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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Important Member Dates and Information July 1, 2003: ARCCO Membership Fees are past due. Membership Renewal Forms have been emailed and mailed to you. September 26 to 28, 2003 in Toronto: ARCCO AGM & Members Forums
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| YOUR check list [ ] CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE Please RSVP to the ARCCO office by email ASAP, so we can plan for the appropriate number of participants. [ ] PRINT OUT THE ARCCO MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION FORM The membership and registration form is included as an attachment for anyone who has not already filled it out. This is the same form that was sent to you by email and mail in August. [ ] PAY YOUR MEMBERSHIP & REGISTRATION FEE If you haven't already submitted the forms to the ARCCO office, then please bring the membership/registration form and a cheque with you. There will be a registration table where you can complete your registration when you arrive. Please note that the AGM is open to ARCCO members only. MEMBERSHIP FEES: Fees were due as of July 1, 2003 and all members are required to pay their fees prior to participating in these events. Please see the fee structure on the second page of the attachment. FEES: A registration fee of $100 is to be paid by all member centres as agreed upon April 15, 2002. The funds go toward travel subsidy for members outside of Toronto. BOARD MEMBERS: All Board members please note that you must pay the membership and registration fee to maintain the membership of your centre. [ ] TRAVEL SUBSIDIES TO ATTEND AGM Travel subsidy is available for ARCCO members only, for one representative per centre. The travel subsidy fund cannot exceed the total registration fees collected. ARCCO will aim for 100% reimbursement of eligible travel costs; however, it may be necessary to pro-rate at a lower percentage. There is no travel subsidy form. Please save your receipts for actual costs, i.e.: gas receipts for travel by car, economy air/train/bus travel and submit to ARCCO by mail after our meetings. Please note that this does not include in-town travel (buses, cabs, parking, etc.). The ARCCO mailing address is listed below. [ ] ARRIVE ON TIME We will start all events on time according to the following schedules.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Members Forum, Meeting with Funders and AGM Friday September 26 to Sunday September 28, 2003 Friday September 26 at 401 Richmond St. W. 1:00 pm to 5:15 pm - MEMBERS' FORUM LOCATION: Women's Art Resource Centre, Suite 122 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm - RECEPTION LOCATION: Rooftop Patio (4th floor) PROGRAM for MEMBERS' FORUM 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm: HRDC Presentation with Peter Solomon, Programs Consultant for Ontario Regional Office 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm: Member's Strategy Session (this session is open to ARCCO Members only) In preparation for our members meeting with the funders on Saturday September 27, this will be YOUR opportunity to share your concerns with the other members and arrange a list of issues and questions and member speakers for the following day. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm: Happy Dances Eight presenters from ARCCO’s membership will provide a 10 to 15 minute presentation, sharing their "success stories" in various programming initiatives that they have undertaken within the last year. Prospective Members and Funders are invited to attend!! Presenters: Linda Abrahams, Women’s art Resource Centre: tba Christian Giroux, Hamilton Artists Inc.: Zone 16, Recycle, public works in Hamilton Paul Couillard, FADO: Outside the Gallery Walls Laura Margita, Galerie SAW Gallery: Scatalogue, 30 years of crap in contemporary art Stephen Remus, Niagara Artists Company: tba Julie Fiala, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre: Art in the Streets in a Small Town: the art of outreach Gary Hall, Gallery TPW: tba Kym, YYZ: tba 5:15 pm - 7:15 pm: Patio Rooftop Reception Members, Prospective Members and Funders are most welcome to attend! Saturday September 27 at the Ontario Arts Council 10:00 am to 5:00 pm: FACE TO FACE WITH FUNDERS LOCATION: OAC Board Room, 151 Bloor Street, 5th floor SECURITY NOTE: Please arrive on time ARCCO is required to verify every person who is coming into the OAC building this day. We will have an ARCCO staff at the door between 9:30 am to 11 am. If you miss this time, there will be another check-in time in the afternoon between 1 pm and 2 pm. Unfortunately NO EXCEPTIONS will be made between or past this time, as there will be no ARCCO staff to verify your entrance at the door! ARCCO’s 4th Annual Interactive Session with Funders Once again ARCCO has invited funders from both federal and provincial agencies to participate in a full day of dialogue with our members from across the province. This year we are pleased to have representatives from the Ontario Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, and Ontario Trillium Foundation. This important forum enables funders to present new program initiatives and program criteria, to review their mandates with the