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• 4Cs Foundation

  Located in Halifax, 4Cs is a private foundation that supports community-based fine art projects in public schools.

• A1C Gallery (Local: St. John's, NL)

  A1C is nonprofit, artist-run, and committed to presenting a high standard of contemporary art through an on-going submissions policy. They exhibit emerging, mid-career, and professional artists. At nine exhibitions annually, programming has comprised solo exhibitions, collaborative projects, and group shows.

• Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (National: Toronto, ON)

  The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a national nonprofit association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in the Canadian film and television industries.

• Academy Theatre for Performing Arts (Local: Lindsay, ON)

  The Academy Theatre for Performing Arts is the second oldest live theatre house in Ontario and is a busy social and cultural centre year-round. The theatre presents a balance of well-known recording artists and comedians along with a healthy representation of community theatre and dance.

• Alberta Theatre Projects

  Alberta Theatre Projects is Calgary's contemporary theatre company and has been providing thought-provoking, entertaining, award-winning plays for 28 years. Located in the Performing Arts Centre, ATP is one of Calgary's premier theatre companies, dedicated to presenting quality work from the national and international repertoire.

• Alliance for Arts and Culture

  The Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture was established in 1986 to represent and serve the local arts community. Since then, the Alliance has grown to include a diverse membership of more than 270 individuals and organizations.

• All Nations Theatre Society (Local: Calgary, AB)

  All Nations Theatre Society was established in 1991 and has involved many young people with diverse backgrounds and experience. Our mandate is theatre for social change. We use theatre to address a variety of issues such as violence, bullying and racism.

• Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Regional: Kelowna, BC)

  This artist-run centre as a welcoming site for radical art-making and community-building. The organization's goals are to provide support and resources to emerging and alternative artists in the Okanagan and to inspire both their members and the broader community.

• Amadeus Choir

  Under the artistic direction of Canadian conductor, Lydia Adams, this 110 auditioned voice choral group has been the choir-in-residence at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts for seven years. Known for its clarity and enthusiasm, the choir performs a varied series of concerts throughout the Toronto area.

• APPLAUSE! Musicals Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  APPLAUSE! Musicals Society has been sharing the excitement and passion of great showtunes through a series of entertaining, historical and educational concerts and revues since 1997. An incorporated, nonprofit, charitable society, APPLAUSE! is run completely by volunteers and presently operates solely on donations and ticket revenue.

• Arcady (Regional: Simcoe, ON)

  Dedicated to providing young musicians with a bridge from their formal training to professional careers. It accomplishes this by integrating seasoned musicians with these young performers, in their first true professional experiences. Arcady's work is focused in two areas: period performances of early music repertoire and the works of Ronald Beckett.

• Artbound (International: Toronto, ON)

  This organization has a mandate to help create sustainable change in developing countries through the arts. They work to enrich students by teaching them various art forms including arts and crafts, visual arts, pottery, music, dance and drama. They also aim to empower students by providing them with platforms to showcase their talent and generate a sustainable source of funding.

• ARTCAR Society of Canada (International: Nanaimo, BC)

  Works to foster community spirit through organizing related community artcar events, and to educate and inspire artists of all ages about ARTCARS and the positive reactions they create.

• ART for AIDS International (International: London, ON)

  Art for AIDS International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds and awareness for women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. By engaging students through art and HIV/AIDS awareness workshops, Art for AIDS International fosters a perspective of hope and passion for tomorrow’s leaders while providing direct support to not-for-profit organizations throughout Africa.

• Art Gallery of Hamilton

  The third largest public gallery in Ontario, the AGH houses a collection of Canadian historical, modernist and contemporary art.

• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Regional: Halifax, NS)

  The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's mandate is to develop collection, exhibition, and public programs that bring Nova Scotians and visitors in contact with contemporary and historic art that is associated with the province while also introducing art from across the region, the country, and other nations and cultures.

• Art Gallery of Ontario
  
  
• Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
  
  
• Art Gallery of Windsor (Local: Windsor, ON)

  The Art Gallery of Windsor, located on the waterfront with a dramatic view of the Detroit skyline, showcases significant Canadian and international works of art, preserving its presence as a cultural resource, educational institution, and tourist attraction in downtown Windsor.

• Artists' Legal Outreach (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  This is a group of volunteer lawyers and law students committed to working with artists and arts organizations. They offer resources, workshops, and clinics where artists can meet confidentially with an experienced lawyer.

• Artists Network of Riverdale (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Artists Network is dedicated to supporting visual artists in their professional business practice. They promote professional development and entrepreneurship of artists by organizing seminars as well as providing exhibitions and networking opportunities.

• Artotheque.ca

  An undertaking of "La Fondation des arts et métiers d'art du Québec", whose mission is to assist artists from every discipline who, at the age of 65 and over, live below the poverty line. Artotheque.ca is an open Art museum, a Visual Art library with more than 2000 works of Arts from 450 emerging and established artists. (English but mostly French)

• ArtsCan Circle (National: Sarnia, ON)

  ArtsCan Circle sends teams of artists and donated musical instruments to remote Aboriginal communities to conduct interactive music and arts workshops with Aboriginal youth. They aim to encourage the self-esteem of Aboriginal youth-at-risk through a cooperative exploration of the arts.

• Arts Club Theatre Company

  Year-round theatre at two stages: the picturesque, casual Granville Island Stage, and the historic, elegant Stanley Theatre. Eclectic programming, featuring dramas, comedies, musicals, classics and premieres, there is always something happening at one of the Arts Club venues.

• Arts Council - Haliburton Highlands (Local: Haliburton, ON)

  The Arts Council - Haliburton Highlands strives to provide a strong voice for the arts in Haliburton County, to serve as a catalyst for community economic development through the arts, and, through the facilitation of collaborative relationships among artists, organizations, businesses and government, contribute to the vibrancy of the arts and community life.

• Arts Council - Windsor & Region (ACWR)

  The ACWR is a nonprofit organization that enriches the quality of life for all by strengthening the arts and the community through leadership, education and promotion.

• Arts for Children of Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Working with social service agencies, schools and community groups, Arts for Children offers scholarships, outreach programs and teacher training in visual art, drama and music. Our mission is to be a leader in providing high quality arts experiences to children, regardless of their financial circumstances.

• ArtStarts in Schools

  A unique, BC-based non-profit organization providing a range of programs and services for young people, artists, educators, programmers, parent and community organizations.

• Arts Umbrella

  A leading visual and performing arts institute for young people, 2-19 years of age, Arts Umbrella introduces young people to theatre, dance, painting & drawing, sculpture, architecture, movie making, animation and more.

• Assembly of British Columbia Arts Councils (Regional: Parksville, BC)

  The Assembly of British Columbia Arts Councils was founded in 1979 to advance community arts and cultural development in BC. We provide support to BC's community and regional arts councils, and promote the contribution of the arts to strong, healthy communities.

• Atlantic Film Festival Association (Regional: Halifax, NS)

  The Atlantic Film Festival Association (AFFA) is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting and building a strong film industry in Atlantic Canada and presenting the best films from this region and around the world to our community.

• Aurora Choir Society (Local: Fort McMurray, AB)

  The Aurora Choir Society is a not-for-profit organization that provides Fort McMurray youth with a choral education program and the community with an opportunity to experience quality choral music.

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• Ballet British Columbia

  It has a commitment to commission and perform a balanced contemporary repertoire rooted in classical technique, which encompasses the best new ballets and late 20th century classics. In addition to its performances in Vancouver and throughout the Lower Mainland, Ballet British Columbia tours extensively in the United States and Canada.

• Ballet Creole (International: Toronto, ON)

  Ballet Creole is a dance company and a school of performing arts. Our mission is to present African-based dance and music in Canada and beyond, through performances, classes, and workshops, for the purpose of promoting cultural awareness and appreciation. Since it's inception in 1990, Ballet Creole has brought a unique voice to the Canadian Arts scene.

• b current (Local: Toronto, ON)

  b current is a small not-for-profit arts company based in the heart of Toronto/Canada. We present and support performance works emerging from the Canadian and international Black Diaspora. Each season we present the rps festival, run ongoing training activities for young and emerging artists, and develop or produce/present at least one work for the theatre stage.

• Bell'Arte Singers (International: Toronto, ON)

  The Bell'Arte singers is one of Canada's finest community choirs. Each year we offer a 3 subscription series in a variety of genres of repertoire and styles.

• Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is an initiative of the Bill Reid Foundation. Established in 1999 as a nonprofit charitable organization, the foundation’s mission is to preserve the art and perpetuate the legacies of Bill Reid.

• Black Theatre Workshop (BTW) (Local: Montreal, QC)

  Black Theatre Workshop was incorporated as a nonprofit company in 1971. Before that time the organization was known as the Trinidad and Tobago Drama Committee, and operated as an amateur theatre group. Since becoming a fully professional company, BTW has been involved in spoken-word and innovative performance work, in addition to community-based work, plays by established black and non-black playwrights, and commercially-viable productions.

• Blind Kids Art (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Blind Kids Art's mission is to enable blind and visually impaired children to express their creativity and experience art firsthand, free of charge, to become independent and confident through creating art, and to have a future career choice.

• Blyth Festival (Local: Blyth, ON)

  The Blyth Festival is a community based professional theatre that endeavours to enrich the lives of its audience by producing and developing plays that give voice to both the region and the country. The Festival runs throughout the summer and has several events happening throughout the off season as well.

• Brampton Arts Council (Local: Brampton, ON)

  A registered non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the promotion and development of the arts within the City of Brampton. We welcome you to explore our web site to find our more about our Council, events and artists.

• Brampton Music Theatre (Local: Brampton, ON)

  Brampton Music Theatre was formed to bring musical theatre to the community by involving as many people as possible. BMT promotes the love and life of musical theatre while teaching the fundamentals of either being on stage or behind the scenes. These goals are achieved through the development of amateur talent within our community and for our community with honesty, integrity and ethics.

• Brantford Arts Block (Local: Brantford, ON)

  The Brantford Arts Block is charitable community arts organization whose vision is to be a centre of creative activity in Brantford and surrounding communities that stimulates, catalyzes, and encourages imagination and artistic growth. They operate a community arts centre which provides exhibition, performance, studio, and work space for artists of all ages and skill levels. The centre also acts as a producing facility, partnering with other organizations to showcase artists in unique settings around Brantford.

• Brantford Symphony Orchestra (Local: Brantford, ON)

  The Brantford Symphony Orchestra provides musical performances of the highest standard while encouraging area musicians and pursuing programmes of innovative outreach.

• British Columbia Boys Choir

  The British Columbia Boys Choir has been training boys in the Greater Vancouver area to sing for 35 years. The BCBC has a long tradition of performing for Canadians and also tours around the globe.

