Performing Arts Grants Awarded 2009
The Metcalf Foundation is pleased to announce total disbursements of over $1.1 million through the Performing Arts Program in 2009. The following organizations received grants this year.
Strategic Initiatives
Under the Strategic Initiatives program (SI), small and mid-sized professional performing arts companies in Toronto have an opportunity, over a three-year period, to implement a strategic course of action that would not be possible under normal budgetary circumstances. It is the Foundation’s hope that successfully implemented plans will make organizations stronger and more resilient, productive, and effective in the execution of their creative mandates.
First Year of Three-Year Commitment
Acting Up Stage Theatre Company Inc.
$35,000
to grow the company’s artistic reputation over a three-year period by concentrating on both creative development, including production values and increased development time, and communicating the company’s value, through building a stronger network of co-producers and increasing their relationships with audiences and funders.
fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company
$30,000
to create the position of Asian-Canadian Community Developer in order to increase the company’s Asian-Canadian audience demographic, to create community partnerships with Asian-Canadian organizations, and to secure Asian-Canadian financial support.
Pleiades Theatre
$28,500
to develop a creative unit called “Found in Translation!” that will assist writers who wish to develop their craft related to translation of existing plays, both benefiting artists in the field and resulting in a source of new English translations of important international theatre pieces.
Studio 180 Theatre
$50,000
to allow the company to address three areas of focus in marketing and audience development: developing their general audience base, growing relationships with the education community, and researching and implementing electronic/digital media approaches to audience engagement.
The Theatre Centre
$75,000
to create a position that will manage the Theatre Centre’s development of and relocation to their new facility in the Carnegie Library, undertaking such responsibilities as managing design development with the architects, overseeing revenue generation, and coordinating contracts and cash flow.
Zata Omm Dance Projects
$25,000
to engage in a program of research and development into new media and new technologies and the manner in which these tools can be used to develop the visual elements of dance performance.
Second Year of Three-Year Commitment
Arraymusic
$20,000
to select, rehearse, and perfect a core repertoire of “contemporary classics” from its 36-year legacy of works and to develop a network of outside presenters to hire its ensemble to perform this repertoire in order to increase audiences, revenues, and the organization’s profile.
Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus
$21,457
to create a new education/outreach program, consisting of the creation of a non-auditioned after-school program offered to children at a nominal cost and the development of additional performance and workshop opportunities in the traditional school system.
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie
$20,000
to develop their relationships within the Regent Park Community, in which the company is located, by developing a dance program for Aboriginal youth, a school outreach project, and a series of exchanges or workshops with world-renowned artists in their studio.
Continuum Contemporary Music
$20,000
to develop the organization’s performing ensemble through touring and recording using both traditional and alternative internet means of dissemination, and to adopt methods of marketing through the internet, by working with a part-time internet consultant and increasing the remuneration for artistic and administrative staff.
MOonhORsE dance theatre
$20,000
to allow MOonhORsE, COBA Collective of Black Artists, and the Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada to engage a collective Profile and Development Manager to address fundraising structures and the development of sustainable relationships with their communities in order to address, on a long-term basis, diversification of their revenue sources.
Music TORONTO
$16,515
to address succession planning through the creation of a new administrative position that, over the course of three years, will gradually assume control of the full administrative function of the organization, allowing the current General Manager/Artistic Producer to focus on the artistic development of the company.
PACT Communications Centre
$20,000
to re-invigorate PACT’s professional development program through the implementation of “Real Time, Real Place,” a series of subject-specific workshops offered to groups of PACT members in cities across Canada.
Sampradaya Dance Creations
$20,000
to create DanceIntense Toronto, an unprecedented an innovative project designed to introduce, develop, and sustain a unique choreo-residency that will benefit emerging and mid-career professionals in South Asian dance.
Sinfonia Toronto
$20,000
to invest in a half-time administrative position, as the beginning of a plan to develop a strong infrastructure for the organization, working towards goals of diversified revenue and increased opportunities for outreach and regional performances.
Theatre Passe Muraille
$46,036
to create “BUZZ,” a play development program that serves the needs of collaboratively based new work; allows Theatre Passe Muraille to mentor younger, emerging companies; and helps to re-focus the organization on its original creative mandate while addressing needs of audience development.
tiger princess dance projects
$20,000
to expand the role of current administrative staff in order to take on additional responsibilities for tour marketing and management – while providing additional training for these roles – allowing the company to capitalize on current touring opportunities in order to find a new level of financial stability and artistic capability.
Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
$20,000
to work, in collaboration with eyeGO, investigating the potential for additional marketing of youth ticket discount programs through the exploration of internet capabilities and the creation of a Youth Ambassador position.
Toronto Dance Theatre
$50,000
to allow the company to engage in a variety of programs, comprising formal class work, mentorships, self-directed learning, and peer networking, that will strengthen artistic, production, and administrative staff both in their work for the company and in their individual development.
Third Year of Three-Year Commitment
Peggy Baker Dance Projects
$20,000
to work with specialized artists and technicians to transform the materials developed in The Choreographer’s Trust into a readily available DVD format that will illuminate, in an unprecedented way, the physical and aesthetic ideas and the creative process that drive Baker’s choreography.
The Chimera Project
$20,000
to create the position of Business Development Manager to allow their administrative structure to parallel the extraordinary artistic growth of the company and result in a shift from operations funded on a project-to-project basis to an annually funded organization.
Clay and Paper Theatre
$20,000
to create a new part-time position of Development Associate that will become a permanent part of the organizational structure of the company, in order to concentrate on revenue development, internal and external communications, and Board development.
Corpus Dance Projects
$20,000
to develop the effectiveness of their touring activities by broadening the scope of their existing agent position into the role of Director of Touring Operations.
Dancemakers
$36,000
to engage a Resident Dramaturg and Animateur in order to address two related components of their artistic vision: building a distinct voice through the quality of their art-making, and developing existing and new audiences.
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company
$20,000
to provide assistance to the Artistic Director, in the form of the creation of part-time positions in administrative and artistic roles, in order to enable her to focus more fully on creative and professional development.
Factory Theatre
$61,350
to create a Facility Development Team, a group of experienced outsiders to guide the company through the three-year preparation for renovations and the launch of a capital campaign, including work with architects and building consultants finalizing plans.
Native Earth Performing Arts
$20,000
to create the position of Artistic Associate in order to alleviate some of the artistic planning and development responsibilities of the Artistic Director and to address ideas of succession by training another individual into the leadership of an Aboriginal arts organization.
Opera.ca
$20,000
to develop and launch an integrated program providing opportunities for mentoring and knowledge-sharing among the creators of opera, including roundtable workshops and the opportunity for the presentation of full-scale orchestral work in a risk-free setting, in order to mitigate the risk of new opera creation.
Roseneath Theatre
$27,750
to engage in two projects addressing their challenges of product and profile: creating a mentoring team of Artistic Associates to work with David S. Craig in the development of new work, and having strong presence at international arts market conferences.
The Storytellers’ School of Toronto
$20,000
to heighten the celebration of the art of storytelling throughout the year and to raise the profile of the organization through the creation of additional storytelling events in conjunction with their upcoming move into the Green Arts Barns community.
Volcano Non-Profit Productions Inc.
$20,000
to solidify and expand their position as an internationally active experimental company through: networking and partnering, to make and maintain international connections; training, to bring international knowledge and teachers to Canada; and touring exchange, to create collaborative work on an international scale.
Professional Development
Under the Professional Development program (PD), the Foundation supports the training and development of artists, administrators, and production staff. Two parallel streams within this program provide opportunities for practitioners at different stages within their career: internships for individuals who have completed formal training and are in the early stages of their careers, and grants for senior practitioners to pursue significant opportunities for professional development or renewal.
Internships
The Canadian Stage Company
$27,500
for Katie Horrill as properties intern.
The Grand Theatre
$22,000
for Wendy Ryder as Technical Director intern.
Great Canadian Theatre Company
$27,500
for Patrick Gauthier as Artistic Director intern.
$13,750
for Nancy Kenny as marketing intern.
hum dansoundart not just a dance company
$7,200
for Shawn Hitchins as management intern.
Jumblies Theatre
$25,344
for Beth Helmers as artistic intern.
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People
$27,500
for Kate Fenton as intern director.
Music Niagara
$27,500
for Cassandra Studenny as management intern.
Necessary Angel Theatre Company
$27,500
for Morgan Norwich as producer intern.
Nightwood Theatre
$27,500
for Denyse Karn as Artistic Producer intern.
Shaw Festival
$14,500
for Lily Ling as Music Director intern.
10 Gates Dancing Inc.
$8,400
for Jennifer Dallas as Artistic Director intern.
Theatre Passe Muraille
$27,500
for Aviva Armour-Ostroff as Artistic Director intern.
Senior Artists & Administrators
This program was not operated during 2009.
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