Do you know someone who has developed and strengthened arts and culture in Ontario through innovative and practical initiatives? We are now accepting nominations for the 2014 Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture.
The nomination deadline is November 30, 2013.
Read more about the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture
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Outreach Opportunities
Productions, auditions, job postings, volunteer calls, workshops, calls for submissions, social media links - Theatre Ontario provides many opportunities for organizations to connect with artists and theatre-goers.
Read more about Theatre Ontario's Outreach Opportunities
(Special note for this month: Any October events need to be submitted by October 6 to ensure their listing) |
Ontario Off Stage
Our biweekly column Ontario Off Stage curates online theatre news and conversations from around the province and beyond. Highlights from the past month include:
- The arts are not in trouble, it's the institutions that are failing
- Rejection and resilience in theatre
- Discoveries at an international queer youth theatre exchange
- What could theatres accomplish with Big Data
- Does the arts need an anti-defamation league?
- Shaw Intern Directors alumni: directing this past season at The Shaw and adapting a Directors Day show at the Next Stage Festival
- What our members did for Culture Days
- The Toronto Theatre Trivia Game Show
- Proroguing Arts Day on Parliament Hill
- Playwrights Guild of Canada's Tom Hendry Awards are coming up
- Migrations at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Blyth Festival, The Grand Theatre, and Port Hope Festival Theatre
Read more about all these items in "Ontario Off Stage" on the Theatre Ontario Blog |
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 Questions? Please contact
Brandon Moore
Communications Coordinator, Theatre Ontario 416.408.4556 x.13 We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,681 individual artists and 1,125 organizations in 216 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.8 million.
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The recent second reading of a private members bill - Ontario Bill 71, Protecting Child Performers Act has just brought to top of mind the responsibility we have to protect our most vulnerable people when we are working with them on a volunteer or professional basis.
