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July 2014
Theatre Ontario Presents...
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Ontario Summer Theatre
Summer Theatre Intensive
Health and Safety Awareness Training
Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship
PTTP Project Profiles
Welcome Zara Jestadt
Ontario Off Stage
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Welcome to new Ontario Summer Theatre

Ontario Summer Theatre We're excited to announce the launch of the new Ontario Summer Theatre website.  The journey to this website began many months ago and it's great to see it all finally come together.

Mairin Smit writes on the Theatre Ontario blog about what you can find on the new Ontario Summer Theatre website
Spaces Still Available for Summer Courses

We still have spaces available in each of our courses at this year's Summer Theatre Intensive.  Join us starting August 10, and you can learn new skills, meet passionate theatre people, and flex your creative muscle!

This year's courses include:
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Acting...and Then Some!, with Tom Diamond
  • More Hot Scenes: Building Acting Technique, with Brenda Kamino
  • Review your Revue: Creating a Musical Theatre Performance, with David Gale & Randy Vancourt
  • How Do I Make This Play Happen?: Directing for Beginners, with Thom Currie
  • Whose Text Is It, Anyway? Adventurous Approaches to Performance, with John P. Kelly

Register for Theatre Ontario's Summer Theatre Intensive 

Health and Safety Awareness Training Requirements for Workers and Supervisors

As we first reported in November, a new Ontario regulation requires health and safety awareness training for every worker and supervisor under Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA). The regulation is now in force.

Brandon Moore writes on the Theatre Ontario blog about the Ontario Ministry of Labour's Health and Safety Awareness Training requirements
Contemporary Training for Independent Theatre Creators at SITI Company

Why Not Theatre and Theatre Ontario partnered to create a unique and exciting Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship, providing the opportunity for two emerging theatre artists to train in theatre creation with Anne Bogart and SITI Company.

Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship - Warm-ups Colin Bruce Anthes and Miriam Fernandes have now completed the training, and in this two-part series, each will share their experience at the program.

In Part One, Colin Bruce Anthes writes on the Theatre Ontario blog about "practicing deeply."

The scholarship is sponsored by Nekison Engineering and Contractors Ltd. and funds have been matched by artsVest Toronto.  artsVest Toronto is run by Business for the Arts with the support of Canadian Heritage and the Toronto Arts Council.
Profiling Projects Funded by the Professional Theatre Training Program

This month meet Rob Kempson, training in Directing with Ashlie Corcoran at Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque; and Joseph Recinos, training in Producing with Marilo Nunez at Alameda Theatre Company in Toronto.

We also check in with Kat Horzempa, training in General Management and Tour Coordination with Natalie Ackers at Roseneath Theatre.

Find out about these Theatre Ontario Professional Theatre Training Program projects on our blog

Rob Kempson Joseph Recinos

The Professional Theatre Training Program is funded by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Zara JestadtWelcome to Zara Jestadt

We're thrilled to welcome Zara Jestadt, who will be our Education Assistant at Theatre Ontario in July and August. 

Zara is a student at the George Brown Theatre School.  She will be providing support for our Summer Theatre Intensive, and other administrative duties as required.

This Summer Experience position is made possible through the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sport.
Ontario Off Stage

In "Ontario Off Stage" on our blog, we curate theatre conversations and news from around the province and beyond.  Highlights from last month include:

From June 20
  • The value of theatre awards
  • Images as ideas
  • Taking action against ticket service fees
  • Fringe theatre is "the ultimate indie level of culture" 
From June 13
  • Why queer theatre is necessary and relevant to our society
  • "Regime change" at UK theatres, and the challenges for new artistic directors following established leaders 
From June 6
  • Artists leaving urban centres and continuing their practice
  • The role for artists in #YesAllWomen
  • Thinking about theatre technology "in real time" 

Read more about all these ideas plus, news, migrations, and toasts in "Ontario Off Stage" on the Theatre Ontario Blog 

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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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