Professional Arts/Service Organisations
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ADC (Associated Designers of Canada)
National, not-for-profit arts service organisation and professional association dedicated to promoting and protecting the interests of Canadian set, costume, lighting and sound designers.
Seeks to improve the status of the designing artist in the field of performing arts. Since its founding in 1965, ADC has grown and changed in response to its members' needs, and is now federally certified to represent designers across Canada (currently with limitations in the province of Quebec) and is recognized by producers and producer associations as the official negotiating body for designers in Canada.
- Member services
- Contracts
- Producer-paid accident insurance coverage and a self-directed RRSP program with a producer contribution
- Mediation and mentoring
- Limited association-paid legal consultation
- Typical Membership
- Any professional designer who has the appropriate credentials and design credits has the right to apply for membership in ADC (minimum of 3 professional productions for Professional applicants, and minimum of 1 professional production for Apprentice applicants)
- The Membership Committee meets 4 times per year at Board meetings to review membership applications.
- Phone
416-410-4209
- adc@designers.ca
- Website
ADISQ (Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo)
Professional non-profit and mainly francophone association for the development of independent, original music in Quebec.
- Member services
- Collective rights bargaining
- Funding
- Training
- Annual gala
- Typical Membership
Producers of audio recording, visual works, and live performances, whether individuals or collectives.
- Phone
514-842-5147
- Website
ADST (Association des diffuseurs spécialisés en theatre)
Syndicate for independent and freelance producers and technicians, mainly francophone.
Union for independent and freelance producers and technicians who specialize in theatre work.
- Member services
- Negotiates collective agreements for the commission of plays
- Adaptations and translations into French
- Negotiates required licences
- Typical Membership
General performance spaces, including theatre stages.
- Phone
n/a
- Website
no website
ALAI
ALAI Canada has as its purpose to promote and protect copyright, as well as to study questions regarding the protection and the applicability of these rights.
Due to its close contacts with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UNESCO and the European Union, ALAI is invited to share its views on projects elaborated by these organisations and among others, on the evolution of the Berne and Rome Conventions. Every second year, ALAI holds a world-wide congress, such as those of Québec in 1989 and Montebello in 1997 organised by ALAI Canada, and in the the interval years, study sessions are held, such as those of Amsterdam and Cambridge.
- Member services
- Holds conferences, seminars and congresses
- Publishes and distributes documents dealing with copyright
- Educational and training sessions on copyright issues
- Typical Membership
ALAI is made up of a multiplicity of personalities interested in copyright from over twenty countries.
- Phone
514-993-1556
- alaican@aei.ca
- Website
ANDPVA (Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts)
Member-driven, not-for-profit arts service organisation for the promotion and development of indigenous artists.
ANDPVA offers community and participatory arts practices that offer an alternative to mainstream institutions and practices from an Indigenous set of value and belief systems. The ANDPVA is based in Toronto, but has a growing national focus and represents over 300 active artists.
- Member services
- Runs a Multi-disciplinary Arts Festival, as well as music festivals and exhibitions (most in Toronto)
- Curatorial training program
- Artistic and cultural workshops
- Typical Membership
Indigenous artists.
- Phone
1-877-972-0871, 416-972-0871
- ahneen@andpva.com
- Website
APASQ (Association des Professionels des Arts de la Scène du Québec)
A francophone-speaking professional association dedicated to supporting creation in the performing arts.
APASQ aims to study, defend and develop the economic, social, moral and professional interests of its members, and to promote and expose scenographic creation from Quebec. I t also wishes to support the integration of all the disciplines of the performing arts, in order to work in continuity with this milieu.
- Member services
- Advice on negotiating contracts and working as a "travailleur autonome" (self-employed)
- Information on funding and statistics on theatre job market
- Retirement fund for members
- Typical Membership
APASQ represents mainly lighting, costume, and sound designers.
- Phone
514-523-4221 or 1-877-523-4221
- info@apasq.org
- Website
ASPR (Association of Professionals in Audio/Association des Professionelles en Audio)
Non-profit organisation created by and for industry professionals in audio.
The Association focuses on regrouping, dialogue and reflection while striving for the improvement of the sound quality offered to the general public, and for the recognition and evolution of all audio professions.
- Member services
- Continuous training (French only)
- Technical help/mutual aid
- Symposiums
- Typical Membership
Sound engineers, mixers, editors, broadcasting technicians, among others.
- Phone
514-878-9875, 514-878-9876
- info@aspraudio.org
- Website
Affaires d'Art
Non-profit, francophone organisation established to help artists develop career management skills.
