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Announcing Accessibility Webinars for Creative Spaces!

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ArtsBuild Ontario is excited to announce upcoming accessibility webinars in the Learning Series! These webinars will focus on accessibility and creative spaces based on the Design for Public Spaces Standard, as part of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA). The webinars will explain how creative spaces need to meet accessible building standards and explore ways creative spaces can go beyond the standards.

The webinars will be supported by a toolkit for creative spaces around the topic of accessibility, which will be released in Spring 2019.

ABO would like to thank its accessibility advisory committee for informing the webinar topics, speakers and upcoming toolkit for creative spaces in Ontario. This project is supported by the Government of Ontario.

Free Webinar: Let’s Talk About Disability and Creative Spaces
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenters:  Thea Kurdi, Vice President with DesignABLE Environments and Sage Lovell, Founder of Deaf Spectrum 
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Free Webinar:  Design for Public Spaces 101: Where do Creative Spaces Start?
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Host: Thea Kurdi, Vice President with DesignABLE Environments
Presenters: Jay Pitter, Placemaker, Author & City Building, and Yvonne Felix, Senior Manager at CNIB and public/community artist
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Free Webinar: Design for Public Spaces Advanced: How can Creative Spaces Go Beyond the Standard?
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Host: Thea Kurdi, Vice President with DesignABLE Environments
Presenters: TBD & Lorene Casiez, Accessibility Strategist, Practice Lead with Human Space
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Free Webinar: Best Practices for Architects, Designers and Creative Spaces on Accessibility
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Host: Thea Kurdi, Vice President with DesignABLE Environments
Presenters: Amy Potier, Accessibility and Building Code Specialist with Gensler as well as Corey Timpson, Principal at Corey Timpson Design Inc and former Vice President of Exhibitions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
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Free Webinar: Safety, Fire Codes and Accessibility for Creative Spaces
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Host: Thea Kurdi, Vice President with DesignABLE Environments
Presenters: Martin Day, President of Safety Media Inc. and Marnie Peters, Accessibility Specialist
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Free Webinar: Invisible Disabilities and Creative Spaces
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Host: Thea Kurdi, Vice President with DesignABLE Environments
Presenters: Alex Bulmer, Accessibility Consultant & Actor, Writer and Director as well as Andrew Gurza, Disability Awareness Consultant
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Registration is available through Eventbrite and webinars are delivered through Adobe Connect with closed captioning. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation to register or participate in our webinars, please call 519-880-3670 ext. 101 or email erin@artsbuildontario.ca in advance of your participation.

#ArtsDay 2018 Recap

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ArtsBuild Ontario (ABO) was thrilled to take part in Arts Day on the Hill 2018 with the Canadian Arts Coalition this year! Over 100 arts advocates across Canada came together on Tuesday, October 2 to discuss how we can continue to support arts and culture in our communities. Over 100 meetings were scheduled with Members of Parliament, Senators and Ministers.

The Canadian Arts Coalition’s Messages

The Canadian Arts Coalition had five messages to share with the Government of Canada this year:

  • Thank you: The Government of Canada’s support encourages investment from the private sector and from other levels of government, helping to maintain a stable and vibrant creative sector.
  • $30 million annual increase to the Canada Arts Presentation Fund (CAPF): to be phased in over three years. By addressing CAPF, we can take advantage of economies of scale through domestic market opportunities (improves ROI) and enhance export readiness.
  • Continue investing in Canada Council for the Arts: Continued investments through the Canada Council for the Arts, and Canadian Heritage programs, strategically support the creative value chain with positive social and cultural returns.
  • Invest in the Canadian Arts Training Fund and Young Canada Works: with an additional $10 million annually for the Canadian Arts Training Fund, and an additional $500,000 for the Young Canada Works to support diverse artistic proactive and support emerging arts administrators.
  • Help in motivating individual donors through the Canada Cultural Investment Fund: This could take the form of an administrative increase to the Endowment Incentives program to grow the number of Canadians who make charitable donations.

Advocating for Creative Spaces

ArtsBuild Ontario spoke to the importance of all five speaking points, but also spoke to the valuable investments made in the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund (CCSF), creative hubs and cultural infrastructure in both central and rural Ontario communities.

In Budget 2017, the Government of Canada invested $300 million over 10 years in CCSF to further support creative hubs and other cultural spaces. The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund is part of suite of art programs administered by the Department of Canadian Heritage that complements funding delivered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Our #ArtsDay Team

ArtsBuild Ontario’s Alex Glass was teamed with Lesley Bramhill of the Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal/Canadian Dance Assembly, Janita Grift who is an individual arts administrator/arts advocate, and Robert Steven from the Art Gallery of Burlington. Our team met with Marwan Tabbara, MP for Kitchener-South – Hespeler; Senator Donna Dasko; Zachary Sykes on behalf of Frank Baylis, MP for Pierrefonds-Dollard; and The Honourable Karina Gould, Minister of Democratic Institutions.

