November 3, 2005

ARCCO Best Practice Workshop Series, Part 3

GOVERNANCE: TAKING INVENTORY
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2005: 10 AM - 5 PM
Toronto Arts Council, 141 Bathurst Street, Toronto


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Workshop #3: Governance
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ABOUT
ARCCO
ARCCO is a professional arts service organization for artist-run, not-for-profit centres and collectives for contemporary art in Ontario. This includes centres/collectives for the presentation, production, dissemination, service and investigation of contemporary art in a variety of media and multi-disciplinary work.

Judy Wolfe, Consulting Matrix
Judy Wolfe is a dynamic and knowledgeable consultant whose direct approach to arts management, governance and organizational structure development turns anxiety into enthusiasm.

An expert in strategic planning, Judy assists executives and Boards to set their vision, create a plan and implement it. Judy provides services in the areas of strategic, business and operational planning, organizational effectiveness, alternative service delivery, private-public partnerships, strategic communications and financial management.

Following more than fifteen years in public service, Judy became a full-time management consultant to the not-for-profit and provincial government sectors in 2001, when she joined Consulting Matrix.

Judy has worked with several Ministries of the Ontario Government, including Citizenship, Tourism and Recreation, Culture, Children’s Services, Environment, Health and Long-Term Care and Public Infrastructure Renewal; with Hydro One and the Canadian Securities Administrators. Judy’s clients in the non-profit arts sector include the Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Trinity Square Video, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Toronto Animated Image Society, Gallery TPW, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Gallery 44, Open Studio, princess productions, Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario/ARCCO, Artsbuild Ontario and the Canadian Art Foundation.
CONTACT
For more information please contact:
Jewell Goodwyn, ARCCO Executive Director
phone: 519-672-7898
email: jewel.goodwyn@sympatico.ca

ARCCO
P.O. Box 44026
Market Tower Lane Postal Outlet
141 Dundas Street,
London, Ontario N6A 5S5
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Saturday, November 19, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Taking Inventory
Governance Issues for Staff and Board at Media and Visual Artist-Run Centres

This workshop, designed exclusively for ARCCO and IMAA members - will aim to demystify governance, and focus on providing realistic approaches to the core issues of governance at your centres. It will be a full day of information sharing in order to address governance challenges faced by the artist-run sector. A wide range of topics will be covered, including an overview of board models, board roles and responsibilities, recruitment, orientation, development/training, planning, evaluation, succession planning, as well as board relationship with staff and members.

The morning will consist of information session with consultant Judy Wolfe. Judy will provide an overview of governance and share her observations of the recurring thematic challenges that she has observed within the artist run sector, over the last 3 years.

The morning session will be followed by an afternoon Panel Discussion where panelists will provide pragmatic examples from their own experience. Following the panel discussion, all panelists and participants will participate in one Roundtable Discussion that will follow up on issues raised during the panel presentations.

Panelists: Roberto Ariganello, Director, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers; Natalie DeVito, Mercer Union; Jessie Lacayo, Director, Gallery 101; Penny McCann, Director, SAW Video; Clive Robertson, Board Member Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and Fado Performance Inc.

Facilitator: Gary Hall, Executive Director, Gallery TPW.

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Who should attend? Key staff and board members including Director, Coordinator, President, and members of the Board of Directors. See registration form for details.

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Acknowledgements:
Produced with funding support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and special thanks to Toronto Arts Council Foundation.


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