Upcoming

Webinar – Marketing Masterclass: Getting Your Board on Board!
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET
Open to the public

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This FREE webinar is for arts and heritage organization staff who are interested in learning how to structure and present their marketing strategy to their Board of Directors—and get them engaged!

Do you struggle with engaging board members when it comes to marketing and promotion?
Are you trying to get your board involved with promoting an upcoming event/exhibition?
Are you trying to get them to see the value of promoting the work your organization does on a regular basis?
Are you currently a board member of an arts or heritage organization looking for guidance on how you can support the staff? (You can join too!)

Join us to learn how you can start drafting your plan to present your marketing strategy to your Board!

We’ll cover some best practices, break down common issues, and highlight opportunities to get your Board engaged in your marketing strategy, including how your Board's Love Languages can help support your goals.

Meet our facilitator: Sue Edworthy has worked in the non-profit performing arts for over twenty years. She is a respected and sought-after marketing and communications specialist and runs Sue Edworthy Arts Planning, a marketing, producing and strategic planning company for the Toronto arts community. Visit sueedworthy.ca for more information.

This webinar is presented as part of our Marketing Masterclass for Arts & Heritage Organizations program. For more details about the program and access to additional free resources—including interviews, case studies, and templates—visit workinculture.ca/Marketing-Masterclass.

Public Session – Growing Creative Careers Windsor & Region: Project Planning Panel
Thursday, September 29, 2022 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm ET
Open to the public

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Bringing a project plan or project management mindset into your artistic practice or creative work isn't about bringing in more administrative structure for the sake of it. Doing so can help you keep track of your responsibilities and tasks in a way that feels manageable and contained, can improve your communications with collaborators and partners, and can help you see how your actions all fit into helping you achieve your larger vision and goals.

But where do you start?
How do you know its working?
What tools and resources are available to you?

Learn from our expert panel of guest speakers about their experiences starting, implementing and evaluating their own creative projects. Panelist details coming soon!

Meet our facilitator: Nadja Pelkey is an artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Windsor, Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States and abroad. She has contributed catalogue essays, reviews, and criticism to both regional and national publications. In 2014 she was nominated for the Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts by senior artist nominee Iain Baxter. From 2013 to 2015, she directed the Neighbourhood Spaces Artist-in-Residence program, culminating in the Neighbourhood Spaces Community and Socially Engaged Art Symposium and subsequent publication Neighbourhood Spaces, which she edited. She is the former Executive Director of the Arts Council Windsor & Region and sits on the City of Windsor Public Art Committee. Nadja has taught at University of Windsor, where she worked in the photography area and taught as a sessional instructor. Nadja is currently Associate Curator, Projects & Partnerships of Art Windsor-Essex.

This public session is delivered as part of our Growing Creative Careers program. If you are interested in participating in our next multi-session intensive cohort, please visit workinculture.ca/windsor for more details about the program.

Webinar – Marketing Masterclass: Marketing for Events!
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET
Open to the public

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This FREE webinar is for arts and heritage organization staff who are interested in learning how to structure a marketing campaign for their next event!

Do you have an upcoming event (e.g., fundraiser, exhibition, open house, performance) that you'd like to market more strategically?
Are you looking for guidance on how to create a manageable and effective plan to achieve your event marketing goals?
Are you trying to get your colleagues and Board more engaged and involved in implementing your next campaign?

Then this webinar is for you! Join us to learn how to make the most of your next event marketing campaign.

We'll cover some best practices, break down the common elements of a strong campaign, and highlight how you can make the most of the outreach channels available to you.

RECENTLY COMPLETED

Info Session – Growing Creative Careers: Planning Your Projects
August 10 | 12 - 1 pm ET
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Learn more about Growing Creative Careers: Planning Your Projects in this information session with curriculum consultant and facilitator Nadja Pelkey. This upcoming training series is geared towards participants int he Windsor-Essex region looking to develop or expand a creative project idea or partnership. Participants will work closely together to workshop their ideas with peers, and will come away from the training series with the resources and knowledge needed to move their projects forward.

If you have any questions about Growing Creative Careers: Windsor & Region or Cohort 3: Planning Your Projects, please visit workinculture.ca/windsor or contact Stephanie Draker, Program Manager at stephaniedraker@workinculture.ca.

FLEX Spotlight Session: Collaborating with Society
April 13 | 10 am - 12pm EDT
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This spotlight session covered the ethics of socially-engaged art; effective methodologies for engagement and evaluation; managing change at different scales, from the individual to the systemic; environmental justice, citizen participation, the role of creativity in everyday life, and much more! This Spotlight featured EVVI (France), 64 Million Artists (UK), and Kevin Matthew Wong (Canada).

FLEX Spotlight Session: Collaborating with Artists
March 16 | 10 am - 12pm EDT
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A festival is like an iceberg: the collective experience is the tip, the rest is all the underground work going on year-round to make it happen. In this second Spotlight Session, with guests from Manchester Jazz Festival (UK), Queens' Council on the Arts (USA), and Owais Lightwala (Canada), we'll look under the surface to consider year-round collaborations with artists: from outreach & participation projects to talent development programmes, co-productions, commissions, interdisciplinary experimentations, and intersectoral explorations.

FLEX Spotlight Session: Collaborating with Peers
Wed, Feb 2 | 10am -12pm EST
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This Spotlight Session covered how to collaborate with arts and heritage festivals, make space for conflict amongst peers and grow, maintain and end professional relationships. Learn from inspiring examples of peer-based collaborative frameworks from Canada, Spain, France, and Belgium. Guest speakers include: Clayton Windatt, curator, multi-arts performer and filmmaker, Benoit Geers from NEXT Festival, and Mike Ribalta from FiraTàrrega.

Closed Captioning: Please note that all our online workshops/webinars are recorded and closed captioned, with pdf transcriptions for accessibility purposes. By registering you are agreeing to be recorded.