This session report was commissioned by IETM to capture the lively panel discussion moderated by Filip Pawlak (IETM Global Connector 2021-22, Poland) and featuring choreographer Jovana Rakić (Serbia), theatre-maker Mindy Drapsa (Sweden) and Access Consultant Rachel Marks (Canada).
More connections and knowledge exchange at the OAUK Reconnect Conference, with 350 artists, presenters, producers and funders working in street theatre, traditional & contemporary dance, music, puppetry, comedy, pyrotechnics, visual art, digital art, circus, parades, carnivals and melas.
We are once more practising the art of packing for a mini-tour of North American conferences and industry series, representing CIPA - Creative & Independent Producer Alliance at ISPA and Under the Radar's symposium and taking in the newest experimental performances showing this month on New York’s stages.
We’re so happy to share this beautiful New York Times feature about Katja Heitmann and her extraordinary project, Motus Mori Institute – an archive of human movement, collected through movement-interviews, preserved through the act of passing on and shared in the form of rituals and celebrations. Art of Festivals is brokering new collaborations with international partners to bring this project to many more cities.
We’re starting a new collaboration with 101 Outdoor Arts, ArtsAgenda and European networks for art in public space with a leadership development session designed for Toolbox International 2022 cohort.
Art of Festivals was invited by Réseau SPARC Network (Supporting Performing Arts in Rural & Remote Communities) to facilitate peer-to-peer sessions and present a new interactive workshop to develop collaborative competencies for their 2022 Symposium in Prince Edward County, ON.
As a proud member of IETM since 2020, we’re delighted to take a delegation of Canadian arts leaders to the next Plenary Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia (29 September-2 October).
Art of Festivals hits the road this autumn to represent artists and weave networks at Tanzmesse (Düsseldorf, DE, 1-3 September) and FiraTàrrega (Catalonia, SP, 8-11 September).
Art of Festivals is heading west to deliver a workshop co-designed with Kelly Hill from Hill Strategies at the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians (OCSM) + Orchestras Canada (OC) Western Orchestras Regional Meeting and Learning Sessions, 8-9 August, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Art of Festivals is invited to contribute to the Northern Jazz Promoters Internship programme with a 2-part workshop on Growing Audiences, a dialogue space for music presenters who want to reconnect art & society.
Free to download or play online, Future Arts Centre is a digital simulation of a multidisciplinary venue over several management cycles, imagined and produced by the Embassy of France in Canada with strategic production advice from Art of Festivals.
Recordings from the three Spotlight sessions on Collaborating with Peers, Collaborating with Artists and Collaborating with Society are available on the WorkInCulture’s website.
Art of Festivals is invited as a mentor as part of *hothouse*, manchester jazz festival’s talent development scheme for emerging jazz & improvised music artists in the North of England.
SPARC - Supporting Performing Arts in Rural & Remote Communities (Ontario, Canada) commissions a conversation with Mark Robinson (Thinking Practice), Rachel Marks (Relaxed Performance consultant) & Fanny Martin (Art of Festivals) to share insights on thriving as an independent arts consultant, tools and tactics for creative resilience, sporks, poetry and career cycles.
Art of Festivals publishes the interactive version of State of Emergence - a metaphorical pattern developed to support individual reflection and team facilitation - as a culmination of an action-research project funded by Canada Council for the Arts.
Orchestras Canada commissions Art of Festivals to share insights and tips on evaluation that can be carried out by staff, volunteers and board members to increase their understanding of their audience feelings, needs and desires.
Art of Festivals’ Creative Director Fanny Martin is invited by international contemporary performing arts network IETM to facilitate the Funding & Policy strand of the Girona (Spain) Satellite meeting.
In this essay on Mentorship, Empowerment and Cultural Equity as Ingredients to Build Community, CIPA fellow member and Art of Festivals collaborator Carlos Diaz Stoop highlights the key principles at play in peer-led collectives and networks such as ICP to cultivate professional communities outside institutional boundaries.
How do we build a peer network through co-learning and collective decision-making? Led by 5 Creative Producers, the ICP: Learning Collective experiment unfolded from September 2020 to February 2021 to co-create ground rules and a manifesto, share a budget for guest advisors and digital literacy courses, produce a community celebration and share insights in a series of dispatches.