We would like to thank the Canadian Arts Coalition for organizing this important and vital day of advocacy for arts and culture!

Read more about #ArtsDay

Announcing the 2018/2019 Learning Series!

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It’s back! We’re excited to announce our Learning Series is returning this fall with new webinars and a workshop to support arts organizations and their creative spaces. These sessions will provide tools, best practices, and feature guest speakers from the sector to inform and inspire creative space managers.

Many of the webinars in this year’s Learning Series will focus on capital projects and accessibility in creative spaces. Dates for accessibility webinars will be announced later this fall!

Check out our upcoming workshop:

Creative Space Projects: A Brainstorming Workshop 
Facilitator: Lucy White, Principal with the Osbourne Group
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Waterloo Region Museum, Classroom A
Cost: $15
Register Here

Check out our upcoming webinars:

Free Webinar: Capital Project Case Study: The Tett Centre
Wednesday, October 31 2018 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenters: Nadine Baker, Facility Manager and Danielle Folkerts, Marketing and Programming Coordinator at the Tett Centre
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Free Webinar: Volunteer Boards and Creative Space Projects
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenters: Kevin Puddister, Curator & General Manager at the Dundas Museum & Archives and John Kastner, General Manager at the Stratford Perth Museum
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Free Webinar: Engaging Community in Municipal Performing Arts Space Projects 
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenters: Steve Solski, Executive Director at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre and Kristopher Dell, Director of Production with Civic Theatres Toronto
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Free Webinar: Alternative Creative Spaces and Adaptive Reuse Projects 
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenters: Kendra Fry, General Manager at Trinity St. Paul’s and Jaime Griffis, Director of Programming and Promotion at Idea Exchange
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Free Webinar: Working Together: Multi-Partner Creative Space Projects
Wednesday March 27, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenters: Alexandra Badzak, President & CEO of the Ottawa Art Gallery and Tam-Ca Vo-Van, Director of Galerie SAW Gallery
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CASE STUDIES

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CREATIVE SPACE CASE STUDY PROJECT

The Creative Space Case Studies Project features case studies inspired by creative spaces across Ontario that have executed a capital project or renovation. ArtsBuild Ontario interviewed each organization between 2018 – 2020 and developed in-depth Case Studies and a Best Practice Summary that identifies key elements that resulted in each new build/renovation and ongoing operations.

The goal of these case studies was to provide specific details on each creative space project. We hope to enable organizations in understanding what resources and support they might need to execute projects and sustain their creative spaces.

We have also presented 9 webinars that highlight some of the projects featured in the case studies:

1. Working Together: Multi-Partner Creative Space Projects (Ottawa Art Gallery and SAW Gallery)

2. Alternative Creative Spaces and Adaptive Reuse Projects (Trinity St. Paul’s/Tafelmusik and Idea Exchange)

3. Engaging Community in Municipal Performing Arts Space Projects (Meridian Arts Centre and FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre)

4. Volunteer Boards & Creative Space Projects (Dundas Museum & Archives and Stratford Perth Museum)

5. Capital Project Case Study: The Tett Centre (The Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning)

6. Community Partnerships & Creative Spaces, featuring Carousel Players (Carousel Players)

7. Restoring & Revitalizing a 1934 Independent Cinema (The Westdale)

8. Revving Up Canada’s Car Museum (Canadian Automotive Museum)

9. Securing Permanent Space (The Stratford Perth Museum and The Theatre Centre)

CASE STUDIES

Canadian Automotive Museum (Oshawa, Ontario)

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Carousel Players (St. Catharines, Ontario)

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Dundas Museum and Archives (Dundas, Ontario)

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Dundas Valley School of Art (Dundas, Ontario)

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FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (St. Catharines, Ontario)

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Galerie SAW Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario)

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Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa, Ontario)

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Idea Exchange: The Old Post Office (Cambridge, Ontario)

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Lighthouse Festival Theatre (Port Dover, Ontario)

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Meridian Arts Centre (formerly Toronto Centre for the Arts) (Toronto, Ontario)

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Meridian Hall (Toronto, Ontario)

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The Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre: The Al Green Theatre (Toronto, Ontario)

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Ottawa Art Gallery | La Galerie d’art d’Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario)

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Stratford Perth Museum (Stratford, Ontario)

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The Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning (Kingston, Ontario)

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The Theatre Centre (Toronto, Ontario)

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Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Thunder Bay, Ontario)

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Trinity St. Paul’s & Tafelmusik: Jeanne Lamon Hall (Toronto, Ontario)

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The Westdale (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Best Practices Summary:

The Best Practices Summary is a summary incorporating the learnings from the above creative space case studies.

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This project is made possible by the Department of Canadian Heritage and Canada Council for the Arts. 

