CALLS FOR PAPERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MORE

UPDATED le 7 juin 2010 June 7

Message from Alain Pineau, Canadian Conference of the Arts  

Dear Members of the Canadian Conference of the Arts,

It is with pleasure that I invite you to the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ Annual General Meeting which will take place on Friday, June 18, 2010 from 4 to 5:30 pm at the Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin Street, Ottawa.

As in previous years, this will give you an opportunity to meet the Board of Governors, and to be informed on the CCA’s activities, advocacy priorities and progress. You can find the meeting agenda here.

We ask that you arrive at 3:45 p.m. to check in and confirm your voting status. The meeting will start at 4:00 sharp and should take no longer than 45 minutes. The meeting will be followed by a reception during which you will have an opportunity to discuss informally with the Board and with the Secretariat Staff.

Please R.S.V.P. as soon as possible to Megan Forsythe at megan@ccarts.ca. If you cannot attend, we strongly encourage you to fill out a proxy designation form to designate someone who may vote on your behalf and send it back either by fax at (613) 238-4849 or by post at 406-130 Slater Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 6E2.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,

Alain Pineau, National Director

Canadian Conference of the Arts

7 juin 2010

Chers membres de la Conférence canadienne des Arts,

J’ai le plaisir de vous inviter à l’assemblée générale annuelle de la Conférence canadienne des arts, qui se tiendra le 18 juin 2010 de 16 h 00 à 17 h 30 à l’hôtel Lord Elgin, 100 rue Elgin, Ottawa. 

Comme par le passé, vous aurez l’occasion de rencontrer les membres du conseil d’administration et de vous renseigner sur les activités, les priorités en matière de défense des intérêts et les progrès de la CCA. Vous trouverez une copie de l’ordre du jour ici.

Nous vous serions reconnaissants d’arriver à 15 h 45 pour vous inscrire et confirmer votre statut de membre votant. La réunion commencera à 16 h 00 précise et ne devrait pas durer plus de 45 minutes. Elle sera suivie d’une réception durant laquelle vous pourrez discuter de manière informelle avec les membres du conseil et le personnel du secrétariat.

Nous vous saurions gré de signaler votre intention d’assister à Megan Forsythe au (613) 238-3561, poste 18 ou à megan@ccarts.ca. En cas d’empêchement, nous vous encourageons fortement à remplir le formulaire de désignation  d’un mandataire par procuration et à nous le faire parvenir dans les meilleurs délais soit par télécopieur au (613) 238-4849 ou par la poste au 406-130 rue Slater, Ottawa, ON K1P 6E2.

Au plaisir de vous voir à l’assemblée.

Salutations,

Alain Pineau, Directeur général

Conférence canadienne des arts

Canadian Conference of the Arts / Conférence canadienne des arts
406 – 130, rue Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 6E2
Tel: (613) 238-3561
Fax / Télécopieur: (613) 238-4849
info@ccarts.ca | www.ccarts.ca

Award Announcement 2010:

Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation

The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce that Geneviève Leclair has been awarded $12,000 as the recipient of the Foundation’s 2010 advanced music study award. The 2010 award was offered in the area of orchestral conducting and was open to candidates under thirty years of age from across Canada.

The final selection round for the award took place on March 29th in the MacMillan Theatre at the University of Toronto.  Three finalists rehearsed the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra in selections from Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique before an independent jury of Canadian orchestral conductors.

The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award is intended to provide significant career development opportunities to a young Canadian musician or music scholar, typically at the graduate level.  The recipient is chosen through a competitive process that is national in scope.  The award, $12,000 in recent years, is offered annually or biennially.

Reflecting Sir Ernest’s wide-ranging endeavours, the award is offered in different areas of music, areas that are not funded appreciably from other sources.  Awards have been offered in composition, conducting, instrumental and vocal performance, pedagogy, early music, chamber music, collaborative piano and music education. Twenty-five awards have been given since 1985,

More information on the MacMillan Foundation Award is provided at Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award

Information:

Dr. Robin Elliott, 416-946-8622, robin.elliott@utoronto.ca

Ian MacMillan, 613 238-6847, ian.macmillan2@sympatico.ca

www.macmillanfoundation.com

Canadian Conference of the Arts

National Policy Conference

November 1-3, 2010

Here is further information about this important conference:

