Community Arts Development

Today, it is at the local and municipal level where some of the most exciting challenges in the cultural sector are being met. More and more, cities and neighborhoods are delivering arts, culture and heritage programs. Increasingly, local organizations need expanded skills to compete in a fragmented marketplace, whether it’s an arts council, a community heritage site, or community theatres, choirs, orchestras and galleries. 

 

Community Arts organizations are often managed completely by volunteers, and these groups require specific leadership and management skills.

 

Completion of a course will be recognized as either a pass or fail; awarding of a Certificate of Participation requires successful completion of all six courses.

 

This program is being delivered in a collaboration involving Humber College, the Oakville Arts Council and the Mississauga Arts Council, and the Town of Oakville.

 

You are an individual working in or with a community arts organization as a volunteer (board, committee) or staff (administrator, coordinator).

 

You are seeking additional skills to help your organization grow and thrive, rather than a career in arts management.

 

This certificate program offers a series of part-time courses in the areas of leadership (boards), resource development (sponsorship, marketing communications, fundraising) and management (budgeting, grant writing).

 

Each course is fifteen hours in length (three hour sessions over five weeks). About two thirds of the course will be spent in an instructional mode (the teacher guiding the learning), and the rest with the instructor in a ‘coaching’ mode (responding to specific needs of your community group).

 

Thursdays, 7 – 10 PM

 

Oakville Museum

8 Navy Street

Oakville, ON

L6J 2Y5

 

 

Online:            http://www.creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/artsadmin/cadcppt.html.

Phone:            (416) 675-5005

Fax:                 (416) 675-2427

In Person:       Lakeshore Campus or North Campus

Payment:        Visa, MasterCard or certified cheque

 

Jerry Smith

Program Director, Humber College

(416) 675-6622, Ext. 3244