Creative Strategies Incubator

Performing Arts

The rigor of getting to focus on a single strategic aspect of our organization over a three-year period resulted in tremendous learning, numerous successes, and a forever-changed organizational DNA. CrSI allowed us to dream big and turn those dreams into tangible outcomes.

Mitchell Marcus

Artistic & Managing Director, The Musical Stage Company

Metcalf's Performing Arts Program Director Michael Trent is joined by participants in the 2013 Creative Strategies Incubator to discuss the mission and vision of the program. 6 min.

At the Toronto Fringe, we have been focusing on accessibility initiatives. The CrSI program has allowed us to learn each year by re-assessing what we are doing in order to make our project more effective. Connecting with other companies through CrSI has provided us with multiple learning opportunities. Even though they are focusing on different areas, they share similar obstacles and raise similar questions.

Lucy Eveleigh

Executive Director, Toronto Fringe

Creative Strategies Incubator News

Creative Strategies Incubator 2017 Cohort Present Their Work at Toronto Fringe’s Next Stage Community Booster

Creative Strategies Incubator 2016 Delivers Shared Learnings

Creative Strategies Incubator 2016 & 2017 Cohorts Join Forces

Metcalf Photo Essay: 2015 Creative Strategies Incubator Cohort Public Sharing

Creative Strategies Incubator 2014 Cohort Presents Their Findings

Recent Grants

Performing Arts

Company Theatre, The

to create and manage a high-quality, content-based website focusing on Canadian performing arts, generating revenues for the company through advertising sales, participation in affiliate programs,...

2015, 2016, 2017

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Performing Arts

Young People’s Theatre

for research, design, and implementation of a program of community engagement with newcomers and Indigenous people, through a lens of cultural exchange and reconciliation

2017, 2018, 2019

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Performing Arts

Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival, The

building on their work to provide better access for deaf and disabled artists, the festival will continue to explore ways to include people living with...

2017, 2018, 2019

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Performing Arts

Le Théâtre français de Toronto

to meet the needs of a younger and diversified new audience base and, in particular, ethnically diverse communities, new Canadians, and Francophiles of all generations

2017, 2018, 2019

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Performing Arts

Canadian Opera Company

to animate their currently underused space, located at 227 Front Street East. In addition to becoming the home of an expanded Academy, this new cultural...

2017, 2018, 2019

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Performing Arts

Aluna Theatre

in recognition of the unique barriers, needs, and potential of the Latin Canadian community of artists and audiences, Aluna Theatre will develop three new artistic...

2017, 2018, 2019

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Performing Arts

Volcano Non-Profit Productions Inc.

to enable the company to re-enter the international touring arena, pursue global showcasing and networking opportunities, and rekindle relationships with venues in order to extend...

2016, 2017, 2018

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Performing Arts

Toronto Dance Theatre

to support Reimagining Repertoire, which uses the company’s significant body of work as an opportunity for creative and organizational growth. Four projects will address their...

2016, 2017, 2018

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Performing Arts

Public Recordings Performance Projects

to extend the conceptual and artistic bases of their work, drawing on its history and reputation to clarify the company’s public appearance, sustain its development...

2016, 2017, 2018

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Performing Arts

Native Earth Performing Arts

to launch The Mskomini Giizis Residency, an initiative designed for emerging and mid-career Indigenous artists living across Canada who are developing original works, and will occur over...

2016, 2017, 2018

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Performing Arts

Art of Time Ensemble

to increase their artistic work’s potential by fostering new creation, enhancing existing works, providing resources according to the demands of the artistic idea, and leveraging...

2016, 2017, 2018

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Performing Arts

Musical Stage Company, The

to unlock and access cross-border resources to support the often costly and complex musical theatre development process by developing collaborative relationships with U.S. regional theatres,...

2016, 2017, 2018

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Performing Arts

Soundstreams Canada

to modularize selected upcoming and past productions from their main concert season to be mounted by a network of regional presenters, using professional development activities...

2015, 2016, 2017

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Performing Arts

Nightwood Theatre

to develop a new alternative revenue source entitled The Creativity Lab, a comprehensive corporate training program for women, inspiring leadership and innovation in business through...

2015, 2016, 2017

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Performing Arts

Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts

in partnership with ArtsBuild Ontario and WorkInCulture, to introduce the SpaceFinder program, developed by Fractured Atlas, into Canada in order to allow arts organizations to...

2013, 2014, 2015

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Performing Arts

B Current Performing Arts Co.

to create the bcHub Public program, a revenue-generating series of courses and professional retreats that can be offered to the corporate sector

2015, 2016, 2017

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Performing Arts

Acting Up Stage Theatre Company Inc.

to transform their annual Koerner Hall concert into a social enterprise, adding performances and positioning it as a unique client and staff hosting opportunity for...

2013, 2014, 2015

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Performing Arts

Art of Time Ensemble

to explore opportunities for increasing their earned revenue (primarily box office) through the creation of a web-based cultural hub that will allow the company to...

2013, 2014, 2015

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Performing Arts

Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival, The

to create a crowd-sourced funding site, which would benefit both the Fringe Festival and the independent theatre community, and a comprehensive app that encourages audiences...

2013, 2014, 2015

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Performing Arts

Tafelmusik

to expand revenue streams by building capacity for online distribution of their existing products, researching online sales methods that allow for better cross-promotion and suggestive...

2013, 2014, 2015

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Performing Arts

Anandam Dancetheatre

to investigate how an audience receives and interprets participatory experiences in the performing arts and to build the skills of their artists in creating this...

2014, 2015, 2016

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Performing Arts

Jumblies Theatre

to explore the notion of “mainstreaming” community-engaged arts practice by partnering with a minimum of four traditional professional performing arts companies in order to explore...

2014, 2015, 2016

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Performing Arts

Kaeja d’Dance

to explore a new public space animation initiative that will adapt the model of Porch View Dances to be appropriate for neighbourhoods in the inner...

2014, 2015, 2016

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Performing Arts

Nightswimming

to develop online, dramaturgy-focused “nuclei” for each of their projects, using enhanced audience experiences as a tool to develop an audience for their work across...

2014, 2015, 2016

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Performing Arts

SummerWorks Performance Festival

to create an audience engagement platform that crosses between the digital and physical spheres, partnering Beacon technology, which allows information to be sent to all...

2014, 2015, 2016

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Performing Arts

Theatre Centre, The

to leverage the resources of their new facility in order to build community by creating dialogue around the art that they create and by creating...

2014, 2015, 2016

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Performing Arts

Toronto Summer Music

to create the Toronto Summer Music Community Academy in which adult amateur musicians would spend a week studying with professional performing classical musicians, culminated with...

2014, 2015, 2016

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