The TAPA Trade Series features a series of ongoing professional development sessions and networking opportunities featuring a broad range of topics that have been created specifically for TAPA members.

Upcoming 2011/12 Workshops

Information Session on AWHIP: Arts Workers Health Insurance Program

For more than 15 years TAPA Members have come to depend on solid Risk Management advice from Steve Beatty through the Act 1 Insurance program.

Wanting to continue trying to help individuals and companies with-in our industry, Steve together with his team at Culture One have developed a new innovative Arts Worker Health Insurance Program know as AWHIP.

Please join Steve and his colleague Michael Kelly at Factory Theatre to help you understand more about this exciting new program and how it fits with both companies and individuals and our Canadian medical system.

This promises to be an informative interactive style of work shop including time afterwards for one on one discussion.

TAPA Members: Free!
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Factory Theatre, 125 Bathrust Street at Adelaide

Deadline to register for this session is Tuesday May 22, 2012
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

How to Approach Presenters with Chris Lorway

Join Chris Lorway, Executive Director of Soundstreams and past Artistic Director of Luminato, for an informal discussion on the finer points of approaching presenters. This informative session will cover the basics and provide practical tips to help you successfully pitch your show.

TAPA Members: $22.60 includes HST
Non-Members: $56.50 includes HST
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Time: 10:30 – 12:00pm
Location: TAPA Offices, 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 210 (Press 2R on the elevator)

Deadline to register for this session is Monday May 28, 2012
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

How to Navigate the Perplexing World of Musical Rights with SOCAN

Join SOCAN for an overview on SOCAN, performing rights, the difference between small and grand rights, and how they apply to your theatres and individual productions. There will also be ample opportunity to pose any questions you may have to SOCAN staff including Craig Brockie, Industrial Relations Executive and James Leacock, Assistant Manager, Concerts.

An informal Meet & Greet with snacks will follow.

TAPA Members: Free!
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: TAPA Boardroom, 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 210 (Press 2R on the elevator)

Deadline to register for this session is Monday May 28, 2012
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

Intro to Photoshop: The Basics for Arts Organizations and Artists

This fun workshop is built around practical tips that you can put into practice right away. After just 3 hours, you’ll know how to:

• crop and resize your images
• brighten your photos and adjust colour
• remove dust spots, fix blemishes
• make simple photo collages
• add text to your images
• use Photoshop to make a poster, flyer, or other print material
• set up your files to send to a printer
• prepare your images for posting on the web

This workshop is perfect arts organizations and artists. No previous Photoshop experience or graphic design skills necessary. Bring your laptop and your enthusiasm!

TAPA Members: $56.50 includes HST
Non-TAPA Members: $113.00 includes HST
Date: Tuesday June 12, 2012
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Alterna Savings Meeting Room, CSI Spadina, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 400
Deadline to register for this session is Thursday June 7, 2012
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

Avery Swartz, web designer
Avery Swartz is a Toronto-based award-winning web designer and web skills instructor. A self-described design geek, she helps to demystify the web for small business owners, charities, and arts organizations. Avery believes that getting your business online should be an enjoyable experience for everyone involved, and not a chore. She offers a friendly, casual approach and promises to use as little technical mumbo-jumbo as possible. You can contact Avery, view her portfolio, and see a list of upcoming web workshops at averyswartz.com.

Past 2011/2 Workshops

Marketing to Schools OR How do I get that teacher on the phone?

Presented in Partnership with Prologue to the Performing Arts

Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Creation Lab/Toronto Fringe – 720 Bathurst St. 4th Floor.

FREE! Light refreshments

Please join Prologue artists and Janet O’Neil, Arts Convener for the Toronto District School Board to explore the positive ways that you can communicate the value of your work to schools, teachers and education administrators.

Please RSVP by March 28th to Abida Kassam abida@prologue.org or 416-591-9092 ext. 227

For more than 45 years, Prologue to the Performing Arts has been supporting performances in dance, theatre, music, opera, puppetry and story-telling to schools and communities across the province. Prologue is committed to building positive partnerships between the professional arts and education communities to ensure that all young people have access to high quality performing arts experiences.

