Imagine Bloomfield invites you to join Artscape for an engaging workshop on cultural space development
HALIFAX, N.S.
November 12th, 2009
Bloomfield Centre Gymnasium, 2786 Agricola Street
Halifax Nova Scotia
FULL WORKSHOP PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!
Click HERE or on the pdf below to view complete workshop sessions.
Designed to Empower. Guaranteed to Inspire.
Creative Spacemaking brings together top practitioners for a comprehensive learning experience that demystifies the complexity of cultural space development, connects participants with similar-minded practitioners, and highlights innovative partnerships that have successfully anchored creative communities within sustainable and affordable spaces.
This one-day workshop offers leading advice, tools and a chance to meet the experts during interactive sessions on topics ranging from project planning to feasibility analysis, capital fundraising and governance models.
The Faculty for the one-day workshop have been confirmed and include:
Tim Jones, CEO, Artscape
Tim Jones has worked as a management consultant, developer, grants officer, theatre and festival producer, capacity building specialist, activist, CEO, and board president. While seemingly diverse, all of these roles have involved figuring out how to marshal people, resources and momentum around ideas that make the arts more sustainable and cities more livable. Under Tim’s direction since 1998, Artscape has grown from a Toronto-based affordable arts space provider into an international leader in culture-led regeneration. In 2008, Artscape worked on 25 projects, programs, and strategies in Canada and abroad that aim to unlock the creative potential of people and places. Tim serves as a consultant on numerous development projects in Canada and is a sought-after speaker internationally.
Billie Bridgman, Principal, Billie Bridgman Associates
Billie started her career as a classical singer and over several decades became known as a specialist in contemporary Canadian music. As Artistic Director of both COMUS Music Theatre and the Guelph Spring Festival she championed new Canadian operas – commissioning, producing and directing more than a dozen new works. Her career also encompassed directing major fundraising campaigns, such as the Canada Pavilion (Expo ’86) and the University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library, as well as teaching and directing for almost a decade as a member of the faculty of the Banff School of Fine Arts.
As the first full time Executive Director of Artscape (1990 – 1995), Ms. Bridgman developed both the model for developing artists’ work and live/work space in Toronto, as well as almost 100,000 sq. ft. of the real thing. Six years with the Bank of Montreal’s IT subsidiary CEBRA, as a Director of Project Management and of the Bank’s first ISO Quality System, offered valuable experience in the corporate world. From 2005-2007 Ms Bridgman was the President and CEO of the Council for Business and the Arts where she developed several highly successful new programs – ArtsVest and ArtScene - as active and productive new intersection points between business and the arts.
Joe Lobko, Partner, du Toit Architects Limited
Joe Lobko is a Partner with du Toit Allsopp Hillier | du Toit Architects Limited. Joe is a Toronto architect whose work has been focused on the community and non-profit sector as well as urban design. He has a post-graduate degree in architecture in addition to his undergraduate training, and taught in the design studios of the University of Toronto School of Architecture from 1984 to 1997. Notable project experience includes the award-winning L’Arche Dayspring Chapel; the first legal live/work project in the City of Toronto for Toronto Artscape; the competition winning Sims Square office building adjacent to Burlington’s City Hall; the Fort York Transitional Residence, (which received the 2006 CMHC award for best practices in affordable housing); the development of an urban design plan for the West Don Lands brownfield site, (in conjunction with Urban Design Associates of Pittsburgh) and participation in the 2006 Central Waterfront Innovative Design Competition as a member of the second place P.O.R.T team.
Joe was chair of the Toronto Society of Architects from 2001 to 2004, which included participation in the creation of an award winning guide map to contemporary architecture in Toronto, and recently served as a member of the City of Toronto Clean and Beautiful City Roundtable, as chair of the sub-committee on city processes, standards and procedures. In 2006, Joe received an urban leadership award from the Canadian Urban Institute. Current projects include ‘Evergreen Brick Works’, the redevelopment of Toronto’s oldest brickmaking facility in the heart of the Don Valley, and the recently completed Artscape Wychwood Barns project for Toronto Artscape, the conversion of an abandoned streetcar storage and repair garage into a mixed use community facility adjacent to a new city park.
Registration
A limited number of registrations are available, so take the time to register yourself or your group today!
- Regular Registration – from October 20, 2009 to November 11, 2009 - $175 plus GST
“Online Registration Closes 5pm on Wednesday November 11th”
Please note registrations will be accepted on the day of the event. Exact cash or cheque made out to “Imagine Bloomfield” will be accepted. No visa/mc accepted.
A limited number of subsidized seats for local non-profit organizations are available based on financial need and a first come first served basis. Inquiries can be directed to Holly Richardson, Halifax Regional Municipality 902-490-6889.
Please visit Arts Box Office for online ticketing and registration.
Please download the pdf subsidy application below to apply and learn more about the detailed requirements.
Location
Inquiries
For additional inquiries please email karol@torontoartscape.on.ca
Creative Spacemaking is presented by Imagine Bloomfield, with support from the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Creative Spacemaking is a component of the Artscape Knowledge Exchange Program, brought to you by TD Bank Financial Group.