Aims to inspire entrepreneurial instinct in artists to help them secure financial freedom.
- Member services
- Helps artists establish detailed career plans, marketing plans, portfolios and other promotional items
- Workshops on managing self-employment and other topics
- Typical Membership
Established, emerging, and/or self-taught comedians, actors, musicians, vocalists, circus artists, dancers, visual artists.
- Phone
514-543-7371
- info@affairesdart.org
- Website
André-Turp Musical Society
Registered charity established to promote and support the performance of opera and "art vocal" in memory of the legendary tenor Andre Turp.
"The André-Turp Musical Society distinguishes itself from other musical promoters by having a membership which adheres to its vocal arts mandate, participates in its activities and in so doing assists in its development."
- Member services
- Master classes
- Café d'art vocal with lectures and opera projections on large screen
- Maintains the Phonothèque Christian-Delmas
- Large audio archive of vocal music (operas, art-song, masses and miscellaneous vocal works)
- Members receive a reduction in admission prices to the Society's activities, the best seats for performances, and access to pre-recital lectures
- Typical Membership
Fans and students of vocal art, singers.
- Phone
514-397-0068
- info@turp.com
- Website
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Arts service organisation representing both the non-profit and for-profit sectors of the industry.
"The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is a membership organisation, dedicated to bringing performing artists and audiences together in every way imaginable. The Association achieves its goal by providing visionary thinking, professional development, resource sharing, and advocacy, in support of its members and all those who create and disseminate the performing arts."
- Member services
- Visa assistance
- Many online resources
- Grants
- Typical Membership
Members hail from 15 countries across the globe and range from large performing arts centres in major urban cities, outdoor festivals and rural community-focused organisations to academic institutions, artists and artist managers. Members bring performances to over 2 million audience-goers each week.
- Phone
888-820-ARTS
- info@artspresenters.org
- Website
Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec/Elektra
Promotes experimentation in all multimedia arts.
The association is especially interested in innovation in digital technologies.
- Member services
Presents the Elektra Digital Arts Festival.
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-524-0208
- info@elektrafestival.ca
- Website
Avatar
Non profit, self-managed centre for audio artists dedicated to the creation, diffusion, and study of audio and electronic art. Member of the Meduse art centre in Quebec City.
Avatar stimulates collaboration between the creators, as between the disciplines, via a local and international network. Member of Quebec City cooperative Meduse.
- Member services
Publishes and promotes creators' work from its label, OHM éditions and distributor VacuOhm.
- Typical Membership
Musicians/sound artists, supporters.
- Phone
418-522-8918
- avatar@meduse.org
- Website
CAC (Canadian Arts Coalition)
CAC has the singular focus to lobby for increased funding through the Canada Council for the Arts in the federal budget.
The Canadian Arts Coalition will implement a lobbying and public affairs plan designed to build support for an infusion of new funding to the Canada Council. This includes: meetings with Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, public servants and key influencers; and communication strategies to build public support. The CAC is the largest consortium of artists and arts organisations ever assembled in Canada.
- Member services
Advocacy
- Typical Membership
Organisations interested in lobbying for increased funding of the arts in Canada.
- Phone
604-681-3535
- info@allianceforarts.com
- Website
CAPACOA (Canadian Arts Presenting Association/L'Association canadienne des organismes artistiques
Canadian network of performing arts touring professionals, with a mandate to promote the development of the presentation of the arts in Canada.
"Through professional development, facilitating the touring marketplace, and connecting professionals and organisations, CAPACOA's programs and services build capacity in people and in organisations."
- Member services
- Professional development seminars
- Assists the presenters of the arts in Canada with coordination of bookings
- Funding
- Typical Membership
Touring companies, artists, agents, facility managers, stagehands, ticket sellers, marketers, and impresarios.
- Phone
613-562-3515
- mail@capacoa.ca
- Website
CAPPRT (The Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal)
Quasi-judicial, independent federal agency which administers the regime of professional relations contained in the Status of the Artist Act.
"The Status of the Artist Act guarantees the right of artists to join associations that can represent their professional interests and the right to bargain collectively with producers for the purpose of reaching agreement on the minimum terms and conditions under which an artist will provide services to those producers. The Act also permits producers to form associations for the purposes of bargaining and entering into scale agreements. By following the procedures specified in the Act, artists' associations may become certified by CAPPRT, granting them the exclusive right to negotiate scale agreements with producers."
