Past Events and Announcements: 2021

February 2021

• 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.
• June 24: Awards: Indigenous Artist Award & Community Arts Award Info Session
  On June 24, 2021 (outgoing) Indigenous Arts Program Manager Tash Naveau and Community Engagement Manager Jaclyn Rodrigues hosted an information session for two Toronto Arts Foundation Awards.

July

• July 12 - September 25: Arts in the Parks Anyplace
  Free, family-friendly events available online through Arts in the Parks
• July 25 - ArtWorksTO Next Stream Deadline 
• 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 
• August 16: Deadline for Community Art Award Nomination
• August 16: Deadline for Indigenous Artist Award Nomination
• August 22:  ArtWorksTO Foundations Stream Deadline 

September

• September 13 - October 18: Nominations Open for the RBC Newcomer Awards
• September 15 - December 3: Nominations Open for Toronto Arts Foundation Awards 

October

• October 27: Toronto Arts Foundation's Indigenous Artist and Community Artist Awards
  Announcement of the inaugural Indigenous Arts Award and Community Artist Award winners.

November 

• November 9: Toronto Arts Foundation Awards Info Session #2: 2022 Awards 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
  Join Awards Manager Liza Mattimore to learn more about five Toronto Arts Foundation awards being presented in 2022, including how to get started with your nomination, who is eligible and what makes a strong nomination. There will be time for questions. 

• November 15: The Mayor's Evening For The Arts
  Annual Fundraiser to support Arts in the Parks and TOArtist Covid-19 Response Effort Initiatives

• November 18:  Animating Toronto Parks Info Session
  Join Toronto Arts Council and partners on Thursday, November 18, 2-3:30pm for an information session on the Animating Toronto Parks grants program.

• November 23: Making a Living Making Art
  Learn about community collaboration and how to animate your local park through TAC’s Animating Toronto Parks grant program. Hosted by our Neighbourhood Arts Network. 6:00 - 7:30 EST

December 2021

• December 9: Creative Champions Webinar Series | Some Damn Good Ideas on How to Build Back...Better
  Creative Champions Network (CCN) hosts webinars and provides useful resources to assist Arts Board members in championing for the arts. View the Recording.