Jul 22 — Call for Facilitators

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Con­ver­sa­tion Facil­i­ta­tors — Call for Appli­ca­tions Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trol and Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture in North­ern Ontario EXTENDED appli­ca­tion dead­line: Sep­tem­ber 15, 2020 Join our Face­book group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MediaArtsNorthernOntario The Media Arts Net­work of Ontario (MANO) and Indige­nous Cul­ture and Media Inno­va­tion (ICMI) are pleased to announce the launch of a com­mu­ni­ty-based project. Orig­i­nal­ly con­ceived as a series of […] Read More

Case Works – Peer Support Network Now Available

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MANO is pleased to announce the launch of the Case Works – Peer Sup­port Net­work. Build­ing on MANO’s mod­el of direct peer to peer sup­port as a prac­ti­cal and polit­i­cal frame­work for mutu­al aid Case Works seeks to expand our net­work and make these sup­ports more acces­si­ble. Man­aged by an affin­i­ty group of artists and […] Read More

COVID-19 Resources for Artists & Arts Organizations

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Updat­ed  May 19, 2020 From the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment Cana­da Emer­gency Busi­ness Account Cana­da Emer­gency Com­mer­cial Rent Assis­tance (CECRA)  Cana­da Emer­gency Response Ben­e­fit ***Emer­gency Sup­port Fund for Cul­tur­al, Her­itage and Sport Orga­ni­za­tions*** Wage Sub­sidy for Small Busi­ness (Includ­ing Char­i­ties and Not-for-Prof­its)  Canada’s COVID-19 Response Plan Eng­lish and French From the Depart­ment of Cana­di­an Her­itage Infor­ma­tion for […] Read More

Holiday Closure

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MANO-RAMO will be closed for the Hol­i­days start­ing on Decem­ber 20, 2019. We will resume reg­u­lar oper­a­tions Jan­u­ary 6, 2020. Hap­py Hol­i­days and all the best for 2020! *** You can still pur­chase copies of Oth­er Places through the break at https://www.otherplaces.mano-ramo.ca/ *** Read More

Call for Proposals – Documenting Cuts

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Dead­line: Mon­day July 29th, 2019 The Media Arts Net­work of Ontario (MANO) is call­ing for pro­pos­als from Ontario artists for a com­mis­sion of short video works for online dis­sem­i­na­tion. These short videos will look at the impacts of provin­cial gov­ern­ment cuts to var­i­ous sec­tors in Ontario such as arts and cul­ture, legal aid, or edu­ca­tion. […] Read More

MANO is Hiring a Conference Coordinator — March 18

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Con­fer­ence Coor­di­na­tor Cold Waters: Sym­po­sium & Media Arts Fes­ti­val North Bay, June 12–15, 2019 Dead­line for appli­ca­tions 6:00PM Mon­day March 18, 2019 The North Bay Con­fer­ence Coor­di­na­tor will work with staff at the Media Arts Net­work of Ontario and Near North Mobile Media Lab to ensure the logis­tics and hos­pi­tal­i­ty at the Cold Waters: Sym­po­sium and […] Read More

Update on Canada Council transition to New Funding Model

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Update on Cana­da Coun­cil tran­si­tion to New Fund­ing Mod­el and upcom­ing appli­ca­tion dead­lines for media arts orga­ni­za­tions cour­tesy of IMAA/AAMI Most media arts orga­ni­za­tions that cur­rent­ly receive assis­tance from the Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts through the pro­gram Grants to Media Arts Orga­ni­za­tions – Ini­tia­tives will be moved to one of the two fol­low­ing new pro­grams: Sup­port­ing […] Read More

Guides on HR, Governance, Equity and Conflict Resolution

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Pre­vi­ous con­sul­ta­tions have demon­strat­ed the need for the media arts sec­tor to devel­op a set of (unique­ly tai­lored to the orga­ni­za­tion­al struc­tures of artist-run media orga­ni­za­tions) best prac­tices, poli­cies and doc­u­ment tem­plates on human resources, gov­er­nance,  equi­ty, and con­flict res­o­lu­tion. With the sup­port from the Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts (Lead­er­ship for Change pro­gram), MANO’s […] Read More