• BC Living Arts (Local: Kamloops, BC)

  BC Living Arts believes that creativity is not confined to formal art forms such as music, painting, dance or drama. BCLA offers a series of events, workshops/seminars, and musical performances that fuse standard artistic genres with creative endeavors.

• Britpics

  An annual week-long festival of new British cinema featuring approximately 18 feature-films with no distribution or release dates in Canada. It takes place each summer in Toronto at the Bloor Cinema.

• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

  A premiere gay and lesbian theatre, founded in 1979 in Toronto. Each year Buddies presents its exciting, high profile season from October to March in The Chamber. The remainder of the year is filled with equally high profile, independently produced shows and events

• Building Bands Canada (Regional: Peterborough, ON)

  Building Bands Canada provides free music lessons, musical instruments, song writing workshops and snacks to children and teenagers living in low-income areas. They also offer volunteer opportunities to at-risk youth.

• Burlington Art Centre

  The Burlington Art Centre has thrived as a vital focal point for the visual arts since 1978. It is the seventh largest public art gallery in Ontario and attracts over 65,000 visitors from Burlington, the Bay Area, Toronto, and across Ontario and the U.S.A.

• Burlington Footnotes Senior Performing Troupe (Local: Burlington, ON)

  A seniors' dance group (men and women) dedicated to dispelling the stereotypical myths associated with aging. We demonstrate through live performances of tap, jazz and musical theatre the stamina, talent and vitality of the post-50 generation.

• Burnaby Arts Council (Local: Burnaby, BC)

  The Burnaby Arts Council has a mandate of supporting, promoting and expanding the arts throughout Burnaby. The Council plays a pivotal role in providing leadership to emerging artists and established art groups alike.

• Calgary Aboriginal Arts Awareness Society (Local: Calgary, AB)

  CAAAS is a volunteer-based organization that works to bridge the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples through the celebration and awareness of the ongoing contribution and enrichment of the Aboriginal arts to society and community at large.

• Calgary Contemporary Arts Society

  The primary mission of the CCAS is to develop and operate the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts - a public art gallery - based on the belief that the visual arts are an integral part of life in a community.

• Calgary Fringe Festival (Local: Calgary, AB)

  Fringes are uncensored, non-juried theatre festivals. The festival's mission is to create a place where a sense of community is created by using the arts as a conduit to mix bohemian artists with a culturally and socio-economically diverse group.

• Calgary Girls Choir (Local: Calgary, AB)

  The Calgary Girls Choir is a collection of six choral ensembles offering exceptional choral music education and performance opportunities for girls and young women ages four to twenty-four years.

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• Calgary ReggaeFest (Local: Calgary, AB)

  Calgary’s ReggaeFest isn’t just for Reggae fans. It’s a full-day family event with live performances from Canadian and international Reggae artists. ReggaeFest also features a beer garden, separate youth area, plenty of arts and crafts, and many food vendors.

• Calgary Suzuki Strings Association (Local: Calgary, AB)

  A nonprofit, volunteer run organization that serves a community of teachers, students, and families involved with string instruction using the Suzuki Method approach. We provide educational, performing, and social opportunities as well as teacher training.

• Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) (Local: Calgary, AB)

  CUFF elevates Calgary’s cultural landscape with the best in local and international independent cinema. They challenge and entertain their audiences with boundary breaking films, compelling artist showcases and engaging events.

• Canadian Artists for the Poor (International: Calgary, AB)

  A registered nonprofit organization that raises money for international relief efforts through public art auctions featuring local Canadian artists.

• Canadian Badlands Passion Play Society

  Our mission is to use the creative arts to provide an opportunity for viewing, volunteering or working to help create a unique outdoor artistic experience and life changing message every year in the Canadian Badlands.

• Canadian Children's Opera Company (CCOC) (National: Toronto, ON)

  The CCOC is a permanent children's opera company in Canada that commissions and produces operas for children on a regular basis. The company regularly collaborates and performs with other leading arts organizations, such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

• Canadian Children's Dance Theatre (International: Toronto, ON)

  A modern dance repertory company of 13 to 19-year old dancers.

• Canadian Conference of the Arts/Conférence canadienne des arts (National: Ottawa, ON)

  Sixty years strong, the Canadian Conference of the Arts is the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada. It serves as a leader, authority, and catalyst to ensure that artists can contribute freely and fully to a creative, dynamic, and civil Canadian society.
  
  Forte de soixante ans, la Conférence canadienne des arts est le forum national de la communauté artistique et culturelle au Canada. Elle assume les rôles de chef de file, d'expert et de catalyseur afin de s'assurer que les artistes peuvent contribuer librement et dans leur pleine mesure à une société canadienne créative, dynamique et civile.

• Canadian Film Centre (National)

  The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is Canada’s largest institution for advanced training in film, television and new media. A leader in the rapidly changing entertainment landscape, CFC launches Canada's most creative ideas and voice in film, television and new media to the world.

• Canadian Opera Company

  The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is based in Toronto, Ontario, and is the largest producer of opera in Canada and the sixth largest in North America. The Company annually presents six fully staged productions at Toronto's Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts between September and April, as well as public opera concerts and educational performances in concert halls, schools, community centres, senior citizens' homes and libraries throughout Ontario.

• Canadian Society for Asian Arts (National: Vancouver, BC)

  The purpose of the society is to promote the appreciation and understanding of the arts of Asia by bringing quality programs, exhibitions and publications to interested groups and individuals in Canada and by exploring links among the cultures of Asia.

• Canadian Stage Company

  A community supported not- for-profit arts organization, the company works to create and produce the best in Canadian and international contemporary theatre and promote Canadian productions in international markets.

• Canadian Vocal and Performing Arts Society

  CVPAS is a non-profit society that promotes, presents, supports and provides opportunities to young artists from British Columbia. As part of CVPAS, young artists are asked what they can do to elevate themselves and then given the resources and support to bring their unique talent to life.

• Canartscene

  A nonprofit visual arts portal with the mission of promoting artists and their organizations. There are no charges for artists to manage their own electronic portfolio for the world to view.

• Cantaré Children's Choir (Local: Calgary, AB)

  Cantaré Children's Choir was formed in 1997 to enrich the lives of children through the power and wonder of music.

• Caravan Farm Theatre (Local: Armstrong, BC)

  A professional outdoor theatre company based on an 80 acre farm, Caravan's artistic mission is to create meaningful, popular theatre for a broad and diverse family audience. They also create original works that explore political and social issues, and whose settings, characters and language are a reflection of the contemporary rural British Columbian experience.

• Carousel Theatre (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Carousel Theatre creates and produces inspiring theatre for young people. Each season more than 50,000 young people benefit from our programs, which include a mainstage season of Literary Classics at the Waterfront Theatre, an elementary school touring program that brings theatre directly to students in BC, a summer Shakespeare teen program, and our year-round theatre school for young people ages 3 to 17 years. Our mission is to inspire, enlighten and entertain young people and families with accessible theatrical experiences that develop the audiences and artists of tomorrow, today.

• Centre for the Arts (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering growth within the Canadian arts community. We offer a variety of programs and services designed to assist artists in all facets of their work.

• Centre In The Square (Local: Kitchener, ON)

  A world-class live performing arts venue that presents nine different series of entertainment throughout the year.

• Children's Laughter Sculpture Art Academy (Local: Greenwood, BC)

  A registered charity offering free art courses taught by artist David Seven Deers.

• Children's Peace Theatre (International: Toronto, ON)

  It is our mission to honour children and young people in the pursuit of peace through the practice of theatre.

• Chinese Canadian Choir of Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A registered nonprofit organization, the choir was founded in 1983 with the purpose of promoting both Chinese and Western music in the Greater Toronto Area. It is made up of several dozen keen music lovers.

• Chorus Niagara (Regional: St. Catharines, ON)

  This 100 voice choir is a major choral arts organization in the area. Chorus Niagara has consistently sung to capacity audiences and critical acclaim.

• Coalition for Music Education in B.C.

  Music education advocacy information for parents, educational decision makers, teachers and anyone else interested in finding out more about the value of music.

• Common Thread: Community Chorus of Toronto

  A non-audition chorus that welcomes all voices to sing in honour of the dignity of all people and their struggles to create a better world. Common Thread's folk music repertoire reflects the rich multicultural and multilingual diversity of Toronto.

• Comox Valley Arts Council (Local: Courtenay, BC)

  This organization's mission statement is to facilitate and animate the arts in the Comox Valley by collecting and disseminating information to the arts community, by educating the public about the arts, and by promoting the Comox Valley as a creative and dynamic arts producing center.

• Confederation Centre of the Arts (Local: Charlottetown, PE)

  The Confederation Centre of the Arts was founded in 1964 as Canada's National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation. It houses several theatres and an art gallery to showcase the best in the Canadian visual and performing arts.

• Copper Pig Writers Society (On Spec) (National: Edmonton, AB)

  Our mandate is to provide a distinctly Canadian outlet for the unique voice of Canadian writers of the genre known as Literature of the Fantastic. On Spec Magazine is a literary quarterly, published in Edmonton. We publish quality and award-winning science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magic realism.

• Crafts Association of British Columbia (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  The Crafts Association of BC, a registered, nonprofit, charitable arts service organization, provides leadership in the craft community by building and promoting the development, appreciation, and viability of Canadian fine craft.

• The Cultch (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Since 1973, in East Vancouver, The Cultch has offered programming in theatre, dance, and music by local, national, and international artists.

• Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Dancemakers draws on the diverse talents and individual strengths of its artists to create contemporary dance works that provoke and entertain. At its core is the desire to promote new works rooted in contemporary aesthetics, cross-disciplinary dialogues, and collaborative engagement.

• Dancestreams Youth Dance Company (Regional: Vancouver Island, BC)

  Dancestreams is a pre-professional youth dance company dedicated to fostering excellence in talented Vancouver Island dancers. By providing extraordinary and unique training and performance opportunities of the highest standards, Dancestreams encourages and supports gifted dance students to achieve their full potential.

• Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

  The only full time professional Canadian jazz dance company. We're dedicated to preserving the roots of jazz dance through public performance and education.

• Delta Youth Orchestra (Local: Delta, BC)

  The Delta Youth Orchestra is an orchestral training program that serves the needs of young musicians throughout Delta, Richmond, Vancouver and the Lower Mainland of BC.

• Dreams in Motion Performing and Fine Arts School (Local: Gananoque, ON)

  The school's mission is to provide a multi-disciplinary program (dance, theatre, music and visual arts) that includes recreational, pre-professional and professional training. Through annual performances and workshops they provide an outlet for students to learn and grow in their artistic skills.

• Dundas Valley School of Art (Local: Dundas, ON)

  An independent, nonprofit art school which has provided visual art education to the Hamilton-Wentworth region since 1964. Part-time and full-time program include classes in drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, printmaking and art history. Students range from age 3 to seniors.

