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November 8, 2013…Toronto, ON… The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and the Friends of the Arts network will meet with over twenty-nine individual City Councillors on November 8 and surrounding daysto discuss the importance and impact of arts and culture in the City of Toronto.
Arts supporters, donors, artists and arts administrators will meet with a record number of councillors representing wards across the city. Friends of the Arts maintains that culture is an essential part of Toronto’s internationally competitive economy, and positively impacts jobs, businesses, international profile and quality of life. Throughout Arts Day at the City, arts advocates will meet with key decision makers and urge City Council to follow through on its promise, and include an increase of $6 million – the second phase of sustainable growth to arts and culture funding – in the 2014 budget. A key message this year is thanking city council for unanimously voting for the City’s per capita spending on arts and culture to be increased from $18 to $25, and to remind them that this is just the beginning.
“This is TAPA’s Fourth Annual Arts Day at the City”, said TAPA’s Board President Michael Rubinoff, “and we are very pleased to continue our partnership with Friends of the Arts, effectively representing thousands of artists, arts workers and private sector partners from across the city. This is an issue that impacts all 44 wards and so we are looking forward to our discussions with a majority of city councillors. I am confident that together we can focus on moving forward the business of improving and enhancing our city and communities.”
ARTS DAY AT THE CITY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013
TORONTO CITY HALL
Friends of the Arts is a network of arts supporters from across Toronto including the following organizations: Arts Vote Toronto, Arts Etobicoke, BeautifulCity.ca, Business for the Arts, Creative Trust, East End Arts, Lakeshore Arts, North York Arts, Scarborough Arts, Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, Toronto Arts Foundation, Urban Arts.
As part of the 4th Annual Arts Day at the City, TAPA will begin the day with the presentation of the highly anticipated AUDIENCE REPORT. TAPA has taken a leadership role in collecting statistics for the theatre, dance and opera sectors in the city of Toronto since 2004. This work began with the TAPA Stats Reports Phase I, Phase II and Phase III. As part of an ongoing commitment to audience development, TAPA’s Audience Project Committee, in partnership with the Strategic Counsel, created a comprehensive audience survey that was distributed city-wide via the TAPA membership this past spring. The TAPA AUDIENCE REPORT will be presented in the Members Lounge at the city of Toronto on Friday, November 8 at 9:30 – 10:30am.
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) is an arts service organization that represents 187 professional theatre, dance and opera companies, and is committed to nurturing an environment in which the performing arts may flourish and play a leadership role in the vitality of the City of Toronto. Programs and services provided by TAPA include: T.O. TIX - Toronto's Official One Stop Ticket Shop at Yonge-Dundas Square and online at www.totix.ca; the Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Toronto’s official Theatre Guide featuring Toronto’s only theatre map; hipTIX, offering $5 tickets to students between the ages of 15 and 29; citySPECIAL; the Commercial Theatre Development Fund; the Travel Retreat Initiatives Program – TRIP and the TAPA TRADE SERIES that provides ongoing professional development and workshops for TAPA members. For more information visit www.tapa.ca and www.totix.ca.
2013-11-08
Toronto: TAPA announces 4th Annual Arts Day at the City