membership and provide direct feedback to members’ questions. This also provides a unique opportunity for the membership to address their concerns collectively, and learn about changes to programs and budgets which affect artist-run centres. In addition to the efficiency in time and cost for funders and our members, this is also an opportunity for the funders to be informed about programs from the other funding bodies. ARCCO thanks the Ontario Arts Council for generously providing their board room for the meeting. PROGRAM FOR FACE TO FACE WITH FUNDERS 9:30 am: Registration coffee & refreshments 10:00 - 10:15 am: Welcome Gary Hall, ARCCO President and OAC staff (tba) 10:15 - 11:00 am: Ontario Trillium Foundation Julia Howell 11:05 am - 12:00 pm: Canadian Heritage Tracy Marsh 12:00 - 1:15 pm: Break 1:30 - 3:00 pm: Ontario Arts Council John Brotman, Executive Director Carolyn Vesely, Visual and Media Arts Officer Lisa Wohrle, Associate Visual and Media Arts Officer 3:00 - 3:15 pm: Break 3:15 - 4:45 pm: The Canada Council for the Arts Francois Lachapelle, Visual Arts Head Jim Logan, Program Officer Annie Gauthier, Program Officer Sunday September 28 at 401 Richmond St. W. 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING LOCATION: Women's Art Resource Centre, Suite 122 SCHEDULE FOR AGM 11:30 am: Registration and Sign-in 12:00 pm: Opening Remarks and Introduction Gary Hall, President Agenda 1) Approval of the Agenda 2) Approval of Minutes from September 17, 2002 3) Executive Directors’ Report 4) ARCCO Board Report to the Members: ARCCO’s Strategic Development Plan Overview: Gary Hall, President Outreach to Artist Collectives and Media Centres: Paul Couillard Advocacy Committee: Jewell Goodwyn 5) Treasurer’s Report 5 (b) Approval of Audit 6) New ARCCO Member Applicants 7) Elections 8) New Business 9) Adjourn
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Updated Report from Nominations Committee, Chair and President Gary Hall The focus of the Board of Directors over the past year has been on setting goals and developing a strategic plan for the development of the organization over the next few years. In keeping with these goals the board established a nominations committee to prepare for the upcoming elections. The mandate of the committee was to assess the skills and interests of the board members who would be remaining to determine how they could best serve ARCCO and what level of responsibility they would take on. The next step was to establish priorities in terms of skills and representation required to best fill the vacancies to build a well balanced and effective board. We consulted with many members to determine their interest in serving on the board and came up with our recommendation. The report which was circualted to the membeship during the summer has one revision as Christian Giroux has been replaced by David Poolman. Christian has moved to London Ontario to teach at University of Western Ontario and Fanshawe College and will no longer be representing a member organization. ARCCO sends it's best wishes to him as well as other members who expressed an interest in serving on the board in the future. The proposed board composition will provide ARCCO with: • a bilingual President from northern Ontario with 4 years experience on ARCCO's board • a new Vice President representing the only ARC devoted to performance art • consistency of an experienced treasurer and secretary • 3 new board members • representation from media arts at the board level • broad geographic representation with 2 members in Toronto and one in Ottawa to facilitate communication with Governments and other organizations The nominations Committee presented their recommendations to the board and the following proposal was accepted by the board to present to the membership at the AGM. Nominated for election at the AGM: Danielle Tremblay, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, President Paul Couillard, FADO, Vice President Christine Burchnall, ArtciteTreasurer David LaRiviere, Artspace, Secretary New Board members: Laura Margita, Gallery Saw Galerie David Poolman, the Forest City Gallery Greg Woodbury, Charles Street Video Bios of the candidates Danielle Tremblay Danielle has been the director of la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario since 1988. She was also part of the founding committee to establish GNO as an artist-run centre. Coordinator of L’Échangeur 2001-2002, and 2002-2003 Danielle Tremblay organized an international residency and exchange project, which involved five artist- run centres in Canada and an art gallery in Paris, France. Danielle has been an active founding committee member of many art service organizations at the national and provincial levels such as l’Association des Groupes en Art visuel Francophone (l’AGAVF), le Bureau du Regroupement des Arts Visuels de l’Ontario(BRAVO), l’Alliance culturelle de l’Ontario (l’ACO) and Artist-Run and Centres and Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO). She has been an active board member of ARCCO since 1999. Danielle has participated on several juries for different programs of the Ontario Art Council such as: Special Project Grants, Grant for Individual Artists (mid-career), Operational Grants for Artist-Run Centres, Artists in the School