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This month more than ten performing artists booked through Ontario Presents’ tour block booking program will tour 15 communities in Ontario.  The tours cross many disciplines of the performing arts including contemporary dance, young audience, theatre and music. Welcome to Ontario!

Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart

Each year, Ontario Presents members participate in the block booking process to develop the tours that would travel to their communities in Ontario. The tours cross many disciplines of the performing arts including contemporary dance, young audience, theatre and music.

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Special issue of the latest Hill Strategies’ Arts Research Monitor takes an extended look at data from the 2010 Provincial and Territorial Culture Satellite Account, a landmark dataset regarding the direct economic and employment impacts of culture in Canada, the provinces, and the territories. View full report here.

Thanks to all the members who joined us in Brockville for Ontario Presents’ 2015 Spring Retreat! Special thanks to Peter Dunn and his team at the Brockville Arts Centre for a wonderfully hosted event.

With the support from the Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Presents organized a delegation of five volunteer young-audience presenters from Northern Ontario to attend the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, May 28 – 30, 2015.

The festival took place on Granville Island, multiple different venues all over the island were used and it was like being completely immersed into the children’s festival being surrounded by kids and activities.

Large arts venues miss the point as they become more commercial to sustain themselves

Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer classical music critic, 5/19/15

by Brian Arnott, Novita Interpares Cultural Consultancy