Mini Profile: Black Theatre Workshop (Montréal)

Mini Profile: Black Theatre Workshop
Program/Resource/Organization/Project: YouthWorks
Status: Not-for-profit professional live performing arts training
Community served: Youth ages 12-25
Arts focus: Theatre
Language: English/French
Location: 3680 Jeanne Mance, suite 432
Mandate: The Mission of BTW’s YouthWorks Training program is to engage Black and other youth with the skills, crafts, potential and rewards of creative expression through live performance, and to present YouthWorks productions and performances to Montreal audiences, as artworks which express the hopes, fears, and dreams of the students.
Main arts activities/projects: The YouthWorks program, under the umbrella of Black Theatre Workshop is designed to train individuals in the art of theatre performance, as well as to foster and mentor emerging artists in the midst of their professional development. YouthWorks staff and Guest Instructors are all working industry professionals. From weekly workshops, to national playwriting contests, to theatre productions, YouthWorks equips students to be “whole-body” performers.

The Summer Intensive Program is an introductory-level intensive performance program class is a three-week workshop that gives an overview of the courses available throughout the year and covers acting, dance, musical poetry and spoken word composition and performance, storytelling, and voice work. It’s a professional training program that gives students an overview of our year-long curriculum, and introduces them to the principles of a professional work ethic in a fun way.

Throughout the course of the year, YouthWorks offers 8-week sessions for all levels of experience-beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Contact: Tamara Brown, Program Director, Mike Payette, Administrative Coordinator
Phone number: 514-932-1104 ext. 224
E-mail: youthworks@blacktheatreworkshop.ca
Website: www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca
Address: 3680 Jeanne Mance, suite 432, Montreal, QC, H2X 2K5

submitted by Tamara Brown, Program Director

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Mini Profil: Black Theatre Workshop
Position: Programme professionnel de formation dans l’art de la performance de la scène
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Jeunes de 12-25 ans
Discipline d’art: Théâtre
Langue(s) utilisée(s): Anglais/français
Région: Montréal
Objectif de la programmation d’art: La mission du programme YouthWorks de l’organisme Black Theatre Workshop est d’engager les jeunes, de race noire ou autre, avec les techniques, la dextérité aristique, les possibilités et les récompenses de l’expression créative à travers les arts de la scène, ainsi que de présenter des spectacles de YouthWorks au grand public de Montréal comme pièces d’art exprimant l’espoir, la crainte, et les rêves des étudiants.
Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux: Le programme YouthWorks, sous l’organisme Black Theatre Workshop, a comme but la formation des individus en l’art de la performance théâtrale, ainsi que d’encourager et de conseiller les artistes émergents en pleine période de leur développement professionel. Le personnel de YouthWorks et les instructeurs invités sont tous des professionels en l’industrie. En offrant des ateliers hebdomadaires, des concours nationaux de dramaturgie, la production théâtrale, ainsi que d’autres activités, le programme YouthWorks prépare ses étudiants à s’incorporer complètement en tant qu’artiste de performance.

Le programme intensif de l’été (Summer Intensive Program) s’agit de sessions au niveau d’introduction de durée de trois semaines. Ces derniers donnent un aperçu des cours disponibles au courant de l’année en théâtre, danse, et en les art littéraires: poésie musicale, poésie slam (spoken word), l’art de narration, et exercises de voix. C’est essentiellement un programme de formation professionel qui donne un aperçu du curriculum de l’année et fait l’introduciton aux principes de l’éthique du travail professionel tout en s’amusant.