- Member services
- Defines the sectors of cultural activity suitable for collective bargaining between artists' associations and producers within CAPPRT's jurisdiction
- Certifies artists' associations to represent self-employed artists working in these sectors
- Deals with complaints of unfair labour practices and other matters brought forward by artists, artists' associations or producers, and prescribes appropriate remedies for contraventions of Part II of the Act
- Typical Membership
Members of the Tribunal are appointed by the Governor in Council in consultation with the Minister of Canadian Heritage. The Tribunal has jurisdiction over self-employed artists, producers in the federal jurisdiction, artists' associations and producers' associations.
- Phone
1-800-263-ARTS
- info@capprt-tcrpap.gc.ca
- Website
CCA (Canadian Conference of the Arts)
Non-partisan, non-profit cultural advocacy organisation.
The CCA provides "a national forum for debate on cultural policy and are the leading national advocate for Canada's artists and cultural institutions and industries."
- Member services
- 50–60 CCA Bulletins annually, containing research updates and more
- Chalmers Conference networking event
- Reduced rates for the National Policy Conference and discounts on CCA publications
- Organisational members receive: free registration for one delegate to the CCA's Chalmers Conference (valued at $150)
- Links to artist members' sites through www.ccarts.ca
- Typical Membership
Artists and cultural workers, arts organisations, labour groups, arts educators, cultural industry organisations and concerned citizens from across Canada.
- Phone
613-238-3561
- info@ccarts.ca
- Website
CCC (Creator's Copyright Coalition)
Alliance of the national associations, unions and collectives representing individual artists working primarily in the English language media in Canada.
"Our concern is to protect artists' rights in negotiations with the large media organisations with whom they sign contracts, as well as rights as artists/creators on the Internet." The CCC collaborates with and supports the work of sister organisation DAMIC (Droit d'auteur/Multimédia/Internet/Copyright) in Québec.
- Member services
- Copyright protection
- Promotion
- Workshops
- Typical Membership
Writers, musicians, songwriters, composers, artists, performers, photographers, directors, screenwriters, translators and journalists concerned about our continued ability to make a living.
- Phone
n/a
- editor@creatorscopyright.ca
- Website
CHRC (Cultural Human Resources Council)
National council whose mandate is to "initiate, coordinate and promote human resources planning, management, development and training in the cultural sector".
The CHRC manages projects addressing cultural human resource issues such as succession, training, compensation, HR management/planning, career planning and competency development.
- Member services
- Youth internships
- Competence compendiums
- Maintains CultureWorks, an online job board for artists and cultural workers
- Opportunities to network with partners in and outside the cultural sector
- Typical Membership
Artists, creators, technical staff, managers and all others engaged professionally in the sector, including the self-employed.
- Phone
1-866-562-1535
- info@culturalhrc.ca
- Website
CINARS
A private, non-profit organisation whose principal mission is to promote and market the performing arts of Quebec and Canada to the international audience.
The mission of CINARS is: to promote cultural productions from the performing arts sector and strengthen their marketing; to promote business exchanges between producer and presenter organisations; and to make Montreal an international focal point for the performing arts.
- Member services
- Promotion in foreign markets through fairs and missions
- Biennial networking conference bringing together nearly 1,000 artists, agents, presenters, producers and observers from 60 countries
- Forums on issues such as the nuts and bolts of foreign touring
- "Exporting Preparation" program designed for artist agents and tour organisers who want to upgrade their knowledge and tools of international marketing
- "Signature 2001", a complete marketing package
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-842-5866
- arts@cinars.org
- Website
CIRPA (Canadian Independent Record Production Association)
Trade organisation and collective voice representing the independent sector of the English language Canadian music and sound recording industry.
CIRPA's mandate is to "secure a strong and economically stable Canadian independent music and sound recording industry. CIRPA continues to take the leadership role in improving the economic viability and well-being of the independent music and sound recording sector in such important areas as: Canadian content, copyright law, international marketing, cultural industry policy, cultural industry assistance programs, tax laws and tariffs, and more".
- Member services
- Maintains Music Industry Network Canada, a web portal for the Canadian music industry
- Digital Media Distribution System, a web-based content delivery system used to securely transfer musical files directly to authorized recipients
- Canadian Music Industry Database, an information research company specializing in Canadian Sound Recordings and content
- Canada Stand, which acts as an "office-away-from-home" services at key international music trade shows
- Typical Membership
Record labels, managers, music distributors, record producers, studios, individuals (individuals allowed at the discretion of the Board of directors).
- Phone
416-485-3152
- admin@cirpa.ca
- Website
CMC (Centre de musique Canadienne)
Canada's primary place to find scores, parts and recordings of Canadian contemporary music composers.
