SAVE THE DATES!
Oshawa: November 23rd, 2010
Windsor: December 1st, 2010
Registration Fee: $99*
Designed to Empower. Guaranteed to Inspire.
Artscape’s Creative Spacemaking Workshop will bring together top practitioners and highlight innovative partnerships that have successfully anchored creative communities within sustainable and affordable spaces. The workshop offers leading advice, hands-on tools and a chance to meet the experts during interactive sessions on topics such as; vision development, feasibility analysis, project planning, finance and fundraising, community engagement and governance.
Artscape’s Creative Placemaking Workshop will investigate strategies to connect and leverage the creative and cultural resources of communities in generating quality of place and supporting local economic development. Participants learn how to nurture and sustain the conditions for culture and creativity to thrive in downtowns, cultural districts, neighbourhoods and mainstreets and explore the potential of the arts and culture as a key tool in revitalization and creative city-building. Participants learn practical planning tools for undertaking creative placemaking initiatives in a range of different contexts. Topics include strategic planning, governance and cross-sector partnerships and community engagement.
Who should attend?
Individuals, organizations or partnerships that are engaged in urban regeneration and revitalization, economic development, downtown and maintstreet redevelopment, tourism, cultural facility projects and culture-led initiatives, including:
• Arts & Culture Organizations
• Individual Artists & Creators
• Architects, Developers & Planners
• Property Owners & Location Businesses
• Politicians
Arts Philanthropists
• Arts Umbrella Organizations
• Financial & Funding Organizations
• Business Improvement Associations
Registration & Fee
A limited number of places are available, so take the time to register yourself or your group today for Oshawa: HERE and for Windsor: HERE. The cost is $99 (*plus applicable taxes).
Faculty and Program Highlights
The workshops will include a keynote presentation from Tim Jones, President and CEO of Artscape and recent winner of the Canadian Urban Institute’s Global City Award and inspiring presentations from internationally recognized arts projects that have been transformed by arts and culture. More details on these exciting workshops to follow in September with faculty highlights and pre-workshops events.
For More Information & Registration
To ensure that you receive regular updates on the Creative Spacemaking and Placemaking workshop and information on registration please CLICK HERE to be taken to Artscape’s subscriber form and be sure to click the Creative Placemaking and Spacemaking box on the form. To learn more about Artscape’s knowledge exchange activities, please visit http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/research
“The workshop is key to what I want to accomplish in the next two to five years because it helps put in perspective what I am doing, and helps me connect with potential mentors and partners”
- local entrepreneur
“We have a clearer idea about the next steps we are about to engage in after this workshop”
- Board Member, Foundation
The Creative Spacemaking and Placemaking Workshop is a component of the Artscape Knowledge Exchange Program, with funding provided by the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Arts Council and TD Bank Financial Group.