• Dynamic Theatre Factory (Regional: Verdun, QC)

  A not-for-profit, registered charity, helping individuals of all ages realize their full potential. They also work to create work opportunities and industry exposure for their members while increasing their confidence and awareness of the performing artsopportunities in the Montreal community, and abroad.

• Editors' Association of Canada/Association canadienne des réviseurs (EAC) (National: Toronto, ON)

  The EAC promotes professional editing as key in producing effective communication. EAC sponsors professional development seminars, promotes and maintains high standards of editing and publishing in Canada, establishes guidelines to help editors secure fair pay and good working conditions, helps both in-house and freelance editors to network, and cooperates with other publishing associations in areas of common concern.

• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

  For 50 seasons the ESO has entertained music lovers with more than 70 performances per season in the world class concert hall of Winspear Centre. The season includes works of some of the world's great composers, several Super Special concerts plus the Nutron Lighter Classics, Pops, On the Edge and the Symphony for Kids series.

• Ekran Polish Film Association (National: Toronto, ON)

  Ekran Polish Film Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of film, art, and culture from Canada's multicultural communities, with a focus on the Polish-Canadian community. Ekran also organizes the annual Polish Film Festival held in Toronto.

• Elora Centre for the Arts (Local: Elora, ON)

  The Elora Centre for the Arts provides educative opportunities and transformational opportunities for all ages. Studio and rehearsal spaces are available, and programmes include exhibits, performances, residencies, lectures, classes and workshops.

• EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society (Local: Calgary, AB)

  A nonprofit media arts organization that provides education, equipment, technical support, and production funding programs for independent video, audio and multi-media artist/producers. The centre is a focus for media arts activity and a gathering place for artists' interaction.

• English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) (Regional: Montreal, QC)

  The English-Language Arts Network is devoted to helping Quebec's English-language artists make connections with one another, with their francophone colleagues and with their audiences in Quebec, Canada and internationally.

• Esprit Orchestra

  Canada's only orchestra -- and one of but a handful throughout the world -- that specializes in contemporary orchestral music. Esprit presents an annual subscription series in Toronto, tours internationally and can be heard across the country on regularly scheduled CBC broadcasts.

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• Exhibit Niagara (Local: Niagara Region, ON)

  This organization works to involve children and young adults with physical disabilities in the fields of visual and performing arts and sports.

• Exultate Chamber Singers

  This 20-voice chamber choir, led by director John Tuttle, invites you to join them in exploring the magic of classical music scored for the human voice. We can be reached at (416) 971-9229.

• Fairy Tales (Regional: Calgary, AB)

  The Fairytales Presentation Society is a nonprofit society that presents an annual festival of independent films made by and/or about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, twin spirited (queer) community called The Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

• Family Life Theatre (FLT) (Local: Sault Ste. Marie, ON)

  An educational and awareness program that fulfills two purposes. It provides and promotes education, prevention and awareness of various social issues and develops and produces dramatic presentations that will address these social issues in a unique and highly interesting manner.

• Film & Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) (Regional: Edmonton, AB)

  A member-based co-op offering support to more than 250 film and video artists throughout Alberta. Operating in Edmonton since 1982, FAVA provides discounted access to a pool of filmmaking equipment, educational and exhibition opportunities, and ongoing updates on funding, screening and professional development opportunities.

• Firehall Arts Centre (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  Once Vancouver's first motorized firehall, this arts company took over the building in 1975. With over three hundred performances each year, the Firehall entertains audiences and provides a variety of theatre and contemporary dance that reflects Canada's diverse and dynamic cultural mosaic.

• Flying Cloud Folk Club (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Flying Cloud is Toronto's longest running folk club. Based out of the TRANZAC in downtown Toronto, the Flying Cloud presents over 30 live concerts per year, specializing in traditional acoustic music. They also work closely with the folk community to produce workshops and other special events.

• Foothills Brass Quintet

  A full time chamber ensemble that brings their delightfully eclectic repertoire to over two hundred audiences from concert halls to mountain tops, from cathedrals to intimate salons.

• Footprints Dance Project (Local: Calgary, AB)

  Calgary's Footprints Dance Project helps youth referred by educators, social workers, doctors and the clergy discover the joys the arts bring. The City of Calgary and Dancers Studio West Theatre help us to help kids to make good life choices.

• Forest City Gallery

  The Forest City Gallery is the oldest and largest multidisciplinary artist-run centre in the London region, providing ongoing support for professional development through continuous dialogue which develops artistic growth and involvement.ð

• Forrester School of Celtic Dance

  Forrester's Cape Breton Scottish Dance Company is under the direction of Eileen (Pottie) Forrester, a dance instructor for over 35 years. All dance rehearsals for members are free of charge and all costuming is paid by the dancers themselves. Our mission is to preserve our Scottish heritage through many concerts and festivals locally, nationally and internationally.

• Fraser-Fort George Regional Museum

  Located in Prince George, British Columbia, this museum traces the history of the Fraser-Fort George region.

• Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society (Regional: Surrey, BC)

  Offers a smorgasbord of music and comedy, with a traditional Christmas pantomime each November-December and a spring Gilbert & Sullivan production.

• Freewill Shakespeare Festival (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  The Freewill Shakespeare Festival is committed to presenting the Bard's works in a manner that is accessible and relevant in a contemporary Canadian context. To that end, they produce two Shakespearean plays every summer at the Heritage Amphitheatre in Edmonton's Hawrelak Park.

• Freeze Frame (Regional: Winnipeg, MB)

  Freeze Frame is Manitoba's annual festival of international films and videos for kids of all ages. As well as critically acclaimed movies, we offer hands-on video production and animation workshops in both French and English. Freeze Frame's mandate is to advance education in the media arts for and with children and young people through the organization and production of cultural and educational media projects.

• Fringe Theatre Adventures (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  Fringe Theatre Adventures (FTA) is dedicated to the creation of theatre that challenges and celebrates the cultural fabric of communities, and provides a home for developing new and emerging artists, audiences, and forums. Under the FTA umbrella, the organization supports the creation of art in a spirit of generosity, tolerance, and celebration of theatre by providing the infrastructure to companies and individuals who have everything but a venue and an audience.

• Gateway Theatre (Local: Richmond, BC)

  A professional theatre company that encourages participation and cultural diversity, while striving for excellence and leadership in the development and production of live professional theatre and programs that connect the community.

• The Gibson Centre for Community, Arts & Culture (Local: Alliston, ON)

  The Gibson Centre is an 1889 heritage building that began its life as a factory and has now been transformed into a centre for community, arts, and culture and offers a performance hall, art gallery, cafe, banquet facilities, artist studio spaces, workshop, Seniors' centre and more. It's mission is to operate a historically significant landmark for the hosting of cultural activities and the cultivation of an environment that promotes and knowledge and skills in artistic pursuits.

• Girls Rock Camp Vancouver (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  Girls Rock Camp Vancouver is a nonprofit society that builds self-esteem in female youth age 8-18 through music creation and performance. By providing workshops and technical training, they create leadership opportunities, cultivate a supportive community of peers and mentors, and encourage social change and the development of life skills.

• Glass Art Association of Canada (National: Galiano Island, BC)

  The Glass Art Association of Canada is a professional association which serves to connect a geographically-diverse community of artists, designers, craftspeople, educators, curators, collectors, gallerists, and students passionate about work made with glass.

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• Glenbow Museum
  
  
• Grand Theatre (The) (Local: London, ON)

  The Grand Theatre is a cultural icon in London and, as one of nine Category A theatres in the country, it is recognized nationally as a cultural leader. We take great pride in providing top-notch entertainment to London and Southwestern Ontario residents, offering family entertainment, musicals and comedies each season.

• Great Canadian Theatre Company (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  GCTC's mission is to foster, produce, and promote excellent theatre that provokes examination of Canadian life and our place in the world.

• Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  The GVPTA is an association of over 100 Lower Mainland theatre companies, venues and related businesses, and individual artist members. Through collective efforts, they promote live theatre and foster a thriving environment for the continued growth and development of theatre.

• Green Thumb Theatre for Young People (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Our mission is to create and produce professional plays that explore social issues relevant to the lives of children, youth and young adults. We provide theatre that celebrates the language and stories of today's generation and culture in order to encourage empathy, debate, and critical thinking.

• Grey Bruce Singers (Local: Hanover, ON)

  The Grey Bruce Singers are a community, non-audition choir of 70 - 90 men and women ranging in age from teens to seniors. They provide an opportunity for anyone to enjoy a wide variety of choral singing.

• Grunt Gallery (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  An artist-run centre formed in 1984 with a mandate to be accessible to artists and audiences; to work in collaboration with communities and in partnership with other organizations; to respond to emerging artists and give established artists opportunities to work in new directions; and to be involved in the production and presentation of contemporary art by developing contexts and programming that encourage artists to make new work.

• Gryphon Theatre

  The year-round home of professional theatre in Barrie, Ontario.

• Guelph Youth Singers (Local: Guelph, ON)

  Guelph Youth Singers is a community-based choral organization, allowing 95 youth aged 6-17 to experience a professional level of choral training. Under artistic director Linda Beaupr, this award-winning organization is a high profile representative of the City of Guelph, performing at concerts, festivals and community events.

• Guitar Society of Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The mission of The Guitar Society of Toronto is to celebrate and promote the classical guitar by organizing concerts by the finest Canadian and international artists. They also sponsor and nurture the development of promising young Canadian guitarists through bursaries, scholarships and performance opportunities and educating the general public through outreach performances in the community by talented young classical guitarists.

• Guitars Not Guns (National)

  Guitars Not Guns prevents violence in the community by providing at-risk youth with free guitars and lessons, letting them focus and boosting their self-confidence, while using music as a way to divert them from drugs, alcohol and gangs.

• Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (Local: Hamilton, ON)

  The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, with over 120 years of history in the region, brings the joy and benefits of live professional orchestral music to the Hamilton-Burlington Bay area through high quality performances, innovative music education programs and community outreach concerts for individuals and families of all ages. The HPO performs at Hamilton Place for its two main series in both Masterworks and Pops.

• Hannaford Street Silver Band

  As an art form, the brass band has a long and rich tradition dating back over one hundred and fifty years. With its successful Toronto Concert Series, highly regarded recordings, frequent radio broadcasts and performances, the HSSB has gained and enviable reputation both in Canada and on the international brass scene.

• Harbourfront Centre

  An innovative non-profit cultural organization which creates, for a diverse public, events and activities of excellence that enliven, educate and entertain. Working in partnership with various communities, Harbourfront Centre nurtures and supports educational and recreational activity as well as contemporary artistic creation through showcasing Canadian and international talent.

