• Michael Wheeler will present "Leveraging Your Online Presence as a Theatre Artist"
• Adriano Sobretodo Jr. will present "Getting a Grip on Grant Writing"

WEBINAR: Unleashing Your Inner Entrepreneur, with Erin Keating and guest producer Scott Dermody - Thinking of producing a show or starting a theatre company?  Join us February 9 at 2pm (free for Theatre Ontario members, not including a materials fee)

WEBINAR: Strategies for "Word of Mouth" - It isn't random!, with Ronnie Brown - Join us February 11 at 1pm (free for Theatre Ontario members) 

WORKSHOP: Business Basics: Planning for Artists, with Diane Davy (Work In Culture) - Planning your work and working your plan.  Join us February 11 at 4pm in Toronto

WORKSHOP: Building Your Brand as an Artist, with Edward Power - Join us February 21 at 2pm in Toronto

WORKSHOP: Ask an Agent! Everything you've always wanted to know..., with Alicia Jeffery - Join us February 21 at 2pm in Toronto 

WORKSHOP: Taxes for Artists, with Sam Marinucci, Chartered Accountant - Have questions related to filing your tax return?  Join us February 24 at 4pm in Toronto

WEBINAR: Targeting Audiences - Now that you are talking..., with Ronnie Brown - Join us February 25 at 1pm (free for Theatre Ontario members)  

WEBINAR: Launching Your Career, with Erin Keating and guest actor Daniel Roberts - Answers to your FAQs about the business of acting - Join us March 4 at 2pm (free for Theatre Ontario members, not including a materials fee)

WEBINAR: Grant Writing Information Session, with Pat Bradley - Looking for tips and must-dos for preparing an application to the Ontario Arts Council - Join us March 9 at 6pm (free)  

WORKSHOP: Social Media as a Professional Tool, with Seb FoxAllen - Can your social media presence get you work?  Join us March 16 at 2pm in Toronto

Register for Theatre Ontario's Courses and Workshops 

• How flat-lining leads to a decline in arts funding
• STAF's Open Source Brainstorm on how to serve independent theatre producers
• Effective post-show audience discussions
• Bringing theatre into the digital age through recording and broadcasts
• A reflection on some of the assumptions from "Disappearing Act" - a forum on declining Toronto audiences
• Canada Council exploring new funding models
• Needs assessment from the Artists' Health Alliance

• How artists subsidize their own industry
• The podcast of "Disappearing Act"
• A new website for the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
• A new AD for Theatre New Brunswick

• "Taking control of the means of cultural production" in independent theatre
• Does Canada have a youth casting problem?
• How space can help build community at a new Kingston arts hub
• A paradigm shift in connecting new plays and producers
• A new GM for Driftwood Theatre

• Collaborate or die! How arts groups in a rural, agricultural community in the UK came together
• Save-the-date for the Equity in Theatre Symposium on April 27
• The Ministry of Labour is holding a safety blitz in February to prevent slips, trips, and falls

Read past issues of "Ontario Off Stage" on the Theatre Ontario Blog