This learning pathway invites you to use a values-based approach to the budgeting, planning, development, and execution of a production, where conscious decisions are being made, at all stages of the process, about who the play is for and how the needs of the audience and artists are being met.
Read MoreLearning Pathway: Digital Communications
Our third ArtistProducerResource.com Learning Pathway looks at social media, analytics, designing communications for accessibility, and newsletters.
Read MoreThe HST Dilemma
You’re in one province, the person who hired you is in another. You’re Zooming sixty unknown faces, and you have no idea which province any of them lives in. How do you know which sales tax rate to charge in the working-from-home era?
Read MoreLearning Pathway: Tax Season
For our second ArtistProducerResource.com Learning Pathway, Financial Literacy Consultant Audrey Quinn offers a step-by-step approach to tackling the most wonderful time of the year…tax season.
Read MoreResource Round-up: Financial Literacy
A collection of our favourite financial resources. Explore categories for artists, producers and non-profit workers, and tax season.
Read MoreBoard Governance: What is it? What is possible?
Reflections on a discussion about what power boards have, what is possible when we look at alternative ways of operating, and what we mean we talk about accountability.
Read MoreLearning Pathway: Personal Organization + Business Management
Announcing Learning Pathways: a new way to experience ArtistProducerResource.com! We’re starting with pages, templates, and further resources to support self-guided learning around Personal Organization and Business Management.
Read MoreA Values-Based Approach to Hiring
Generator in conversation with Shakespeare in the Ruff and the Toronto Dance Community Love-In, two companies in residence with us who have both undergone hiring processes this fall.
Read MoreWe’re going to talk about boards a lot—here are some introductory frameworks to get us started
“I have lost my faith in this model, but what it really comes down to is: the nonprofit/charity model is inherently patriarchal and capitalist and therefore colonial and racist.”
Read MoreFrom CERB to CRB
The CERB program, which has allowed eligible Canadians to collect $500/month since March 15, ends September 27 and is transitioning into two programs.
Read MoreAn Update on CERB
CERB has been extended another eight weeks to August 29 (a change from a 16-week eligibility period to 24). Most of the same requirements apply as with the previous periods, with one notable addition.
Read MoreVisions for the Future
Four months into life with COVID-19, there’s some room to start imagining different futures. To recognize the arts sector isn’t coming back anytime soon, and to ask: what do we want to come back to?
Read MoreThe Economics of COVID-19 for Individual Arts Workers
The “Canada Emergency Response Benefit” was announced on Wednesday, March 26 - and it already has a fun acronym.
Read MoreTracking Financial Losses due to COVID-19
While our governments and arts councils are still in the process of determining what financial support they will be able to provide to workers who have been affected by event cancellations and public closures, they have all stated the importance of documenting your financial losses.
Read MoreTransformative Justice
Transformative Justice is the framework we’re engaging for our Transform Dance pilot project. This post provides some case studies and answers to common questions that people have about TJ. If you want to do a deep dive into TJ, we recommend the Creative Interventions Toolkit, and the TransformHarm.org website.
Read More#UrgentExchange Stop Abuse & Exploitation in Toronto Dance
We partnered with Company Collaborator the Toronto Dance Community Love-In and Daniels Spectrum for our first-ever #UrgentExchange devoted to dance: how do we dismantle harmful power structures and create safer spaces?
Read More#UrgentExchange #MeToo One Year Later
One year later, how has #MeToo has impacted the performance community? From triggers in the rehearsal process, to the changing role of the stage manager, to nudity and violence on stage, to the biases and blind spots that hold back change.
Read MoreA Guide to Preparing Your Taxes After Receiving a Grant
There are many theories on how to deal with your grant when it comes to tax time, not all of which are helpful. The most important thing to remember is that grants awarded to individual artists are taxable income to the recipient.
Read More#UrgentExchange Precarity and Mental Health + New Faces of Criticism
Our crowdsourced #UrgentExchange topic revolved around the precarity of our sector, and how most artists are left with negative impacts on their mental health.
Read MoreTrailer Project by UnSpun Theatre and Ahuri Theatre
As indie theatre companies and creators, both UnSpun Theatre and Ahuri Theatre have made trailers for our own work in the past – whether for potential audiences or for potential producing partners. We also watch a lot of trailers, or scroll by them as they pop up on our social media feeds. We wondered: is there any magical formula that makes trailers effective? How much do audiences rely on trailers to determine what they’re going to see? What about potential partners?
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