Au cours de l’année, YouthWorks offre des sessions de huit semaines pour tous les niveaux d’expérience: débutant, intermédiaire, et avancé.
Contact: Tamara Brown, Directrice du Programme, Mike Payette, Coordinateur administratif du programme.
Tel.: 514-932-1104 ext. 224
E-mail: youthworks@blacktheatreworkshop.ca
Site web: www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca
Adresse: 3680 Jeanne Mance, suite 432, Montreal, QC, H2X 2K5

soumis par Tamara Brown, directrice du programme

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Mini Profile: Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (Calgary)

Project Name: Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY)
Status: Charitable/Not for Profit
Community Served: Serve urban Aboriginal youth ages 12 to 29 years
Mandate: Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY) has a mandate to fulfill the vision and mission of the organization by securing the necessary resources to deliver and provide services to urban Aboriginal youth living in the City of Calgary.
Mission Statement: Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY) will enrich the lives of all urban Aboriginal youth by nurturing self empowerment and fostering healthy collaboration and community to ensure healthy future generations.
Vision Statement: Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY) will be recognized as a fundamental organization in society, empowering urban Aboriginal youth to envision and attain a healthy sustainable future while upholding traditional Aboriginal values.
Programs with Arts Focus:
Tribe Magazine Monthly publication that focuses on the positive aspect of being an urban Aboriginal youth.
- Art focus: publish poems, artwork, short stories, comics; reviews on music, video games and books; articles on racism, stereotypes, culture, history, news

Aboriginal Anti-Racism Movement (AARM) Weekly project that assist urban Aboriginal youth address, challenge and resist racism in their everyday lives
- Art focus: “arts in action” philosophy in that we challenge youth to address, challenge and resist racism through form theatre and explore their own role in racism and how it affects them, as well as a film component to explore awareness and advocacy through storytelling and film
Blackfoot Graphic Novel (BGN) Pilot project that uses a graphic novel, animation and documentary as a language learning resource.
- Art focus: two urban Aboriginal youth create a 60 page graphic novel that is entirely in the Blackfoot language, they also create a short animation with audio in Blackfoot language as an accompanying DVD
Aboriginal Youth Animation Project (AYAP) Partnership program that assists urban Aboriginal youth learn valuable life-skills through learning to create animated stories
Performance Learning for Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) Potential new pilot project that will allow urban Aboriginal youth to direct, produce and act in a play that will have several show times
Art Workshops USAY is endeavouring to have several art workshops this summer, including canvas building, photography and graphic design
Aboriginal Design Group USAY employs several up and coming Graphic Designers that assist with the layout and design of New Tribe magazine each month, this opportunity acts as employment but also to hone in their skills as graphic designers
Location: Throughout the city, head office is: Rocky Mountain Plaza, Suite 1109, 615 Macleod Trail S, Calgary, Alberta T2G 4T8
Contact: LeeAnne Ireland, Executive Director
Phone Number: 403.233.8225
E-mail: info@usay.ca
Website: www.usay.ca
Address: See above

submitted by LeeAnne Ireland, Executive Director, USAY

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Above: selections from the Blackfoot Graphic Novel
Artists: Jesse Gouchey and Mitchell Poundmaker

Mini Profile: Ghost River Rediscovery Society (Calgary)

Mini Profile: Ghost River Rediscovery Society
Status: Not-for-profit Organization
Community served: Children/Youth/Adults/Seniors/First Nations, Metis, Non-Aboriginal/Open to all people.
Arts focus: Traditional Arts (based on Aboriginal culture, traditions, and teachings)
Location: Suite #164, 3359 27th Street NE, Calgary, AB, T1Y 5E4
Mandate: Our Mission Statement is: “Drawing on the strength of Indigenous culture, the wisdom of the Elders, with a philosophy of love and respect for the Earth and all peoples Ghost River Rediscovery aims at empowering people of all ages and cultures to discover the natural world, the worlds between cultures and the worlds within themselves.”
Contact: Michael Lickers, Executive Director and Founder
Phone number: (403) 270-9351
E-mail: mlickers@ghostriverrediscovery.com
Website: www.ghostriverrediscovery.com
Address: Suite #164, 3359 27th Street NE, Calgary, AB, T1Y 5E4

submitted by Shaylene Lickers, AP~ND Program Coordinator
Ghost River Rediscovery Society

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Celebrate 27 Arts Fest (Toronto)

“Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”
- UN Declaration of Human Rights

Celebrate 27 Launch
“The City of Toronto invites you to the launch of Celebrate 27 Arts Fest on March 31, 2011. More information.