Touring Schools and Beyond: OAC Grants and Programs

Presented in Partnership with Prologue to the Performing Arts

Nasreen Kahn, Arts Education Officer, OAC and Aengus Finnan, Touring and Audience Development Officer, OAC will discuss touring and arts education grants available to individual artists and companies touring or interested in touring to schools across the province and beyond. In addition Senior Prologue artists will share specific challenges and triumphs of working in schools.

TAPA Members: Free!
Date: Monday, October 3, 2011
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Ernest Balmer Studio – Tapestry New Opera Works 55 Mill St. (The Distillery) Building 58, The Cannery, Suite 315

Deadline to register for this session is Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Please RSVP to Patty Jarvis, Executive Director at patty@prologue.org

Light refreshments will be provided.

For the past 46 years, Prologue to the Performing Arts has been introducing the performing arts to young people and their families in schools and public venues. This year they introduce an opportunity for all artists to discuss the challenges and triumphs of performing for children and working with the education system – Prologue’s Artist Exchange – three sessions will take place throughout the 2011-12 season.

Emergency First Aid with CPR/AED

We are pleased to offer the Emergency First Aid Workshop again! This workshop has been especially popular with companies who operate venues and who employ Front of house and Box Office staff. This workshop ensures your staff are properly trained for a variety of possible workplace emergency situations.

This informative all day session will cover a variety of topics including:

• Adult CPR
• Breathing and Bleeding Emergencies
• Severe Allergic Reactions
• AED (defibrillation certification)

Certification is valid for 3 years and is equivalent to WSIB , Heart & Stroke and St. John’s Ambulance.

TAPA Members: $99.44 includes HST and all materials
Non-Members: $126.84 includes HST and all materials
Date: Thursday October 13, 2011
Time: 9:30a.m. to 5:00p.m.
Location: The Tank House Theatre, Young Centre for the Performing Arts
55 Mill Street, Building 49

Deadline to register for this session is Thursday October 6th, 2011.
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

ERT-Emergency Response Training offers on-site workplace training in Red cross Certification Courses and Workshops. ERT instructors are Certified Red Cross Instructors and many have Paramedic & First Responder backgrounds and training.

Blurring Lines Between the Commercial and Non-Profit Sectors: New Models for the Future

Presented in Partnership with Arts Consultants Canada/Consultants canadiens en arts

Today, lines are blurring and boundaries between commercial and not for profit have shifted! As a consultant and practitioner, what more do you need to know about new and effective business models?

Are funders comfortable with anything more than tweaking the current model? Is technology impacting on current structures, and how are arts organizations responding? How comfortable are you with the evolving vocabulary: Community Bonds; Public Benefit Organizations; Bill 65; B Corporations and Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3C); social entrepreneurship?

A panel of provocative practitioners will share findings from their research and experience: Pat Bradley will re-examine the strengths of the current structure, and where it may be improved; Shannon Lintzenberger will reveal some of her research findings from a year’s study of the USA and global models; Pru Robey will deliver some insights into the unique approaches being developed by Artscape.

This interactive discussion will be of enormous interest to working arts consultants, arts organizations, service organizations, funders, academics and those committed to the future of a dynamic cultural sector.

TAPA Members: $35.00 includes HST and all materials
Non-Members: $50.00 includes HST and all materials
Date: Friday October 14, 2011
Time: 1:30p.m. to 5:30p.m.
Location: Ballroom, The 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church St. (north of Wellesley)

REGISTER ONLINE: at www.artsconsultants.ca

Speaker Bios
Pat Bradley recently added the role of Research Manager to her responsibilities as OAC’s Theatre Officer where she oversees the internal and external research needs of the Ontario Arts Council. Pat was the Executive Director of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) from July 1992 until she joined OAC in April 2001.

A senior arts administrator, she has taught cultural policy, strategic planning, and arts administration, at both the University of Toronto and Humber College. Pat was President of the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) and served on numerous volunteer arts boards, including the 12 Alexander Street Theatre Project and STAF (Small Theatre Administrative Facility).

A Toronto-based dance artist, writer, director and advocate, Shannon Litzenberger is a passionate arts leader in the Canadian cultural sector. In her former role as Executive Director of the Canadian Dance Assembly for more than five years, her work in the area of dance and arts policy contributed significantly to shaping sector-wide policy positions on behalf of the arts and culture community. Representing the national dance sector, she was a founding member of Canada’s Performing Arts Alliance and a member of the Canadian Arts Coalition Steering Committee – Canada’s largest ever group of artists, business leaders and volunteers assembled from across the country.

