January 28, 2012 in Featured, Jobs by Ryan Drew Hayward
Organization: Philip Beesley Architect Inc.
Application Deadline: February 6, 2012
Website: www.philipbeesley.com
Position: Development and Communications Coordinator
Term: Full-time
Location: Toronto (West End)
Salary: $29,000 – $35,000
Start Date: February 14, 2012
January 25, 2012 in Featured, Jobs by Ryan Drew Hayward
Salary: $23,296 per annum at 21 hours/week
The Satellite Video Exchange Society (VIVO Media Arts Centre) seeks a self-directed, motivated individual for the position of Fundraising + Development Coordinator. This is a part-time position created to lead the organization in the further development and implementation of our fundraising strategies and tools. This position has a two-fold responsibility: to build the fundraising infrastructure necessary for successful fundraising campaigns, and to lead SVES fundraising activities. The Fundraising and Development Coordinator is responsible for conducting the day-to-day operational management and implementation of all activities pertaining to fund development and fundraising.
January 25, 2012 in Call for Submissions, Featured by Ryan Drew Hayward
The dates are set for the 2012 Erotic Art Show. This will be the fifth year. Please see the website for access to newspaper articles, and Youtube videos. There is a detailed FAQ as well for any questions you have.
As the popularity of the show continues to rise and the sense of community builds, the cost to enter is remaining at $10 per artwork, maximum three artworks. Deadline of Feb 28 is firm.
January 19, 2012 in Featured, Jobs by Ryan Drew Hayward
The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is an independent not-for-profit funding organization. Its mandate is to provide support to the more than 150 campus and community radio stations in Canada and to foster a well-resourced, dynamic, and accessible media sector that delivers strong local community broadcasting.
The CRFC is seeking a fully bilingual (English/French) program officer who will be responsible for the planning, assessment, and distribution of CRFC funding. This person will work with applicants and recipients throughout the year to provide support, encourage participation, assess applications and reports, and manage contracts.
Responsibilities
- Coordinating calls for funding applications, including responding to questions from applicants
- Managing the selection process, assessing funding applications, and providing support to selection committees
- Coordinating the announcement of funding decisions and working with recipients to finalize contracts, communications, and promotions
- Providing guidance and support to recipients throughout the funding term
- Receiving, assessing, and compiling information from recipient reports for review and use by the executive director, program committee, and funders
- Creating and maintaining a database of applications, reports, assessments, and communications
- Evaluating, visioning, and strategic goal-setting for existing and new funding programs
- Contributing to the development of policies and procedures in support of the CRFC’s vision and evolution with respect to funding distribution
- Undertaking additional responsibilities as required, including assisting with special events, contributing to reports, and general office administration
Qualifications
- A post-secondary degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
- At least three years experience in program management, administration, and evaluation
- At least two years experience with communications and public relations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French (comprehension as well as written and spoken fluency will be tested during the interview process)
- Advanced computer skills including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations
- A strong understanding of project budgets and financial statements
- Strong project, time management, and organizational skills
- Experience working with little or no supervision
- Experience working with volunteers and committees
Assets
- Work and/or volunteer experience in the not-for-profit sector
- Understanding or knowledge of campus and community radio
- Experience working collaboratively and strategically to effect organizational growth and development
Attributes
- Self-directed and able to work with small teams
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously without sacrificing attention to detail
- Enjoys working with a wide range of people
- Sound judgement, tact, and diplomacy skills
- Comfortable taking initiative during slow periods and managing workload when under deadline
Terms and Benefits
This is a full-time 40-hour/week position with a salary range of $45,000 to $50,000, commensurate with skills and experience. Benefits include: comprehensive health and dental plan, employee assistance program, annual RRSP contribution, and an office in the ByWard Market. Estimated start date is Monday, February 20, 2012. This is a permanent position.
How to Apply
Applicants are asked to forward a cover letter and résumé by the end of the business day on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Emailed applications are preferred. If using mail, all materials must arrive by January 31. DO NOT FAX YOUR APPLICATION. Everyone is thanked for applying, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Community Radio Fund of Canada
325 Dalhousie Street, Suite 903, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7G2
Phone: 613-321-3513
Email: resume@communityradiofund.org
Applications that do not include a cover letter will be rejected. Applicants are encouraged to highlight relevant qualifications in the cover letter.
