Are you or someone you know thinking of applying for theatre school?
Overwhelmed by all the choices and requirements?
Come to The Canadian Stage Company’s Theatre School Youth Forum to get some insight on which programs might suit you and how to best prepare for them. A panel of recent graduates from all the major theatre school programs will be there to talk about their schools, experiences and answer any questions you might have. You’ll also have access to a ton of info (brochures, due dates, etc). It’s a lot of work to apply for theatre school – let us help!
What: Theatre School Youth Forum
Who: Aspiring Theatre School Applicants
When: Thursday, December 3, 2009 6:00pm-8:00pm
Where: Rehearsal Hall - 26 Berkeley St. Toronto, ON
Cost: FREE
RSVP: Artistic Coordinator Chelsea at cmanders@canstage.com with attendance and any questions!
ATTENTION ALL YOUTH ARTISTS
IF YOU SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK TO THE DELISLE YOUTH GALLERY BY NOVEMBER 30th, 2009 @ 4:00PM YOUR ARTWORK COULD BE SELECTED FOR PAYMENT IN AN ART AUCTION ….
Don’t miss this opportunity to be paid for your art and have it auctioned off at a charity event in 2010!!!
Amazing New Opportunity for Young Artists aged 13 to 19 years – CALL FOR ART
If you are a young artist living in the GTA… please read on.
Framework Foundation, a unique organization focused on supporting emerging artists and increasing volunteerism amongst young Canadians, are welcoming art submissions for their art auction in 2009. Submit your work by November 30th, 2009 at 4:00PM to have a chance for your work to be selected by a Delisle Youth Gallery Panel.
For more information about Framework Foundation visit their website at http://www.
If your piece is selected, you will receive payment for your work ($100 - $500) in addition to valuable exposure and promotion. Interested artists can submit up to two works for review. The pieces will be valued and selected by a panel of professionals in the arts. Please keep in mind that the pieces will be auctioned to an adult population.
If you are interested and would like to learn more about how you can submit your work to the Delisle Youth Gallery to be selected for the art auctions please contact us by phone or email, or drop-by with your work.
ALSO Submit your work by November 30th, 2009 at 4PM for a chance to have your work selected by our Youth Committee for the 2010 exhibit’s promotional material- such as postcards & programs. This is a great opportunity to get exposure as an artist. We accept visual art in all mediums – paintings, photographs, sculpture, and mixed media works.
EARLY SUBMISSION DEADLINE for both of these opportunities: November 30th, 2009 @ 4PM
CONTACT: Tara 416-482-0081 x236 tara_gingrich@delisleyouth.org
Submit your work weekdays between 9 am- 5pm:
Delisle Youth Services
40 Orchard View Boulevard, #255
One block north of Eglinton, west of Yonge
( in the Northern District Library building)
Go to http://www.BeautifulCity.ca to support!
Do you feel like there are too many billboards and not enough art in our city? So do we. This is our chance to change it. Help pass a new tax on billboard advertisers to fund enforcement and arts initiatives across the city.
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Toronto! Take Action Today:
1 – Call and write your councilor. Click here for info and key asks: http://tinyurl.com/yj9cn5f
2 – Sign the petition at: http://www.beautifulcity.ca
3 – Show your support at City Hall on Nov 30th / Dec 1st RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/y9x4xyt
4 – Spread the word.
Go to http://www.beautifulcity.ca to find your councillor, scripts, updates, links and facts.
Background
After seven years of hard work, the tax on billboards for art is close to becoming a reality! Toronto City Council will be voting on the new billboard enforcement bylaw and tax for art on November 30th OR December 1st, 2009. We don’t have much time - and we need your help!
Advertising is increasingly infringing on our public spaces, and the privilege of leveraging our city for commercial ends should come with a responsibility to keep them healthy. The billboard tax is a fair and just means for private advertisers to take responsibility for their impact on the city.
What it will mean?
What’s at stake is a revolutionary new approach that will help bring balance in our communities. The billboard tax will provide the funds for proper enforcement of the new billboard bylaw as well as generate new funds for art in the public sphere - including murals, sculptures, festivals, accessible arts programming, outdoor performances and more.
This is not just increasing funding to arts in Toronto (which lags behind most other cities in cultural spending) this is an opportunity to start building the beautiful and creative city we all know is possible: to nourish communities; to reclaim and rehabilitate our public spaces, and to build our city’s economic potential. For every dollar of public arts funding in a regional economy, eight dollars are generated (McKinsey Co.) Investment in arts and culture is proven to be effective in cultivating healthy and prosperous communities -- don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of transforming our city!
