External Resources

AKIMBO

Akimbo is a Toronto-based company that promotes contemporary visual art, video, new media and film locally, nationally and internationally via the internet. Akimbo develops an email bulletin that circulates information on exhibitions, events and current issues in the visual arts.

Kim Fullerton
Akimbo e-Broadcasts
P.O. Box 278, Station P
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2S8 Canada
Cell: (647) 293-3544
akimbo@ca.inter.net
www.akimbo.biz

Alternative Dispute Resolution Ontario

The ADR Institute of Ontario Inc. (ADR Ontario) is an affiliate of The ADR Institute of Canada, Inc. (ADR Canada), which is a non-profit organization established to provide national leadership in the promotion of alternative dispute resolution methods in Canada. Often dispute resolution can be a less formal and less expensive method of resolving disputes, without having to resort to the time- and resource-intensive legal route.

234 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 500
Toronto, ON, M4P 1K5
Phone: (416) 487-4447
Fax: (416) 487-4429
admin@adrontario.ca
www.adrontario.ca

Art Dealers Association of Canada

The Art Dealers Association of Canada Inc. (ADAC) is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1966. Our 75-member association is the largest representation of major private commercial galleries in Canada and our members represent the country's leading artists. ADAC's mandate includes stimulating the art market in Canada and encouraging the awareness of the visual arts both nationally and abroad. ADAC both monitors and is actively involved with issues and policy formation concerning the visual arts. As part of this initiative, the Association maintains a continuing dialogue with government agencies at federal, provincial and municipal levels. ADAC is also active as a liaison with public galleries, museums and cultural organizations in Canada and in the international community.

111 Peter Street, Suite 501
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 2H1 Canada
Tel: 416 934 1583
Fax: 416 934 1584
www.ad-ac.ca/

Artengine Inc.

Artengine is an artist-run internet site for visual and media artists. Federally incorporated and not-for-profit, Artengine is devoted to the propagation of art on the internet and the artistic exploration of new technologies.

P.O. Box 20538
390 Rideau
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 1A3
http://www.artengine.ca

Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO)

ARCCO is a professional arts service organization for artist-run, not-for-profit centres and collectives for contemporary art in Ontario. This includes centres/collectives for the presentation, production, dissemination, service and investigation of contemporary art in a variety of media and multi-disciplinary work.

Visit the ARCCO website and explore the Tools and Internet Resources page. These free, helpful internet resources for arts managers were suggested by administrators working in the field and were compiled by ARCCO with the collaboration of White Water Gallery and Gallery 101.

P.O. Box 44026, Market Tower Lane Postal Outlet
141 Dundas Street
London, Ontario
N6A 5S5
Phone: (519) 672-7898
jewel.goodwyn@sympatico.ca
www.arcco.ca/

Artists' Legal Advice Services

The Artists Legal Advice Service is a not-for-profit legal service for artists in all disciplines residing in Toronto. The roster of lawyers all have professional practices in the field of entertainment law. They provide 30 minutes of free legal advice on a wide number of issues, from assigning copyright, interpretation and review of contracts, and information on artists' legal rights and responsibilities in a number of key areas. To contact them, please call (416) 367-2527 to set up an appointment.

ArtistsInCanada

ArtistsInCanada is dedicated to raising the profile of the visual arts in Canada by maintaining a national directory of internet links to artists and art resources. ArtistsInCanada maintains the directory of links as a free service to the arts community. The directory is stored in a database where site visitors can search the links using a simple search interface. Visitors are invited to add their visual arts-related links to the directory. Check out www.artistsincanada.com.

Artscape

Artscape is a non-profit space and service provider that develops and manages properties, builds partnerships, engages in research and planning, and delivers programs that serve artists while strengthening the broader community.

Published by Artscape: SQUARE FEET: The Artist's Guide to Renting and Buying Work Space is a resource manual for artists, arts organizations and collectives looking to rent or buy work space. Download the PDF version of SQUARE FEET

60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 111, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1X9
phone: (416) 392-1038
fax: (416) 392-1059
info@torontoartscape.on.ca

Bureau des regroupments des artistes visuals de l'Ontario (BRAVO)

Yves Larocque, Executive Director
1-405, rue Laurier Est
Ottawa, ON K1N 6R4
Phone: (819) 457-2502
bravo@franco.ca
www.francoculture.ca/bravo

The Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC)

55 Mill Street, The Case Goods Bldg, Suite 302
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
Tel: (416) 462-3700
Fax: (416) 462-9570
Toll Free: 1-888-252-2742
info@capic.org
www.capic.org/

Canada Council for the Arts

350 Albert Street,
P.O. Box 1047,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5V8
www.canadacouncil.ca
1 (800) 263-5588 (toll-free within Canada), or (613) 566-4414
Fax (613) 566-4390

Canadian Heritage Information Network

Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)

CARFAC National

CARFAC British Columbia

CARFAC Manitoba

CARFAC Maritimes

CARFAC Saskatchewan

Charity Village

Charity Village is Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector -- 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers.
www.charityvillage.com

Copyright Board of Canada

The Board is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works, when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration society. The Board also has the right to supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies and issues licences when the copyright owner cannot be located.

www.cb-cda.gc.ca/index.html

Council for the Arts in Ottawa

The Council for the Arts in Ottawa was founded in 1982 as a not-for-profit, membership-based organization dedicated to encouraging and developing an appreciation for the arts in the Ottawa region.

Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6E2
Telephone (613) 569-1387 -- Fax (613) 233-0698
council@arts-ottawa.on.ca
www.arts-ottawa.on.ca/

Council for Business & the Arts in Canada (CBAC)

Council for Business & the Arts is Canada's national association of leading arts sponsors, patrons and volunteers. We are committed to enhancing the quality of life in Canadian communities by increasing private sector support of the arts. Businesses are increasingly expected to balance the social, economic and environmental components of their business, while building shareholder value. Developing creative partnerships with arts organizations is one way to build community capacity by enabling freedom of expression and shaping cultural identity.

165 University Avenue, Suite 705
Toronto, ON M5H 3B8
Phone: (416) 869-3016
info@businessforarts.org
www.businessforarts.org

The Cultural Human Resources Council - Visual Arts and Crafts

The Cultural Human Resources Council has always had an emphasis on self-employed artists. The self-employment rate in Canada 's cultural labour force (at 21%) is almost three times higher than the rate in the overall labour force (at 8%). Among painters, sculptors and other visual artists the number of self-employed is at 67%; among artisans and crafts persons, 50% are self-employed. With these statistics in mind, CHRC has developed certain materials to assist the self-employed visual artists and crafts person. Check out the Visual Arts and Crafts mini-site at www.culturalhrc.ca

e-flux (electronic flux corporation)

e-flux is a New York-based information bureau dedicated to world wide distribution of information for contemporary visual arts institutions via the Internet. Check out www.e-flux.com.

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation

The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation is an organization which often gives grants to visual artists. Contact them for more information.

1814 Sherbrooke St. W
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E4
514-937-9225
egreen@total.net

Human Resources Development Canada-Job Bank

The HRDC Job Bank is the largest Web-based network of job postings available to Canadians. Between 300,000 and 500,000 new jobs are posted every year, over 30,000 job postings can be accessed at any one time, and up to 2,000 new jobs are posted every day. Check out http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca.

Instant Coffee

Instant Coffee is a service oriented collective of artists, writers, curators, designers and code writers. Together they have developed a practice that culminates in bringing together large numbers of artists, designers, musicians and other cultural producers under loosely themed events. What does Instant Coffee do? Sometimes we put shows together. Sometimes we promote other peoples shows. Sometimes we make stuff. We talk about ourselves a lot. As individuals we pursue different financially rewarding careers...or not. We don't dress for the jobs we have, but for the jobs we want.

www.instantcoffee.org

Toronto – events@instantcoffee.org
Halifax – halifax@instantcoffee.org
Vancouver – vancouver@instantcoffee.org
Montreal – montreal@instantcoffee.org
Inter/national – national@instantcoffee.org
General – everyone@instantcoffee.org

IP-ADR: Intellectual Property and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Chartered Arbitrator, Lawyer, and Trademark Agent, Rodney C. Kyle is IP-ADR: Intellectual Property (IP) and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), especially ADR in IP-related disputes (IPADR). D ecades of private and public sector experience. Efficient, effective. Lawful, just, timely, clear, comprehensive, and accurate results in domestic, foreign, and international matters as an IP, ADR, and especially IPADR professional:

•  Chartered Arbitrator (or “C.Arb.”, or Arbitre Certifiè or “Arb.C.”) especially in IP or IP-related disputes, e.g. copyright or domain name disputes,

•  advocate in IP or IP-related disputes, e.g. copyright or domain name disputes,

•  advisor or agent in less contentious matters, e.g. IP-protection, IP-acquisition, and IP-licensing, and

•  author and presenter on IP, ADR, and IPADR.

Rodney C. Kyle, doing business as IP-ADR
Chartered Arbitrator, Lawyer, & Trademark Agent
Suite 201 - 24 Springfield Road
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1M 1C9
www.ip-adr.pro
rodneyckyle@ip-adr.pro
1 (613) 749-3730 or toll-free (U.S. & Canada) 1 (888) 66-47-237 (1-888-66-IP-ADR)

The Daniel Langolis Foundation For Art, Science & Technology

The Daniel Langlois Foundation's purpose is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies. The Foundation seeks to nurture a critical awareness of technology's implications for human beings and their natural and cultural environments, and to promote the exploration of aesthetics suited to evolving human environments.