An information resource for composers, media, presenters, conductors, choreographers, performers, broadcasters, students and all those who simply listen to and enjoy music.
- Member services
- Score Library and sales, Orchestral score rentals
- Repertoire consultation
- Printing/binding of scores
- CD distribution
- Members' works are made available worldwide for loans, sales and/or rentals and are paid royalties (sales 10%, rentals 50%
- Submit your bio and works online
- More at http://www.centremusique.ca/ase.cfm
- Typical Membership
Composers, media, presenters, conductors, choreographers, performers, broadcasters, students.
- Phone
514-866-3477
- info@musiccentre.ca; Music services: ms@musiccentre.ca
- Website
CMRRA (Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd.)
Non-profit music licensing agency representing the vast majority of music copyright owners (music publishers) doing business in Canada.
CMRRA is funded by commission on the proceeds of its licensing.
- Member services
- Mechanical synchronization licensing and other reproduction rights
- Royalty distribution
- Typical Membership
Songwriters (copyright owners), music publishers.
- Phone
416-926-1966
- inquiries@cmrra.ca
- Website
COCo (Centre for Community Organisations)
Provincial, non-profit organisation that works primarily with English-speaking, bilingual, and ethno-cultural organisations to develop organisational health and promote community sector development.
COCo's mission is to promote social justice, active citizenship, democracy, and socio-economic development by supporting the development of healthy organisations and strong communities.
- Member services
- Advises on evaluation, conflict management, fundraising, board development, strategic planning, and more
- Supports community organisations through training and e-Bulletins
- Resource Centre
- Learning circles
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-849‑5599 or 1-866-552‑2626
- info@coco-net.org
- Website
COPIBEC
Provincial organisation dedicated to copyright protection. "COPIBEC's mission is to act on behalf of rights holders, i.e. Quebec authors and publishers who have appointed COPIBEC to manage the reproduction rights for their printed works (books, newspapers, periodicals)".
COPIBEC has also concluded bilateral agreements with reproduction rights organisations outside Quebec. As a result, those organisations are responsible for authorizing the reproduction outside Quebec of works from the COPIBEC Repertoire. COPIBEC is also responsible for administering the reproduction of copyrighted materials within Quebec on behalf of thousands of authors and publishers from outside Quebec, including those in other Canadian provinces.
- Member services
- Collective management of reproduction rights for works printed on paper and for digital reproduction
- Has agreements with approximately twenty foreign collectives
- Typical Membership
Music writers, composers, authors, and publishers.
- Phone
514-288-1664 or 1-800-717-2022
- info@copibec.qc.ca
- Website
CPCC (Canadian Private Copying Collective)
Non-profit, non-governmental agency charged with collecting and distributing private copying royalties.
Established in 1999, CPCC is an umbrella organisation that represents songwriters, recording artists, music publishers and record companies.
- Member services
- Collects and distributes private copying royalties
- Enforcement of the private copying tariff and advocacy
- Typical Membership
Songwriters, recording artists, music publishers and record companies.
- Phone
416-486-6832 or 1-800-892-7235
- inquiries@cpcc.ca
- Website
CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association)
Non-profit trade organisation for the protection of copyrighted music.
Founded in 1964 to represent the interests of Canadian companies that create, manufacture and market sound recordings.
- Member services
- Maintains a full time anti-piracy unit
- Gold & platinum certification
- ISRC standard recording codes ("digital fingerprints")
- Typical Membership
CRIA's members are engaged in all aspects of the recording industry, including the manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of records.
- Phone
416-967-7272
- info@cria.ca
- Website
Codes D'Accès
Community francophone organisation created to help young musical creators present their work in professional contexts.
Sponsored by CAM, CALQ, and CAC.
- Member services
- Presents new music showcases featuring up and coming talents.
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-879-9676
- info@codesdacces.org
- Website
Conseil de la Culture de la Gaspésie
Regional francophone cultural association covering all domains, and also concerned with heritage (patrimoine) issues.
The Council is funded and mandated by the government to promote and defend the interests of the cultural milieu while supporting the development and visibility of Gaspésie artists and the region's cultural products.
- Member services
- Advice on grants, portfolios, and marketing
- Professional development workshops
- Awards, galas recognizing outstanding work
- Directory of Gaspésie area artists
- List of regional art service providers under Ressources Professionelles
- Typical Membership
Individual artists and organisations.
