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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 ARTS CHATS: 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. Click to view all four webinars that happened in March. 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 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. May 17: Creative Champions Webinar Series \| Are You The Boss of Me? Creative Champions Network (CCN) hosts webinars and provides useful resources to assist Arts Board members in championing for the arts. May 24-28: Newcomer Week: Virtual Edition Local and foreign organizations and past recipients of Neighbourhood Arts Network’s RBC Newcomer Artist Award to present virtual activations through dynamic digital partnerships.
June June 1: Nominations open for Indigenous Arts Awards and Community Arts Award. Deadline August 16 June 16-July 30: ArtWorksTO: Skills for a Creative Future Media artists who are Indigenous, Black, People of Colour, and/or 2SLGBTQ+ youth take part in a portfolio training program designed for artists at any career stage. June 24: ArtWorksTO: Skills for a Creative Future Graduation of the first batch of ArtWorksTO: Skills for a Creative Future.
July July 12 - September 25: Arts in the Parks Anyplace Free, family-friendly events available online through Arts in the Parks July 27: Indigenous Artist Award Info Session Join Cole Stevens-Goulais to learn about Toronto Arts Foundation's inaugural Indigenous Artist Award. Deadline August 16
August August 5 – October 16, 2021: Arts in the Parks Free, family friendly in-person events
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
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