ARTpreneur Conferance in Kenora

Title of flyer: calling all painters, musicians, designers, dancers, actors, writers,
photographers, filmakers, singers and craftpersons

A conferance all day session is being held in Kenora on tues March 31, 2009 at the NorthWest
Business Center - Best Western Lakeside Inn

Fee is 20.00 for early registration - 30.00 after March 15th.

Workshops include: Successful selling strategies, grant proposal writing, art and money, and more
Features: ' Courage of the Artist', funding opportunities, success stories and more

Registration Form can be found on line at their web site.

Web Hosting for Non Profit Groups

Snippet from site of what was forwarded:

" Hostgator is Giving Back' HostGator Technology Grant:
The HostGator Technology Grant provides one year of completely FREE web hosting on HostGator's Business Hosting Plan to all qualifying non-profits that are selected by HostGator management. The Business Hosting Plan provides customers with 1,000 GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and the ability to host unlimited domains. Alternatively, the cash value of the plan ($180) can also be applied as a discount to any other HostGator product or service.

It goes on to say that 'Qualifying organizations simply need to fill out an application form
to be evalutated. Their offices are in Texas and Brazil - which is closer than you think on the
internet highway....

might be worth looking into and 'evaulating them also'!

CAO - Community Arts of Ontario

Community Arts of Ontario

snippet:
'Community arts Ontario is an arts service organization that currently represents
a network of arts agencies, insititutions across Ontario and close to 40 individual artists'

Available with membership:
*updates on government policies and grants
*discounts on workshops, conferences ect
*networking opportunties
*group insurance plans and liability insurance
* news letter every 4 months
* voting priveledges

Based in Toronto - there is a lot more information on the web page along with
information from past conferences.

Douglas Hunt - Watercolourist - Schreiber

The North Shore Gallery of Douglas Hunt

If you would like to see some superb watercolours of our
area from Marathon to Rossport - check out Doug's
online Gallery. He also sells many of his works at
The Serendipity Restraunt located in Rossport.
His watercolour called ' The Cold Road Home' is so
realistic that you almost feel like you are part of the
painting particpating in the ride on down the highway!

Image Trekkers of Thunder Bay - Photographers

Image Trekkers is a photography group based in Thunder Bay
which was founded
in 2005. It includes professionals and amateurs
who get together to hike and
photograph around the area. They maintain a store in Thunder Bay
at 1186 Memorial
Ave. You can also contact them via the links
on their web page.

I went through the members photo albums on the site and the photos
are absolutely gorgeous!

Thunder Bay workshop on Saturday Feb 28

Snippet from a facebook posting:

" Paul Hegarty is a professor at the University College Cork, Ireland, specializing in thought & visual culture and is a practising sound artist comprising installation and performance work as well as specializing in Japanese Noise Music. This is an informational/hands on workshop and talk open to the public"


Noise Music event hosted by Definately Superior of Thunderbay
who: Paul Hegarty - Ireland ( Japanese Noise Music )
when: Saturday Feb 28th
time: 2pm
where: 205 Park Avenue - Definately Superior Gallery

Sounds very interesting!!

Musician Don Charbonneau of Wawa Ontario

Check out folk musician Don Charbonneau and his songs written about Lake Superior and all its glory

click on the link for a sampling ! or to order a CD

http://www.doncharbonneau.com/