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Creative Manitoba strengthens, represents and connects Manitoba’s arts and creative industries.

Our last two New Normal Webinars are open for regi

Our last two New Normal Webinars are open for registration! They are free to join but you must register at our website.

This upcoming Wednesday (June 17) is Grant Writing for Emerging Artists with Diana Thorneycroft, followed by Teaching Art Techniques Online with KC Adams and James Culleton on the 24th!

Register online (link in bio) and a zoom link will be sent to you the day of the event!

Listen, learn, share, educate, do better. This is

Listen, learn, share, educate, do better. This is what we are committed to doing this week and afterwards, and we encourage our followers to do the same.

We will be at the protest this Friday. Please follow @justice4blackliveswinnipeg for all instructions on how to participate. (Organizers are looking for gold/yellow fabric and sewing supplies if you have!) #Repost @justice4blackliveswinnipeg
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Be there.
#justice4blackliveswinnipeg [ID: Gold patterned background with 3 black power fists outlined in varying shades of brown with a circle surrounding them. Text about the fists reads in black: BLACK LIVES MATTER. Text below the fists reads in black: Justice4Blacklives. Friday, June 5th 2020. 6 PM. At The Manitoba Legislative Building”.]

Stream on either Creative Manitoba or Manitoba Mus

Stream on either Creative Manitoba or Manitoba Music's Facebook pages! No need to register.
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We're talking all about Reddit and how it can be used by artists to find followers and create engagement in a free webinar this Saturday May 30 at 3PM with The Treble’s Patrick Hansen! Tune in to our Facebook!

Join us next Wednesday May 27th for an Intro to Li

Join us next Wednesday May 27th for an Intro to Live Broadcasting with Aaron Zeghers, Festival Director of Gimli Film Festival. The 2020 GFF is going online and they had to figure out how to make that happen, fast! We're very happy they did and excited to find out what goes on behind the scenes to make it happen.

Register at link in bio!

Next week's New Normal Webinar is presented by Cre

Next week's New Normal Webinar is presented by Creative Manitoba's Indigenous Programming.

We're still here: Surviving Pandemics on Turtle Island⁣

Wednesday, May 20, 1-2pm⁣
Registration link in bio⁣
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Join us with Knowledge Keeper Albert Mcleod as he takes us through the events, repercussions, and resistance that have faced Indigenous Peoples throughout history. Learn how we can access Indigenous teachings, protocols and knowledge systems to help us through our current crisis. COVID-19 isn't the first virus that Indigenous people have had to seek refuge from. This is about the interconnection of all things with an understanding of how humanity is a part of a greater ecosystem, not separate from it.⁣
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Albert McLeod is a Status Indian with ancestry from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Metis community of Norway House in northern Manitoba. He has over thirty years of experience as a human rights activist and is one of the directors of the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba.⁣
Albert began his Two-Spirit advocacy in Winnipeg in 1986 and became an HIV/AIDS activist in 1987. He was the director of the Manitoba Aboriginal AIDS Task Force from 1991 to 2001. In 2018, Albert received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Winnipeg and received the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) 2019 Champions of Mental Health Award for Community (Individual).⁣
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Albert lives in Winnipeg, where he works as a consultant specializing in Indigenous peoples, cultural reclamation, and cross-cultural training.⁣

Check out the awesome mentors we've got lined up f

Check out the awesome mentors we've got lined up for a new, unique online program offered in partnership with Manitoba Music!

The Digital Marketing and Social Media Accelerator program consists of three components: mentor sessions, a webinar, and asset reviews. Curious to know more? Read about the program and apply at the link in our bio! Deadline to apply is May 24th.

This week's webinar is "How to Make Money Online a

This week's webinar is "How to Make Money Online as a Creative" with Cori Jaye Elston. Have you signed up yet?

Link in bio!

Our next webinar is a panel discussion on the topi

Our next webinar is a panel discussion on the topic of live streaming! Moderated by Jen Doerksen with panelists Issa Kixen, Ashley Au, Marissa Hoff, Lauren Carter and Makrenna Sterdan!