Making Spaces for Art Case Study Series

With so many facilities-related projects happening throughout the province, ArtsBuild is pleased to highlight the accomplishments of arts organizations in Ontario. Making Spaces for Art is a series of case studies, each telling a story of a facility in Ontario; whether the story features a new build, a future project or an innovative renovation, this series is a look into the sustainable future of many arts organizations.

Meant to entertain and inform, Making Spaces for Art takes you inside the world of sustainable facilities in Ontario.

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

“The saying goes, ‘It takes a village to raise a child,’ but it took a community to build the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery…”

“Construction is a bit like printmaking. You plan the plate, you get it all ready, you ink it, you go to put it in the press, and its always a happy accident on how it turns out, because its never the way you’ve planned.” –  Heather Franklin, Executive Director

“Blue skies smiling at me, nothin’ but blue skies do I see” – Irving Berlin

“Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. For the Toronto Centre for the Arts, ‘big’ was their 1,800 seat Main Stage theatre…” 

“Sometimes, it is best to just dive in.  A cool lake on a hot summer day or a delicious plate of pasta, both deserve the dive in treatment.  Renovations… not so much.”

“Even with a wealth of information just finger flicks and nanoseconds away, there is so much more to be said about Mackenzie Hall.”

“Some things are timeless, ageless, and truly grand.  And while theatre as an art form is a perfect example of this, theatres themselves, tend to have an expiration date–especially ones that were built well over a century ago.  Such was the case of The Grand Theatre in Kingston.”

“After a few decades in school, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery is finally graduating. The gallery has been located in a hidden away corner on the campus of Confederation College for the past thirty-seven years. Those years are in the process of coming to an end.”

“It is the ambition of the Society to acquire at an early date, a substantial fireproof county building in which to preserve permanently all such records and general objects of historic interest.” – W.H. Breithaupt, November, 1912

“If we can achieve this with a log and field stone building, on a ridge, in the middle of one hundred acres, anyone can.” – Victoria Dickenson, CEO

“We are well placed in the middle of nowhere.” – Darrell Keenie, General Manager

“Artists need centrally located, affordable space.” – Rick Sacks, Artistic Director

“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to forward, backwards, or sideways.” – H Jackson Brown Jr

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments.” – Shakespeare

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde

“I call it the best kept secret of Mississauga.” – Stuart Keeler, Director-Curator

“As a green muppet once said, ‘it is not easy being green.’ In this day and age however, being green has taken on a whole new meaning and a whole new importance.”

Creative Space Highlights

We interviewed three webinar attendees to showcase their creative spaces, learn more about their projects. You can read about them below

SpaceFinder now available in French for renters!

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ArtsBuild Ontario, in partnership with Fractured Atlas, are excited to share that SpaceFinder across Canada is now available to renters in both French and English. We are pleased to offer this resource to artists and creative spaces in both official Canadian languages.

What does this mean for renters? 

This means that users can now search for space in both languages on Canadian SpaceFinder sites, which include:

Alberta York Region
BC Simcoe County
Manitoba Ottawa
Toronto Sudbury
Hamilton Mississauga
Waterloo Region

What this mean for spaces?

Spaces can complete and edit their rentals in both languages!

Have a question?

If you have any questions about SpaceFinder or would like support, please contact infospacefinder@artsbuildontario.ca.

Support is available in both French and English.

SpaceFinder in Canada is made possible by:

ArtsBuild Ontario is grateful for the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage for the translation of SpaceFinder as well as the expansion of SpaceFinder across Canada.

SpaceFinder maintenant accessible aux locataires en français!

ArtsBuild Ontario, en partenariat avec Fractured Atlas, est emballé d’annoncer que partout au Canada, SpaceFinder est maintenant accessible aux locataires en français, sous le nom de RézoAtelier. Nous sommes heureux d’offrir cette ressource aux artistes et aux espaces de création dans les deux langues officielles du pays.

Qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour les locataires?

Cela signifie que les utilisateurs peuvent maintenant rechercher un espace dans les deux langues sur les sites canadiens de SpaceFinder, qui comprennent :

Alberta Région de York
C.-B. Comté de Simcoe
Manitoba Ottawa
Toronto Sudbury
Hamilton Mississauga
Région de Waterloo

Qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour les espaces?

Les espaces peuvent compléter et éditer leurs locations dans les deux langues!

Vous avez des questions?

Si vous avez des questions au sujet de RézoAtelier ou souhaitez du soutien, veuillez communiquer avec infospacefinder@artsbuildontario.ca.

Du soutien est offert en français et en anglais.

RézoAtelier et SpaceFinder au Canada sont rendus possibles grâce à :

ArtsBuild Ontario est reconnaissant du soutien du ministère du Patrimoine canadien pour la traduction de SpaceFinder ainsi que pour son expansion partout au Canada.