The Creative Places + Spaces Marketplace ran over both days of the conference – take a few minutes to learn more about the amazing projects that were featured.
Sponsored by the Ontario Media Development Corporation
The future home of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Bell Lightbox is located in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment District. Designed by architectural firm KPMB, this unique 5-storey facility will include cinemas, gallery spaces, learning studios, a reference library, and retail and restaurant spaces. TIFF is responsible for the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children and TIFF Cinematheque, along with several other year-round community and industry events.
City Sonic (Toronto) is a multiplatform documentary series about the places where music happens. At its core is a series of short films, uniquely crafted by some of Canada’s top filmmakers, about extraordinary artists shot in places where their musical lives were transformed. City Sonic creates a new level of engagement with the city through an iPhone App that merges short films with GPS to create a street level tour of Toronto's downtown music scene.
Doc Shop – A web-based information, marketing and promotional tool for independent Canadian documentaries. The first ever searchable database for docs. Strong industry networking tool, and 24/7 industry access for searching, reviewing, selling and distributing films. Partnership between DOC, POV Magazine and a variety of production companies
Green Screen – An initiative to lay out a set of sustainable best practices, standards and protocols for the screen-based industry which will set Toronto apart from other international production centres as the leader in green and sustainable film production practices. Partnership between Planet in Focus, City of Toronto, various local suppliers/service providers and unions and guilds.
Mobile Innovation Experience Centre (MEIC) – A centre of excellence for mobile content, services, design and commercialization with a focus on the role of user experience and usable design in the creation of compelling products and services. Partnership between OCAD, CFC, George Brown, Ryerson, and various interactive content creative companies.
Sponsored by the Ontario Trillium Foundation
The Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts (ICCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and managing physical space for the creative industry in Hamilton, ON. Since its inception in 2004 the ICCA has played a key role in redeveloping 4 facilities, including 2 brownfield sites. The ICCA also plays a leadership role in issues such as cultural policy, zoning, marketing and creative industry incubation.
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win: North-South Partnership for Children is a unique collaboration of individuals and organizations from southern Ontario who have partnered with First Nations Chiefs, community leaders, Elders, youth and community members from 30 remote northern communities. The collective goal of the Partnership is to create innovative solutions to the living conditions on First Nations communities and at the same time inspire hope to Aboriginal living in the north and the province of Ontario.
Community Service Centre South Simcoe, a CONTACT creation, brings together local employment, business, community and government services that work together to develop a more integrated approach to service delivery in South Simcoe. CSCSS is not just about living together but offers a collaborative and creative client centred environment.
The Heartwood House mission statement is rooted in their belief that “non-profit member organizations working better together can provide a safe, supportive and dynamic community, achieving our respective missions and serving people from all economic, social, educational and spiritual backgrounds more creatively, efficiently, and cost-effectively than they would in isolation.” Heartwood explores the benefits of mutuality and interdependence, providing the physical and ideological basis for organizations to work together, building healthy relationships in the pursuit of meaningful goals and objectives.
The Macaulay Child Development Centre has created a project called "More than a Haircut: The Barbershop Project." The project holds regular facilitated conversations about fatherhood in local Barbershops with Black fathers and father figures. Read more about the project at www.macaulaycentre.org. With Vital Ideas funding, the Centre promotes the messages and the unique model of More than a Haircut throughout the wider community. In additionally, they have developed and implemented a marketing plan that allows them to sustain and expand the program.
Conversation for Change has created a Game as a tool for teaching and learning about Toronto and the process of negotiation that influences urban change. Lying somewhere between Risk and Monopoly, The Game ultimately asks players to rethink their relationship to the social and built structures of their community, and to work together to develop new possibilities.
GreenIT Collaborative is a consortia of 7 nonprofit agencies building technology capacity through collaboration and use of practical tools.
Led by Green Communities Canada, the members are building skills to collaborate online through group tools, web conferencing and wikis which manage knowledge effectively, put everyone on the same page and shrink distance. A growing number of networks are joining GreenIT, saving money and collaborating effectively.
Toronto Community Foundation is one of Canada's largest charitable foundations. With more than 375 funds, and assets of more than 200 million, community vitality has been our purpose, promise and passion since 1981, when we started connecting donors to community needs and opportunities. We monitor the quality of life in our city, identifying strengths and weaknesses through our Toronto's Vital Signs Report, and use it to guide our donors and stakeholders to direct their resources to areas of greatest need.
Beyond 3:30
Keeping schools open after regular hours has been done on a pilot basis for the past two years at an elementary grade level in the Model Schools for Inner-Cities program.* The Beyond 3:30 project was inspired by a police officer from Parkdale who implored the Model Schools team to open up schools from 3:30 – 8:00 p.m for students so that they had a safe place to go. The program has recently been launched with the involvement of 6 TDSB Middle Schools, local agencies, families and children to create safe and dynmaic community "hubs".
*www.tdsb.on.ca/modelschools
Working Skills Centre, Learning Enrichment Foundation, Mothercraft
The concept of a charitable non-for-profit career college sector is new to Toronto, in fact to Ontario. There are many social services agencies serving immigrants or low-income, unemployed individuals that provide job readiness and skills upgrading, however none of these programs are approved by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Working Skills Centre, Learning Enrichment Foundation and Mothercraft are approved charitable career colleges. The development and sharing of a new approach built on these agencies’ successes will create a sector which can strengthen Toronto and empower more individuals to become self-sufficient.
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