Read all the bios of our panelists and register in advance on our website.

Link in bio!

...And the mentorship program continues from a dis

...And the mentorship program continues from a distance! Way to go! 👌👏
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working with @chris_gaudry & @rustymatyas has been a surreal experience. i’ve learned a ton from watching them work & it’s been so FUN 🚀📽
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we’re making a music video!! (what?!) with the added creative challenge: how to shoot a video 6 feet away from everybody. .
so far it’s been a blast! thank you to @creativemanitoba for everything. can’t wait to unveil 🎸 .
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#creativemanitoba #manitobamusic #singersongwriter #jasonwillows #indie @manitobamusicproject

Next up: Intro to WordPress with Ryan Santschi, or

Next up: Intro to WordPress with Ryan Santschi, organizer of the WordPress Winnipeg meetups.

Link to register in bio!

First webinar of the series starts soon! (3pm CST)

First webinar of the series starts soon! (3pm CST) Link to register in bio!

Join us for a series of free online workshops ever

Join us for a series of free online workshops every Wednesday! Learn new tools to help you successfully navigate COVID-19 social distancing practices while pursuing your artistic career.

Register online and a zoom link will be sent to your inbox the day of the event.

Upcoming webinars: April 22 (Tomorrow!) Digital Collaboration with Jonathan Le of New Media Manitoba

April 28: Intro to WordPress with Ryan Santschi of WordPress Winnipeg meetup

May 6: Live Streaming Panel with Jen Doerksen, Issa Kixen, Lauren Carter, Makrenna Sterdan and Marissa Hoff

May 13: How to Make Money Online with Cori Jaye Elston

Registration and more info at link in bio! 🔗

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#Repost @carfac_mb
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In partnership with @creativemanitoba we are excited to offer a FREE Webinar 💻💬🤓
Artist Taxes with RêveNew Practice Management will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, from 6 - 8 PM. Please register through creativemanitoba.ca (link in bio). 🗂️ As artists, it’s important to understand how taxation rules can work for you. In this 2-hour seminar participants will learn:
» What expenses are deductible and which are not
» Sole proprietorship vs partnership vs corporation
» The taxation rules related to each of the above
» GST
» Payroll (Deductions, T4, etc.)
» Lease vs buying decision
» How to defend against a CRA audit
» How to keep proper documentation (bookkeeping and receipt keeping)
» Miscellaneous tax tips and traps

Image Description: The top of the square graphic is a detail from a much larger tempera on panel painting by the Belgian artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger titled "The Peasant Lawyer," ca. 1620. In the image detail, we see a close up of a lawyer's office-floor scattered with crumbled papers and bags of money, the booted feet of one a villager visiting the lawyer is seen above. The bottom half of the graphic is text on a white background divided into two columns. The first column reads "FREE WEBINAR!" (black text) ARTIST TAXES" (seafoam green text). The second column reads "April 15, 2020, 6-8 PM, Register at Creative Mantioba.ca" (in black text). #carfac_mb #carfac #artequalswork #artsadvocacy #canadianart #contemporaryart #hastheartistbeenpaid #artistworkshop #manitobaart #taxesforartists #freewebinar #creativemanitoba

Greetings,⁣ ⁣ Amid the chaos being caused by t

Greetings,⁣
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Amid the chaos being caused by the COVID 19 Pandemic, Creative Manitoba offices and classrooms will be closed for the foreseeable future. All of our upcoming in-person programming will be delivered online or has been postponed. If you are registered for an event or class, please check your email for updates and instructions.⁣
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All Group Mentorship in-person sessions are suspended until further notice. Lead mentors will contact participants with further instructions regarding remote (online) programming and communication.⁣
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We would like to thank everyone who participated in the Merging Mindsets Conference and look forward to more digital art programming in the fall – stay tuned.⁣
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Creative Manitoba staff will be working remotely and will be available via email to answer any questions you may have. We ask that you please be kind to yourself and others around you. Remember to breathe – use this time to create some art and we look forward to seeing you again when this passes.⁣
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Take care,⁣
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thom