The CRFC welcomes applications from a diverse range of candidates including (but not limited to) people from different racialized, linguistic and ethnocultural communities, genders, sexual/gender identities, ages, religions, and those with different abilities.
For more information about the CRFC, please visit www.communityradiofund.org.
January 16, 2012 in Featured, Jobs by Ryan Drew Hayward
Executive Director
Guelph Youth Music Centre
Guelph, Ontario
Mission Statement
The Guelph Youth Music Centre is a unique facility that educates, enriches and fosters the development of our youth through music and the arts.
The Guelph Youth Music Centre is looking for an energetic and creative Executive Director to lead our organization into the future and to realize its full potential through innovative programing, community partnerships, sound financial management and fostering volunteerism.
The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for the leadership and operational management of the Guelph Youth Music Centre. In addition, the successful candidate will work with the Board to identify and secure funding sources through corporate and private sponsors, grants, foundations and other fundraising activities. Also, the Executive Director is responsible for the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of youth music and arts programs. Music training and program experience would be an asset.
For more information: www.gymc.ca
Please submit resume by January 31th to:
Guelph Youth Music Centre
Executive Director Search Committee
75 Cardigan St
January 13, 2012 in Featured, Jobs by Ryan Drew Hayward
Artistic Producer
bluemouth inc.
(Toronto, Ontario)
bluemouth inc., an internationally acclaimed, non-profit interdisciplinary performance collective, seeks a creative, dynamic, and entrepreneurial individual to serve in the role of Artistic Producer.
The Company:
- bluemouth inc. is a Canadian interdisciplinary theatre company that works collectively to create original, dynamic, and immersive performance. We are five artists trained in various disciplines, brought together by a common vision of sharing our diverse experiences, and forging an unique performance language.
- Our goal is to reach beyond the boundaries of conventional performance practice to create multi-disciplinary site-specific art, that leads audiences and artists alike into new forms of play.
The Position:
- This position will play a key role in contributing to the overall creative visioning of the collective and assist in the development of a wide-range of rapidly expanding international activities.
- The Artistic Producer will work in partnership with the five Core Members of bluemouth in all areas of the company planning and help lead the collective into its next phase of artistic development.
- The political and ideological culture of the company, is one of complete collaboration. Idividuals should be comfortable and willing to work in a non-hierarchical enviroment.
- The company is in period of extensive growth and is seeking an adventurous, creative individual to help build support for its unique creative process, public engagement activities and expansion into an international market.
- The Core Company is looking for a creative individual who will augment the current operations, lightening some of the existing work load, while identifying and initiating new areas of potential growth.
- This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to make this a career and/or grow with the company.
Responsibilities:
- Working in partnership with the Core Members of bluemouth inc., the Artistic Producer will be responsible for contributing to the overall operations of the organization, including, but not limited to, the following:
Management:
- Represent the company to our audience, supporters and broader communities through leadership and active participation.
- Identify and maintain relationships with existing and new local, national and international collaborators and presenters.
- Assist in the development and management of a critical path.
- Develop and negotiate the terms for the presentation of existing and new work including commissions.
- Assist in the coordination and management of volunteers.
- Coordinate media relations including interviews, press calls and photo shoots.
Fundraising:
- Develop long-term fundraising strategies in partnership with the Core Members and Board of Directors.
- Identify opportunities, coordinate and assist Core Company Members in the preparation of grant applications for funding to all levels of government.
- Coordinate all fundraising events in cooperation with the Board of Directors and Core Members, including: an Annual Garden Party Fundraising Campaign, special events, direct mail and online appeals as well as sponsorship initiatives.
- Innovate new strategies of revenue generation (sourcing additional staff ie: mentorship programs, part time support or coop, paid internships to build a team)
- Maintain good relations with government agencies and foundations, optimizing funding from all sources, and with the Core Members, prepare project and touring grants including final reporting.
- Record all donations and facilitate gift acknowledgement.
Marketing:
- With the Core Members, design, plan and implement marketing strategies and new media production.
- Develop and manage mailing lists.
- Assist in the maintenance and growth of online visibility, including social networking communities and platforms
- Coordinate and contribute to the writing and dissemination of newsletters, press releases and other promotional materials.
Qualifications:
- Belief in the mission of bluemouth inc. and the personality and ability to inspire others to support the company
- Experience and comfort in working as part of a collective.
