Final Schedule Announced for Creative Community Building Workshop!
Only 2 Days until the Registration Deadline for the Creative Community Building Workshop (Deadline: May 31, 2006). For the Schedule, Speaker/Project Profiles, Site Tour Descriptions and information on Registration, visit www.torontoartscape.on.ca/ccdp
Artscape, in association with the Creative City Network, launches its 2006 Creative Clusters Development Program with the national Creative Community Building Workshop ? a 2-day workshop, including off-site study tours, taking place June 8 ? 9, 2006 at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto.
Guaranteed to inspire. Designed to empower. Bring your ideas and take away practical tools and strategies about how players in the public, private and non-profit sectors can work to build and sustain creative communities.
Top international practitioners will set the stage for the Creative Community Building Workshop and share the tools, strategies and projects that have anchored creative communities in their cities and towns. Topics will include: Creative Asset Mapping, Place-making, Creativity-based Regeneration, Silo-busting and Creative Cluster/Multi-tenant Centre Development.
CREATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING WORKSHOP
SCHEDULE
DAY 1: THURSDAY, JUNE 8th
Creative Community Building on the Ground
Location: OCAD + Downtown Toronto
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 8:00am | Coffee + Registration |
| 9:00 | Welcome, Context + Logistics |
| 10:00 | Site Visits To creative cluster multi-tenant buildings and districts - lunch served onsite |
| 4:00pm | Cross-Sector Convergence + Silo Busting Geoff Cape EVERGREEN COMMONS AT THE BRICKWORKS (TORONTO, ONTARIO) Ilse Treurnicht MaRS CENTRE (TORONTO, ONTARIO) |
| 5:45 | Day 1 ends |
| 6:00-8:00pm | Reception at Fez Batik, 129 Peter Street, Cash Bar Featuring: Christina Zeidler's entertaining, interactive Queen Street by Numbers |
Creative Community Building Concepts + Tools
Location: OCAD Great Hall
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 8:00am | Coffee + Light Refreshments |
| 8:45 | Creative Community Building Tim Jones ARTSCAPE (TORONTO, ONTARIO) |
| 9:20 | Cultural Planning Colin Mercer CULTURAL CAPITAL LTD. (LONDON, UK) |
| 10:20 | Break |
| 10:30 | Spotlight: Creative Hub in a Smaller Urban Centre Dave Robertson PETERBOROUGH ARTS UMBRELLA (PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO) |
| 11:10 | Place Making + The Public Realm Mark Lakeman CITY REPAIR PROJECT (PORTLAND, OREGON, USA) |
| 12:15pm | Lunch |
| 12:50 | Connectivity + Networks in a Rural Context Cheryl Hargrove HANDMADE IN AMERICA (WEST NORTH CAROLINA, USA) |
| 1:50 | Spotlight: Engaging Creative Youth Gavin Sheppard + Kehinde Bah IC VISIONS (TORONTO, ONTARIO) |
| 2:10 | Creativity-Based Urban Regeneration Barbara Wheeler-Early FREEFORM/HOT HOUSE (LONDON, UK) |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15 | Roundtable Panel Q&A Discussion Innovative Partnerships in Creative Community Building All Speakers |
| 4:45 | Closing Keynote: City-Wide Strategy + Vision John Honderich CREATIVE CITIES (TORONTO, ONTARIO) |
QUESTIONS?
Contact Lori Tesolin, Clusters Program Coordinator directly at ccdp@torontoartscape.on.ca or 416-392-1038 x49. The Creative Community Building Workshop is a component of the Creative Clusters Development Program. The Creative Clusters Development Program is an organizational development program led by Artscape to build the capacity of Canadian communities in developing and managing cluster projects that serve the arts and creative sector.
Artscape gratefully acknowledges the support provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Trillium Foundation,
the Ontario Arts Council, TEDCO, City of Toronto Culture Division and the Ontario College of Art & Design.
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