MANO/OAC Media Arts Information Session in North Bay

Join us on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 10th at 11am at White Water Gallery to learn more about fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties avail­able to media artists and film­mak­ers in our area, and also give your input and feed­back regard­ing the Media Arts com­mu­ni­ty in Ontario. Host­ing the ses­sion will be Mark Haslam, Offi­cer for the Media Arts sec­tion of the Ontario […] Read More

Renewal Symposium

Reg­is­tra­tion now open for MANO’s 2017 Con­fer­ence – Renewal  Toron­to, Novem­ber 17 – 19, 2017 The Media Arts Net­work of Ontario / Réseau des arts médi­a­tiques de l’Ontario (MANO/RAMO) is pleased to announce our next gath­er­ing of media artists, cul­tural work­ers, researchers and allies. This con­fer­ence, titled Renew­al, will bring togeth­er cul­tural work­ers and artists from […] Read More

Workshop: Contracts and Legal Obligations for Programmers & Curators

Thurs­day Sept 28, 2017 3PM EST Webinar Join arts and enter­tain­ment lawyer, Dan Pol­lack, as he walks pro­gram­mers and cura­tors through the prepa­ra­tion of con­tracts and oth­er legal oblig­a­tions when work­ing with artists, oth­er inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors and like mind­ed organizations. Read Dan’s bio here. To reg­is­ter email membership@mano-ramo.ca. Read More

CALL FOR PAPERS for a web/print publication edited by artist Deanna Bowen, with the support of the Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO)

Artist and edu­ca­tor Dean­na Bowen and the Media Arts Net­work of Ontario are seek­ing papers for a, yet unti­tled, pub­li­ca­tion that doc­u­ments the his­tor­i­cal and con­tem­po­rary con­tri­bu­tions that First Nations, Métis, and Inu­it (FNMI), racial­ized, dif­fer­ently abled, or LGBTQ cul­tural pro­duc­ers have made to the media arts in Cana­da. Instead of anti-canon­ic, we see this […] Read More

MANO ONCA By-Laws and Governance Workshops/Consultations

In this series of work­shops and con­sul­ta­tions across the province Jer­ry Smith (First Stage) will be lead­ing a dis­cus­sion for arts man­agers and board mem­bers to under­stand updat­ing by-laws to com­ply with the forth-com­ing Ontario Not-for-prof­it Cor­po­ra­tions Act. In addi­tion to offer­ing advice on com­pli­ance and changes required in tra­di­tional artist-run orga­ni­za­tions the work­shop will […] Read More

SAVE THE DATE: MANO’s 2017 Conference – Renewal – Ottawa, November 16 – 19, 2017

The Media Arts Net­work of Ontario / Réseau des arts médi­a­tiques de l’Ontario (MANO/RAMO) is pleased to announce our next gath­er­ing of media artists, cul­tural work­ers, researchers and allies. This con­fer­ence, titled Renew­al, will bring togeth­er cul­tural work­ers and artists from across Ontario, Cana­da and inter­na­tion­ally to dis­cuss renew­ing the con­di­tions of our col­lec­tive labour […] Read More

Waterloo Region and Wellington County Media Arts Roundtable

Pre­sented by MANO/RAMO in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Com­mons Stu­dio and the Ontario Arts Council Tues­day, May 30, 2017 7 PM Com­mons Stu­dio, 256 King Street The Media Arts Net­work of Ontario/Réseau des arts médi­a­tiques de l’Ontario is call­ing on all cul­tural work­ers and artists engaged with media arts (film/video/new media/games/sound/etc.) in Water­loo Region, Welling­ton Coun­ty and sur­round­ing […] Read More

WORKSHOP: Understanding Financial Statements

Thurs­day, May 18, 2017 at 3PM EST Webinar Have you attend­ed an AGM and stared blankly at the Finan­cial State­ments while the trea­surer is giv­ing their report? Do the num­bers jump around the pages with­out telling a story? Heather Young will walk any­one in your org (man­age­ment, junior staff, board mem­bers and vol­un­teers) through the process of read­ing and under­stand­ing Finan­cial […] Read More

Northern Ontario Media Arts Webinar

Pre­sented by the Ontario  Arts Coun­cil in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Media Arts Net­work of Ontario and Near North Mobile Media Lab Date: Mon­day, March 27, 2017 Spaces Open & Refresh­ments: 6:00 PM EST Webi­nar: 6:30 PM EST To reg­is­ter please email membership@mano-ramo.ca and indi­cate if you will be attend­ing any of the in–person ses­sions at the loca­tions list­ed below. […] Read More

CCA New Model Overview and Strategy Discussion

Tues­day March 14, 2017 4 PM EST Con­nect at: https://mediaartsnetwork.adobeconnect.com/workshop With­in the new Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts  fund­ing mod­el there are numer­ous changes that will affect how media arts groups apply for funds and how pro­grams will need to be struc­tured to take full advan­tage of the avail­able oppor­tu­ni­ties. In this webi­nar dis­cus­sion MANO staff, Ben Donoghue and Adri­ana Rossel­li will […] Read More