3530, Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Suite 402
Montreal, Quebec H2X 2V1
Phone (514) 987-7177
info@fondation-langlois.org
www.fondation-langlois.org

Media Job Search Canada

Media Job Search Canada was designed and developed to help all Canadians who work in media related professions search for a new job. Media Job Search Canada Inc. has provided links to websites that may contain Job Opportunities in media related positions at Canadian Television and Specialty Channels, Radio Stations, Audio & Music and Film & Video Production Companies, Newspaper and Magazine Publications, Advertising and Marketing Companies and Multi-Media Companies.

www.mediajobsearchcanada.com

Ontario Arts Council

The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) was established in 1963 to foster the creation and production of art for the benefit of all Ontarians. The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is an arm's-length agency of the Ontario Ministry of Culture. OAC's grants and services to professional, Ontario-based artists and arts organizations support arts education, Aboriginal arts, community arts, crafts, dance, Franco-Ontarian arts, literature, media arts, multidisciplinary arts, music, theatre, touring, and visual arts. In 2003/04 alone, the Ontario Arts Council awarded $24.4 million to 867 organizations and $4.9 million in grants to 1,379 individual artists.

151 Bloor Street West, 5th floor
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1T6
Toll-free in Ontario: 1 (800) 387-0058
Direct dial in Toronto area: (416) 961-1660
Fax: (416) 961-7796
info@arts.on.ca
www.arts.on.ca

Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG)

The Ontario Association of Art Galleries was established in 1968 to encourage the ongoing and cooperative development of Ontario's public art galleries, art museums, community galleries and related visual arts organizations. Incorporated in Ontario by letters patent in 1970, and registered as a charitable organization, OAAG aims to serve and represent all of Ontario's public art galleries as essential and valued cultural resources.

Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG)
Demetra Christakos, Executive Director
49 McCaul Street Suite N2
Toronto, ON M5T 2W7
Phone (416) 598-4128
oaag@oaag.org
www.oaag.org

Ontario Crafts Council

As a not-for-profit arts service organization, the Crafts Council promotes craft and advocates for craftspeople. It provides information, services and programming linking craft to designers, educators, collectors, the business community and the general public.

Designer's Walk
170 Bedford Road
Toronto, ON
M5R 2K9
T: (416) 925-4222
F: (416)925-4223
www.craft.on.ca/

Ontario Media Development Corporation

This site has been created specifically for film and television industry professionals with an interest in producing in Ontario. It offers up to date listings for talent and crew, location support, studios, lab facilities and services.

175 Bloor Street East
Suite 501, South Tower
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3R8
Tel: (416) 314-6858
Fax: (416) 314-6876
http://www.omdc.on.ca

Le Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV)

RAAV is the association mandated to represent professional artists in Quebec.

460 Ste-Catherine O., #913
Montréal, QC H3B 1A7
Téléphone: (514) 866-7101
Facsimile: (514) 866-9906
raav@raav.org
www.raav.org

Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)

SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, is a performing rights society run by Canadian composers, lyricists, songwriters and music publishers. We license the public performance and telecommunication to the public of the world's repertoire of copyright-protected musical works in Canada and distribute the royalties to our members and to affiliated international societies. Joining SOCAN allows you to be compensated for public performances of your music both here in Canada and abroad.

41 Valleybrook Drive
Toronto, ON M3B 2S6
Phone: (416) 445-8700
Toll-free: 1 (800) 55 SOCAN [that's 1 (800) 557-6226]
Fax: (416) 445-7108

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada

The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) is Canada's national graphic design association. We are a member-based organization of design professionals, educators, administrators, students, and associates in communications, marketing, media and design-related fields.

www.gdc.net/community/job_board.php
www.gdc.net

Toronto Arts Council

Toronto Arts Council is an arm's length funding body that supports the development, accessibility and excellence of the arts in Toronto. Toronto Arts Council offers grants programs to the city's arts organizations and professional artists. These programs, funded through the City of Toronto, invest in a broad range of activities from individual creation and small start-up projects to some of Canada's largest and most renowned arts institutions.

141 Bathurst Street
(between King and Queen Streets, east side)
Toronto ON M5V 2R2
Phone: (416) 392-6800
fax: (416) 392-6920
mail@torontoartscouncil.org
www.torontoartscouncil.org

Work in Culture

Cultural Careers Council Ontario (CCCO) is a sectoral council representing Ontario's cultural industry. Its role is to ensure the continued existence of properly trained professionals in order to maintain Ontario's leadership as the centre of Canada's cultural industry. CCCO represents artists, cultural workers and organizations in Ontario's cultural sector. Through CCCO, the sector works to strengthen the creation, distribution and preservation of cultural products by building a skilled, innovative and resilient workforce. Click on 'Job Board'

www.workinculture.ca