About
Celebrate 27 Arts Fest (C27) communicates and celebrates Article 27′s assertion of the universal right of all to participate in the arts and cultural life of the community with a series of events across Toronto from April 1 to April 27, 2011. C27 promotes Toronto’s vibrant cultural and community arts landscape in neighbourhoods across the city and raises awareness of the diverse programs and services offered by local artists, local arts organizations and the City. C27 partners include: Arts Etobicoke, Lakeshore Arts, Urban Arts Community Arts Council, Scarborough Arts, the Neighbourhood Arts Network and City of Toronto Cultural Services and Economic Development. Sponsors include: TD Bank, Canon Canada, Chamber of Commerce of Ontario, Alitalia and the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.

C27 demonstrates the importance of the arts in our neighbourhoods and of the artists, and community arts organizations who as enablers of creativity, imagination, ingenuity and innovation help strengthen all communities and also build social and economic inclusion in the city’s underserved neighbourhoods.”

submitted by Andrea Raymond, Cultural Outreach Officer, Toronto Cultural Services, East District, Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, (416) 396-7043

Mini Profil: Filles d’action: programmation, projets, ateliers d’arts / Girls Action Foundation: arts programs, projects and workshops (Canada-wide)

Mini Profil: Filles d’action
Position: La Fondation filles d’action est un organisme de bienfaisance national. Nous créons et soutenons des programmes pour filles partout au Canada. Nous cultivons les habiletés des filles et des jeunes femmes et renforçons leur confiance en elles mêmes. Nous stimulons l’envie d’agir pour changer le monde.
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Filles et jeunes femmes.
Discipline d’art: Nos programmes utilisent une approche d’éducation populaire et peuvent être développés à travers différentes disciplines artistiques telles que les arts visuels et médiatiques, la danse, etc. Nous avons développé une expertise en ce qui concerne les projets d’arts médiatiques.
Langue(s) utilisée(s): français et anglais
Région: Nos projets sont développés à une échelle nationale au Canada, et ont un point d’ancrage local à Montréal.
Objectif de la programmation d’art: Notre approche d’éducation populaire tient compte en premier lieu de l’expérience des filles et mise sur le partage des connaissances, le développement des habiletés et de l’esprit critique et le passage à l’action. Filles d’action utilise également une analyse féministe intégrée qui reconnaît et tient compte des répercussions multiples et inter-reliées des politiques et des pratiques existantes sur différents groupes de filles en fonction de leur race, leur classe sociale, leurs habiletés, leur sexualité et leur identité sexuelle, leur religion, leur culture, leur statut d’immigrante, de réfugiée ou tout autre statut.

Les programmes d’arts médiatiques que nous développons visent à créer des espaces de partage de connaissances et d’outils d’expression. À travers nos séries d’ateliers, les filles participantes sont amenées à créer et diriger des projets artistiques qui leur ressemblent, dans lesquels elles peuvent partager leurs histoires et visions du monde.
Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux:
Girls Club / Art Attack
Ces deux espaces impliquent des créations artistiques, ainsi que des discussions et des ateliers d’éducation utilisant l’art comme médium principal. Le programme permet aux filles de se sentir libres de parler d’elles-mêmes, de penser de façon critique, d’apprendre à respecter la différence des autres et de s’aimer telles qu’elles sont.