• Harmony (Local: Sarnia, ON)

  Harmony is a registered charity whose mandate is to promote the self-esteem of youth, through the vehicle of the arts. We have no waiting lists, prerequisites, or financial fees; instead the youth "pay" for their music through volunteer service, For each hour of programming they receive they owe one hour of communtiy service. All materials, such as instruments, dance shoes, or fine art supplies are provided.

• Horizon Arts Camp (HAC) (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Horizon Arts Camp (HAC) provides enriching camp experiences through professional programming in the performing (music, dance, theatre) and visual arts, with a balance of traditional camp activities and a focus on leadership development. The camp has a significant scholarship program that provides financial support to children and youth from low-income families to attend the camp.

• Images Festival (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Images Festival is devoted to showing independent media artworks (film, video, new media, installations, performances) that fall outside of the mainstream and are produced as creative, artist-led projects.

• IMAGO

  The primary purpose of IMAGO is to exercise a biblically based influence upon the development of the arts and artists in Canada and upon Canadian cultural life.

• In-Definite Arts Society (Local: Calgary, AB)

  A creative arts centre for artists with developmental disabilities, offering studio space and instruction in a wide range of art areas.ÝExhibition and sale of artwork is done in the onsite gallery, in community galleries, and on the website.

• In Forma Theatre (Local: Toronto, ON)

  An ensemble theatre company that creates and performs audience interactive shows which promote inclusive communities and social justice. IF Theatre uses popular theatre techniques to explore individual and community empowerment with the goal of creating visions of change.

• Inner City Angels (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A charitable arts education organization dedicated to providing quality and affordable art opportunities in diverse and innovative ways for children and youth who would otherwise have little opportunity for such.

• Inside Out (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Inside Out's mission is the promotion and exhibition of film and video by or about lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people. Through a variety of initiatives, they are committed to nurturing and supporting new and established artists while providing opportunities for audiences to view the best and most diverse work of interest to the LGBT communities.

• Inter Arts Matrix (Local: Waterloo, ON)

  Inter Arts Matrix is a not-for-profit charitable arts organization based in Waterloo, Ontario. Their mission is to foster the development and production of new work in interdisciplinary art, and their activities include performances, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, publications, and outreach.

• Inuit Art Foundation

  The national organization for Inuit artists, established in 1985 to provide education and professional development opportunities for artists and to promote their work. IAF encourages the formation of artists' associations in northern communities and publishes Inuit Art Quarterly.

• Jesse's Foundation for Music & Dance Therapy (Regional: Bolton, ON)

  Provides funding to children's hospitals or wards, rehabilitation centres, youth centres, and schools to establish and promote music and dance therapy programs.

• J.M. Drama

  Supports the performing arts in Waterloo Region. It presents one or more dramatic productions yearly. It offers scholarships, sponsorships for schools and for community events. Costumes, props and equipment can be rented and so we'll have a new community theatre. It is a registered charity.

• Joe Ink Performance Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Joe Ink's mission is to create original and innovative performance works for public presentation and to raise the profile of dance in the Canadian cultural mosaic. The company seeks to inspire, empower, enthuse, and motivate people through the medium of dance.

• Kaeja d'Dance

  A contemporary dance company in Toronto, founded by artistic directors Allen and Karen Kaeja, who are known internationally for their choreography, films, teaching, performance, and festival work.

• Kid-Safe Productions (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Kid-Safe Productions provides an imaginative approach to character education for young audiences by presenting interactive dramatic programming. They develop new productions and services, including musical plays, on bullying awareness, abuse prevention and character education.

• Kingston Symphony

  Works to bring our music to as many people as possible in Eastern Ontario, and to invest in the future through dynamic educational programs.

• Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG) (Local: Kitchener, ON)

  Through thoughtful and engaging programs, KW|AG connects people and ideas through art. The Gallery's exhibitions and programs emphasize contemporary art and are built on the mission that art is the catalyst for shared experience, dialogue and imagination.

• Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Local: Kitchener, ON)

  Presents concerts for audiences of all ages and interests.

• Koffler Centre of the Arts (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Koffler’s mission is to create a more civil and global society by fostering mutual understanding through the exploration of arts and culture. The Koffler’s unique mix examines the arts across different disciplines and cultures in a way that strengthens identity while encouraging an appreciation of difference. Expressing the spirit and essence of contemporary culture within a Jewish context, the Koffler reflects a global perspective.

• Kokoro Dance

  Kokoro Dance's mandate is to teach, produce and perform new dance theatre with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration and cross-cultural exploration.

• Lady Cove Women's Choir (Local: St. John’s, NL)

  Lady Cove Women’s Choir was established in September 2003 by choral conductor, Kellie Walsh. Their performances range in styles from classical, gospe,l and jazz to Latin American and contemporary Canadian.

• Latcham Gallery (Local: Stouffville, ON)

  The Latcham Gallery is a public art gallery located in Stouffville Ontario, 45 minutes north-east of Toronto. It is dedicated to providing opportunities for members of the community to view art and the ideas that artists express through contemporary art.

• Latitude 53 (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  Founded in 1973 by a collective of Edmonton artists, Latitude 53 is a not-for-profit artist-run centre. They provide a non-coercive environment to assure the freedom of the artist, and give the public access to new art forms. They support the research and development of new artistic practices and concepts, and encourage experimentation by artists through diverse programming.

• League of Canadian Poets

  A nonprofit arts organization serving a membership of more than 600 professional poets in Canada. The League fosters recognition and appreciation of Canadian poetry around the world, through programs which focus on education, publication and performance.

• London Arts Council

  Created in 1994 by the arts community-at-large and the City of London, the London Arts Council is an independent body committed to fostering an environment in which all levels and forms of the art can flourish.

• Lost & Found Theatre (Regional: Kitchener, ON)

  Lost & Found Theatre is a collective of practicing theatre professionals with decades of experience in all aspects of production and education. Based in Ontario's Waterloo Region, the theatre presents 2-3 shows annually and offers classes for youth and adults.

• MASC - Artists for Schools and Communities (Regional: Ottawa, ON)

  MASC brings professional artists, working out of diverse cultural traditions and artistic disciplines, to children and youth in schools and community settings.

• M-DO Centre for World Music? Dance (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Our beautiful downtown Toronto studio creates the perfect environment for world performing arts concerts and classes & workshops. Classes from beginning to professional levels, in North Indian tabla & Kathak dance.

• MacLarenArtCentre (Regional: Barrie, ON)

  The MacLarenArtCentre is Simcoe County’s regional public art gallery. Located in downtown Barrie, the MacLaren is housed in an award-winning building that combines a renovated 1917 Carnegie library and a contemporary addition.

• MacKenzie Art Gallery

  Located in Regina, Saskatchewan, the gallery offers diverse exhibitions, programs and a permanent collection. It collects a wide range art from Saskatchewan, a representative sampling from Western Canada, as well as selected national and international works.

• McLuhan International Festival of the Future (MIFF) (International: Toronto, ON)

  MIFF explores, celebrates and probes the present and the future and how it relates to media, technology, and culture, locally and globally.

• McMichael Canadian Art Collection

  The McMichael is unique in being the only major gallery in the country with the mandate to collect Canadian art exclusively. The collection offers visitors the opportunity to view works by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, contemporary First Nations art and prints, drawings and sculpture by Inuit artists.

• Magik-Art Trapeze (International: Knowlton, QC)

  Magik-Art Trapeze is a nonprofit aerial circus company with two programs: educational, with a mission statement of social and cultural change working with youth; and a professional production company in aerial acrobatics.
  
  Magik-Art Trapè organisme à but non-lucratif voué à la diffusion et à l'enseignement des arts du cirque, qui s'adresse tant aux professionnels qu'aux amateurs de tout âge. Nous offrons deux volets; un programme de formation et d'éducation avec implication social et culturel, et un volet production de spectacle professionnel.

• Manitoba Arts Council (Regional: Winnipeg, MB)

  Established in 1965 to promote the study, enjoyment, production, and performance of works in the arts.

• Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts (Regional: Winnipeg, MB)

  Established in 1984, the Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts is an independent, nonprofit school of music. The Conservatory offers quality individual lessons and group instruction to students of all ages from beginner to advanced levels.

• Manitoba Holiday Festival of the Arts (Regional: Neepawa, MB)

  An annual art and craft festival in Neepawa, Manitoba focusing on workshops that allow anyone the chance to learn a new skill or improve upon an existing talent.

• Manitou Opera House Foundation (Local: Manitou, MB)

  The Manitou Opera House Foundation was incorporated in 1995 to encourage volunteer support and fundraising toward the restoration and improvement of Manitou’s community concert hall.

• Mariposa In The Schools (MITS)

  Representing Ontario? diversity, MITS provides performing folk artists to schools and community-based groups province-wide. Suited to all ages, programs are highly participatory and easily integrated into the curriculum.

• Markham Symphony Orchestra (MSO) (Local: Markham, ON)

  The Markham Symphony Orchestra (MSO) seeks to entertain and provide an opportunity for people to enjoy the talents of local musicians through exciting concerts. The MSO seeks to provide the audience with an unforgettable classical music event, played with skill and passion.

• Metro Cinema Society (Regional: Edmonton, AB)

  A charitable institution since 1974, Metro Cinema Society is dedicated to the presentation of Canadian, international, and alternative film in Edmonton, Alberta. Metro Cinema presents nearly 400 screenings per year as well as an annual film tour of Alberta-made film and video.

• Michael J. Fox Theatre Society (Local: Burnaby, BC)

  The society is a nonprofit organization with a vision and a mission - "To operate, maintain, enhance and promote the Michael J. Fox Theatre as a home for endeavour, enrichment and excellent in the arts."

• Mile Zero Dance (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  Since 1985, Mile Zero Dance has been devoted to the creation, development, education and performance of contemporary and interdisciplinary dance.

• Minstrel Foundation for Music & Arts Advancement (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Supports programs which offer affordable and high quality music education and music camps to underprivileged youth.

• Mississauga Arts Council

  Established in 1981, MAC is the most comprehensive resource for arts and entertainment information in Mississauga. Our mission is to foster and develop, support and champion a vibrant, dynamic arts community in the city of Mississauga through services and grants, to enrich the lives of its citizens.

• Mississauga Symphony

  One of Canada's finest community orchestras, our mandate is to provide affordable, high quality orchestral concerts throughout the year.

• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Local: Montreal, QC)

  The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a mission to attract the broadest and most heterogenous public possible, and to provide that public with first-hand access to a universal artistic heritage.

• Montreal West Operatic Society
  
  
• Muhtadi International Drumming Festival (International: Toronto, ON)

  This organization hosts the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival, a two-day annual event held in Toronto every first weekend of June. The festival celebrates the drum, its universality as an art form, and its presence in all cultures around the world.

• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, media centre

  The Media Centre at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal has an extensive series of links to contemporary art site around the world. The site also includes a comprehensive list of publications and documents in its library.

• Museum London (Regional: London, ON)

  Featuring an impressive permanent collection of fine art and artifacts, Museum London offers regularly changing exhibitions of prominent national and regional artists complemented by films, lectures and concerts. Photos, documents and rare artifacts tell the story of London and region.

• musica intima (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Since 1992, musica intima performances have sparkled with insight, youthfulness and a vibrant musicality. As a self-directed vocal chamber ensemble, the 12 singers rehearse and perform without a conductor. In rehearsal, they exchange ideas freely while exploring their own musical creativity. In performance, they engage the audience with a freshness and spontaneity all their own.

• MusiCounts (National: Toronto, ON)

  MusiCounts’ mission is to ensure that children in Canada have access to a comprehensive music program through their schools. MusiCounts includes Band Aid musical instrument grants, the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award, scholarships and other music education initiatives.

• Music and Film in Motion (MFM) (Regional: Sudbury, ON)

  MFM's mandate is to foster development and promotion of the music and film industries in Northern Ontario. MFM seeks to create economic development opportunities in Northern Ontario through its cultural industries.

• Music In The Morning (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Presents a daytime classical music concert series in Vancouver and supports the community through outreach programs such as music workshops in area schools.

• Muskoka Lakes Music Festival (Regional: Port Carling, ON)

  The Festival's objective is to initiate, organize, and conduct an annual music festival in various communities within the Muskoka Lakes region, thereby enriching and expanding the musical and artistic opportunities in Muskoka.

• Nanaimo Arts Council (Local: Nanaimo, BC)

  The Nanaimo Arts Council is an umbrella organization dedicated to the support, development and promotion of all the arts in Nanaimo and the surrounding area. The Council encourages the professional artist, the emerging artist, and the disenfranchised and disabled artist.

• National Arts Centre/Centre national des Arts

  The National Arts Centre's mandate is to play a leadership role in fostering artistic excellence in all of the performing arts disciplines.

• National Ballet of Canada
  
  
• National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA/ANREC)

  The association represents volunteer-driven campus and community radio stations across Canada. Members work towards promoting socio-political issues, community awareness, and underexposed talent through the medium of participatory radio.

• National Screen Institute - Canada

  With offices in Edmonton and Winnipeg, National Screen Institute-Canada provides a continuum of career-long professional development for Canadian film and television industry professionals

• Native Women in the Arts (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  A not-for-profit organization for First Nations, Metis and Inuit women from diverse artistic disciplines who share a common interest in culture, art, community, and the advancement of Indigenous peoples.

• Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (Regional: St. John's, NF)
  

  The ensemble now known as the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO) originated in St John's, Nfld, in 1962 as a community orchestra. The NSO takes an active role in performing music by Canadian composers, giving world premiere performances of their music.

• Neptune Theatre (Local: Halifax, NS)
  

  Neptune Theatre strives to create vibrant, diverse and accessible live theatre; to challenge and entertain audiences; to foster young talent; and to enrich the community.

• Ness Creek Music Festival
  

  An annual music festival that takes place 20 kilometres Northeast of the town of Big River in Saskatchewan.

• New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) (Local: Toronto, ON)

  NAISA strives to present audio experiences that encourage new forms of listening. It seeks to educate its audience and artists by exposing them to the entire spectrum of innovative sound art and sound technologies, including work in a variety of artistic disciplines.

• New Forms Media Society (International: Vancouver, BC)

  Produces the New Forms Festival annually, a celebration of media arts such as installation and internet art, experimental video, technology-based performance, and so-on. Events include an exhibition, conference, performance series, and late night events.

• The New Gallery (Local: Calgary, AB)

  The New Gallery (TNG) is an artist-run centre exhibiting innovative emerging and lesser-known artists whose work contributes to social and political discourse.

• Niagara Symphony (Regional: St. Catharines, ON)

  The Niagara Symphony is a 52-piece professional orchestra that brings a love and appreciation of classical and contemporary orchestral music to more than 7,500 people in the Niagara Region each year.

• Niagara Youth Orchestra (Regional: St. Catharines, ON)

  Our mission is to provide youth the opportunity to expand their love of music by offering professionals who lead them through the orchestral experience.

• Non-Profit Organization To Destroy The World Publishing Society (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  The Non-Profit Organization To Destroy The World Publishing Society produces both an in-house magazine and local music. They are based in Vancouver, BC.

• Norfolk Heritage Centre (Regional: Simcoe, ON)

  First established in 1900 by the Norfolk Historical Society, the NHC consists of the Eva Brook Donly Museum and the Norfolk Archives. Learn about the United Empire Loyalists of the Long Point Settlement, trace your family history by using the extensive archival resources, and enjoy works of art by such local artists as Edgar Cantelon and Eva Brook Donly.

• North Bay Symphony Orchestra (Local: North Bay, ON)

  The North Bay Symphony Orchestra is a registered charitable community orchestra who works to inspire the community through music. It does so by performing four to five concerts per year and offering a wide range of community outreach programmes serving more than 1,500 adults and children each year in the North Bay area.

• The NOW! Organization (National)

  A youth-run, nonprofit organization with a mission to empower, inspire and take action. This organization works to build a sense of community by connecting groups and individuals together for a common goal: sustainability.

• Oakville Arts Council (Local: Oakville, ON)
  

  The mission of the Oakville Arts Council is to cultivate the arts and to enrich the creative life of the community of Oakville and serve as the premier source of information about art and artistic activity in Oakville.

• Oakville Chamber Orchestra (Local: Oakville, ON)
  

  The Oakville Chamber Orchestra offers chamber ensemble music played in intimate settings. The OCO performs classical music favourites and also challenges listeners with rare gems and contemporary music.

• Oakville Galleries (Local: Oakville, ON)
  

  Oakville Galleries is a not-for-profit charitable public art gallery committed to the presentation of compelling contemporary art in all aspects of programming - exhibitions, children's art education and acquisitions for the permanent collection.

• OBORO (Local: Montreal, QC)
  

  Alert to the world and its diverse communities, OBORO is a registered charity dedicated to creation and presentation in visual arts, media arts and new technologies. Our activities include exhibitions, residencies, conferences, publications, workshops, network projects as well as production through the Media Lab. OBORO encourages innovation and seeks to contribute to a culture of peace.

• OM Corporation
  

  A not-for-profit organization devoted to developing educational, information, and lifestyle management products, systems, and services based on evolving principles of organization and co-operation. We specialize in providing organizational design and support for charitable, community, and not-for-profit organizations.

• Ontario Crafts Council
  

  Promotes craft and advocates for craftspeople by providing information, services, and programming linking craft to designers, educators, collectors, the business community and the general public.

• Orchestra London (Local: London, ON)
  

  Our mission is to enhance the quality of life in the region through distinctive and inspirational performances of classical and a wide variety of other orchestral music.

• Orchestras Canada
  

  Strengthening Canada's orchestral community through leadership in advocacy, education, and professional development.

• Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC)
  

  A nonprofit umbrella for community arts councils and schools in Saskatchewan. OSAC coordinates touring of visual art exhibitions and performances to schools and communities. Annual programs include 150 community concerts, 110 school concerts, and 120 exhibition venues.

• Original Kids Theatre Company (Local: London, ON)
  

  OKTC is a registered charity that enriches and celebrates the lives of young people, providing them with opportunities to mature and learn positive values through a variety of theatre experiences in a safe and challenging environment.

• Other Theatre (The) (Local: Montreal, QC)
  

  An ensemble of Montreal theatre artists devoted to physical experimental creation with a focus on the development of new works, including adaptations, deconstructions, installations and collectively written material.

• Ottawa Arts Court Foundation (Local: Ottawa, ON)
  

  As a registered charitable organization, the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation (OACF), in partnership with the City of Ottawa, is responsible for the development, monitoring and evaluation of a comprehensive rental policy for the 87,000 square foot Arts Court facility, including standards for the levels of service and the setting of rental rates.

• Ottawa Art Gallery
  

  An independent not-for-profit public art gallery committed to the acquisition, presentation, interpretation and dissemination of contemporary art for the benefit of the whole community. OAG helps visitors explore contemporary art through exhibitions, artist and curator talks, guest lectures, group and individual tours, as well as publications.

• Ottawa Festivals (Local: Ottawa, ON)
  

  Ottawa Festivals is a not-for-profit association dedicated to providing support, presenting a united voice, and creating an effective networking environment for festival, special event, and fair members to operate more effectively.

• Ottawa Folk Festival (Local: Ottawa, ON)
  

  The Ottawa Folk Festival is a nonprofit, volunteer-based community organization that celebrates the creativity of musicians, dancers, artisans and storytellers through an annual festival and a series of concerts during the year.

• Ottawa School of Art (Local: Ottawa, ON)
  

  This organization exists to provide the community with the opportunity for creative expression, development and growth based on an orderly progression in knowledge and skills within a well-defined program and through direct involvement with professional artists.

• Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  An ensemble of professional musicians bringing the music of the past up to date by playing with the cutting edge style and enthusiasm in which music of the baroque and early classical periods was originally heard. Musicians play on period instruments - either originals or instruments made in the same style as they were when the music was written.

• Pacific Cinematheque
  

  A not-for-profit society dedicated to developing and enhancing the understanding of cinema and contemporary media. Like a museum, Pacific Cinematheque exhibits, promotes the study of and offers media education for, independent and culturally significant cinema.

• Pacific Opera Victoria
  

  Has a mandate to foster young Canadian artists, present diverse repertoire, produce original productions, and build working partnerships with the community and other arts institutions.

• Page One
  

  Page One is a local writers group, based in Newfoundland, that has been in existence since 1987. Writers from all walks of life and various stages of their writing careers participate in our meetings, readings and other activities. We reach out to both young and old and include people of all walks of life, from students to seniors in our publications.

• Pembroke Little Theatre (Local: Pembroke, ON)
  

  Pembroke Little Theatre is an amateur theatre group. A typical season has a mainstage production, the largest haunted house in the Ottawa Valley, an all-youth production, and summer banquet theatre.

• Performing Arts Lodges (PAL) Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  PAL's mission is to offer assistance to, and create and encourage programs and services for older, disabled, or needy members and associates of Canada’s professional performing arts community in the areas of health, well-being, and affordable accommodation.

• Performing Arts Burlington (Local: Burlington, ON)
  

  PAB represents a large and diverse membership from the Burlington and Hamilton performing arts communities. Through programming and working with member groups, PAB provides opportunities for residents to participate in and explore the realm of local theatre, music, and dance.

• Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) Vancouver (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  A not-for-profit charitable society created to provide quality affordable housing and support for seniors in the performing arts and allied professions.

