| Time | Event | Description | Location | Moderator | Panelists |
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| 9:00am | Doors Open | Check in & Registration | Sugar Hall A | Alexis Da Silva-Powell | |
| 9:30am | Welcome | Opening Remarks | Sugar Hall B | - Régine Cadet - Jacoba Knaapen | |
| 9:40am - 10:15am | Keynote Speaker | Sugar Hall B | Mel Hague | ||
| 10:15am - 10:25am | BREAK | Tea, coffee, water and fruit available | Sugar Hall A | ||
| 10:25am - 11:15am | SPEED IDEAting | An opportunity for creative minds to meet, share, and learn from others in the arts community through speedy 2 minute discussions. | Sugar Hall C | Kelly Straughan | |
| 11:15am - 11:25 | BREAK | Tea, coffee and water available | Sugar Hall A | ||
| 11:25am - 12:20pm | Contracts Are Not Your Enemy | In this session, we review the types of contracts you will encounter and why you should use them. Renting a venue? Working with artists of all kinds? Co-producing? We will cover some pitfalls and red flags to be aware of and talk about how to work with union and association contracts. | Sugar Hall B | - Beth Brown - Gail Packwood |
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| 12:30pm - 1:00pm | LUNCH - Keynote | Sugar Hall A | Tim Jones | ||
| 1:15pm - 2:15pm | Demystifying Working Models: Navigating Relationships Between Indie Artists & Performing Arts Institutions | Are you and/or your company at a place in your career to collaborate with larger organizations? In this session, presenters provide insight into their working models that best support independent companies. Hear from programmers at the City of Toronto and Canadian Stage, and receive insight from lemonTree creations and Why Not Theatre about how partnerships, residencies, creation units, and presentation series can help you collaborate with larger organizations. | Sugar Hall B | Chris Reynolds | - Jenn Goodwin - Brendan Healy - Indrit Kasapi - Kelly Read |
| DIY-not? | Do you have a space? Did you have a space? Do you wanna have a space? From rental agreements, to bank loans to applying for charitable status, this panel focuses on successes, failures and hardships of running a space in a congested and costly city. | Sugar Hall C | Bri Proke | - Luis Fernandes - Sedina Fiati - Andrew Gaboury |
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | BREAK | Tea, coffee, water and snacks available | Sugar Hall A | ||
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Risky Art, Safe Space | How do we make safe spaces? How can we ensure we can take risks in rehearsal rooms, without posing risk to those working in the room? How can we feel both empowered and vulnerable? This panel explores methods of best practice, shares stories of positive rehearsal experience, and offers ideas as to how we can support each other in making great art. We focus on how to achieve nurturing work environments, at all levels. | Sugar Hall B | Thalia Gonzalez Kane | - Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster - Marcia Johnson |
| Theatre Practice in an age of Global Climate Crisis | This facilitated roundtable discussion will tackle some burning questions inherent to theatre production surviving in a warming world. What does sustainability mean to you? What methods can artists employ in the practice of artmaking to reduce waste, resource consumption and carbon footprint? Triga Collective will discuss sustainable design questions and brainstorm ideas with participants on how to creatively combat climate change within the theatre industry. Audience participation will be encouraged. | Sugar Hall C | Scott Dermody | Triga: Shannon Lea Doyle, Alexandra Lord and Michelle Tracey | |
| 3:30pm - 3:45pm | BREAK | Tea, coffee, water and snacks available | Sugar Hall A | ||
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | Open Space/Wrap Up | The perfect opportunity to post questions on topics that interest you! | Sugar Hall B | ||
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm | Artscape Daniels Launchpad Facility Tour (Optional) |
