ArtsAbled: A Business and Leadership Training Portal for the Arts
Humber College is pleased to announce the September 2011 launch of an arts leadership portal open to any Humber student currently enrolled in the School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA). Created by SCAPA faculty member Dr. Andrew Scott and titled, ArtsAbled, this cross-disciplinary arts empowerment initiative will meet once a month to learn, discuss and share business/professional and leadership ideas. ArtsAbled (which will have a complimentary Blackboard Learning component) aims to empower SCAPA students to realize their arts leadership potential, offering career development training opportunities as well as teaching students how to lay the appropriate ground work required for a successful career in the arts. Portal topics will be broad enough in scope to be useful to students both now and in their future transition into professional industry. Subject matter experts and arts industry professionals will be brought in once a month to inspire, educate and inform SCAPA students on a wide variety of business/professional/leadership topics. Further, specific skill training for the ever-changing challenges that define a career in the arts will be offered.
ArtsAbled meetings will also function as SCAPA-wide networking hubs, providing a collegial academic and professional environment in which multi-disciplinary business relationships, activities and opportunities can be forged in a welcoming and positive Humber space.
Suggested topics for the first semester of ArtsAbled (beginning September 2011) include:
- Cultivating your Inner Entrepreneur
- Networking in the Arts
- “How can I work in the United States?” Immigration Issues for Arts Professionals
- Public Relations Fundamentals
- Modes of Monetization: Grants, gigs and loans
- Teaching in the Arts
- Healthy body/Healthy Artist
In compliment to the ArtsAbled course, Dr. Scott will host (starting September 23rd 2011 at 10:00 PM) a weekly show on Humber Radio (96.9 FM) that acts as a Humber Arts Advocacy program acknowledging and drawing attention to the rich culture of arts achievement occurring at SCAPA among current students, faculty and administrators. The show will feature SCAPA related news, current events and interviews, and will highlight examples of the extraordinary work taking place at Humber’s Lakeshore campus. Every episode of the ArtsAbled radio show will feature a business/leadership segment that interfaces with ideas raised in the ArtsAbled course. Episodes will be available as a streaming podcast on the SCAPA website and can be heard live on the web at www.radio.humber.ca
Looking ahead, Humber’s south campus will host a week-long ArtsAbled summer conference (starting in the summer of 2012) that brings together industry professionals from multiple disciplines within the arts for an opportunity to network, train, spread ideas and become inspired through lectures, seminars, concerts, presentations, readings and workshops. With its cross-disciplinary focus, the ArtsAbled summer initiative has the ability to forge important ties between Humber and professional industry, provide a unique networking portal for professionals and leaders in the arts and to solidify a vanguard position for Humber as a premier destination for leadership training and professional research. Through Creative Commons, select ArtsAbled summer events will be broadcast on the internet, expanding the dissemination reach of these uniquely Humber initiatives even more broadly.
Description:
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #1: Today’s guests include Shirantha Beddage (Music Faculty) and Andrew Clark (Director of Humber’s Comedy Writing and Performance Program). Today’s business segment was on “time management in the arts.” Music on today’s program included “Blue Mercer,” “Blues for Sonny” and “To Life” by Andrew Scott; “Baker’s Dozen” and “Turrentrane by Shirantha Beddage. A stand-up comedy performance excerpt by recent Humber graduate Jessica Fitzpatrick was also featured.
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #2: Today’s guests include The Cosmic Eye (student musical group), Cynthia Good (Director of Humber’s Creative Book Publishing Program) and Denny Christianson (Director of Humber’s School of Music). Music on today’s program was “Blue Mercer” and “To Life;" “Soul Revolution” by Michael Dunston;” “Red Letter Blues” and “All I Know” by The Cosmic Eye; and “Dance You Monster to My Soft Song” and “Wyrgly” by 2011 Composer-in-Residence Maria Schneider and the Humber College Faculty/Alumni Big Band.
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #3: Today’s guests include Humber Professor Noah Gentner discussing goal setting strategies for people in the arts, Professor Kim Moritsugu discussing “The Word Doctors Are In” and Humber graduate Josh Saltzman on his recent Canadian Comedy Award. The music on today’s program was “Cerulean Skies” by Maria Schneider and the Humber Faculty Big Band led by Director Denny Christianson from her performance at Humber on October 14th 2011, as well as “Blue Mercer,” “Blues for Sonny” and “To Life.”
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #4: Today's guests include Humber music student group Juice and recent Acting for Film and Television graduate Oscar Sosa discussing his involement in the film Love Sucks that premieres this Monday night at the Humber College AFTV Showcase held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The music on today's program was "Save Me" and "Walk Away" by Juice, "Soul Revolution" by Michael Dunston and “Blue Mercer" and “To Life" by Andrew Scott.
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #5: Today's show is a musical one. Featured music includes the 2010 Humber Studio Jazz Ensemble performing "The Best is Yet to Come," "Marilyn Elizabeth" by Andrew Scott, "Red Letter Blues" by The Cosmic Eye, "The Fallen" by Humber College Trombone professor William Carn's project Run Don't Run and "Shadows" by current Humber College student group Juice. Today's ArtsAbled business segment discusses Martin Lindstrom's concept of brand "smash-ability."
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #6: My guests today include Mara Nesrallah, Alex Purcell and Melissa Murphy. Music from today's show includes: "Blue Mercer," by Andrew Scott, "Shadows" by Juice, "The Golden Rule" by Melissa Murphy, "Montreal" by Mara Nesrallah, "Soul Revolution" by Michael Dunston and "Marilyn Elizabeth" by Andrew Scott.
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #7: My guest today is Derek Gray from the band Tesseract. Music from today's show includes: "Blue Mercer," by > Andrew Scott, "The Fallen" by William Carn, "Red Letter Blues" by The Cosmic Eye, "Big Mac" and "Well You Needn't" as performed by Tesseract and "Marilyn Elizabeth" by Andrew Scott.
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #8: Today's guest is Humber Professor Kirk MacDonald. Today's music includes "Blue Mercer" and "Marilyn Elizabeth" by Andrew Scott and "New Piece," "Goodbye Glenn" and "Deep Shadows" by Kirk MacDonald from his recent Juno-nominated recording.
ArtsAbled Radio Show Episode #9: My guests for this episode are 4th year Humber Music students Kellie Pederson and Nathan Whitney. Music featured in today's show includes: "Blue Mercer" and "Marilyn Elizabeth" by Andrew Scott, "Water Feature" and "Fairybread" by Kellie Pederson and "The View From Here," "Morse Code" and "Into the Beyond" by Nathan Whitney.