NEWS RELEASE GUELPH ARTS COUNCIL ************************* Guelph Arts Council is offering four free online workshops to help visual artists, musicians, performing artists, writers, arts organizations and venues rebuild their careers or businesses in response to the pandemic.
“The pandemic has been particularly hard on creative workers and businesses, many of whom depend on in-person events for their livelihood,” says GAC Executive Director Patti Broughton. “Even before the pandemic, many lived with precarious incomes. We’re excited to be able to offer these workshops to help them cope.”
All four workshops are free for Guelph Arts Council members, and GAC is now offering free memberships to Guelph-Wellington artists of all disciplines, arts businesses, and not-for-profit arts organizations through Dec. 31, 2020. Members are encouraged to register for workshops quickly as some have limited free spots.
GAC extends a special invitation to BIPOC, newcomer, Deaf, disabled, youth, and/or 2SLGBTQ+ artists to sign up for free memberships and these events.
The workshops are:
Creating a New Audience on LinkedIn, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to noon Many creative small businesses don’t consider a LinkedIn page, but this free social network can be a great place to grow your audience. Presented by Guelph marketing agency 2H Media, this hands-on workshop will lead participants through creating a basic LinkedIn company page from scratch. Free GAC member promo code: GAC75
Contracts and Commission: The Business of Art, Oct. 29, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. A common error when creating a business in the arts is failing to understand your rights, your worth and how to protect both. Samir Baijal, Artistic Director at Hillside Festival, will help participants understand their legal rights and prepare them for the business side of any creative business. Presented in partnership with Business Centre Guelph-Wellington. Free GAC member promo code: creativebusiness (limited spots); 10 per cent discount code: businessartcouncil (limited spots).
Art Business in Digital and Physical Spaces, Nov. 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. A round-table style discussion about how artists, curators, musicians, and creatives use digital and physical spaces to deliver and create projects, programs, exhibitions, sales and shows. Sharing their tips and challenges will be: James Gordon, Guelph city councillor and singer-songwriter; Michelle Miller, local handcrafted art jeweller; Sally Frater, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Guelph; and Lynne McIntee, publicity chair at Guelph Little Theatre. Followed by a Q&A. Presented in partnership with Business Centre Guelph-Wellington. Free GAC member promo code: creativebusiness (limited spots); 10 per cent discount code: businessartcouncil (limited spots).
Career Rebuilding: Making Money with Your Creative Business, Nov. 12, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Creative businesses have unique challenges. Learn from industry experts about building and structuring your creative business. Amanda Wilson-Ciocci, owner of The Monarch & Co., will discuss the systems and support you need to get organized for your business launch and/or growth. Aron Murch and Matthew Herchel, Digital Strategists at 2H Media, will cover Shopify and digital marketing for art businesses.
Musicians Braden Phelan and Liv Cazzola of Guelph duo Tragedy Ann will share their insights on finding new ways to reach your audience. Presented in partnership with Business Centre Guelph-Wellington. Free GAC member promo code: creativebusiness (limited spots); 10 per cent discount code: businessartcouncil (limited spots).
For more information about these workshops contact Guelph Arts Council at administration@guelpharts.ca, executivedirector@guelpharts.ca, or call 519-836-3280. Due to COVID-19 recommendations, GAC is currently open by appointment only. Phone messages are checked daily.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
