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From June 12-14, 2019, over 20 members of Ontario Presents gathered in Toronto for our Annual Spring Retreat.

This year we partnered with The Luminato Festival to offer additional programming for our members, as well as time spent connecting and discussing topics of shared interest.

Ontario Presents and its member presenting organizations recognize the importance of presenting Indigenous artists, stories and culture as part of their presenting practice. As we continue to encourage the respectful presentation of Indigenous art, we will be featuring an Indigenous artist each month in our e-newsletter and blog. Our sincere thanks to Denise Bolduc for conceiving of and continuing to support this Spotlight Series.

Ontario Presents and its member presenting organizations recognize the importance of presenting Indigenous artists, stories and culture as part of their presenting practice. As we continue to encourage the respectful presentation of Indigenous art, we will be featuring an Indigenous artist each month in our e-newsletter and blog. Our sincere thanks to Denise Bolduc for conceiving of and continuing to support this Spotlight Series.

On the 2019 May long weekend, four programmers from the Northern Volunteer Young Audience Network came to Toronto to view shows at three children’s festivals: Junior Festival (Harbourfront), Uptown Children’s Festival (TO Live), and WeeFestival (Theatre Direct).

There are a lot of exciting festivals, conferences, and events coming up in 2019! 

To help you navigate them, our latest blog series, Coming up in 2019, gives you a glimpse into a few of these upcoming events.

For the second blog in the series, we spoke to Denise Bolduc about the Luminato Festival’s industry series, Illuminating works. Denise is producing both Illuminating works and BIZIINDAN!, a celebratory concert of Indigenous voices.

Ontario Presents and its member presenting organizations recognize the importance of presenting Indigenous artists, stories and culture as part of their presenting practice. As we continue to encourage the respectful presentation of Indigenous art, we will be featuring an Indigenous artist each month in our e-newsletter and blog. Our sincere thanks to Denise Bolduc for conceiving of and continuing to support this Spotlight Series.

There are a lot of exciting festivals, conferences, and events coming up in 2019! As our members plan their schedules, we will be publishing a series of blogs over the coming months highlighting upcoming events.

First up, we spoke with Shahin Sayadi, Artistic Director of the Prismatic Arts Festival. Prismatic has been on the scene for about 10 years on the East coast,  and is coming to Ottawa for its pilot project expansion. 

Ontario Presents and its member presenting organizations recognize the importance of presenting Indigenous artists, stories and culture as part of their presenting practice. As we continue to encourage the respectful presentation of Indigenous art, we will be featuring an Indigenous artist each month in our e-newsletter and blog. Our sincere thanks to Denise Bolduc for conceiving of and continuing to support this Spotlight Series.

Ontario Presents and its member presenting organizations recognize the importance of presenting Indigenous artists, stories and culture as part of their presenting practice. As we continue to encourage the respectful presentation of Indigenous art, we will be featuring an Indigenous artist each month in our e-newsletter and blog. Our sincere thanks to Denise Bolduc for conceiving of and continuing to support this Spotlight Series.

Ontario Presents and its member presenting organizations recognize the importance of presenting Indigenous artists, stories and culture as part of their presenting practice. As we continue to encourage the respectful presentation of Indigenous art, we will be featuring an Indigenous artist each month in our e-newsletter and blog. Our sincere thanks to Denise Bolduc for conceiving of and continuing to support this Spotlight Series.