On Tuesday, June 9, we held a conversation with Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist and Founder of Nanos Research moderated by Business / Arts President and CEO Nichole Anderson Bergeron. Nik shared findings of the recent Arts Response Tracking Survey (ARTS), a partnership between Business / Arts, the National Arts Centre and Nanos Research, which polled over 1,000 Canadians to gauge their at...

Do you have zoom fatigue? Well so does Eric Rose and Ghost River Theatre. In this episode, we will chat about the theatre’s latest production which takes away the visual and engages the other senses. We will talk about the technology being used, why theatres and performance-based art should be evolving, and the importance of charging for your productions. This episode will ...

What happens when a pandemic removes the community experience? Kelly Straughan, the Executive Artistic Director at Workman Arts is our guest this week and we talk about the importance of mental health and what gets lost when a community built on being together is forced to physically distance. We also chat about the steps Workman Arts is taking to create spaces where organic moments, the ones t...

Dans ce webinaire, la mentore Nathalie Courville traite de la communication avec les commanditaires en cas d'annulation d'un événement, de la commandite en général en temps de crise et des nouvelles opportunités qui peuvent s’offrir aux organisations culturelles et artistiques. Destiné à l’origine aux participants du programme artsvest, ce webinaire fut enregistré le 15 avril 2020. Bien...

Dans ce webinaire, le mentor Jay Hébert, co-fondateur et associé d’Elevent, brosse un tableau de l'état de la commandite en ce moment. Avec des données précises et inédites, il analyse l’impact de la crise du coronavirus sur l’univers de la commandite, les tendances qui en émergent et ce que nous pouvons en retenir. Les réflexions et les données partagées proposent certains repères en ...

These next 20 minutes will fly by! Nina Lee Aquino is the Artistic Director at Factory Theatre in Toronto and she has some pointers on how to exist as an artist during this time. Nina discusses people's appetite for the arts right now, the sustainability of performances on the digital platforms, and how success is measured during this time. Nina has such an optimistic outlook on the theat...

This webinar was originally presented as part of Business and arts’ artsvest program to over 50 arts organizations and is now available to the public as part of our commitment to provide up to date resources and keep the art sector informed. Jennifer Shah is the Director of Sponsorship Marketing at Hot Docs in Toronto, an organization she has been with for the past 18 years. Jenn is responsibl...

This webinar was originally presented as part of Business and arts’ artsvest program to over 150 arts organizations and is now available to the public as part of our commitment to provide up to date resources and keep the art sector informed. Michelle Bussey is the Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Community College Foundation & Alumni Relations. In this webinar, Michelle will sha...

In this extended episode of How are you Adapting, we chat with Barry Hughson, the executive director of The National Ballet of Canada about what it takes for a larger organization to pivot from experimentation with new content to the hurdles of rebroadcasting legacy ones. To find out more about The National Ballet of Canada, visit their website....

In this episode of How are you adapting? We discuss approaching accessibility and anxieties when pivoting programming. We speak with Catie Primeau from Unity Charity in Toronto to find out what goes into adapting high energy live performances to a digital platform. To learn more about Unity Charity and to support their programming, visit www.unitycharity.com and www.unitycharity.com/program...

Every day brings another video of an artist or arts organization entertaining us: whether it’s ballet dancers keeping fit in their kitchens, orchestras performing from their homes or actors reciting Shakespeare. All are amazing, fun and uplifting. We are feasting on this content. In fact, it seems like the perfect combination: a captive audience literally crying out for content and a group of enterta...