Thursday, October 27
11:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration
2:00 – 4:00 pm SPARCing Café: Creative Exchange
4:00 – 4:45 pm Interactive Network Communications Platform
(The SPARC Has Been Lit)
4:45 – 5:00 pm SPARCing Café Closing
6:00 – 7:30 pm Dinner (on your own – not really, go with friends!)
7:30 – 10:00 pm Welcome Reception & Open Stage Performances
(Wine, local craft beers, light snacks & networking)
Welcome: Murray Fearrey, Reeve, Dysart et al (invited)
Ontario Trillium Foundation Recognition:
Laurie Scott, MPP, Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock
OTF Review Team volunteer, tbc
Friday, October 28
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration
8:00 – 8:45 am Light Breakfast & Refreshments & Open Stage Performances (Curated)
8:45 am Opening Ceremonies:
Carol Moffatt, Warden, Haliburton County
9:00 – 10:30 am Welcome & Opening Plenary:
The Curation Transformation: Conscious Community Creation
10:30 – 11:00 am Refreshment Break & SPARC Interactive Network Station
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
F1 Mentorship – Sparking the Next Generation of Leaders in the Arts
F2 Common Threads, Common Shreds and Common Vision
F3 The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Funding Policies for the Performing Arts in Rural Communities
F4 Crowdfunding Your Artistic Project
F5 Public Performance, Community HEART
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch & last half hour SPARC Interactive Network Station
Informal Networking lunch with members of the funders panel (F3)
2:00 – 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
F6 Spontaneous Performance Action Response Community (SPARC)
F7 Deepening Sense of Belonging Through Arts and Culture
F8 Cultural Bridges & Inclusivity
F9 Making Rural Theatre: Coast to Coast Companies Conversing
F10 Assessing & Fine-tuning Your Rural Arts ‘Marketing System’
3:30 – 4:00 pm Refreshment Break & SPARC Interactive Network Station
4:00 – 5:00 pm Plenary: Highlights & Insights
6:00 – 7:30 pm Dinner (on your own – not really, go with friends!)
7:30 pm Film Screening: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
By donation for “prop bag”; proceeds to Point in Time LGBTQS Youth Performing Arts Bursary
Saturday, October 29
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration
8:00 – 8:45 am Light Breakfast & Refreshments
8:15 – 9:00 am Open Stage Performances (Curated)
9:00 – 10:30 am Plenary:
Growing a Sustainable Rural Performing Arts Eco-system
10:30 – 11:00 am Refreshment Break & SPARC Interactive Network Station
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
S1 Embodying a Curatorial Vision
S2 But I Can’t Do Math! An Introduction to Data for Arts Organizations
S3 Bottom Up – Not Top Down: Creating Own Culture: The PlaySmelter Festival as Case Study
S4 Small Halls (Ottawa Valley)
S5 Building a Community of Music
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch & last half hour SPARC Interactive Network Station
2:00 – 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
S6 Music is Life: Creating New Forms & Connections Through Collaboration With Musicians of All Ages
S7 Believe in Your Audience: The Road to Renewal
S8 If We Don’t Act, Who Will?: Inclusion Means Voicing Hard Issues With Compassion & Passion
S9 Bridging the GAP (Grounding All Performance)
S10 Managing Your Online Presence to Build Local Audiences & Attract Tourists
3:30 – 4:00 pm Refreshment Break & SPARC Interactive Network Station
4:00 – 5:00 pm Plenary: Highlights & Insights
6:00 pm RECEPTION
6:30 – 10:00 pm UN-GALA DINNER & EVENING OF CURATED PERFORMANCE
(included in Symposium Full Registration)
Sunday, October 30
7:30 am – 2:00 pm Registration
8:00 – 8:45 am Light Breakfast & Refreshments
8:15 – 9:00 am Open Stage Performances (Curated)
9:00 – 10:30 am Plenary
10:30 – 11:00 am Refreshment Break & SPARC Interactive Network Station
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Plenary Keynote: It’s Not a Party Until the Fire Department Shows Up
Brigitte Gall – Award Winning Performer, Writer and Producer, Minden, Ontario
12:30 pm Lunch & Departures
