professional development
OUR SPACES, OUR PLACES! Buying, leasing and sharing spaces for mission-driven organizations: The Inaugural Social Purpose Real Estate Conference
November 8-9, 2010 at the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown Cost: $249/registration or $199/early bird registration - Bursaries available! (see below) On your own? Moving in together? What do you need to know about buying buildings and sharing spaces? Join a diverse gathering of not-for-profits, funders, investors, government and real estate professionals working together to find solutions that provide quality, secure, [...]
Vancouver: Screenwriting guru shares his wisdom, Syd Field offers advice culled from over four decades in Hollywood
The Screenwriters Summit Where: Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Hotel, 655 Burrard St. When: Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $395, call 1-800-814-0544 Info: www.ScreenwritersSummit.com Everybody seems to have written a screenplay. And odds are they’ve picked up Syd Field’s book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, to find out just exactly how it’s done. [...]
Pixar Artists Masterclass Coming to Vancouver: Unique workshop teaches insider tips & tricks
Artists from Pixar Animation Studios will be presenting a unique Masterclass in Animation & Story Development on September 24/25th in Vancouver, Canada. This exceptional 2-day event takes place at the Simon Fraser University, with instructors Animator Andrew Gordon and Story Artist Matthew Luhn, both of Pixar. This masterclass has toured the world, this being one [...]
Victoria: Design course returns to roots, Classes emphasize hand-drawn renditions
Computer assisted designs have their place in the world of architecture and interior design, but the pendulum is swinging back to hand-drawn renderings, for a more creative and personalized look. And Vancouver Island School of Art director Wendy Welch is collaborating with Pacific Design Academy director Oliver Drew to launch a new program to take [...]
Courtenay: Music and business blend well at conference
The third annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference (VIMBC) was bigger and better than ever. With about 200 people in attendance, including over 40 panelists, there were four days of workshops, and live music each night. Workshops about radio, songwriting, producing, touring, music laws, and everything in between, were filled with aspiring artists, young and [...]
Denman Island: Songwriting aid offered
Arts Denman presents Veda Hille in concert and in a songwriting workshop. Take a ride through Hille’s eccentric and beautiful world. Drawing on a range of musical projects accomplished over the past few years, indie songwriter Hille’s solo show, Modern, takes on 100-year-old hymns, an opera about pine trees, a musical based on Craigslist ads, [...]
Courtenay: In the business of making music
So where will Dan Hill, Sue Medley and Chilliwack’s Bill Henderson be humming and strumming this weekend? Why, the Comox Valley, where the annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference is taking place. Featuring a host of high-powered panels boasting such heavyweights as Shania Twain and Ozzy Osbourne producer Kevin Churko and Music B.C.’s Bob D’Eith [...]
Salmon Arm: Workshops weave new sounds
As the final notes drift off into the night, Roots and Blues Festival executive director Hugo Rampen is already contemplating who might appear onstage the following year. Once he has completed his roster of performers, Rampen indulges himself in one of his favourite aspects of the job – selecting performers for specific workshops. Ultimately, it [...]
A Free 12-Part Marketing and SEO Guide for Artists Launches Today To Help Creatives Beat the Odds
Artist, marketer and publisher Jason Thibault begins offering up a free 3-month long online marketing bootcamp for artists and creatives who find themselves stuck when it comes to building their online persona and brand. The most frustrating aspect for a creator is spending days and weeks on a painting, story or film and then launch [...]
Panel tackles B.C.’s cultural plan at the Alliance for Arts and Culture’s Arts Summit 2010
Provincial legislation is needed to improve “cultural policy” in B.C., says an SFU professor. “It’s what kind of a sustainable cultural future do we want in B.C.? What are our B.C. residents’ right to culture?” Catherine Murray, codirector of SFU’s Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities, told the Straight. “I think we need [...]
The GVPTA is pleased to announce a timely new workshop: The HST in Theatres
a “brown bag lunch” seminar with Darren Taylor THE SEMINAR: The introduction of the HST on July 1st has specific implications for non-profit organizations, and specific implications for theatre companies. This workshop will provide in introduction to the HST and how it applies to not-for-profits and the theatre sector, a review of typical GST/HST exempt [...]
Courtenay: Music meets business during conference
For those who want to know more about the music industry or get tips from industry professionals on how to better produce their own music, distribute and promote it, the third annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference (VIMBC) is a four-day event June 24 to 27. A diverse group of regional, national and international music [...]
Arts Summit 2010: Register Now!
The Alliance for Arts and Culture, with the support of 2010 Legacies Now and the City of Surrey, is pleased to present Arts Summit 2010, Thursday, June 24 and Friday, June 25 at Surrey’s Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre. This beautiful new facility is 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver by Skytrain, one block south of the Gateway Skytrain [...]
Whistler: 2010 Art Workshops at the Lake fill up
Whistler Arts Council’s annual Art Workshops at the Lake are proving to be a popular event again this year. As of late last week, before the series had even begun, three of the workshops were already sold out: Suzanne Northcott’s four-day Life Drawing and Painting and Acrylics courses are booked solid, and David Langevin’s session [...]
Nanaimo: Fibre art conference coming
Fibre artists from Vancouver Island and vicinity are invited to participate in a textile “wonder world” Sept. 10-11 at Nanaimo’s Conference Centre. Fibre artists will be given the opportunity to promote and encourage the lively fibre arts of Vancouver Island, home to a thriving community of creative artists who work with yarn, fibre, textiles and [...]