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✨ defining digital art, where's Winnipeg?, Merging Mindsets, AND MORE ✨
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Julie Gendron, multi-disciplinary artist and conference coordinator and art director for the Merging Mindsets Conference happening this weekend, March 13&14. We talk to Julie about some og digital art projects and collectives around Canada including Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, and how she is trying to bridge the digital art gap to Winnipeg. We had no idea what "digital art" really means so Julie walked us through it and told us about some of the conference panels that are so interesting!!! You should try and check it out, we will see you there!

Get your passes to #MergingMindsets ! Link in bio

Get your passes to #MergingMindsets !

Link in bio.

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Whether you’re a designer or craftsman, an artist or a maker, Mary Franck’s @mary.franck keynote speech will reveal the techniques needed to succeed in today’s diverse creative landscape.

Interdependent and Interdisciplinary: A New Creative Mindset

As creative fields increasingly collide and cross pollinate, innovative leaders must unite a growing number of disparate disciplines if they want to succeed. From her experience designing projects for stage production, museums, events, and architectural installations, Mary has developed a unique strategic toolkit for leading interdisciplinary projects.

#Mergingmindsets #technology #techart #colaboration #digitaltools

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The Merging Mindsets Conference will feature an incredible Installation Showcase highlighting how artists are using tech.
We are thrilled to have Faisal Anwar @faisalanwarstudio return to exhibit his piece CharBagh! ‘CharBagh’ (quadrilateral garden) is a participatory digital art project by new-media artist Faisal Anwar creating ornate geometric patterns through conversations in real time. Modelled on the traditional grid compositions of Persian gardens, each pattern grows and shifts in response to data generated on social media and collected by the artist. The first time presented in 2015 on the façade of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Anwar’s project encourages the public to meaningfully participate in online conversation in order to empower social change. Last year the work was part of the exhibition titled Garden in the Machine, at the Surrey Art Gallery, where Anwar led focused workshops with community groups discussing themes related to sustainable food production, climate change, and peoples' changing relationships with nature.

In the installation, the structured Islamic geometrical scheme becomes a powerful metaphor working with open data and investigating today’s sociopolitical territories. The data is collected using Instagram through thematically curated hashtags to generate a conversation about climate crises in our cities and and are relation to it. Using creative coding, algorithms, the artist morphs these photos into ornate geometric designs. This project exemplifies how social media can be a tool for positive social change.

#MergingMindsets #projectionmapping #projectionart #winnipeg #socialchangethroughsocialmedia

Still some spots left for #CEDay2020 !!⁣ March 7

Still some spots left for #CEDay2020 !!⁣ March 7, 2020
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Are you an emerging artist wanting to take the next step into creative entrepreneurship? Join us for a day of learning from local experts and artists! ⁣
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Topics of the day: work/life balance, overcoming imposter syndrome, making the most of online tools, and marketing yourself as a creative entrepreneur!⁣
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Sign up online at creativemanitoba.ca/ceday or click the link our bio. There, you'll find more info about the workshops and our amazing presenters (pictured above).
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$30 members / $15 rural members / $50 non members (membership included!) Light lunch will be served.

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Are you a member of Creative Manitoba? Do you want your photography displayed as part of Flash Fest Photographic Festival?
Apply to be part of our members’ showcase! Selected photographers will show their work on the third floor of 245 McDermot Avenue for the months of April-May, 2020.

https://creativemanitoba.ca/job/creative-manitoba-flash-fest-members-show/ @creativemanitoba

Did you know that you get a free Creative Manitoba

Did you know that you get a free Creative Manitoba membership when you register for #CEDay2020? ⁣⁣
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Creative Entrepreneurship is a great introduction to the types of workshops we offer and is aimed at emerging artists. (We understand the struggle. Lunch is included too!) Hurry to snag a spot before it sells out. Link in bio.⁣
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In the meantime, here are some throwback photos to last year's event.

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