Evolved or Perished?

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 12, 7:30pm VMAC (4th Floor, 401 Rich­mond, near #448/Images Festival) Fol­low­ing the Media Arts Net­work of Ontario’s 2013 con­fer­ence, Evolve or Per­ish, the Images Fes­ti­val and MANO invite you to join us for an infor­mal round­table dis­cus­sion on the state of things in the media arts sec­tor, one year later. Con­ver­sa­tions around con­ti­nu­ity, insta­bil­ity, […] Read More

ARCHIVING WORKSHOP WITH KRISTIE MACDONALD

Thurs­day Octo­ber 9, 2014, from 2–5 PM Ben­to Miso 862 Rich­mond St West Toron­to MAP or via teleconference Free for MANO & NIMAC Members This work­shop is intend­ed to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to han­dling and pre­serv­ing records, art, and dig­i­tal media. Par­tic­i­pants learn about impor­tant preser­va­tion stan­dards and ter­mi­nol­ogy rel­e­vant with­in media arts sec­tor. The group will […] Read More

MANO/RAMO at the Bay Street Festival in Thunder Bay

MANO/RAMO will be in Thun­der Bay to par­tic­i­pate in the 10th edi­tion of the Bay Street Film Fes­ti­val run­ning from Sep­tem­ber 3–7, 2014. We will be host­ing a Region­al Meet­ing with arts orga­ni­za­tions and artists in North­ern Ontario as well as a work­shop on Basic Book­keep­ing and Project Man­age­ment for Media Artists and Emerg­ing Organizations. For more […] Read More

MANO Presents: The Few or the Many Debate at IMAA’s Tidal Force Conference

Wednes­day June 11, 1:30PM – 3:00PM The Few or the Many: Con­sol­i­da­tion or Pro­lif­er­a­tion as the Way For­ward in the Media Arts? Sco­tia­bank Stu­dio The­atre, Hal­i­fax, Nova Scotia With­in the ongo­ing land­scape of aus­ter­ity from most pub­lic fund­ing bod­ies and an ever-expand­ing field for the media arts in Cana­da what is the way for­ward? Should the […] Read More

JUNE WORKSHOP: Governance 101 for Board Members

Best Prac­tices for Board Governance A work­shop for board chairs and co-chairs with Jer­ry Smith Tues­day June 17, 6:30 – 9:30 PM Ben­to Miso #300 — 862 Rich­mond Street West, Toronto or by video con­fer­ence for remote participants Free for MANO/RAMO mem­ber organizations This work­shop on gov­er­nance prac­tices is offered to build capac­ity for board chairs and […] Read More

MAY WORKSHOP: Accessible Customer Service Training 

MAY WORKSHOP: Acces­si­ble Cus­tomer Ser­vice Training with the Acces­si­bil­ity Pro­fes­sion­als of Ontario Wednes­day, May 21 — 2:00–5:00 PM In Per­son: Ontario Arts Coun­cil Board Room 151 Bloor St. West, 6th Floor, Toronto or remote­ly via Video Conference Cost: $80 for MANO/RAMO Mem­bers and $95 for Non-Members Under the AODA “all busi­nesses or orga­ni­za­tions oper­at­ing in Ontario […] Read More

DEBATE: IS ART SCHOOL KILLING ART?

DEBATE: IS ART SCHOOL KILLING ART? Co-pre­sent­ed by  The Images Fes­ti­val, MANO/RAMO and aluCine   Sun­day April 13, 2014 @ 2 PM Monarch Tav­ern – 12 Clin­ton St FREE ADMISSION For 2014, Images Fes­ti­val and Media Arts Net­work of Ontario (MANO/RAMO) we have assem­bled two esteemed pan­els that will debate (Oxford style!) the impli­ca­tions and effects of the pro­fes­sion­al­iza­tion, […] Read More

SPEAKING TOGETHER — MANO/RAMO CO-PRESENTS AT THE IMAGES FESTIVAL

Fri­day April 18 @ 5  PM Admis­sion: $10 general/$5 mem­bers, stu­dents, seniors Jack­man Hall — 317 Dun­das Street West, McCaul Street entrance Speak­ing Together  http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1272&month=n The obtuse and absurd sys­tem of hand signs and move­ments that make up the actions in Open Out­cry rep­re­sent a lan­guage reduced to the con­cerns of finance and econ­omy, a closed sys­tem, yet one that is […] Read More

HR Best Practices for Media Arts Organizations Workshop

HR Best Prac­tices for Media Arts Orga­ni­za­tions Workshop with Jime­na Ortúzar and Scott Miller Berry When: March 11, 2014 from 3–6 PM Where: Ontario Arts Coun­cil — 151 Bloor Street West, 5th Floor, Toronto All MANO/RAMO work­shops avail­able in per­son or via teleconference. To reg­is­ter please con­tact membership@mano-ramo.ca FREE for MANO/RAMO mem­ber orga­ni­za­tions. For more infor­ma­tion on Join­ing MANO/RAMO please see: https://mano-ramo.ca/join-manoramo/ […] Read More