After completing her studies at Ryerson University (BFA program in dance 2001) and York University (MA program in dance 2005), she devoted much of her creative energies to her work with the Integrated Dance Artists Collective (IDAC) – a Toronto-based group of emerging dance artists, which she co-founded in 2001. Shannon acted as IDAC’s Artistic Director from its inception until 2007 and was instrumental in establishing a working model for the collective that supports and nurtures the development of young professional artists through engagement in creative processes with Canada’s leading choreographers.

She continues to participate in these arts policy forums and others, now as the first-ever Metcalf Arts Policy Fellow. In this capacity, she has spent time exploring the relationship between arts policy and practice at all levels of government.

Pru Robey, Director, Knowledge Exchange at Artscape, has over 25 years experience as a manager, promoter, funder and consultant in the arts, culture and creative industries in Canada and the United Kingdom. Pru has advised arts and cultural organizations and agencies; all tiers of government; higher education, economic development and urban regeneration agencies on policy and strategic development for the arts, culture and creative industries with a long standing focus on culture-led regeneration and the creative economy.

At Artscape, Pru is responsible for developing and directing a suite of programs and services designed to build the capacity of communities across Canada to develop cultural facilities. Since joining Artscape, Pru has also led a number of large scale research and consulting projects in Toronto and across Canada. She is currently leading Artscape’s research into creative and cultural sector entrepreneurship and the development of community cultural resources in Toronto’s Priority Neighbourhoods.

Arts Consultants Canada / Consultants canadiens en arts is a peer vetted association for consultants working in the arts and cultural sector in Canada. Please visit www.artsconsultants.ca for further details.

Incorporation and Charitable Status

Spend the morning with Slade Lander, Arts Manager at the Dance Umbrella of Ontario and learn about the steps to incorporation and becoming a charity as well as the benefits, drawbacks and responsibilities of both. If you have been intimidated by terms such as “letters patent”, “accumulated surplus”, and “donative intent” here is your chance to overcome those fears and have the knowledge needed to make an informed decision.

This informative session will cover a variety of topics including:

• What is a corporation/charity?
• Should I incorporate?
• Differences between for profit, not-for-profit and charities
• Steps to incorporation and applying for charitable status
• How does incorporation change the way business is done?
• What is a Board of Directors and how do I get one?
• Overview of fundraising issues

TAPA Members: $22.60 includes HST and all materials
Non-Members: $56.50 includes HST and all materials
Date: Wednesday October 26, 2011
Time: 9:00a.m. to 12:00p.m.
Location: Boardroom, TAPA Offices
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 210

Deadline to register for this session is Thursday October 20th, 2011.
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

Supportive Connections and Supportive Habits: Managing Stress Round Table

Presented in Partnership with the Artists’ Health Centre Foundation

Who do you count on for support? What support systems are available to you?
In this roundtable workshop, participants will be given coping strategies to help with stress management covering the many areas that contribute to stress in our industry – over-work, career development, physical pain and discomfort, anxiety and self esteem. Participants will be shown tools and provided with practical resources to help face and handle stress in a healthy fashion.

TAPA Members: $22.60 includes HST and all materials
Non-Members: $56.50 includes HST and all materials
Date: Monday November 28, 2011
Time: 1:00p.m. to 4:00p.m.
Location: The Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street

Deadline to register for this session is Thursday November 24th, 2011.
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

Facilitators
Anne Carbert is a career counselor and coach. She emphasizes meaning, creativity, and quality of life as she helps people to craft satisfying careers. Anne has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and specializes in supporting people navigating unconventional and self-directed career paths. She offers personal development workshops as well as individual counseling. Anne is a member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists.

Dr. Anita Shack B.F.A., D.C., F.A.T.A.is a chiropractor who uses an integrated approach in her work at the Artists’ Health Centre. She combines chiropractic, craniosacral therapy, and acupuncture, customizing care to the individual artist’s needs and goals. Fascinated with the body/mind/spirit connection he is concerned not only with the relief of symptoms, but also with getting at the cause to facilitate change and healing. She has extensive experience working with artists from many disciplines, including: dance, theatre, film, visual arts, music, and writing. Dr. Shack performed as an independent modern dancer/choreographer from 1974-1986 in Canada and the United States and was a member of the Dance Music Orchestra.