Implementation of the bylaw and tax would dramatically increase arts funding in Toronto while democratizing access to expression public space. At the target of 18 million in revenue it would create the opportunity for:
- An historic increase to Toronto's arts and culture budget, potentially doubling the number of artists and projects receiving grants.
- Providing approx. $100,000 annually to each Toronto ward for urban beautification, streetscape improvement, and green initiatives
- Provide approx. $300,000 annually to each of Toronto’s 13 priority neighbourhoods to support accessible youth arts programming.
- Creation of a well-supported bylaw enforcement team to keep pervasive illegal advertising in check and an arms-length variance system.
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Toronto! Take Action Today:
1 – Call and write your councilor. Click here for info: http://tinyurl.com/yj9cn5f
2 – Sign the petition at: http://www.beautifulcity.ca
3 – Show your support at City Hall on Nov 30th / Dec 1st. RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/y9x4xyt
4 – Spread the word.
Go to http://www.beautifulcity.ca to find your councillor, scripts, updates, links and facts.
10th Annual aluCine Latin Media Festival kicks off!!! * Nov. 12th, 2009 (7:30 pm)
aluCine is a Latin, Canadian and international Festival showcasing over 190 of the world’s best in short film and video with a strong focus on works made by Latin-American artists living in Canada and abroad. All films are screened with English subtitles. Ten installations, five
aluCine off screen presentations 2009 will open on November 12 and run until November 28. The prestigious Lennox Contemporary Gallery is graciously hosting the Festival this year, located at 12 Ossington Ave. and our alternative venue CineCycle at 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave. & Richmond St.) Engaging artist talks with visiting filmmakers and curators will follow most screenings.
Some of aluCine’s 2009 Program Highlights include:
Two queer restored underground classics “Lupe” and “Jerovi” directed by Jose Rodriguez Soltero (USA-Puerto Rico) Screens Friday, November 20 at 7:30 and 9:30 pm. (CineCycle).
Brook Alfaro Retrospective who represented Panamá at the Bienal de Singapore in 2006 and the Venice Biennial in 2003 with his works Aria and Nueve, both of which will be screened Thursday, November 19 at 7:30 pm. (CineCycle).
The latest in Latin American queer content including Divers
Groundbreaking, cross-
Frances Negrón, is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. Born in Puerto Rico to a family of academics, Frances Negron’s work spans several fields, including cinema, literature, cultural criticism, and politics. For her work as a filmmaker, advocate, and scholar Hispanic Business named her as one of the nation’s “100 most influential Latinos” in 2005. In her talk Miss Negrón will expose Canadians to the thoughts on the use of media by what we can call the two Puerto Rican vanguards of the 1970s in NY -- the Lords and the artists. Saturday, November 21 at 5 pm (followed by screenings at CineCycle).
Tania Aedo, Mexican curator, professor and director of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda Tania will in her talk “Memory, New Media in Mexico” contextualizes a project intended to recuperate, and to expose Mexican new media productions. The laboratory “Arte Alameda” commissioned a group of curators-researchers to put together programs that will help to build an archeology of the new media practice in Mexico, to compile documents for the creation of an archive specifically related to new media production.
Saturday, November 21 at 9 pm (followed by screenings at CineCycle).
Esteban Alvarez, Argentinean curator, will discuss international residency programs available at the artist-run centre El Basilico in Buenos Aires. Saturday, November 22 at 3 pm. (Lennox Gallery).
Other highlights include:
The exceptionally innovative, pan-global collaboration The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol. 2 headed by visiting Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela. Tuesday, November 24 at 5 pm at VTape (401 Richmond Street west, Suite 452).
The anticipated outcome of aluCine’s Self-Representation Video Workshops aimed at giving Toronto Latin Youth and Toronto Latin Queers a necessary platform for uncensored and unbridled expression. Watch the results on November 14 at 5 pm!
The latest in Spanish short fiction including an outstanding array of fictional narratives from Spain. España 1 Wednesday, November 25 at 7 pm and España 2 November 25 at 9pm. (Lennox Gallery).
Ticket Information:
Tickets are available one hour in advance for each scheduled screening at
Lennox Contemporary Gallery at 12 Ossington Ave. and/or
CineCycle at 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave. & Richmond St.)
Screening Tickets are $6 and $4 for students with valid student ID. Festival passes can be purchased for $50.
aluCine: [conj. transverb] to hallucinate 1. m. fam. wonder, marvel, fantasy 2. loc. adj. brilliant, mind-blowing 3.(alucinado) m. fam. eccentric, visionary, imaginative.
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