• Place des Arts (Local: Coquitlam, BC)
  

  An integrated arts centre that offers programs and courses in every artistic discipline, gallery space, and various special events throughout the year, Place des Arts (PdA) is a nonprofit society.

• Planet In Focus (International: Toronto, ON)
  

  Works to promote the use of film and video as a catalysts for public awareness, discussion, and appropriate action on the ecological and social health of the planet.

• Playwrights Guild of Canada (National: Toronto, ON)
  

  Playwrights Guild of Canada is a national association mandated to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally, and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the stage.

• Port Moody Arts Centre Society (Local: Port Moody, BC)
  

  The Port Moody Arts Centre Society supports the arts in their community through a variety of initiatives. The society hosts an annual arts festival in addition to providing a large number of arts classes in various disciplines at their arts centre. They also promote local artists in their Blackberry Gallery.

• Preface Theatre (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Preface Theatre`s mandate is to bring together both experienced and emerging artists to share traditions, skills, ideas and inspiration in order to create a positive and creative theatrical process.

• Prologue to the Performing Arts (National: Toronto, ON)
  

  For over 36 years, Prologue has been broadening the horizons of students in Ontario and across Canada by introducing them to the world of the performing arts. Prologue believes that the performing arts play a vital role in the development of healthy, creative and responsible members of society.

• Pull Focus (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  Pull Focus is a film centre that partners aspiring filmmakers with charities and nonprofits to create much needed film content. They teach students how to write, shoot, and edit documentary films that may be useful for fundraising or community outreach work.

• Public Dreams Society
  

  Public Dreams Society is an arts organization with a community development mandate. We put professional artists together with community residents to create community-based interactive celebration events. Over the years events such as Illuminares, an evening lantern procession, have become neighborhood traditions that build new relationships between artists and their communities.

• Pumphouse Theatre (Local: Calgary, AB)
  

  The Pumphouse Theatre is committed not only to providing a high-quality venue for the arts but also to keeping that venue affordable for Calgary’s arts community. In order to keep costs manageable, especially for smaller groups and newcomers, rental rates for nonprofit arts organizations are heavily subsidized.

• Q’ente Textile Revitalization Society (International: Victoria, BC)

  The Q’ente Textile Revitalization Society strives to preserve the Quechua weaving tradition in the Peruvian Andes. This ancient tradition is integral to their history, culture, and economy, but is at great risk of disappearing in the face of globalization.

• Quarrington Arts Society (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  The Quarrington Arts Society works to encourage and promote artistic endeavour and achievement by Canadian artists and Canadian students of the arts who work or have worked in more than one artistic discipline, or whose works of art encompass or have encompassed more than one artistic discipline.

• Queensville Players (Local: Keswick, ON)
  

  This group provides community musical theatre productions to the York region of Ontario, and also offers a summer theatre program for children.

• Quebec Drama Federation
  

  The Quebec Drama Federation exists to encourage and maintain vital English language theatre in Quebec by providing leadership in promotion, development and support.

• Quest Theatre
  

  Based in Calgary, Quest Theatre is a professional theatre company devoted to producing innovative and entertaining works that enhance young people? lives. Founded in 1984, Quest Theatre tours theatre productions and offers Artists in School Residencies to schools and communities throughout Alberta.

• Quickdraw Animation Society (Local: Calgary, AB)
  

  A nonprofit artist run society dedicated to the art of independent animation, QAS supports and encourages the production of innovative independent animation and develops the appreciation of all types of animation as a viable artistic medium.

• RAV-FM
  

  Canada's first fully equipped, licensed high school radio station, heard in the Vaughan community and worldwide via the Internet. It offers a variety of sounds and entertainment, reflecting the interests of its unique production team of Vaughan Secondary school students, former Vaughan Secondary School students enrolled in post secondary broadcast programs, and seasoned Toronto broadcasters who volunteer their time.

• Red Lake Museum (Local: Red Lake, ON)
  

  The Red Lake Museum, located in Northwestern Ontario, preserves, interprets, and promotes the arts and heritage of Aboriginal people who live in and around Red Lake, as well as the rich bush flying, gold mining, and immigration stories of the region.

• Reel Asian (International: Toronto, ON)
  

  A pan-Asian international film festival, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) is a charitable, not-for-profit cultural organization, whose mission is to lead the world in embracing the stories and cultures of Asian Canadians and Asians everywhere through the media arts.

• ReelHeART International Film Festival (International: Toronto, ON)
  

  Established in 2004, ReelHeART is a not-for-profit arts Organization that screens for 6 days and 6 nights around the third week of June every year and celebrates international, independent, and anti-niche film programming. Emerging and student filmmakers are put alongside their established and master counterparts, so all filmmakers can be recognized for their art rather than their credits.

• Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival (Local: Kingston, ON)
  

  Reelout's mandate is to bring diverse independent film and video to Kingston. In so doing we hope to construct a vibrant queer space that brings together all the members of our community, creating an important and all too rare opportunity for dialogue and pleasure.

• Resurgence Theatre Company (Local: Newmarket, ON)
  

  Founded in March 1999 to resurge the classics and ignite new and contemporary works within the York Region and beyond with a strong focus on using the energy of emerging professional artists. Produces the annual York Shakespeare Festival, and apprenticeship/learning opportunities for youth interested in an arts career.

• Richmond Art Gallery
  

  Based in Richmond, B.C., this community gallery presents a wide range of exhibits featuring local artists, as well as travelling shows.

• Ross Creek Centre for the Arts (Regional: Canning, NS)
  

  An education and development centre for the arts based in rural Nova Scotia, the centre is situated on 186 acres of farm and forest overlooking the Bay of Fundy and has facilities and programs designed to serve the artistic and cultural communities of Nova Scotia, of Canada, and of the world.

• Royal Conservatory of Music (Regional: Toronto, ON)
  

  The Royal Conservatory of Music is committed to developing human potential through leadership in music and arts education.

• Royal Opera Canada
  

  The mission of Royal Opera Canada (ROC) is to present well-loved operas from the "Top 10 Most-Performed Operas" using traditional sets, costumes, and staging, featuring national and international artists. Recent productions include Tosca, La Traviata, Rake's Progress, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and Othello.

• Russian-Canadian Theatrical Community Centre (Local: North York, ON)
  

  Russian-Canadian Theatrical Community Centre is a charitable organization dedicated to ing educational and developmental programs to children and youth, and to serving the community with accessible and affordable theatrical shows.

• Ryan Correy Inspired Entertainment Foundation (Calgary, AB)

  Dedicated to educating, entertaining, and inspiring the leaders of today and tomorrow. Our focus is on an annual documentary and motivational speaker series called "Ride for Life".

• Sakewewak Artists' Collective (Local: Regina: Saskatchewan)
  

  A multi-disciplinary arts organization whose mandate is to ensure that contemporary First Nations artists are consistently provided with the space and environment that allows them to develop their self-determined artistic practices through critical exchanges with their peers and their audiences.

• Saskatchewan Children's Festival

  This organization provides a multidisciplinary, multi-media festival of the performing arts, with the goal of challenging the minds and enriching the lives of Saskatchewan children and families.

• Saskatoon Children's Choir (Local: Saskatoon, SK)

  The Saskatoon Children's Choir was founded in 1996 by Phoebe Voigts. It performs a variety of choral compositions, focusing on classic literature, international folk music and Canadian works, and is renowned for its musical sound, creative spirit and commitment to artistic excellence.

• Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming (SCYAP) Inc. (Local: Saskatoon, SK)

  SCYAP was established in order to address the social, educational, and economic needs of "at-risk" youth. Its programs use art and culture, mentoring, and community building as the basis for personal development, skills acquisition and positive redirection.

• Saskatoon Opera (Local: Saskatoon, SK)

  Saskatoon Opera is a nonprofit cultural organization which undertakes, encourages, and promotes the production and presentation of professional opera in Saskatchewan and offers programs and events designed to increase knowledge and appreciation of the world of opera.

• SAW Video Production Co-op (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  SAW Video is an artist-run centre committed to supporting ground breaking artistic production, presentation and programming of independent video and media art. SAW Video provides many services to its members including affordable technical facilities, and a wide range of programmes designed to create an atmosphere that will inspire production through the exchange of ideas around form, content and style.

• Scarborough Arts Council
  

  Works to provide leadership and opportunities for artists to pursue excellence in the visual, literary and performing arts thereby enhancing the quality of life for all.

• Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra (Local: Scarborough, ON)
  

  The SPO has been one of the GTA's finest community orchestras for 25 years. Offering six regular concerts each season, as well as summer outdoor concerts, chamber music concerts, outreach performances and education through the Scarborough Youth Orchestra.

• School of Alberta Ballet (Regional: Calgary, AB)
  

  As the official training centre of Alberta Ballet, we are dedicated to providing superior training for both the recreational and professional dancer in a friendly, stimulating and creative environment that nurtures and develops dancers of all ages to their greatest individual potential.

• School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  The School of Toronto Dance Theatre is committed to the training and education of young dancers in the art of contemporary dance. It is dedicated to investing in the artistic potential of youth for the development of the art form.

• Shadowpath Theatre Productions (Regional: Newmarket, ON)
  

  A professional theatre company, based in York Region in Toronto, dedicated to inspiring renewed artistic awareness within the community through the production of modern plays and the development of original Canadian creation.

• Shakespeare in Action (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  A multi-racial theatre company with a strong commitment to the arts in education. It is our belief that Shakespeare should be accessible to everyone, regardless of age, race, education, or socio-economic background. We present fresh Canadian interpretations of Shakespeare and other contemporary issues that are relevant to young audiences and their families.

• Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival (Local: Saskatoon, SK)
  

  Set in large tents along the river’s edge in the heart of Saskatoon, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan is a nonprofit summer theatre festival featuring live performances of famous Shakespearean works along with educational workshops, guest performers, and other community events.

• Shameless Hussy Productions (Regional: Vancouver, BC)
  

  A theatre ensemble producing original and established works with frequent tours, both throughout BC and internationally, which include plays for both young adults and general audiences. Artistic mandate: "Telling provocative stories about women, to inspire the hand that rocks the cradle to rock the world."

• Shaw Festival
  

  The Shaw Festival is the second largest repertory company in North America, and the only theatre in the world that specializes in plays by George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.

• Ship's Company Theatre (Local: Parrsboro, NS)
  

  Ship’s Company Theatre is dedicated to producing new Atlantic and Canadian works of art, all performed at a unique venue - the historic MV Kipawo, a passenger and freight ferry. In 2004, a theatre was built around the MV Kipawo, which now serves as the theatre's lobby and reception area.

