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Report Launch: Shared Platforms and Charitable Venture Organizations
Please come to a brief reception on June 13, 2013 celebrating the formal launch of the Metcalf Foundation’s first Innovation Fellowship paper in the performing arts: Shared Platforms and Charitable Venture Organizations: A Powerful Possibility for a More Resilient Arts Sector by Jane Marsland. Click here to register for this event.
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Nick Saul of Community Food Centres Canada speaks at Ramsay Breakfast June 4
Founder of The Stop, Nick Saul, took his idea for a Toronto food centre and transformed it into a nationwide movement. He chronicles this development in a book co-written with Andrea Curtis. Nick speaks at the University Club on June 4 at the Ramsay Breakfast. Follow the link below to purchase tickets.
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Canada’s first festival of politics, art, and ideas
The Literary Review of Canada has announced the launch of Spur: Canada’s first national festival of politics, art and ideas. Spur invites Canadians to have fun with some of today’s most provocative writers, journalists, entrepreneurs, activists and politicians. The festival will present an eclectic mix of events, debates, musical performances, panels, walking tours and more. Spur launches in Toronto April 11 to 14, then rolls out to Winnipeg and Vancouver later in the spring. Please check out the great line-up of events and guests: http://spurfestival.ca Tickets for Spur Toronto can be purchased here: http://spurfestival.ca/toronto/2013/
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Regent Park: a story of collective impact
The revitalization of Toronto’s Regent Park is one of the largest urban renewal projects in the world. Regent Park: a story of collective impact, tells the story of how a handful of residents initiated a major outreach effort to engage key players from different sectors, resulting in a collective impact of positive “city building.” We are pleased to announce the publication of a new booklet which tells this amazing story in both words and pictures.
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Cathy Smalley Wins Robert Johnston Award
Cathy Smalley, the Foundation’s first Performing Arts Program Director, was recently honoured with the 2012 Robert Johnston Award. Created in 2010, the award is given to an individual who has demonstrated a tenacious commitment to furthering human resources development in the cultural sector and made a deliberate and fruitful contribution to supporting the growth of the sector’s most valued resource – its people.
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How to feed 9 billion people
By 2050 there will be 9 billion people on the planet. With climate change, dwindling water supplies, and high-energy prices set to make food harder and more expensive to produce, will there be enough food for everyone? Our colleague, Elizabeth Frazer, of Community Food Centres Canada, recently shared with us an intriguing animated video she co-wrote with Dr. Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security. It offers ideas and solutions to these complex issues. We invite you to take a look and join the discussion at: feedingninebillion.com
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Places, Please!
Places, Please! is both a call to funders to consider the extraordinary potential of supporting internship opportunities and a celebration of what Metcalf has accomplished in over a decade focused arts internship programming. The book includes a background to the program, a summary of lessons we have learned, and personal stories from both interns and mentors.
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The Theatre Centre begins renovations on a permanent home
Despite being one of Toronto’s oldest performing arts companies with a record of successful and award-winning productions, The Theatre Centre has had to move locations seven times in its 31-year history. In 2010, City Council voted to approve an offer to lease the historic Carnegie Library building on Queen Street West to The Theatre Centre. The Metcalf Foundation provided important seed funding to develop the architectural renderings that were an important part of their presentation to City Council. With Metcalf Strategic Initiative funding, The Theatre Centre was able to build capacity for this exciting capital venture. With combined funding from individuals, public supporters and private donors, renovation to their new home officially began on October 11.
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Toronto Star Features East Scarborough Storefront’s Eco-Food Hub
The Toronto Star’s Leanne Delap profiled the people behind East Scarborough Storefront’s transformation and its new Eco-Food Hub, supported by the Metcalf Foundation.
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Canada’s Laws Fuel Migrant Worker Exploitation
Canada’s reliance on low-wage migrant workers with temporary immigration status is growing but our laws make them vulnerable to abuse, says a new report by the Metcalf Foundation.
