Call for submissions for bands and artists is OPEN NOW!

The PEAK Performance Project is a seven-year, $4.9 million contest open to all musicians in Alberta. The program will be run by Calgary’s 95.3 The PEAK in partnership with Alberta Music, with the goal of developing Alberta based emerging artists and preparing them to take on the world. The project, which was originally created in Vancouver by 102.7 The PEAK and Music BC, has been tremendously successful, helping to launch the careers of many BC bands over the past five years. 

Every year, twelve finalists from Alberta will receive an intensive, one week, training program in the music business, live performance, songwriting, marketing and promotion. Artists will benefit from mentorships from some of the music industry’s top professionals and performers.

This week long, professional development Boot Camp is a key component of the Peak Performance Project, and for the next two years it will be run simultaneously to the BC Boot Camp, teaming up these twelve Alberta bands and artists with their twelve counterparts from British Columbia. The Boot Camp will work on the principal that the new music business requires a DIY philosophy. Course content may include such subjects as live stage and individual performance, songwriting, marketing and promotion, media training, music law and business, music industry revenues, touring, radio tracking and online and social media issues. Course materials and workshops are delivered by a “Who’s Who” of Canada’s top music industry professionals. 

Each of the twelve finalists will receive a base camp award of $5000 to spend towards career development! All of these artists will have the chance to perform live in Calgary as part of the PEAK Performance Project Concert Series. 

Of these twelve artists, three will receive large cash prizes towards career development and will perform live at the PEAK Performance Project Finale. 

First Place $100,095.30 Second Place $75,000.00 Third Place $50,000.00 Call for submissions for bands and artists is OPEN NOW! to May 2nd. To apply, go to www.peakperformanceproject.com, and fill out the online form.   

For further information please contact: 
Chris Wynters (780) 428-3372 – chris@amia.ca 
Lindsay Shedden (587) 955-9551 – lindsay@amia.ca 
Kath Thompson (403) 536-3877 - kath.thompson@953thepeak.com 
www.peakperformanceproject.com www.albertamusic.org

Read more at http://www.affta.ab.ca/Arts-In-Alberta/Arts-Opportunities/Peak-Performance-Project-Call-for-Submissions

FREE Professional Development Talks in Edmonton Oct. 20th 2013

Visual Arts Alberta ~ CARFAC is offering professional development workshops in October.


Upcoming in Edmonton:
October 23, 2013 in Edmonton: Join us with the Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP) for “How to Hook Up with International Galleries and Artist-Run Centres”. Print and mixed media artist Yael Brotman from Toronto will lead our discussion at the SNAP Printshop (12056 Jasper Avenue) beginning at 7 pm.



FREE: To attend please RSVP on or before October 20th to info@visualartsalberta.com

Heritage Canada Foundation National Heritage Summit

Heritage Canada Foundation will be hosting its 39th annual national conference 

Heritage Conservation in Canada:  What’s Working? And What Needs to Change?

The Summit is In cooperation with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP|ACECP), Canadian Forum for Public Research on Heritage, and the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage. Contributing organizations: Héritage Montreal; Fédération Histoire Québec; ICOMOS Canada.

The Summit takes place in Montreal, Quebec, at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel from October 11-13, 2012.  

Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Mark Kingwell - renowned Canadian writer and thinker on our culture of disposability, the political dimensions of “heritage,” and what it will take for heritage conservation to hit the mainstream.

Don’t miss a high-powered panel on new directions for the heritage movement in the era of “small government” – Dinu Bumbaru (Héritage Montréal), Julian Smith (Willowbank School of Restoration Arts), and Stephen Hazell (former Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada).

Make your voice heard at facilitated sessions to develop a National Action Plan for the Canadian heritage conservation sector.

Participate in dynamic Pecha Kucha-style sessions with leading-edge thinkers exploring the future of the heritage movement in Canada.

Earn Professional Learning Credits from the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)

Meet and network with heritage advocates and architects, municipal planners, developers, public policy makers, elected officials and property owners from across Canada.