Ateliers d’arts médiatiques Filles et Égalité
Ces ateliers se font en partenariat avec des groupes et des organismes communautaires voulant élargir leur approche en offrant des formations d’arts médiatiques destinées aux filles et aux jeunes femmes de communautés ethnoculturelles. Ils visent à partager des outils et à créer de projets créatifs et participatifs qui permettront aux participantes de partager leur vision unique du monde.
Contact: Marie-Eve Gougeon, Coordonnatrice des Arts Médiatiques, marie-eve@girlsactionfoundation.ca
Tel.: (514) 948-1112 OR 1 (888) 948-1112
E-mail: Info@girlsactionfoundation.ca
Site web: http://girlsactionfoundation.ca/
Adresse: 24 Mont Royal Ouest, Suite 601, Montreal, Québec, H2T 2S2 CANADA

soumis par Marie-Eve Gougeon, Filles d’action

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Mini Profile: Girls Action Foundation
Program/Resource/Organization/Project: Girls Action Foundation is a national charitable organization. We lead and seed girls’ programs across Canada. We build girls’ and young women’s skills and confidence and inspire action to change the world.

Through our innovative programs, research, and support to a network of over 200 partnering organizations and projects, Girls Action reaches over 60,000 girls and young women. We reach remote, marginalized and urban communities, including those in the North.
Status: Charitable organization
Community served: Girls and young women
Arts focus: Media Arts
Language: French and English
Location: Our media arts projects are national in scope, but having our offices in Montreal allows us to have a number of specific projects implemented with Montreal schools and community services
Mandate: Our approach relies on a popular education model that begins with the girls and young women’s personal experience, promotes knowledge-sharing, critical thinking and moves towards collective action. Our work is also based on an integrated feminist analysis which recognizes and takes into account the multiple and intersecting impacts of policies and practices on different groups of girls and young women because of their race, class, ability, sexuality, gender identity, religion, culture, refugee or immigrant status, or other status.

The goal of our media arts programs is to create spaces where girls and young women can share knowledge and create tools that express their realities. With the support of our team the participants in our workshops will create and direct projects that speak to their experiences, their histories and their visions of the world.
Main arts activities/projects:
Girls’ Club/Art ATTACK
These two extra-curricular school art program for girls delivered in the Montreal area, combine popular education and media arts-based activities, the girls explore themes related to body image, self-esteem, violence, dating, pop culture, the media, and more.

Girls and Equality Girls media arts workshops
These workshops are offered in partnership with community groups and organizations that are interested in offering media arts training to strengthen their initiatives for girls and young women from ethno-cultural communities. The goal is to share tools and create projects that allow the participants to share their unique vision of the world.
Contact: Marie-Eve Gougeon, Media Arts Coordinator, marie-eve@girlsactionfoundation.ca
Phone number: (514) 948-1112 OR 1 (888) 948-1112
E-mail: info@girlsactionfoundation.ca
Website: www.girlsactionfoundation.ca
Address: 24 Mont Royal West, Suite 601, Montreal, Quebec, H2T 2S2 CANADA

submitted by Marie-Eve Gougeon, Girls Action Foundation

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Mini Profil: Jeunesses Musicales of Canada

Mini Profil: Jeunesses Musicales of Canada
Position: organisme à but non lucratif
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: tous les publics en particulier les jeunes
Discipline d’art: musique
Langue(s) utilisée(s): français et anglais
Région: Canada
Objectif de la programmation d’art: Organisme à but non lucratif, les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada (JMC) ont un double mandat : favoriser la diffusion de la musique classique, en particulier auprès des jeunes, et soutenir les jeunes instrumentistes, chanteurs et compositeurs professionnels dans le développement de leur carrière tant sur la scène nationale qu’internationale.

Grâce à un réseau de plus de 300 bénévoles qui accueillent leurs tournées tant en salles de concert que dans les écoles, les JMC ont été parmi les premiers organismes à diffuser des concerts de calibre professionnel dans les régions éloignées des grands centres urbains. Ainsi, depuis leur fondation en 1949 par le regretté Gilles Lefebvre, elles ont présenté partout au pays des dizaines de milliers de concerts destinés soit au jeune public, à la famille ou au grand public.

Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux: Concerts pour le grand public, concerts et ateliers pour le jeune public
Contact: http://www.jmcanada.ca/fr/main_nav/qui-jeunesses-musicales-canada/equipe/
Tel.: (514) 845-4108 #0
E-mail: info@jmcanada.ca
Site web: www.jmcanada.ca
Adresse: 305 avenue du  Mont-Royal Est, Montréal H2T 1P8

soumis par Anne Chevrollier, Responsable des communications JMC,
Jeunesses Musicales of Canada

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Mini Profile: Jeunesses Musicales of Canada
Status: Non-profit organization
Community served: General public, especially youth people
Arts focus: Music
Language: French and English
Location: Canada
Mandate: A non-profit organization founded in 1949 by the late Gilles Lefebvre, Jeunesses Musicales of Canada (JMC) has a dual mission: to promote the performance of classical music, especially for young audiences, and to help young professional instrumentalists, singers and composers to develop their careers at the national and international levels.

Thanks to the establishment of a strong network of volunteers to host its touring productions, JMC became one of the first organizations to present professional calibre concerts in outlying regions.

During its first half-century of existence, JMC has brought tens of thousands concerts to schools and concert halls around the country.
Main arts activities/projects: General public concerts, youth workshops and concerts
Contact: http://www.jmcanada.ca/fr/main_nav/qui-jeunesses-musicales-canada/equipe/
Phone number: (514) 845-4108 #0
E-mail: info@jmcanada.ca
Website: www.jmcanada.ca
Address: 305 avenue du Mont-Royal Est, Montréal, QC H2T 1P8

submitted by Anne Chevrollier, JMC Communications Manager,
Jeunesses Musicales of Canada

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Selection from “COMMUNITY ARTS & THE MUSEUM: A Handbook for Institutions Interested in Community Arts” (Ontario)

Here is a selection from the ArtsAccess Project’s “Community Arts & the Museum: A Handbook for Institutions Interested in Community Arts” (download in PDF (7.45MB)








How Can Good Programs Be Sustained?
“Programs endure when sustainability is built in from the beginning. Research suggests that the following five steps help ensure the ongoing success of your important programs:

1. Work hard to ensure the continuity of program leadership and staff.
2. Build public awareness of your program. Develop a short but engaging “elevator” conversation to describe your project’s impact to potential funders, community elders and corporations. How does this work influence the lives of its participants and the larger community? Use it every chance you get.
3. Budget funds to support the search for ongoing funding from the very beginning. This would include monies and time budgeted both to demonstrate impact (evaluation) and to heighten the visibility of the program to attract new funding sources. Think of funders as an equal partner in the process, along with the museum, the community group
   and the artist.
4. Engage staff from across your organization (and your partner organization) in both program activities and public relations events to build cross-organizational understanding of the program and support for it.
5. Build documentation into your projects from the beginning.”

-The handbook was compiled and edited by Tara Turner and Judith Koke. This selection is posted with permission from Judith Koke; Deputy Director, Education and Public Programming at Art Gallery of Ontario

“This handbook is the legacy of the ArtsAccess project, a four year partnership between the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and the Woodland Cultural Center…This handbook is for anyone, artist, museum or community organization – interested in creating a community art project.” (from the AGO’s Art Matters Blog)