• Shoot With This (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Shoot With This is an innovative attempt to motivate and empower at-risk youth by giving them the resources and support to learn about video making from inspiring and talented individuals whose experiences are not dissimilar from their own.

• Sinfonia Toronto
  

  The core of Sinfonia Toronto is an auditioned membership of fourteen virtuoso strings. They often perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, blending each musician's soloistic energy and passion into a brilliant ensemble style.

• Sing Canada Harmony (National: Ottawa, ON)
  

  Sing Canada Harmony believes that vocal music is vital to developing a healthy, creative and responsible society. We are committed to ensuring equal access to vocal music arts for all Canadians so that lives can be enriched through singing.

• Smile Theatre (Regional: Toronto, ON)
  

  Dedicated to performing musical theatre productions for senior citizens throughout Ontario. We have toured the province for over thirty years and perform for thousands of seniors every season in residences, activity centre, care facilities and hospitals.

• Society for Disability Arts and Culture
  

  Works to encourage the integration of people with disabilities into the creative, artistic and social life of Canadian communities, by assisting in the development and presentation of festivals celebrating disability arts and culture, and providing informative sessions, workshops, classes, performances and exhibits for and by Canadian artists with disabilities.

• SOCAN --- Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers
  

  A non-profit organization whose function is to license the users of music (radio and television stations, nightclubs, concert halls, etc.) and pay the songwriters and publishers when their works are publicly performed.

• Solar Stage Children's Theatre (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Our intimate and comfortable 100-seat theatre is ready to welcome you into a world where children come first and their imaginations are allowed to run free. Solar Stage is here to foster the arts and creativity among young people by offering productions that are of the highest professional caliber at the lowest possible price for everyone to enjoy.

• St. John's International Women's Film Festival (International: St. John's, NL)
  

  The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival is a charitable organization established in 1989 to support and promote women filmmakers through an annual film festival and various satellite events.

• Stage Centre Productions
  

  A community theatre company with a dual mandate: to maintain a full repertory company dedicated to artistic excellence; and to offer a repertoire of theatre classics presented with the highest professional standards.

• Stage Kids - The Edu-Tainment Company (Regional: Toronto, ON)
  

  A registered charitable organization formed in 1986 for the purpose of communicating valuable life lessons to young adults, ranging in age from eleven to seventeen, through the medium of professional musical theatre.

• Stairwell Carollers (The) (Local: Ottawa, ON)
  

  The Stairwell Carollers are an amateur voice choir, formed in 1977 by their director Pierre Massie, a music graduate of the University of Ottawa. The group's repertoire encompasses sacred and secular songs from the Renaissance period.

• Stephenville Theatre Festival (Local: Stephenville, NL)
  

  Established in 1979 by the late Maxim Mazumdar, STF produces a full professional summer stock season featuring mainstream musicals, plays, and occasionally homegrown fare.

• StoryBook Theatre
  

  The theatre's mission is to enrich the Calgary Community through quality children's theatre experiences.

• Story Planet

  Story Planet's mission is to provide kids with the tools to effectively express themselves through words, art, and media. Inpsired by Dave Egger's organization, they offer school and community workshops that bring kids, writers, and artists together.

• Storytellers School of Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  The mission of the Storytellers School of Toronto is to inspire, encourage, and support storytelling for listeners, tellers, and those who have not yet heard. We provide courses and workshops, hold gatherings, festivals, and events to celebrate and present the art of storytelling. We also support the creative work of storytellers and produce publications about storytelling and storytellers.

• Stratford Festival of Canada
  

  One of the world's great repertory theatre companies, presents a dazzling selection of classical and contemporary dramas each season.

• Stream of Dreams Murals Society (Local: Burnaby, BC)

  Have you seen fish on elementary school chain link fences and did you know that all drains lead to fish habitat? The Stream of Dreams Murals Society is nonprofit registered Canadian charity founded in 2003 to support the delivery of the Stream of Dreams ecolitercy/community art education programs. Their mission is to educate communities about the life and function of their watersheds, rivers and streams, while dazzling them with the charm of community art.

• Streetwise Actors (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Streetwise Actors allows young people to participate in creative drama and showcase their newly learned talents by performing in retirement homes and long term care facilities.

• Sunshine Coast Film Society (Local: Gibsons, BC)

  The Sunshine Coast Film Society seeks to cultivate film appreciation and provide an alternative to mainstream entertainment on the Sunshine Coast. They find and exhibit a variety of films, including those of local and regional filmmakers, that give voice to compelling content, images, and ideas.

• SuzukiMusic
  

  SuzukiMusic provides Suzuki-method instruction on violin, viola, cello and piano. The programs involve the entire family, from pre-schoolers to parents, from across the National Capital Region, and include special needs children.

Suzuki String School of Guelph (Local: Guelph, ON)

The Suzuki String School of Guelph is a nonprofit, charity that provides lessons in violin, viola and cello using the Suzuki method (the mother-tongue approach) to children between the ages of 3 and 6 years old. Our school cultivates a nurturing, positive atmosphere where children can succeed in their musical journey.

• Symphony New Brunswick (Local: Saint John, NB)

  A full-scale, semi-professional orchestra comprised of a core of professional musicians, contract instrumentalists and talented amateurs from the southern New Brunswick region who are dedicated to giving the gift of orchestral music to communities in and around the Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton areas.

• Symphony Nova Scotia (Local: Halifax, NS)

  Symphony Nova Scotia is the only fully professional symphony orchestra in Canada east of Quebec City. Our mandate is “to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Nova Scotia through high quality, professionally performed orchestral music.” We perform over 50 concerts annually for more than 50,000 people.

• T3 Triple Threat Youth Mentors (Local: Montreal, QC)

  T3 Triple Threat Youth Mentors is a nonprofit arts education organization that seeks to enrich the lives of youth in need through the arts. Using professional teaching artists, T3 provides dance,singing, and acting instruction for kids, young people, and adults that may not otherwise have the financial means to participate in other programs.

• Tafelmusik
  

  Tafelmusik, a not-for-profit organization, has won critical acclaim at home and abroad as North America's leading baroque orchestra on period instruments.

• Tapestry New Opera Works (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Tapestry is dedicated to the creation, development and performance of new opera works through its unique and highly collaborative work process. Tapestry’s mandate is to foster the growth of new Canadian opera by bringing artists together to create and interpret original work.

• Terrace Little Theatre (Local: Terrace, BC)
  

  Established in 1943, Terrace Little Theatre is the longest continuous running amateur theatre troupe in British Columbia.

• That's Women's Work Arts Network (Local: Toronto, ON)

  That's Women's Work is a new approach to the traditional fine art gallery structure. Their focus is on new and emerging artists/performers/creators and those returning to the arts scene and they are open to all art forms including traditional crafts, textiles, fine arts, dance and performance, new media, and interdisciplinary work. That's Women's Work provides means to women in the arts (inclusive of transgendered women) to earn a living wage from their works.

• Theatre Aquarius
  

  Based in Hamilton, Ontario, this organization is one of the largest theatre companies in the province and boasts a full season of excellent and diverse programmes.

• Theatre B.C.
  

  Works to promote and encourage the development of theatre in British Columbia & the Yukon by providing leadership and opportunities for participation, education and sharing the enjoyment of diverse theatre experiences.

• Theatre Calgary
  

  Works to produce classic plays from the Canadian and international repertoire, emphasizing powerful, evocative language and substantial, complex story relevant to the people of Calgary and Southern Alberta.

• Theatre Centre
  

  The Theatre Centre is dedicated to developing, producing and co-producing original, innovative Canadian theatre and to creating a network among national and international venues for the professional development of artists, the presentation of their work and the exchange of ideas.

• Théâtre des petites lanternes (Local: Sherbrooke, QC)
  

  The Théâtre des petites lanternes uses theatre as a means to strengthen our sense of self and community. It is a creative way to explore and enhance community dialogue, promote individual and community capacity-building, mobilize, and empower people and communities.

• Theatre Direct Canada (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Our aim is to engage young people through compelling, inventive, and uncompromising theatre. Our major area of focus is the development, production and presentation of Canadian plays which provoke, challenge, question and empower young audiences.

• Théâtre français de Toronto (TfT) (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  A professional French-language theatre presenting repertoire as well as new work. While appealing to all lovers of French-language theatre, it contributes to the cultural and educational development of Toronto's francophone community.

• Theatre New Brunswick
  

  The objects of The Beaverbrook Auditorium (also known as TNB and The Playhouse) are to foster and promote the study and the public enjoyment and appreciation of the arts.

• Theatre Yes (Regional: Edmonton, AB)
  

  Theatre Yes strives to provide the community in Edmonton with provocative and viable productions that embrace risk and challenge for audiences who seek innovative style, risk, and polish in the theatre they attend.

• Theatrix Youtheatre Society
  

  Offers performing arts programs for youth aged 4 years to adult in the District #43 (Anmore, Belcarra, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody) in British Columbia, Canada. Rehearsals and performances are conducted at municipal facilities, schools and churches.

• Thousand Islands Playhouse (Local: Gananoque, ON)
  

  Thousand Islands Playhouse is a professional theatre company producing a wide spectrum of plays in two renovated heritage venues on the banks of the St. Lawrence River near Kingston, with various productions throughout the year.

• Thunder Bay Culture
  

  Your online source for culture in the Thunder Bay area, this web site hosts 21 organizations and individuals. It is developed and maintained by the Thunder Bay Regional Arts Council and the Arts and Heritage Alliance.

• Toronto All Star Big Band
  

  We offer one of the most stimulating youth music programs in Canada, engaging artists in a rigorous regime of rehearsals, workshops and masterclasses. Student have employment opportunity, plus a roster of performances at major theatres and festivals through Ontario and U.S.

• Toronto Arts Council Foundation (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  TACF has a twofold mission: to increase awareness of the value that artists and arts organizations bring to the city of Toronto, and to increase resources for the arts.

• Toronto Children's Chorus
  

  One of the world's premiere choral ensembles for children, whose exceptional artistry inspires audiences and critics everywhere. Founded in 1978 by Jean Ashworth Bartle, C.M., O.Ont., the Chorus has recorded and toured extensively over five continents, winning many first-place awards.

• Toronto Digital Art Association (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Dedicated to the support, promotion, and awareness of the digital arts in Toronto. Our long term goal is to open a permanent physical digital art gallery/resource centre called Pixel Gallery.

• Toronto Downtown Jazz Society
  

  Produces the Downtown Jazz Festival, promotes the study and practice of musical arts related to jazz, and works to advance knowledge and appreciation of jazz culture and tradition through jazz performance.

• Toronto Festival of Clowns (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  The Annual Toronto Festival of Clowns features theatrical clowning and physical comedy performers and is presented in conjunction with the Annual Toronto International Circus Festival.

• Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival
  

  The Toronto Fringe helps independent artists hone their skills and develop new plays, while allowing theatre lovers to enjoy a wide range of affordable, exciting productions.

• Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) (International: Toronto, ON)
  

  TIFF is dedicated to presenting the best of international and Canadian cinema to film lovers. What began as a ten-day film festival has grown to embrace programming 365 days a year. TIFF offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, and the chance to meet filmmakers from Canada and around the world.

• Toronto Opera Repertoire (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Toronto Opera Repertoire brings opera to the community by involving and training local singers and performers, and by keeping ticket prices as low as possible.

• Toronto Symphony Orchestra
  

  Discover the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's latest season program and stir your senses with news and features about the orchestra and its volunteers.

• Toronto Women's Bookstore (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  A nonprofit bookstore dedicated to promoting anti-oppression politics and feminist politics. Our mission is to provide books by women writers, especially marginalized women, including women of colour, First Nations women, lesbians, other queer women, working class women, disabled women, Jewish women, and other groups of women.

• Toronto Youth Theatre (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  The TYT is a registered charity that gives youth aged 12-19 the chance to work and perform in a professional theatre setting. The TYT develops personal, cultural, and social skills through theatre, allowing young people to assert their independence in a safe, supportive environment.

• Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra
  

  Promotes music education and enhances the performance skills of young musicians by performing high calibre wind band repertoire in some of the GTA's top concert halls. Our two ensembles seek to supplement traditional music education programs by giving talented youth the opportunity to perform challenging works in a semi-professional setting.

• Tricycle Productions
  

  Based in Montreal, Tricycle Productions is a charitable organization that produces and tours educational theatre for children ages 3-12. Touring in schools, libraries, theatres, and community centres, our goal is to offer exciting, educational theatre for the young and to encourage an interest in the arts in our young audience, thereby contributing to rebuilding a lively, vibrant theatre going community.

• Uplands Cultural and Heritage Centre
  

  A nonprofit organization housed in an historic Lennoxville, Quebec residence, devoted to the preservation, support and expansion of the cultural and historical traditions of the Eastern Townships through art exhibitions, craft shows, educational projects, lectures and workshops.

• urban ink Production Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  This theatre company creates, develops and produces Aboriginal and Diverse cultural works of theatre, writing and film, utilizing an approach which embraces and strives for the combination and integration of artistic disciplines, including different forms of theatre, story-telling, dance, music, video and multi-media.

• Vallum Society for Arts and Letters Education (VSFAALE) (Montreal, QC)
  

  A charitable organization that promotes literature and the arts through various live events and publications. The literary journal Vallum: Contemporary Poetry is VSFAALE's major project.

• Vancouver Art Gallery

• Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  Strives to produce and develop quality productions where Asian-Canadians assume culturally and artistically significant roles. Formed in July 2000, VACT intends to remove the barriers and stereotypes for visible minority actors and to represent the community's diverse ethnic base.

• Vancouver Chamber Choir
  

  The Choir impresses audiences with the depth and range of its repertoire and interpretive skills. Their concerts can include music from chant to folksong, traditional to avant garde, a cappella to orchestra or jazz trio.

• Vancouver High Spirits Choral Society (High Spirits Choir) (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  The High Spirits Choir is a nonprofit community choir and registered charity, and sings an eclectic, uplifting and sometimes demanding repertoire that includes: gospel, classical, jazz, show tunes, modern/contemporary, new-age, love songs, world music, etc. High Spirits is also an outreach choir, singing for people who normally don't get the opportunity to hear live music such as retirement homes, seniors' centres, hospices and at community events.

• Vancouver International Fringe Festival (International: Vancouver, BC)
  

  With the mandate to provide “theatre for everyone”, the Vancouver International Fringe Festival offers up an eclectic mix of theatre over 11 days on Granville Island and across Vancouver. They choose performers by lottery, offering them full artistic freedom and 100% of the box office proceeds are returned to the performer.

• Vancouver International Writers Festival
  

  One hundred authors and 12,000 readers converge for discussions and readings on Granville Island. Spreading the Word, VIWF's education program, offers programs for schools in French and English and free author visits and event tickets for inner city schools.

• Vancouver Opera (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  Four grand operas each season, featuring top Canadian and international singers and conductors; touring program of specially adapted operas for young people in schools throughout BC; and a comprehensive education program for all ages in schools and in the community.

• Vancouver Society of Storytelling (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  The Vancouver Society of Storytelling is committed to the development and encouragement of storytelling as an art form and to increase the public's appreciation of storytelling and oral traditions. There is a strong commitment to multiculturalism and service to the storytelling community.

• Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

• Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Society is a nonprofit, educational, community organization. Comprised of four orchestras including Debut, Junior, Intermediate and Senior, their mission is to provide accessible, high-calibre orchestral training for young musicians and foster an enduring love of music in the community.

• Victoria Conservatory of Music
  

  A music school for the whole community. It offers instrumental and vocal instruction, theory, composition, music therapy, and orchestras and ensembles. The Conservatory welcomes students at all ages and levels, including young children and adult beginners. The Conservatory also offers professional programs in performance and teaching.

• Victoria Film Festival
  

  A week long celebration of film in early February. Highlights include over 120 features, shorts, narrative and documentary films and videos, a film related art exhibition, film forum, public filmmaking opportunities and receptions.

• Victoria Playhouse (Regional: Victoria by the Sea, PEI)
  

  Prince Edward Island's longest running little theatre, presenting quality professional theatre and performing arts events emphasizing Island, Maritime and Canadian works.

• Victoria Scholars Men's Choral Ensemble (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  Founded in 1993 by graduates of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Choir School, this 16-voice men’s choir treats audiences to a diverse body of music including medieval plainchant, works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, contemporary pieces, and newly commissioned works.

• Victoria Symphony (Local: Victoria, BC)
  

  The Victoria Symphony is a professional ensemble of 34 musicians. Each season the orchestra gives over 100 performances, both regular series performances and special concerts including opera, ballet, educational, tour and community benefit performances.

• Victoria Target Theatre Society (Local: Victoria, BC)
  

  Founded in 1986, Target Theatre has grown from a group of senior citizens interested in the performing arts into an active theatre company of mature actors playing their part as advocates for the elderly. Using drama as a teaching tool, this troupe performs for health care professionals and lay care givers, students and the public.

• Video In + Video Out (VIVO) (Local: Vancouver, BC)
  

  VIVO operates under the Satellite Video Exchange Society and provides facilities, equipment, training, exhibitions, distribution services, professional development, research, curatorial and publishing opportunities for the exploration of contemporary media arts and related artistic, social, and cultural issues.

• Vigour Projects (National)
  

  Vigour Projects’ mission is to improve health through music. Vigour Projects plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates music-based projects that are targeted towards the improvement of health. The nature of each project is dependent upon the needs of each charity/foundation that Vigour Projects is partnering with.

• Virtual Mall Canada (National)

  The Virtual Mall hosts web stores that are created, owned, and operated by people with disabilities. These people sell original Canadian art work from artists in their local area.

• Virtual Museum of Canada
  

  An online collection of images, exhibitions, galleries, archives and events from more than 600 Canadian museums.

• Visual Arts Alberta Association (Regional: Edmonton, AB)

  Visual Arts Alberta is a nonprofit, provincial cultural organization promoting the work of visual artists in the province of Alberta. They provide Alberta visual artists with marketing support, exhibition opportunities, communications on professional opportunities and fine art scholarships.

• Visual Arts Brampton (Local: Brampton, ON)

  Visual Arts Brampton serves the community through education for both adults and youth, permanent exhibition spaces, and open studio space.

• VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)

  VIVA! is committed to providing young singers with opportunities to participate in artistically excellent endeavours that support Canadian musicians and artists, while providing an integrated arts approach.

• W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation (National: Delta, BC)

  The W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation nationally exhibits and tours a complete collection of first English language edition books which have won Canada's Governor Generals' Literary Award for fiction and poetry. In addition to the exhibit, authors who have won the award attend and perform a reading from their award-winning book. The foundation's mandate is to educate and increase the general public's understanding and appreciation of the literary arts in Canada.

• Waterfront Trail Artists (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  The Waterfront Trail Artists are a 100% volunteer group of artists and arts supporters who provide community arts programming and events to people of all ages through a storefront in the Toronto neighbourhood of Lakeshore.

• Waterloo County & Area Quilt Festival (Regional: St. Clements, ON)
  

  Presents an annual 10-day festival in May, celebrating the art and heritage of quilting through 35 different events in 10 communities. This is the largest festival of its kind in Canada.

• Westcoast Sacred Arts Society
  

  Produces an annual festival of sacred music every fall in Vancouver, BC.

• Windsor Wood Carving Museum (Local: Windsor, ON)
  

  The only wood carving museum in Ontario, showcasing traditional, contemporary, historical and wildlife carvings, tools and artifacts. An expansive one-room museum, well lit showcases allow close viewing. Life sized sculpture of Tecumseh and bust of Cadillac.

• Winnipeg Arts Council (WAC) (Local: Winnipeg, MB)
  

  The Winnipeg Arts Council (WAC) funds, supports and fosters development of the arts on behalf of the people of Winnipeg. The WAC is a not-for-profit corporation at arm’s length from the City of Winnipeg, funded by an allocation from the City’s general revenues and entertainment taxes.

• Winnipeg Art Gallery (Local: Winnipeg, MB)
  

  Established in 1912, the Winnipeg Art Gallery strives to engage audiences through unique and innovative educational programming. Exhibitions and programs are at the heart of the WAG, and gallery has organizes exhibitions of local, national, and international artists.

• Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC) (National: Toronto, ON)
  

  Supports efforts that contribute to advancing the status of contemporary Canadian women artists.

• WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival
  

  Annually brings international, national and local writers to book-lovers for readings, panel discussions, youth educational activities and special events.

• World Pan Flute Association (International: Toronto, ON)
  

  A nonprofit organization that was founded for the purposes of promoting interest in, and the study and practice of, the pan flute or panpipes. The WPFA delivers various programs and services to pan flute enthusiasts around the world.

• Youth Out Loud (Local: Toronto, ON)
  

  A nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about child sexual abuse and ending violence. We are also dedicated to providing outlets for people 15 years and up to express social and political concerns through activism and art. Diversity and making connections around lbgt, race, class, culture and gender issues is important to us.

• Youth. Passion. Showcase. of the Performing Arts (YPS) (Regional: Guelph, ON)
  

  YPS is a large-scale talent show organized, run, performed, and inspired by students. Their purpose is to showcase youth talent and passion for the stage, while at the same time donating proceeds from the show to charity.

• Yukon Arts Centre (Regional: Whitehorse, YT)
  

  The Yukon Arts Centre (YAC) is a not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the development of the arts as an important cultural, social and economic force in the Yukon.

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