Events and Announcements Toronto Arts Foundation - sponsored events and TAF Announcements on one convenient page Events At a Glance click for more information/to register/review February February 22: Creative Champions Network Webinar - When the Shift Hits the Fan Creative Champions Network (CCN) hosts webinars and provides useful resources to assist Arts Board members in championing for the arts. March March 4: Arts Chats #1 - Shifting to Digital, Obscuring Equity Arts Chats brings together our arts community throughout March to discuss timely and understudied issues impacting our work. Part of the COVID-19 Response Initiatives. March 11: Arts Chats #2 - What is Success? Metrics, Impact and Creative Practice Arts Chats brings together our arts community throughout March to discuss timely and understudied issues impacting our work. Part of the COVID-19 Response Initiatives. March 17: Tax Time for Artists Sam Marinucci, FCPA, FCA, MBA, Partner with Hogg Shain & Scheck, a longtime arts supporter and former Board member of Toronto Arts Foundation, is joining us for a one hour webinar to help answer your questions March 18: Arts Chats #3: Technology Before, During and After Arts Chats brings together our arts community throughout March to discuss timely and understudied issues impacting our work. Part of the COVID-19 Response Initiatives. March 25: Arts Chats #4: Established On Shifting Sands Arts Chats brings together our arts community throughout March to discuss timely and understudied issues impacting our work. Part of the COVID-19 Response Initiatives. March 30: Creative Champions Webinar Series| BOARD RECRUITMENT: A NEW LOOK AT SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSION Creative Champions Network (CCN) hosts webinars and provides useful resources to assist Arts Board members in championing for the arts. April April 7: RBC Newcomer Arts Awards Celebration The RBC Newcomer Arts Award is designed to support the future potential of newcomer artists working in a range of disciplines across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Awards of up to $2000 are intended to support each recipient’s artistic practice. For more information contact leslie@torontoarts.org April 7-16: Live Lunch Chats features artists and creatives reflecting on their arts practice and how the sector has adapted one year into the pandemic. Tune in at 12PM via @neighbourhoodarts Instagram Live. Leila Fatemi: Wednesday April 7 @ 12PM Jessa Aglio: Thursday April 8 @ 12PM Jason Samilski: Friday April 9th @ 12PM Alvis Choi: Thursday April 15 @ 12PM Naty Tremblay: Friday April 16 @ 12PM April 22: Digitizing Your Art: Exploring New Tools and Strategies for Documentation and Presentation 90 minute webinar with artists Yung Yemi and Samar Hejazi with shares learnings on documenting and presenting art in virtual spaces. Part of the Making a Living Making Art series of presentations. April 29: LET'S TALK ART - AR, VR & Blockchain With DigiArt Presented in partnership with DigiArt, this webinar offers an introduction to innovative art-tech tools such as blockchain, VR, AI and more May May 11: Toronto Arts Foundation Awards - Mayor's Arts Lunch Through our awards portfolio, we spotlight Toronto's finest professional artists and arts organizations, celebrating their contributions to our city of arts. June June 15: Arts in the Parks Opening Day Hundreds of family-friendly, inclusive free arts events in parks across Toronto, all summer long. November November 15: The Mayor's Evening For The Arts Annual Fundraiser to support Arts in the Parks and TOArtist Covid-19 Response Effort Initiatives Please click here for all News and Announcements