Mini Profil: La Société cInéMAGINE (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Mini Profil: La Société cInéMAGINE
Position: Organisme à but non lucratif : La Société cInéMAGINE est l’organisme responsable de la promotion et du développement cinématographique de la langue française auprès des francophones et francophiles de l’Alberta.
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Francophones et francophiles de tous âges
Discipline d’art: arts visuels
Langue(s) utilisée(s): français/anglais
Région: Alberta : Elle possède un mandat provincial et jouit de l’appui de nombreux partenaires gouvernementaux, communautaires et privés.
Objectif de la programmation d’art: Depuis 2003, cInéMAGINE vise le développement et l’implantation de pôles facilitant la diffusion des arts cinématographiques d’expression française dans les grandes villes et de nombreux villages de l’Alberta.
Sommaire des activités/projets principaux: Le festival annuel « Le festival du cinéma d’expression française/Alberta French Film Festival » au cinéma The Monarch Theatre à Medicine Hat les 10, 11 et 12 juin 2011, les tournées du cinéma cInéMAGINE JEUNESSE, des Ciné-club francophones dans diverses villes albertaines, les ateliers de cinématographie dans les écoles francophones et d’immersion et lors du festival annuel
Contact: Hélène Bourgeois : Directrice Cinémagine, Marie-Hélène Lyle : Directrice Jeunesse
Tel.: (403) 320-7638
E-mail: Hélène Bourgeois : cinemagine@shaw.ca, Marie-Hélène Lyle : cinemagine.jeunesse@shaw.ca
Site web: www.cinemagine.net
Adresse: Société cInéMAGINE de l’Alberta, 2104 6e avenue sud, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1J-1C3

soumis par Marie-Hélène Lyle, Directrice jeunesse, Société cInéMAGINE de l’Alberta

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Mini Profil: Théâtre la Seizième (Vancouver)

Mini Profil: Théâtre la Seizième
Position: Organisme à but non lucratif
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Jeunes/Grand public/Artistes
Discipline d’art: Théâtre
Langue(s) utilisée(s): Français
Région: Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique
Objectif de la programmation d’art:
- Contribuer activement à la transmission de la langue et de la culture françaises auprès de la communauté francophone.
- Contribuer à l’épanouissement de l’espace artistique francophone en permettant aux artistes de créer dans leur langue.
Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux: Seule compagnie francophone de théâtre professionnel en Colombie-Britannique, le Théâtre la Seizième produit et présente depuis 1974 un théâtre inspirant et percutant en français. Sa programmation s’adresse aux francophones et francophiles de tous âges grâce à une saison grand public, une saison pour enfants, une saison ados et une série d’ateliers d’art dramatique dans les écoles.
Avec son programme de formation, de ressourcement et de développement dramaturgique, la compagnie met en œuvre sa volonté de soutenir la création contemporaine ainsi que la communauté artistique locale. Le Théâtre la Seizième est aujourd’hui un centre incontournable de dramaturgie, de création et de diffusion en théâtre au Canada français.
Contact: Esther Duquette, directrice des communications et de l’administration
Tel.: (604) 716-2616
E-mail: communications@seizieme.ca
Site web: www.seizieme.ca
Adresse: 226-1555 7e Avenue Ouest, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1S1

soumis par Esther Duquette, directrice des communications et de l’administration, Théâtre la Seizième

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Opportunity: Toronto Public Library Invites Artists to Exhibit

“This is a wonderful opportunity for artists to get experience displaying their work without any fees.”

“Toronto Public Library is looking for artists to submit their work for possible exhibition during the September 2011 – August 2012 exhibit season.

An Art Selection Committee will consider works prepared for hanging in all media including photography (no sculptures).

If you would like to submit an application for consideration, visit the TPL website at http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/programs-and-classes/exhibits/art-exhibit-space.jsp for more information, or contact the Art Exhibits Office at 416-393-7224.

Deadline for submission is April 1, 2011

Exhibit Locations:

Deer Park Branch
Don Mills Branch
Fairview Branch
Leaside Branch
Mimico Branch
North York Central Branch
Northern District Branch
Oakwood Village Library & Arts Centre
Pleasant View Branch
Richview Branch
Runnymede Branch
S.Walter Stewart Branch
Woodside Square Branch
Yorkville Branch

Art Exhibits Office
40 Orchard View Blvd.
Toronto, ON
M4R 1B9
artexhibits@torontopubliclibrary.ca“

submitted by Karen Fleming, Toronto Public Library