Updates
News about our organization and information related to our programs.
Event: "I got the grant! What now?" Lobby Chat with The AFC and TAPA
Generator is partnering with The AFC and TAPA for the first virtual chat in The AFC’s new Lobby Chats series! Join us on Zoom on October 14 from 1-2pm ET for “I got the grant! What now?” with moderator Mimi Mok and panelists Kristina Lemieux, Rachel Krehm, Saman Shahi, and Alyssa Martin.
Generator is partnering with The AFC and TAPA for the first virtual chat in The AFC’s new Lobby Chats series!
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 1-2pm ET
Virtual Chat on Zoom
ASL interpreted
This event is now past - watch the recording here
More artists and collectives than ever have been applying for and receiving grants to create work during the pandemic. As a result, many of us have to learn what it means to produce without the support of a larger organization – from project management to contracts to protecting our personal finances and much more. Becoming a DIY producer comes with a lot of excitement and validation but also financial stress and uncertainty. This panel discussion will be helpful for anyone new to producing and managing project grants, as well as to those who have been doing it for a while but still feel like they have questions.
Panelists
Kristina Lemieux (Lead Producer at Generator)
Rachel Krehm (Founder & General Director of indie opera company Opera 5, singer)
Saman Shahi (Executive Director of Iranian-Canadian Composers of Toronto, composer, pianist)
Alyssa Martin (Founder & Artistic Director of Rock Bottom Movement, choreographer)
Moderated by Mimi Mok (Business & Development Director at The Theatre Centre)
Accessibility
ASL interpretation and closed captioning provided.
About The AFC’s Lobby Chats
The AFC’s Lobby Chats bring people together who have experience, passion, and knowledge of critical topics that directly impact the members of Canada’s entertainment industry. Whether we’re talking to freelancers, leaders, administrators, or service providers, these conversations offer a compassionate knowledge-sharing platform where our community can come together to help each other grow and flourish in the industry on both personal and professional levels.
Lobby Chats focus on the individual’s experience, the person who is navigating what is known to be a precarious career path in arts and entertainment. These conversations will hone in on the areas of financial wellness, mental health, and career sustainability. At the end of each chat, audiences will have a chance to ask questions and join the conversation in the spirit of community support and learning.
The October 14 chat is presented by The AFC in partnership with the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts and Generator.
Paid Focus Group Opportunity: ArtistProducerResource.com
[Past] Generator is looking for artists, producers, and arts workers from the live performance industry in Canada to provide feedback on ArtistProducerResource.com. Focus group sessions are July 20 (4-6pm), July 23 (1-3pm) and July 25 (1:30-3:30pm - Indigenous Artists). Participants will be paid $50.
Generator is looking for artists, producers, and arts workers from the live performance industry in Canada to provide feedback on ArtistProducerResource.com.
Launched in November 2017, ArtistProducerResource.com is an open-source encyclopedia of knowledge, resources, tools, and practices for producing independent performance work in Canada.
Participants will be paid $50 for a two-hour focus group session to review, respond to, and re-envision our online producing wiki ArtistProducerResource.com.
These conversational focus groups will be conducted over Zoom and will be facilitated by Alicia Payne and Lorrie Gallant. Lorrie Gallant is Haudenosaunee, Cayuga Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory Ontario. She's a writer, illustrator, storyteller, singer, visual artist, educator and Expressive Arts Practitioner. Alicia Payne is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, producer, artist educator, and facilitator who works in school, community and corporate settings. Alicia is also a co-founder of Arbez Drama Projects.
Register
We are asking folks to join us for one of three sessions, with the third session specific to Indigenous artists. Please note space is limited for each session. Focus group sessions will take place on:
JULY 20, 4pm-6pm ET - past
JULY 23, 1-3pm ET - past
JULY 25, 1:30-3:30pm ET (Indigenous Artists) - past
Accessibility
If you have accessibility requests, please let us know when you complete your registration and we will do what we can to assist you. ASL Interpretation is available upon request at least seven days in advance of the focus group date. Please email annie@generatorto.com to reach Annie Clarke, Communications & Operations Producer at Generator to make your request.
Your feedback will help us shape the future of this important national resource—we hope you will consider participating!
Webinar & Discussion: Intellectual Property for Artists + Producers
Generator is teaming up with Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) for a workshop on intellectual property for artists and producers.
Learn how to clear and protect your trademarks and copyrights, including in an online world. Join us to hear practical tips to identify and build valuable IP assets, avoid costly mistakes, and better navigate IP ownership and licensing.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 2-3:30pm ET (past)
This is Generator’s second webinar with Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) this spring! The session will be held via Zoom Webinar, beginning with a presentation from Cat Lovrics and ending with a question and answer period.
This webinar will be recorded. If you are not available to participate live, we invite you to email your questions about Intellectual Property and Copyright to info@generatorto.com so that we can make sure they're addressed!