Questions? Email conference@heritagecanada.org, or call 1-866-964-1066 ext. 227

For program details or to register, visit www.heritagecanada.org

Alberta Museums Association Conference

 

There are many things within the museum sector that we do not talk about, and many that we have talked about for years, but have taken little action on. Challenges in museum management and operations — such as financial stability, succession management, deaccessioning, storage and space issues, and dissolution and closure — are often considered too contentious to discuss. There are also the stories that museums do not tell; the artifacts that museums do not display; the multiple viewpoints that are not shared; and the questions asked by the public that museums do not know how to answer. It is about time we face our fears and challenge our perspectives to be courageous leaders capable of making real change in our museums and our communities.

The 2012 AMA Conference will be a catalyst for original research that will bolster the knowledge and skills available to museums in all stages of organizational life as they confront sustainability challenges and start having those crucial conversations that keep our organizations nimble and vital.

• When

• Thursday, September 20, 2012 - Saturday, September 22, 2012
  
  

• Where

• Sheraton Red Deer Hotel
  3310.50 Avenue
  Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3X9
  403.346.2091
  
  
  For more information or to register, please visit www.museums.ab.ca
  
  
  
  

AMA Pre- Conference Workshops

 

The 2012 Alberta Museums Association Conference sessions will tackle the difficult topics facing Alberta’s museums in order to address the challenges of organizational sustainability. To begin this year’s Conference experience, the AMA is pleased to present three high quality Pre-Conference Workshops, which provide a hands-on, practical learning experience.
Strategic Planning 101: The Development
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$95
Kerry Wood Nature Centre
Jim Cullen, Principal, W. Jim Cullen Consulting Services, Calgary.
Strategic planning has become a standard practice of most non-profit organizations and is a mandated requirement of many grantors and accreditation organizations. This workshop will take you step-by-step through a broad strategic planning framework that is tailored to museums and will provide opportunities to discuss and troubleshoot your own particular challenges.


Strategic Planning 201: The Implementation
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$95
Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery
Gail Anderson, Consultant, Gail Anderson and Associates, Novato, California, USA.
You have developed your strategic plan, now how do you implement it? How do you connect strategy to operations? Understand the pitfalls and learn about the keys to success for implementing, monitoring, and evaluating your organization’s strategic plan. Please bring a copy of your strategic plan for this session.


Financial Management and Planning 101
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$ 60
Norwegian Laft Hus
Stella Penner, Certified General Accountant and Partner, Thompson, Penner & Lo, Calgary.
Join us for this workshop on the best financial practices for small not-for-profit organizations. We will discuss the tools you should be incorporating into your institution to manage and reflect your finances. We will also look at how finances can be used as a basis for longer-term planning and as a way to tell the ‘story’ of your organization. 
Fort more information and to register, please visit www.museums.ab.ca

Athabasca University offers Heritage Courses

Courses for Heritage Professionals at Athabasca University

Whether you're an aspiring, emerging, or established heritage professional, or a volunteer or amateur history enthusiast, the Heritage Resources Management (HRM) program at Athabasca University has a course for you. There are currently 13 distance-based classes open for registration, ranging from the introductory undergraduate level up to advanced graduate studies, offered either in an undergraduate University Certificate in HRM or a graduate Post Baccalaureate Diploma in HRM.
Two courses are offered in paced format in a conventional September-to-December semester. Both are graduate courses.

HERM 501: Issues in Heritage Resources Management
HERM 542: Issues in Planning Historic Places
The graduate courses HERM 512, (Advanced Methods in Heritage Research) and the final project practicum course, HERM 691, are offered as individualized study courses on continuous offer.

They also have 9 undergrad courses, including ones on preventative conservation, collections, heritage policy, and interpretive programming, among others. These courses are offered continuously, with start dates on the first day of each month.  www.heritage.resources.athabasca.ca 

Cultural Resource Management Cources

The University of Victoria is offering fall courses for the  Cultural Resource Management Program 

Flex your creative potential...through distance education courses offered by the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.
Upcoming Fall 2012 Courses:

HA 487 Heritage Resource Management
September 10 - December 16, 2012
Instructor: Chris Wiebe

HA 486A Museum Principles and Practices I: Communities, Curatorship, and Collections
September 10 - December 16, 2012
Instructor: Deborah Tuyttens

HA 488S Building Community Relationships
September 10 - December 16, 2012
Instructor: Elizabeth Kidd

HA 488J Curatorship
September 10 - December 16, 2012
Instructor: Elizabeth Carter

Registration deadline is August 13, 2012. For more information or to register, please visit:

www.countinuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural

Canada Council for the Arts - Grants to Theatre Artists: Individual Creation, Artists-in-Residency, Playwriting Residency and Professional Development

The information in this blog post is taken directly from the Canada Council for the Arts Site: www.canadacouncil.ca

Deadlines
15 April and 15 September
If these dates fall on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information.

