July 2006
News
The Arts Community Makes the Case
Summary of OAC’s Business Case for Additional Funds
Where Artists Live, Work and Earn What in Ontario
OAC Jury in Thunder Bay
York University and OAC Partner on Pilot Program
Recent Results
A listing of recent recipients of OAC grants (deadlines from February 1, 2006 to March 15, 2006)
Dates to remember
Upcoming OAC program deadlines in Theatre, Compass, Aboriginal Arts, Visual and Media Arts, etc.
Postcards from the road
Stories from Touring grant recipients that have made their way back to us. In this issue, the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Group of Seven Project, including Franklin Carmichael at the Art Gallery of Sudbury and Lawren Harris at Gallery Stratford. As well, Motus O Dance Theatre takes North Bay.
Arts Notes
The National Film Board’s (NFB) French Program, Studio Ontario et Ouest and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) announce four Ontario-based francophone filmmakers selected to participate in the mentorship program.
2006 Pauline McGibbon Award Presented at the Doras
Deadline changes for Aboriginal Arts Projects and Aboriginal Arts Education Projects
Protocol reminder for in-person applications on deadline day.
QUICK FACT #2
Did you know that Ontario ’s cultural sector impact in 2001 was $18 billion? And that Ontario is responsible for 48 per cent of the economic impact for Canada ’s cultural sector?
(Source: Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics Research papers, Economic Contribution of the Culture Sector in Canada – A Provincial Perspective, Vik Singh, Statistics Canada, December 2004.)