- Ability to delegate and coordinate the Core Members of the collective based upon their individual strengths.
- Creative problem solver
- Available to tour with the company.
- Candidate should possess excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, set goals and plan long-term.
- Strong writing, editing and proofreading skills.
- Knowledge of the Canadian and International Performance Community
- Experience/knowledge of contract negotiation and initiating business partnerships within the performing arts
- Ability to work independently and is self-motivated
- Knowledge of social media and in depth computer skills required
- Comfortable with traveling and working from ‘the road’
- Committed to helping create successful and sustainable company that aspires to innovate, create, collaborate, explore and perform.
- Outgoing and friendly demeaner
- Strong business skills an asset
- Comfortable writing and speaking about interdisciplinary performance practice.
- Strong organizational abilities, attention to detail and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with patience and flexibility
Salary: Competitive (with travel and bonus incentive built in and) potential to quickly grow alongside the company into full time position.
Additional Information:
bluemouth inc. presents of Ontario is an equal opportunity employer.
Please apply no later than February 10, 2012 by mail or e-mail with C.V. and cover letter of interest to:
Ciara Adams
187 Hallam Street
Toronto, Ontario
M6H 1X4
Canada
No phone calls please
Email: ciarajaneadams@gmail.com
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Website: www.bluemouthinc.com
January 10, 2012 in Call for Submissions, Featured by Ryan Drew Hayward
dead (g)end(er) magazine is calling for art+lit submissions for our THIRD ISSUE–
the spring, 2012 issue!
we like the radical,
the hilarious,
the heart-warming,
and the unique!
dg accepts submissions from anyone regardless of sex, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or taste in music.
we’ve published mask art, vispo, theatre pieces, exhibition reviews, and a ton more.
we’ve featured artists and writers from across Canada, and the world!
we’re always looking to spice things up!
we’d love to check out your work :)
SEND YOUR STUFF ON OVER TO DG!
we accept:
visual art – photography, doodles, sketches, paintings, sculptures, graphic design, make-up art, fashion design, etc. (attach up to five visual pieces – high resolution jpg. doc’s/photos.)
literature – poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, novel/screenplay/theatre excerpts, song lyrics, etc. (submit up to five poems or prose pieces no longer than 2000 words. send your work in the body of your email unless your form will get messed up!)
*due to copyrights, we cannot print fan-art, or previously published works!
submissions can be sent to: deadgender.mag@gmail.com
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE is FEBRUARY 29th, 2012
for more info, check out our blog: www.deadgender.blogspot.com
facebook page: www.facebook.com/deadgender
or, twitter @dead_gender
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December 21, 2011 in Call for Submissions, Featured by Ryan Drew Hayward
Call to Artists :: Request for Proposals – Boyle Street Renaissance Phase 1: Boyle Community Centre
The Boyle Street Renaissance Phase 1 public art competition, open to all Canadian visual artists, is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C)
Budget: $31,500.00 CAD (maximum, all inclusive)
Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Installation: Summer 2012
Visit our website to download the complete public art call:
http://publicart.edmontonarts.ca/calls/
For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council: phone (780) 424–2787 or email: publicart@edmontonarts.ca
December 14, 2011 in Call for Submissions, Featured by Ryan Drew Hayward
Call for Submissions to Fresh Ground new works
Harbourfront Centre’s national commissioning prizes
TORONTO, ON (Dec. 13, 2011) – Harbourfront Centre is pleased to issue the fifth Call for Submissions for Fresh Ground new works. Prize-winners will receive funding of up to $20,000 toward the creation and presentation of their projects during Harbourfront Centre’s 2013-2014 season.
A key facet of Harbourfront Centre’s mandate is championing the creation of new artistic works, providing a forum for originality, invention and inspiration. Recognizing that some of the most original and intriguing work being produced across the country today results from artists experimenting across genres and collaborating in untraditional ways, in 2004 Harbourfront Centre launched its national commissioning prize, Fresh Ground new works. Through this legacy programme, Harbourfront Centre has awarded over $400,000 in prizes toward 19 new interdisciplinary Canadian works created by artists and companies from across the country.
In 2012, a maximum prize of $20,000 will be awarded to each of the winning projects which successfully fulfills the selection panel’s criteria for a new, collaborative artistic creation incorporating more than one discipline or field. As in previous years, the work must be original, never before presented or performed, and be ready for presentation or installation at Harbourfront Centre between September 2013 and June 2014.