as well as other programs in the franco-ontarian sector. Danielle is a visual artist. Her sculptures and installations have been presented in Ontario and Québec. Paul Couillard Paul Couillard has been working as an artist, curator, and organizer since 1985, focusing on performance art with forays into theatre, writing, holography, installation, film and video. He has been the Performance Art Curator for Fado since its inception in 1993, and is also a founding co-curator of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, both based in Toronto, Canada. Over the years, he has worked as a programmer or director for various artist-run centres, including SAW Gallery, Gallery 101, Canadian Film Makers Distribution Centre, the Photon League of Holographers and ASpace. As an artist, he has created over 100 solo and collaborative performance works, often working with his partner Ed Johnson. His work seeks to build community through explorations of our bodies as vessels of sensation, experience, knowledge and spirit. He has a particular interest in considering the shared borders of our separate existences, searching for a language that can convey the complex layers of personal history, cultural/social specificity and the notion of shared or universal experience. David LaRiviere Artist/ independent curator/activist After completing a MA Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1996, LaRiviere returned to Canada where he has been very active in artist-run culture and in the broader arts community. LaRiviere completed one term as the President of the Board of Directors of Latitude 53 Society of Artists in Edmonton. During his time in Edmonton, he worked as a sessional instructor at Grant MacEwan Community College teaching art theory to second year Fine Art students, and gained experience as a gallery preparator, working on a contractual basis for the Edmonton Art Gallery. In 2000, David LaRiviere headed to Ontario, where he accepted his appointment as the new Director of Artspace in Peterborough Ontario. Since making the move across Canada, David LaRiviere has furthered the interests of Artspace within its constituency and nationally, alongside of continuing his own artistic pursuits. David is going into his second year as part of the Executive of the ARCCO Board of Directors. Christine Burchnall Christine Burchnall is a Windsor-based artist and current Administrative Coordinator for Artcite Inc., an artist-run centre for the contemporary arts. Through her experience as official ANNPAC/RACA representative for Artcite (1984-1989) and as Board member and Treasurer of ARCCO (2000-2003), Burchnall has gained extensive knowledge of Canada’s artist-run system. As an actively working visual artist, she has shown her photographs, image/text art and mixed and multi-media installations extensively in solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout Canada and the US. Burchnall is also one-third of the three-member E.I.E.I.O. art collective, which recently mounted A.S.I.F., a multi-media piece for the North American Anti-Auto show presented at the Detroit Contemporary in 2002. Greg Woodbury Greg Woodbury is an arts administrator, media artist and film and video specialist. As Operations Manager at Charles Street Video Greg oversees the technical facilities and has coordinated nine highly successful artist-in-residence programs, developed new 'Audio Art' commissions and initiated many partnerships with presenting organizations. The work produced at these residencies has been presented at the Images Independent Film and Video Festival, the Tranz<--->Tech biennial, YYZ Artists' Outlet and CBC Radio. The Canada Council modeled their new 'Commission Grant' after the very successful Images/Charles Street Video partnership. A tenth residency is currently underway and the completed works will be screened at the 2004 Images Festival. From 1989 through 1997 Greg was the Technical Manager at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto where he was instrumental in re-locating the co-op to its expanded facility and moving it into the digital age by integrating Media 100 and Pro Tools systems into the post-production environment. Greg is a founding member of the Spontaneous Combustion Visual Arts Collective which mounted a series of exhibitions in the early nineties including a successful show in London, England, and his films and videos have been shown in festivals internationally. He also has extensive experience as as a sound and picture editor and has worked on award winning films by Judith Doyle, Sarah Abbott, Carolynne Hew, Velcrow Ripper, Mike Hoolboom and Gunilla Josephson. He has taught numerous workshops and currently teaches post production sound at the International Academy of Design. Greg is also one of two Ontario Regional Directors of the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). He has coordinated and co-chaired regional meetings for member organizations and in his first year as a director Greg helped increase the Ontario Regional membership by a third making it the largest IMAA region in Canada. Greg has done advocacy work on a national level on behalf of member organizations and in the coming year he looks forward to strengthening the IMAA Ontario region and building ties with ARCCO. Laura Margita