workshops
Participant Notes: Please plan to arrive to your workshops 10 minutes early, and double check that you have all required materials. All workshops will take place at the Intrepid Theatre Club, which is wheelchair accessible and has two gender neutral washrooms.
taxes for arts workers with jen braemWednesday, November 6th, 2019 - 6-10pm
Intrepid Theatre Club $30 / $95 Workshop Pass Does tax time make you queasy? Do you break out in a sweat at the thought of a letter from the CRA? Then join us as we walk through the ins and outs of tax for self employed artists in a relaxed and, yes, fun atmosphere! Bring your tax questions big and small as you learn tips and tricks to understanding and planning for tax from an arts perspective. CAPACITY: 20 About the Instructor: Jen Braem is a Chartered Professional Accountant with a practice in Victoria. She specializes in working with arts and sport organizations and in personal tax. Jen is the Director of Finance for Rugby Canada and sits as Treasurer for Wheelchair Rugby Canada. With over twenty years working in sport and arts, including ten years as a professional stage manager, she retains a strong passion for the arts and helping arts organizations to fulfill their mandates through fiscal management. Jen competed for Canada in sailing from 2008-2013 before retiring as an athlete and focusing on accounting. She earned her Masters of Business Administration as well as her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theatre from UVic. Jen earned her accounting credentials while articling at MNP where she focused on audit and remote accounting for First Nations owned businesses. |
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dance/theatre: a cross disciplinary approach to crafting performance with andrew barrettThursday, November 7th, 2019 - 6-10pm
Intrepid Theatre Club $30 / $95 Workshop Pass Impulse Theatre's Andrew Barrett brings his own skills, exercises and thoughts on how dance and theatre can intersect. This physical workshop uses body awareness, choreographic and theatrical techniques to explore performance and creation. A great workshop for directors, actors, poets, dancers, storytellers, etc. to explore how their bodies can be the catalyst for their work. CAPACITY: 20 About the Instructor: Andrew is a queer multidisciplinary theatre artist and the Artistic Producer of Impulse Theatre. He is a creator, performer, teacher, director, and administrator. He received his BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and has pursued contemporary dance training through the Victoria School of Contemporary Dance since 2010. As a teacher, he has taught movement and creation for Theatre SKAM's SKAMpede Young Company and School of Performing Arts, the Pacific Design Academy’s Acting for the Screen program, Victoria School of Contemporary Dance, and has done workshops through Impulse Theatre, for the poets of Victoria Festival of Spoken Word, and the students of the Gulf Islands School of the Performing Arts. |
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360 producing: an introduction to the processes and the scope of administering creation in the canadian arts ecology with clayton baraniukSaturday, November 9th, 2019 - 10am-2pm
Intrepid Theatre Club $30 / $95 Workshop Pass Seeing the world through a producers eyes, uncovering the holes, identifying challenges before they become challenging, seeing the future and knowing how and who to talk to are skills built up over a career in the Arts. In this workshop, Clayton will attempt to create a 360 degree picture of how the arts in Canada are created, produced and administered in some circles in Canada, from the artistic relationship, to the funders and stakeholders, to the details of administration, boards, finance, development, marketing, optics, community, legality, responsibility, poverty, authenticity, consistency, ethics and bring true to you - he will try to cover a lot. The producer's role is to know everyone else’s job better than they do, and to know their own role from everyone else’s perspective. Can that be attained? You’ll find out. CAPACITY: 20 About the Instructor: Clayton is the artistic producer of Electric Company Theatre. Previously he was Associate Producer at the National Arts Centre, Company Manager at the Belfry Theatre and the Canada Dance Festival, produced the NAC Cycle projects on Indigenous Theatre and Deaf, disability and Mad Arts. He founded Gotta Getta Gimmick in Victoria way back when with whom he produced for Butchart Gardens for 10 years, ran Cabarets at the Belfry for four years, and created the Fringe Mob in Centennial Square for Intrepid Theatre. He has collaborated with SpiderWebShow, Canada’s online theatre space, the Festival of Live Digital Arts, and the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance (IPAA) in recent years. He is also a Relaxed Performance Consultant with British Council Canada, and has produced two conferences with the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres. Clayton is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Heritage Arts Society and the Canadian College of Performing Arts, his alma mater in Victoria, where he has also lead the third year program for a time and acted as a curriculum advisor. |
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