The Ontario Arts Council has changed some of its grant program deadlines for this spring, and you can click through to details from this page. The OAC also has useful and regularly-updated COVID-19 FAQs on its website, here. Minister’s Town Hall Meeting This morning, March 26, Lisa Macleod (Ontario Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture […]
We encourage you to download the PDF of this letter and to share it with your MP. Download Letter PDF A template for a ‘cover letter’ email is also available for your use here: Download Cover Letter Sent by email to: The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage; The Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of […]
As of April 13th, 2020, jobs posted on Orchestras Canada’s job board will require remuneration information. This could take the form of: an annual salary (or salary range) an hourly rate (or range) a per service rate a total amount, for contract work or an RFP for example Pro-bono jobs or professional development opportunities will […]
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Blog post by Nick Walshe, Orchestras Canada Last month, I attended the Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) second Digital Stage Symposium. The Digital Stage is a collaborative project between the COC, the National Ballet of Canada, and Sheridan College’s Screen Industries Research and Training Centre, and is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. It […]
As part of our advocacy work, we’ve prepared a leave-behind document, useful for meetings with federal and provincial members of parliament, or indeed for any meeting where you’re hoping to demonstrate the value of orchestras to a decision-maker. This document also highlights some key facts about orchestras in Canada, and summarizes our four most recent […]
Download as PDF January 2020 On behalf of Ontario’s sixty-nine orchestras, the audiences they serve, the musicians they engage, and the enterprises they work with, Orchestras Canada is pleased to participate in the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs’ pre-budget consultations. We appreciate this opportunity and look forward to a continued and constructive dialogue […]
As a way of opening up their concert halls to a greater number of people in their communities, several Canadian orchestras have produced Relaxed Performances. Last year, we shared resources from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Let’s Dance concert. On November 1st, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) produced their first relaxed performance, as part of a […]
In September 2018, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and Music Director Kent Nagano toured to Indigenous communities across Northern Quebec. The featured work on this tour was a new chamber opera entitled Chaakapesh, the Trickster’s Quest. The opera tells the story of Chaakapesh, a trickster who sets out to stop the massacre of his […]
Guest blog post by Claire Speed and Ian Ritchie. “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” Plato In June 2019, two national conferences took place over the same two days in Ottawa. One focused on Community Health Connections, the other on the Orchestra of the 21st Century. On the […]