Since 1997, Laura Margita has worked as Administrative Director of SAW Gallery. She has been responsible for the overall management and direction of the gallery, including human resources, finance and policy. She has been involved with over 25 volunteer committees during this time. Laura was hired to reduce a large deficit at SAW Gallery, and to help restructure the governance of the centre. Since that time the deficit has been eliminated, SAW Gallery now operates with accumulated surplus with expanded services and reduced administrative costs. Laura has also overseen a renovation/outfit project for the gallery which was completed this year, replacing a space that was insufficient for the demands of an exceptional multi-purpose centre. Laura co-owned and co-operated, a commercial gallery called Creative Outlet. She has curated several multi-year series of performance and art projects, notably: Sexibitions 1-3 and Black Tie 2 Bondage 1-6. Laura has been a leader in the Ottawa cultural community since 1990, and founded the Enriched Bread Artists: a studio cooperative made up of 25 artists, which is one of the largest in Canada. Laura is a performance and multi media artist. David Poolman David Poolman is an MFA graduate from the University of Windsor, and a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Working with video, print media and installation, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally including the Red Square Film and Video Show at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Video-Film-Tagen Thuringen & Rheinland-Pfalz in Gera, Germany, and at the ECM Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is currently the co- director of the Forest City Gallery and a sessional instructor at the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ About ARCCO’s New Full Member Applicants: Charles Street Video Charles Street Video ("CSV") is a non-profit, artist-run centre located in downtown Toronto. Its mandate is to provide media artists with opportunities for production and to foster an environment for the advancement of the media arts practise. CSV rents editing suites, audio post-production suites as well as cameras and production gear. The facility hosts audio, video and installation artist residency programs, provides workshops and equipment orientations, awards scholarships to media art students, provides screening, performance and exhibition opportunities in partnership with presenting organizations, and publishes <subclip/index.htm> subclip, an on-line newsletter. SAW Video SAW Video is an artist-run not-for-profit arts organization. Primarily we are a production center committed to fostering the creation of independent media art. SAW Video provides many services to its membership including affordable technical facilities, workshops and training on video and new media practices and equipment, production support programmes for emerging, intermediate and advanced artists, and screenings and regular programming (to name a few). SAW Video's facilities are used in a wide range of productions - video art, drama, documentary, multi-media, performance, installation and community based projects. SAW Video pays artist fees for all presentation of work. SAW Video does not support the use of equipment for commercial projects; all videos must be independently produced and/or directed. SAW actively promotes access for all artists, regardless of age, class, gender, sexual orientation, race or ability. To date we have 203 members. Last year we saw the production of approximately 200 videos made through access of the centre in one way or another. SAW Video has also been developing several programmes, the most successful to date is our "Youth in Residence" programme. This year is the fifth year that we have been successfully running the programme. The programme consists of accepting twelve to sixteen youth (aged 18-29), for a six to eight month period whereby they receive training and access to video making practices (ie. workshops, artist talks, etc) and access to equipment. The participants also receive a daily stipend during the course of their training. The programme has been very successfull in regards to keeping a steady influx of new video makers within the community, with a majority of the participants becoming members of the centre. Several past participants have also joined the board of directors at SAW Video. SAW Video has also been working towards placing 500 full-length videos on line for the Fall of this year. The project was a major undertaking for the centre, supported mainly by Heritage Canada. The aim of the project was to provide a portal for independent film, video and animation to a larger international audience. Primarily the focus was to place SAW Video's archives on line, however the project expanded to include some National work as well. The site is aimed to be launched in October 2003. Other Member Applicants: Associate Members Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts IFCO/ Independent Filmaker's Co-operative of Ottawa Affiliate Member RCAAQ /Regroupment des centres d'artistes du Quebec Change from Associate to Full Membership SAVAC/South Asian Visual Arts Collective House of Toast Film and Video Collective
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