Program Description

The Grants to Theatre Artists program provides support to individual Canadian professional theatre artists of all cultures. There are four components to the program: Individual Creation, Artist-in-Residency, Playwriting Residency, and Professional Development.

These grants allow artists to devote a specific period of time for the individual creation of new work, for terms as artist-in-residence (for administrators, playwrights, designers, directors or other creative artists), for terms of playwriting residencies, and for projects of professional development. Residencies, both for playwriting and artist-in-residencies, are undertaken with theatre companies that receive support from the Theatre Section of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Support for playwrights is available through all four components. A playwright wanting to pursue the independent creation of a new work applies through the Individual Creation component of the program. A playwright wanting to spend time in residency with a company to observe and participate in general theatre practice applies through the Artist-in-Residency component. A playwright wanting to pursue a specific project of individual creation in a working partnership arrangement with a theatre company applies through the Playwriting Residency component. A playwright wanting to pursue a program of advanced training (such as graduate studies in playwriting at universities or theatre schools) applies to the Professional Development component.

In general, submissions for Individual Creation request subsistence for the time needed to create new work, plus research and travel costs (if applicable). Submissions for the Artist-in-Residency and the Playwriting Residency components usually involve subsistence costs for the term of the residency. In addition to subsistence costs for the term of the project, applications to the Professional Development component may include costs for travel, research and tuition related to the program of work.

This program is open to Aboriginal artists and artists of diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.

Eligibility
To apply to the Canada Council for the Arts, you must be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Applicants must be professional theatre artists or arts professionals. The Canada Council defines a professional artist as someone who:
has specialized training in the artistic field (not necessarily in academic institutions)
is recognized as a professional by his or her peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), and
is committed to devoting more time to his or her artistic activity, if possible financially, and
has a history of public presentation.

Playwrights must have had at least one work produced professionally on stage or published professionally. Other theatre artists must have practised with professional companies or independent professional productions for at least two years.

Scriptwriters who wish to write a stage play must have had at least one dramatic work produced professionally on radio, television or film.

Composers must have written music for at least one professional theatre production.

In order to be eligible as a host company for both the Artist-in-Residency and Playwriting Residency components, a theatre company must receive either Operating Grant support from the Theatre Section of the Canada Council for the Arts or must have received at least one Production Project Grant in the preceding three years.

For Professional Development applications, candidates applying for programs of work that involve graduate studies at a university or advanced training at a theatre school must have practised with professional companies or in independent professional productions for at least five years.

Grant Amount
Grant amounts range from $3,000 to $20,000, in increments of $1,000.

Further Information
Robert Allen, Nancy Guertin, Kim Selody or Bruce Sinclair
Program Officers
Theatre Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8

Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613 566-4414, ext. 4483 or 4186
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
Fax: 613-566-4410

Banff Centre Announces the NBCUniversal Training Program

 Apply by March 9, 2012

This new work study program, sponsored by NBCUniversal, provides the opportunity for a production team to advance their creative and technical skills in visual storytelling. Practical skills are matured through the development of digital film, television and transmedia projects. This program encompasses 3 positions – that of the Producer / Director, the Videographer and the 

Editor. 

Team members work and learn through exposure to a wide range of projects under supervision and mentorship from Banff Centre staff, faculty, associated work studies and artists. Over the course of the program, participants will collaborate with project directors, editors, graphic artists, animators and sound design teams on a wide range of project genres including (but not limited to): marketing / promotional, documentary, drama, and artist installations. 

Participants will advance their ability to produce to schedule with fixed / budgeted resources.

To learn more about the program, the qualification requirements and how to apply, please click HERE.

Colour Spectrums - Facilitator Training