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January 17, 2010 at 8:24 pm · Filed under uncategorized
Cultural Pluralism in the Performing Arts Movement Ontario (CPPAMO) invites you to a townhall-style meeting of presenters, artists and municipal staff to jointly develop strategies for change…
Location: U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail
7pm, Fri Jan 29
Panel Discussion & Performance
9am, Sat Jan 30
All-day workshop with keynote address by Sara Diamond
CPPAMO’s mandate includes:
- providing opportunities for Aboriginal and ethnoracial performers to showcase their work to presenters across Ontario, and to build relationships with the presenters;
- providing opportunities for presenters to see and learn about diverse cultural values, histories and practices, and to develop relationships with diverse artists
- developing education and training programs on cultural pluralism with practical guidance on successfully integration culturally diverse values and principles into operations, planning, audience development, marketing, programming and decision-making processes
Please join CPPAMO at their first townhall and be part of the movement to change performing arts in Ontario.
Registration info: http://cppamo.eventbrite.com/
Facebook page: http://ja-jp.facebook.com/event.php?eid=267714561958&ref=mf
April 5, 2009 at 11:37 pm · Filed under uncategorized
Just started a new site called web tools for the arts. It’ll soon be an online resource for artists and arts professionals to learn how (and which) web tools can best rock their world.
This site will help arts professionals get maximum mileage out of their web browsers.
Yes, this site will focus on browser-based tools — meaning tools or applications that run from your browser window (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) usually without any downloading or installation required. A great example of a web-based tool would be your webmail - whether it’s your Hotmail, your Gmail, your work email that you can access via webmail - could you imagine life without being able to access your email from any browser in the world?
Browser-based tools are the key to mobility, accessibility, efficiency, and money saved.
Check out http://web4arts.wordpress.com and let me know what you think.
By the way, if you are sensitive to the needs and challenges of arts profesionals and would like to contribute to this site, please contact me! Initially, I had envisioned this new site as a public wiki so that anyone could suggest a tool and talk about its uses. But frankly I don’t know too many (read: any) arts managers who have time to contribute to a wiki that I can’t promise has readers yet. So I’ve started off solo to get the ball rolling. If you want to pen (type) a review, or if you just want to suggest a tool for me to review, get in touch.
February 28, 2009 at 1:42 am · Filed under uncategorized
Delighted to report that I will be blogging live - en direct but in English only =( - from the Canadian Conference of the Arts‘ upcoming National Cultural Strategy workshop on March 12, 2009. The CCA’s Policy Analyst, Jessica Litwin will be setting me up with a blogspot site to give a glimpse of what’s going on (and a little bit of what I think of it, maybe) for folks unable to make it to Ottawa for the discussion. Be online and please comment! My dream is for there to be enough online discussion to warrant giving these otherwise less audible voices a chance to pipe in at the roundtable. Save the date, mark your calendars!
I’ll post the link as soon as I get it…
February 27, 2009 at 12:05 am · Filed under uncategorized
http://mashable.com/2009/02/21/social-media-better-people/
This article by Peter Cashmore briefly points to the many ways in which our public actions and conversations are vulnerable to capture and re-presentation by more than just CCTV… for example, if anyone with a cellphone can catch you in the act of doing something socially distasteful, then broadcast and ultimately humiliate or shame you via YouTube or some other social media network, then will web 2.0 social media become the omnipresent Big Brother, the ever attentive eyes and ears that ultimately train us to become better (nicer on the outside) people?
(initially posted by yours truly to http://metropolis347.blogspot.com/)
February 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm · Filed under uncategorized
TK is hard at work on some r&d grant applications for PaCuBox. Just saw some beautiful mock-ups for a new website that should be launched soon.
PaCu stands for participatory culture. The PaCuBox series is a public gallery system that TK and Rachel Vulliens developed at the Canadian Film Centre’s New Media Lab a few years ago. The system allows anyone to sign up for a ‘residency’ of 3 months during which time they can present and share any artistic or cultural expressions they wish in a PaCuBox. The box itself is designed to withstand the Canadian outdoor weather, and is intended for installation in “dead” or little-used space such as fences, telephone poles etc. A built-in solar panel collects energy to light the box when night falls.
There’s been talk of wanting to install this gallery system in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics - kind of a mini-expo of art made by the people! Hoping the new website launches soon so you can see it. I see much fit in many upcoming opportunities.
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Yesterday I accepted an offer to work in Montréal for the next two months on the Culture Days project. I`m very excited, very keen, but trying to keep things hush hush until my partner-in-crime is done with his grantwriting. (Shh, he doesn’t know.) Won’t be a big deal - just gotta postpone some projects for a little while… right?
Meanwhile I also have a grant app to write but it’s a small one and it’s mostly a matter of modifying existing information so I don’t need to go into deep undercover for several days, just several hours.
Happy about PaCuBox progress, happy about my writing progress, happy about joining the Culture Days project… Somewhat unhappy about having to do my taxes right now. Ah well, dinner at the Keg Mansion next week should make up for it…
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