Resolving Employee Conflict
As a theatre manager, you are bound to come across conflict between your staff or others who work with your company. How you deal with it can have a great impact on the workplace. If conflict isn’t managed in a productive way, things can escalate and turn into larger issues,…
Nourishing Creative Vitality
Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People By Misha Handman, Director of Operations & Development Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People was founded on the belief that the creative instinct is vital to the strength and self-respect of all of us, and that if that creative vitality is not nourished in our children,…
Making the Arts an Election Issue: How Theatre Orangeville Did It
You know your community. You know your audiences. Take that to the next level by leveraging your position as a local cultural leader to raise awareness about the arts and make arts funding a campaign issue in the next federal election, Monday Oct. 21, 2019. That’s what we’re doing. Theatre…
Rooted in Urgency
Green Light Arts By Matt White, Artistic Producer Carin Lowerison and I started Green Light Arts five years ago because we wanted to take what we are good at, theatre, and use it to ignite positive social change in communities. You could say the impetus behind starting Green Light Arts…
Now is the Time to Add Social Media to Your Arts Advocacy Toolkit!
As technology continues to advance rapidly, changing the way our society communicates, it is vital for arts organizations to invest in building greater digital literacy, infrastructure and capacity. The emergence of social media has significantly impacted how we share information and motivate our patrons and elected officials alike. As citizens…
Advocacy for Beginners
Two years ago, I set a small advocacy goal for Vertigo Theatre: 3 people, 3 meetings, 3 messages. We committed to meet with members of City Council, the Provincial Legislative Assembly, and Parliament. The point of this advocacy experiment was to tell Vertigo’s story, and participate in conversations that could…
