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Stay Connected - If you want to receive our monthly newsletter, delivered to your email address, SIGN UP. We will not share your information with other organizations. May 2010 enews
IN THIS ISSUE Showcase Applications for the 35th
Pacific Contact April 1-3,
2011 available online at http://www.bctouring.org/pacific-contact/2011/showcase-app.html Community Presenters Assistance - Community
Presenters Assistance Application forms are
ready for download. The new forms for the 2010-2011
season (for performances happening between
July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. CPA is a program
of the BC Arts Council and is administered
by the BC Touring Council. http://www.bctouring.org/presenter-assistance/ Coordinated Online Booking Coordination (COBB) – Thanks to 2010 Legacies Now (Arts), the BC Arts Council and Canadian Heritage for their support of COBB. Many presenters are now using this online block booking system to book tours and BCTC’s co-ordination provides quicker response of information from agents and artists with details about their shows to post on the website so as to get to the next stage of booking dates and routing tours sooner and with more efficiency. Most presenters are finishing their bookings for the 2010-11 season and many have expressed interests and are beginning booking tours for 2011-12. BCTC Board News - Changes to BCTC bylaws at the March Annual General Meeting reduced the size of the board from 16 to 11. The BCTC board includes 7 presenters representing the 5 regions in the province, 2 agents representing agent/managers and 2 representing artists/artistic companies. Bruce Halliday of The Port Theatre, Nanaimo is the newest member of the BCTC Board of Directors representing Vancouver/Gulf Islands region. To see the full list of board members and their contact information please go to http://www.bctouring.org/about-us/index.html BCTC Board Travels to the South East region in September – BCTC is pleased to announce that the organization will be returning to the Kootenay region from September 9-12 for its fall meeting. Since 2004 The BCTC board has travelled to all regions of the province. The commitment to get out into regional communities to better understand our members issues and concerns on their home turf has been an important yearly activity of the Board of Directors. In the last couple of years the meetings have also included a workshops and last year BCTC had the pleasure of co-hosting the meeting in Smithers with 2010 Legacies Now as part of the Northern Arts Summit. Stay tuned for more details in the next e-news. Arts Summit News – Congratulations and thanks to 2010 Legacies Now producers of a series of successful arts summits in the province. BCTC has been fortunate to co-host two arts summits with 2010 Legacies Now and are pleased to post summaries from the Northern and Kootenay summits on the BCTC website at http://www.bctouring.org/Arts_Summit.html. Stay tuned to the 2010 Legacies Now website for news of upcoming arts summits. www.2010LegaciesNow.com ArtsOnTour website at www.artsontour.com is a great one-stop shopping for booking seasons & series and your plans for upcoming tours. This comprehensive website has agent roster, full contact information and descriptions, genre specific and family and adult classifications and video and audio links. www.artsontour.com New Job Postings – Check out New Postings on the BCTC website at www.bctouring.org/job-opportunities/. Submit postings to the office by emailing fyi@bctouring.org Member News – Congrats & Kudos To.... Norman Foote winner of the
2010 Juno Award for his new CD “Love
My New Shirt”. Norman has written and
recorded songs for Disney Records, CBC Television,
Shari Lewis, The National Film Board, Little
Bear and Max and Ruby. He has also won Parent’s
Choice Awards and NAPPA Gold Awards for his
recordings, as well as Socan’s Best Songwriter
for Children. The Good Lovelies – Juno winners of Roots & Traditional Album of the Year www.paquinentertainment.com Pat Braden recently returned to Yellowknife after delighting Ottawa audiences with 3 performances of his one man show, “A Place to call Home” at the Fourth stage of the National Arts Centre http://www.myspace.com/patrickbraden Zach Stevenson and Jeff Bryant of
The Human Statues in the Arts
Club production of The Buddy
Holly Story. http://www.straight.com/article-324787/vancouver/arts-clubs-buddy-buddy-holly-story-brings-rock-n-roll-edge Industry News Arts Summit 2010, Recharge, Enter The Dialogue & Share! The Alliance for Arts and Culture, with the support of 2010 Legacies Now and the City of Surrey, is pleased to present, Thursday, June 24 and Friday, June 25 at Surrey 's Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre. http://www.allianceforarts.com Carol Cairns is the new Performing
Arts Coordinator for Stars for Saskatchewan
and Koncerts for Kids with the Organization
of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) replacing
Kevin Korchinski who is now Executive Director
of OSAC. Carol has long been associated with
the Visual and Performing Arts in Saskatchewan
. After opening her own gallery SOCOKO in Bengough,
Carol was instrumental in starting the Bengough
Municipal Arts Council in 2004 and later the
very successful Gateway Festival that in five
short years has become a staple on the Western
Canadian festival Circuit. Joyce Rosario has been named
the new Executive Director at New Works' http://www.newworks.ca/ replacing
founder and producer Barb Clausen who with
Jim Smith produces DanceHouse http://www.dancehouse.ca Sarah Moore joins Made In BC
Dance On Tour as Executive Director. Originally
from Halifax , Sarah Moore comes to Made in
BC - Dance on Tour via Whitehorse where she has
spent the past season working at the Yukon Arts
Centre and as an independent contractor working
in production for dance, music, and theatre. A
graduate of the theatre programmes at Mount Allison
University and Trinity College Dublin, Sarah has
been engaged in the performing arts for over ten
years. Sarah will be transitioning into her position
at Made in BC over the summer, and will be
officially in the Vancouver office on September
1st. http://www.madeinbc.org/ Employment Insurance special benefits to the self-employed, the Cultural Human Resources Council is pleased to release a Report on the extension of EI special benefits for self-employed people and the impact of these changes on artists and cultural workers. Joanna Maratta, Executive
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