2010 NPC - Artist and Creative Economy FR.pdf

2010 NPC - Artist and Creative Economy.pdf

Emerging Speed Speakers RFP.pdf

Emerging Speaker Series RFP FR.pdf

GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN FINE ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF REGINA

For more information contact:

Dr. Pauline Minevich, Associate Dean, Graduate & Research

Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina

Regina, SK S4S 0A2

Phone: 306.585.5525

Pauline.Minevich@uregina.ca

Or:

Sheila Hamilton, Administrative Assistant

Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina

Regina, SK S4S 0A2

Phone: 306.585.5560

Sheila.Hamilton@uregina.ca

M.A and M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Studies

In the M.A and M.F.A traditional skills and specializations are augmented and contextualized by a Fine Arts perspective and a cross-disciplinary approach. The graduate programs offer core theoretical seminars but their strength lies in the integrity and commitment of a diverse range of academics, artists and staff who have developed this stream. These involve participants from the Faculty of Fine Arts, as well as our partners at First Nations University of Canada, Campion College, Luther College and throughout the University of Regina. Individually designed programs encourage students to study with members of faculty from a variety of disciplines, interests and specializations. As a student you choose your professors and work together with them to design your courses and program of study.

New technologies, new markets and the changing nature of work require innovative approaches to education – innovations that respond to individual circumstances. As a Fine Arts student, you know that life is infused with art – that art now stretches across all boundaries, bridging a diverse range of practices, traditions and disciplines. Theatre and film, performance art and music composition, art history and film theory, media studies and anthropology, visual arts and linguistics, queer theory and English literature - these are just a few of the possible combinations that can be constructed through an M.A or M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Studies. Imagine what you could do…

Application deadline: Ongoing

For more information on the program: http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/calendar/programs/interdisciplinary.shtml#finearts

For information on admissions:

http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/main/admissions.shtml

DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA PRODUCTION AND STUDIES

M.A in Media Studies / M.F.A in Media Production

The Department of Media Production and Studies (MPS) at Regina is the only university program between Toronto and Vancouver offering an M.F.A in Media Production, and housing a state-of-the-art DJ and beat-making lab, making it the centre for film and media production in Canada’s majestic flatlands. Our M.F.A and M.A degrees enable you to choose disciplinary focus in the practice and study of film, video, animation, new media, and interactive media and performance, while benefitting from strong crossdisciplinary contexts through the core critical theory and methods courses offered in our program in Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Studies. Professors are prize-winning experts in a number of exciting areas, including independent feature-length and short narrative, alternative cinemas and DIY filmmaking, interactive media and performance, media and film theories, and several national cinemas (including African, Canadian, French, Russian, Eastern European, and World). Our department houses a Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Performance, the IMPLabs, and the New Media Studio Laboratory, and is emerging as a centre of excellence for the practice, study and advancement of Indigenous hip hop arts in Western Canada and the North.

In Regina, Saskachewan’s capital—the ground zero of Tommy Douglas, Canada’s Greatest Canadian, and Canada’s Other Greatest Canadian, Corner Gas’s Brett Butt—the sky’s the limit for leading-edge study, and our students are making their marks nationally with support of their work from SSHRC, Telefilm, and the Canada Council. City resources include the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, the Canada / Saskatchewan Soundstage, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, TRLabs, and over thirty independent production houses.

Application deadline: Ongoing

For information on admissions:

http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/main/admissions.shtml

MUSIC

M.MUS and M.A. in Music

The Department of Music is proud of its two-year Masters degree programs leading to an M.Mus or M.A., which allow for study in the following areas: performance (orchestral instruments, piano or voice), conducting, composition, musicology or music theory. Students accepted into a Master’s program are considered for teaching assistantships and scholarships.

The Dr. John Archer Library contains listening facilities, recordings, microfilms, and a broad spectrum of scores, collected works and music texts. Two electronic music studios used for composition contain a full range of advanced digital systems for sequencing, notation, editing and recording.

Concert halls include the University Theatre, seating 400; the Shumiatcher Theatre, seating 140; the Conservatory of Music Recital Hall, seating 125, Darke Hall, seating 500, and the Education auditorium, seating 800.

Application deadlines: Mar. 15 for Fall admission; Sept. 15 for Winter admission.

For more information on the programs:

http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/calendar/programs/music.shtml

For information on admissions:

http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/main/admissions.shtml