MUSIC AND SOUND RECORDING

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

• Centre for the Arts in Toronto

  The Centre for the Arts is a not-for-profit community arts centre that addresses the need for artists to have a place where their voices can be heard and their works produced. The Centre promotes and presents work in theatre, film and video, music, dance and the visual arts, and provides training and other services to the community.

• Cultural Careers Council Ontario (CCCO)

  CCCO addresses human resources and career development needs and issues for Ontario's arts and culture community. CCCO develops, facilitates and promotes human resources and career development programs, publications, services and partnerships. CCCO has a job board of work and volunteer opportunities in the cultural sector.

• Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC)

  CHRC is a sector council bringing together representatives of arts disciplines and cultural industries to address the training and career development needs of cultural workers – artists, creators, technical staff, managers and all others engaged professionally in the sector, including the self-employed. The site provides information and publications of interest to professional artists. On the CultureWorks part of its site, CHRC has information about jobs and provides advice about how artists can prepare resumes and other marketing material.

• National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program

  The National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program is a three-year training program for students from a cross-section of Canadian Indigenous cultures. The focus is on storytelling, defined broadly. While the core of the program revolves around performing arts practice, related interests may include new media, film/video, music, dance, spectacle, writing, photography, visual arts/design, and others.

• Ontario Colleges and Universities

  Many Ontario colleges and universities provide education and training in all aspects of theatre and the performing arts, including scriptwriting, directing, acting, stage management, design, etc.

• Toronto Musicians’ Association (TMA)

  The TMA website has a thorough list of professional development courses, opportunities and programs of interest to artists in music. The site lists all post secondary institutions in Ontario that have music and sound recording programs, and every form of training from the Royal Conservatory of Music to online interactive learning centres.

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