The Associated Designers of Canada represents the interests of set, costume, lighting, projection and sound designers. Check their website for fees standards, contracts and a ‘find a designer’ directory.
Via the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Working for a Living Wage 2019 is a report and calculation guide around making paid work meet basic family needs in Metro Vancouver.
See the Personal Finance and Planning section of Generator’s Artist Producer Resource for info around variable income, tracking your time, calculating your monthly budget and more.
Goals
- bring awareness to the resources available on CADA/West’s website
- bring awareness to the kinds of jobs that an early-career dancer might engage on
- generate ideas for negotiating...
As a community of learners, aware of intersections in privilege and experience, we agree to bring respect and good faith to our conversations. We have made the following community agreement to create a space...
This worksheet via Heidi Taylor of Playwrights Theatre Centre is a research tool to articulate your creative style and needs as you consider your creation process preferences and how to...
The Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA) is the voice of the professional dance sector in Canada and advocates for a healthy, sustainable environment in which professional dance practice can grow and...
Common Good Retirement Plan is an initiative to create a national, portable retirement income plan for Canada’s nonprofit and charitable sector.
Affordable financial advice for artists via Rags to Reasonable. Start w/ a FREE 30 min Skype chat…
Urban Worker Project is an initiative to give a stronger voice to the growing numbers of independent workers across the country. Learn about their campaigns and resources, including their
CADA-ON recently updated their Professional Standards for Dance.
See several Artist Resources via CanDance presenter network around promotion, networking, fee negotiation and artist selection
The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is British Columbia’s leading arts information aggregator and a resource to the arts, culture and heritage community. They offer many services to the...
You always have a contract when you engage in any type of dance work, right?
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Via Ontario Presents, this webinar includes negotiation basics; getting from initial conversations, through the offer to execution of the contract; whose contract to use and why;...
The following is an abbreviated list of contract negotiating tips from Melanie Lockwood Herman of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. Most instances of ‘non-profit’ can be exchanged for ‘artist’ and/or...
The Actors Fund is a national American organization that serves all professionals, not just actors, in film, theater, television, music, opera, and dance. Check out their Read More >>
These guidelines, developed by Canadian Dance Standards, are a resource to help teachers, studio owners and directors understand the issues behind dance teaching contracts and the negotiation process.
Tip Sheet: Communications Skills and Resolving Conflicts
Tip Sheet: Do you know your conflict style?
Tip Sheet: Negotiating
Incorporated in 1983, the GVPTA (Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance) is a membership association of theatres, theatre-makers, and supporters of theatre, which exists to promote live theatre and foster a...
The Canadian League of Composers (CLC) speaks for the interests of Canadian composers. It provides a schedule of suggested commissioning fees and uses advocacy and partnerships to foster an environment...
The aims of the CDTA are to advance education in the field of dance and maintain an organization of qualified dance teachers. The CDTA was formed in Vancouver and Toronto...
The BC Dance Educators’ Association is an association of teachers dedicated to supporting and promoting quality dance education for all BC students. It is a PSA (provincial specialist association) of...
Quantum Accounting is a Vancouver-based company providing professional accounting, bookkeeping, consulting, financial advisory and tax services for small and growing businesses, start-up companies, arts organizations and special events groups.
Developed by artists and cultural workers via the Cultural Human Resources Council, The Art of Managing Your Career provides emerging self-employed artists and cultural workers with pertinent and practical information...
The DTRC was founded in 1985 and it’s mandate is to help dancers make necessary transitions into, within, and out of professional performing careers.
As a member of the DTRC, a...
The UDA is a professional union representing professional performers working, mostly in French, in Quebec and all over Canada. The UDA negotiates and manages more than 30 collective agreements, signed...
Often referred to as “Equity”, the CAEA is a professional association of performers, directors, choreographers, fight directors and stage managers in English Canada who are engaged in live performance, theatre,...
The UBCP is the BC Branch of ACTRA and is a trade union in the Province of British Columbia. UBCP is dedicated to protecting the rights of professional performers in...