Harbourfront Centre is the steward of an extraordinary 10-acre site at the centre of Toronto’s urban waterfront, and the 2013-2014 prize-winning projects will focus on the unique site, its relationship to the surrounding area, Harbourfront Centre’s history and environment and its role as a gateway to the city. Proposals should also demonstrate an understanding of and be complementary to Harbourfront Centre’s mission and vision available on our website. The projects will also engage the widest possible audience, through work that considers diversity (cultural, generational, lifestyle), immediacy, spectacle and emotional resonance. More information on proposal criteria is available at harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/freshground/.
The Call for Submission deadline is Monday, January 30, 2012. Letters of Intent received after 5:00pm EST on January 30, 2012 will not be considered.
For more information on Fresh Ground new works, the first 14 award-winning projects and the five projects being presented this season, as well as guidelines on applying for funding, please visit harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/freshground/.
December 10, 2011 in Articles, Classes/Workshops, Featured by Ryan Drew Hayward
VNB Fine Art Photo Workshops are new Vancouver-based Photography workshops specializing in the teaching of Film Photography. We offer practical and affordable introductory training in every aspect of analog photography, while our intermediate and advanced workshops offer a great way to acquire new creative skills, get updated on contemporary practices, or gain valuable artistic insights on developing work.
Because our instructional formats allow for smaller groups, heightened attention is always paid to your projects and academic goals, ensuring clear focus and steady artistic growth. Our teaching philosophy reflects a broad humanistic understanding of the visual arts that encourages students to cultivate respectful viewpoints, articulate responsible meanings while challenging established formulas.
At VNB we like to think of all our workshops as collaborative in nature: a transforming place, where Photography’s permanent reinvention occurs image after image, photographer per photographer.
Current available workshops:
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS
Basics of Photography 4-hour Crash Course (Sundays 1 – 5 pm)
Film Photography Foundations (Tuesdays 7 – 10 pm)
Photoshop Workflows for Photographers (Saturdays 10 am – 1 pm)
Introduction to Creative Portraiture (upcoming, March 2012)
INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOPS
Plastic Camera (Mondays 7 – 10 pm)
Photo Editing & Sequencing (Fridays 6 – 9 pm)
Fine Art Black and White Photography (Upcoming, April 2012)
Documentary Photography (Thursdays 7 – 10 pm)
ADVANCED WORKSHOPS
Expressive Landscapes in Medium & Large Format Photography (Saturdays 2 – 5 pm)
Staged Photography, The Narrative Tableau (Wednesdays 7 – 10 pm)
Environmental Portrait using Mixed Lighting (Upcoming, March 2012)
ONE-ON-ONE INSTRUCTION sessions also available.
VNB represents the collaboration of photographers Virginie Lamarche and Bastien Desfriches Doria. After its initial Chicago launching, VNB is now operating in Vancouver, BC. Virginie and Bastien met in France – their home country – before jointly coming to the US to complete their MFAs in photography. As a couple they have been interacting for many years while working on their various respective fine art projects, first in school and later as academics. These common experiences allowed for the progressive building of a fluid aesthetic and photographic culture between them.
Virginie holds a Master (MST) in Photography and Multimedia from the University of Paris VIII, France and a MFA in Photography from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her work has been exhibited in North America, Europe and Asia and has received various awards such as the KL Photo Awards 2010, Photo Espana Descubrimientos 09 and Flash Forward 08. Virginie has taught both traditional and digital photography classes as a lecturer at the University of Dayton, Ohio from 2006 to 2009. Shortly after, she created VNB Photo with Bastien.
Bastien received a BA and a MFA degree in Photography from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, as well as two other university degrees from France in Information and Communication Sciences and Philosophy. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has won awards such as the London International Creative Competition 2010 and the Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards 2010. From 2006 to 2011, Bastien worked as an Assistant Professor of photography and digital imaging at Governors State University in Chicago’ south side. He has taught film photography and digital imaging courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
For more information about their work, please log-on to virginielamarche.com and bastienddoria.com
To learn more about VNB Fine Art Photo Workshops, visit us online at www.vnbphoto.com/workshops
You can also call us at (1) 778.990.0957 (V) and (1) 778.990.0235 (B), or email us at vnb@vnbphoto.com
Online registration is also available at vnbphoto.com/workshops/?page_id=35
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