Leisa Bellmore graduated with honors from the Shiatsu Academy of Tokyo’s 2200 hour program and has been practicing shiatsu since 2001. Her first career was in theatre, and she has a great respect and love for the arts and an understanding of the commitment and discipline required to live and work as an artist. Leisa works with a wide range of clients with diverse health conditions, including musicians and other performing artists, focusing on overcoming stress and strain on the body and mind to help achieve peak performance. She has been working regularly with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 2002 and is currently working on a book on self-care for musicians.

Passion for her work and the natural healing professions led Leisa to volunteer with the Natural Health Practitioners of Canada (NHPC), of which she is a member. She served on the NHPC Board of Directors from 2004-2008, serving as President from 2007-2008. She also volunteers at Toronto’s Ronald McDonald House where she offers short shiatsu treatments to the families who stay at the house. This has provided her with valuable clinical experience in working with severely stressed individuals and children coping with life-threatening illnesses. Leisa believes that we all must take an active role in our health, and she enjoys helping her clients attain their health goals while increasing health awareness. She regularly presents workshops focusing on self-care.

The Artists’ Health Centre Foundation helped create and continues to work in support of the Al and Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre at Toronto Western Hospital, and in addition, is involved in outreach, education, and prevention services for the over 20,000 professional artists who live in the Toronto area.

Our mandate is to raise the standard of health care, educational resources, and quality of life for artists, and to take those resources out into the community, both locally and nationally.

From the ITA to the Co-op, What’s the Best Agreement for YOU?

Spend the afternoon with Arden Ryshpan, Executive Director of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and learn more about the agreements that exist through the CAEA.

Learn which agreement makes the most business sense for you, your company and your given circumstances! Join us in this opportunity to hear from Arden as she lends her expertise in a detailed explanation of the various CAEA agreements.

Added BONUS: Shelia Sky of Associated Designers of Canada will be introducing the new ADC/Indie Producers contract — of interest to designers and those who hire them.

TAPA Members: Free!
Non-Members: Free!
Date: Monday December 5, 2011
Time: 1:00 to 3:00pm
Location: Backspace, Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Avenue

Deadline to register for this session is Thursday December 1th, 2011.
Please RSVP to Alexis Da Silva-Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager at alexisdsp@tapa.ca.

Sponsorship Bootcamp with Industry Leader Rachel Hilton

This three-hour session takes the form of a sponsorship bootcamp, part instruction, part hands-on exercise where the participants will:

• Gain an understanding of why corporations invest in not-for-profit arts
• Understand what works in today’s challenging sponsorship marketplace
• Learn effective strategies to turn a corporation into a sponsor or donor
• Better understand the assets they have to ‘sell’
• Be able to create logical links to a potential sponsor
• Negotiate smarter and package more successfully
• Become a more effective fundraiser

There may be time for smaller one-on-one sessions to speak directly with Rachel and receive hands-on assistance and direct advice on developing your sponsorship approach within a confidential setting.

TAPA Members: $22.60 includes HST and all materials
Non-Members: $56.50 includes HST and all materials
Date: Tuesday January 17, 2012
Time: 1:00p.m. to 4:00p.m.
Location: Studio A, Lower Ossington Theatre 100A Ossington Avenue
Deadline to register for this session is Monday January 16th, 2012. RSVP to Alexis at alexisdsp@tapa.ca

About Rachel Hilton
Rachel Hilton is an experienced senior marketing and sponsorship professional who has worked with some of the top cultural and entertainment companies including, the Stratford Festival, Dancap Productions, Culture Days, Canadian Stage and Toronto Just for Laughs Festival. Rachel is a motivated and passionate professional with over eighteen years of experience and a successful track record in a range of marketing and corporate fundraising disciplines with considerable experience overseeing the translation of business vision into multi-channel sponsorship marketing programs that build relationships between between the arts and corporate Canada. www.rachelhilton.ca

The 2011/12 TAPA Trade Series is generously sponsored by