Live captioning will be provided. You may use the Zoom webinar registration to communicate any access needs, or feel free to reach out to info@generatorto.com.
About Cat Lovrics
Catherine (Cat) Lovrics is a Partner at Marks & Clerk Canada. Cat’s practice focuses on copyright law, as well as trademark, personality and publicity rights, as well as marketing and advertising, consumer protection and data and privacy laws. She specializes in emergent legal issues related to the Internet and digital media, in addition to traditional entertainment and media. Cat helps her clients protect, exploit and enforce their IP, and advises on clearance, rights acquisition and licensing. Her clients range from multinational and Canadian media companies to individual artists. Her experience spans a wide range of sectors, from creative industries to AI & emergent tech to consumables.
Artists’ Legal Advice Services
ALAS’s mission is to empower Ontario’s creative community by providing access to summary legal advice, information and education. Learn more about their work here.
Webinar & Discussion: Not-for-profit Law & Governance in the Creative Industries
Generator is teaming up with Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) for a workshop on not-for-profit law and governance in the creative industries. Registration required for this free webinar and discussion: May 11, 1-2:30pm ET.
Generator is teaming up with Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) for a session on not-for-profit law and governance in the creative industries.
We’re in a time of unprecedented momentum for reimagining systems of board governance in the performing arts sector — join us for this free webinar and discussion to understand legal requirements and explore what’s possible.
This session will be held via Zoom Webinar, beginning with a presentation and ending with a question and answer period.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 1-2:30pm ET
Pre-registration required (closed as the event is now over)
Live captioning will be provided. If you have any access needs or questions, please contact info@generatorto.com.
Moderator: Catherine Lovrics (Barrister & Solicitor / Canadian Trademark Agent)
Panelists: Terry Carter, Carol Hansell, and Jane Marsland
About the Panelists
Terry Carter
Terrance S. Carter, B.A., LL.B, TEP, Trademark Agent – Managing Partner of Carters, Mr. Carter practices in the area of charity and not-for-profit law, and is counsel to Fasken on charitable matters. Mr. Carter is a co-author of Corporate and Practice Manual for Charitable and Not-for-Profit Corporations (Thomson Reuters), a co-editor of Charities Legislation and Commentary (LexisNexis, 2020), and co-author of Branding and Copyright for Charities and Non-Profit Organizations (2019 LexisNexis). He is recognized as a leading expert by Lexpert, The Best Lawyers in Canada and Chambers and Partners. Mr. Carter is a member of CRA Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector, and is a Past Chair of the Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association Charities and Not-for-Profit Law Sections.
Carol Hansell
Carol Hansell is the Senior Partner of Hansell LLP, a member of the Hansell McLaughlin Advisory Group. Over her more than 30 years in practice, she has led major transactions for public and private corporations and governments. She now leads an independent firm dedicated to advising boards, management teams, institutional shareholders and regulators in connection with legal and governance challenges. She is regularly engaged in connection with special committee mandates, board investigations, governance design and reviews and shareholder engagement matters. Carol is also a principal with Hansell McLaughlin Advisory Inc., which, together with Hansell LLP, delivers integrated legal, governance, government relations and communications advice. Carol has served on boards of organizations across a variety of sectors – public companies, Crown corporations, financial institutions, healthcare, not-for-profit and arts organizations. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors and the American College of Governance Counsel and the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions.
Jane Marsland
Jane Marsland has been an articulate advocate for the arts for many years and has served on a wide range of boards, advisory groups and committees. Jane was co-founder and director of ARTS 4 CHANGE, a three-year program designed to create positive change for and by arts professionals in Toronto, as well as co-founder and Director of the Creative Trust: Working Capital for the Arts. Ms. Marsland has managed arts organizations since 1970 and was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1982 to 1999.
Since 1999, Jane has been working as a free-lance arts consultant and has worked with more than 100 arts organizations. Recently, Jane worked with the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts and ARTS Action Research on a two-year community initiative, Theatres Leading Change Toronto involving 18 small and mid-sized theatre and dance organizations. Theatres Leading Change was designed to illuminate and better understand change: on an individual learning level; on a community co-learning level; and as a function of broad-based change that may hold within the possibility of paradigm change in the field.
She has been the recipient of two arts community awards: a “Harold” in 2001 and the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2002. In 1995, she received the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Administration for outstanding leadership in the arts. In 2011, she was the winner of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Rita Davies and Margo Bindhardt Cultural Leadership Award. In 2012, Jane was awarded the first Metcalf Foundation Innovation Fellowship in the Arts to examine Shared Platforms and Charitable Venture Organizations and their applicability to the arts sector in Ontario. Jane was honoured as the recipient of the Silver Ticket at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2017.
Artists’ Legal Advice Services
ALAS’s mission is to empower Ontario’s creative community by providing access to summary legal advice, information and education. Learn more about their work here.
Generator has been writing about boards on our Learnings + Explorations blog this year — find posts here.