Report Launch: Tilling the Field Unearthing Collaborative Practices in the Arts
Report Launch: Tilling the Field Unearthing Collaborative Practices in the Arts
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Canada's National Ballet School (NBS), Currie Hall
105 Maitland Street
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1E4
Canada
Wednesday, 18 January 2017 from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM (EST)
Researched and written by CPAMO Program Manager, Kevin A. Ormsby, with research assistance by Venessa Harris, this report dives into territory noted by arts advocate and thinker Jane Marsland as needing more understanding and articulation. The report is the latest in CPAMO research on arts practices that supports and enables pluralistic practices to emerge and be sustained. CPAMO is hopeful that it will ignite discussions across the arts and engage the arts’ communities in further discussion, debate, policy formulation and changes in funding arts activities.
“Much attention needs to be paid to the process of collaborating as much as to the collaborative process...be careful of how the room is collaborating and how the information is being used.” Shula Strassfeld (Dancer / Choreographer Artist / Adjunct Artist of the Dance Exchange (Washington DC)
“We are better together than we are apart with a better impact for artists, communities and the arts” – Margo Charlton (Research and Impact Manager | Toronto Arts Foundation & Toronto Arts Council)
About the report:
The report turns its attention to practitioners in the field first and foremost and implies quite assertively that we – artists, arts organizations, presenters (which includes here theatres, publishers, galleries) – need to connect more directly with each other and form trusting and nurturing relationships that support emerging and established arts practices and artists which have, in the past, been marginal and are now forming some of the most exciting contributions to the Canadian arts ecology.
Building on CPAMO’s values since its establishment, this report furthers efforts to promote a transformation in arts practices, providing rationale and examples on why collaborative arts practices are so important in our rapidly shifting arts ecology while delving into such critically important issues as transparency, clarity in roles/responsibilities, awareness in communications, and equitable sharing of resources.
In reviewing areas where collaboration can and does work, it addresses organizational, administrative and artistic possibilities. Providing methods, processes and engagement activities to develop and sustain collaborative practices and includes an annotated bibliography with evidence-based practices and theoretical approaches.
The report follows in the tradition of practice CPAMO has set from the start of its existence – working with others to share, learn and grow together. It builds from the field and extends into other forms of research to affirm and support what is taking place in some areas in order to point out the viability, importance and timeliness of collaborative artistic practices and how they are beginning to take root in the arts, particularly on efforts to support arts practices that have been historically marginalized.