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Workshops

In an effort to assist the arts community in building sustainable practices, The Department of Culture offers workshops on a year round basis that are designed to educate both individual artists and arts organizations

Data Collection Workshop
May 8, 2013

With many organizations competing for resources, arts organizations need to stay connected to their patrons now more than ever. To know your patrons, donors, and supporters, your organization should be collecting data - valuable data that could save your organization time and money. Join Research Consultant Rob Wong and Research Analyst Marisha Holmberg on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 from 5:00–8:00pm to discuss:

• Why your organization needs to collect data
• What data to collect
• How to collect it without spending a fortune, and
• How your data collection might fit into local and national arts initiatives

This workshop will be held in the Sir Robert Barrie Room located on the second floor of City Hall, 70 Collier Street. For more information or to register for this workshop please email The Department of Culture at culture@barrie.ca or call (705) 739-4299.

Communications & Arts Marketing
May 25, 2013

Artists and Arts Organizations! Register now for an interactive workshop on Communication & Arts Marketing presented by Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director of TAPA, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.  The workshop will take place at City Hall, 70 Collier Street in the Huronia Rooms A & B from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday May 25, 2013.  Jacoba will engage her audience in a discussion on marketing and how it can be a positive reflection of the art that you create in today’s busy marketplace.  Over the course of the afternoon participants will improve their marketing abilities by:

• Gaining a new and different perspective on arts marketing
• Identifying  their artistic purpose that will help participants to make strategic marketing decisions
• Learning to translate their values into practices that will include customer relationship and service management that will ultimately connect more people to their art.

To register for this no-cost workshop please email culture@barrie.ca or call (705)-739-4299 for more information.  Please note that organizations registering will be limited to 3 participants representing their organizations.

Grant Funding Programs
June 5, 2013

Registration is now open for an evening workshop that will feature presenters from three granting organizations that fund the arts sector.  The presenters will be outlining the granting programs of the Ontario Arts Council, the Province of Ontario’s Trillium Foundation and the City of Barrie.

This workshop will be held on June 5, 2013 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in Huronia Rooms A & B located on the second floor of City Hall, 70 Collier Street.  For more information or to register for this workshop please email The Department of Culture at culture@barrie.ca or call (705) 739-4299.