- Phone
1-800-820-0883 ext. 229 / 418-534-4139
- falary@culturegaspesie.org
- Website
Culture Montreal
Independent non-profit organisation for anyone interested in promoting culture in all its forms as an essential element of Montreal's development.
Culture Montreal is the expert-advisor to governments, the City and the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal on issues pertaining to art and performance. It is a place for reflection, dialogue, and action aimed at the cultural community, political and business decision-making entities, and citizens.
- Member services
- Culture research and analysis
- Events, networking, guest speakers
- Discounts through CM's partners
- Participates in Journées de la Culture
- Culture Metropolis, etc.
- Typical Membership
Artists, cultural workers, and citizens.
- Phone
514-845-0303 ext. 24
- info@culturemontreal.ca
- Website
DAM
An open organisation striving for the recognition and inclusion of professional artists from ethno-cultural communities into the Montreal cultural network.
DAM's mandate is to "promote cultural diversity in the arts and culture through recognition and inclusion of all artists and cultural practitioners within professional arts networks, professional cultural organisations and the performance outlets in Montreal" and to "maintain an active and critical watch over policies and procedures that could discriminate against artistic and cultural proceedings".
- Member services
Advocacy
- Typical Membership
Any person who supports the mandate and objectives of D.A.M. may become a member of the organisation.
- Phone
514-280-3580
- guillaume.sirois@cum.qc.ca
- Website
Farine orpheline
Francophone group of pluridisciplinary artists committed to combining practices and resources, with a special interest in transforming industrial and urban areas.
The collective develops every project from beginning to end using a variety of media. With an approach that is both analytical and poetic, Farine Orpheline explores the archaeology of doubt, the history of the banal, the architecture of fragments, and other exact sciences.
- Member services
- Collaborations, shared equipment
- Artist spaces
- Participation in festivals
- Typical Membership
Artists from all fields.
- Phone
514-523-2243
- code306@farineorpheline.qc.ca
- Website
GCFC (Guild of Canadian Film Composers)
National guild of media composers, certified for collective bargaining under the Federal Status of the Artist Act.
In Quebec, GCFC represents media composers working only for English-language broadcasters. (Composers in Quebec working for French language broadcasters are represented by Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec [SPACQ]). Represents all media composers outside Quebec, except for composers working for the French CBC in New Brunswick.
- Member services
- Contract templates
- Mentorship program
- Professional development workshops
- Typical Membership
Composers arrangers, orchestrators, and music editors working in film and television.
- Phone
416-410-5076 / 866-657-1117
- gcfc@gcfc.ca
- Website
GMMQ (Guilde des Musiciens et Musiciennes du Quebec/Quebec Musicians Guild)
Professional syndicate composed of over 3,300 musicians from Quebec, in partnership with the American Federation of Musicians and International Federation of Musicians.
"The Guild's basic tool for defending its members is the written contract. The document which refers to basic minimum fees set by the Guild as well as minimum working conditions. Included in these conditions is the producer's obligation to contribute to the musicians' pension fund." GMMQ is certified by the Commission de Reconnaissance des Associations d'Artistes et des Associations des Producteurs.
- Member services
- Legal services and insurance plans
- Typical Membership
Professional and freelance musicians working in every facet of the music industry.
- Phone
514-842-2866 / 1-800-363-6688 or 418-688-1722 / 1-888-237-1722
- Montreal rep: ypatry@gmmq.com
- Website
IPIC (Intellectual Property Institute of Canada)
"Canada's pre-eminent association of professionals who specialize in intellectual property: patents for inventions, trade-marks, copyright, and industrial designs."
"IPIC is the only professional association in Canada to which nearly all patent agents, trade-mark agents and lawyers specializing in intellectual property belong."
- Member services
- Professional IPIC designation
- Professional development seminars and conferences on cutting edge intellectual property
- patent and trade-mark courses and tutorials
- Annual membership directory
- Representation of IP professionals before Government
- "Members only" permitting online view and key word search of IPIC's professional journals, newsletters and intellectual property literature index
- Typical Membership
Patent agents, trade-mark agents and lawyers specializing in intellectual property.
- Phone
613-234-0516
- admin@ipic.ca
- Website
Jeunesses Musicales Canada
Non-profit, international network with the dual mission to promote the performance of classical music, especially for young audiences.
JMC helps young professional instrumentalists, singers and composers develop their careers at the national and international levels. Jeunesses Musicales Canada produces over 600 concerts per year.
- Member services
- Produces concerts and competitions
- Scholarships and bursaries
- Online listening room
- Typical Membership
Young classical instrumentalists.
- Phone
514-845-4108
- info@jeunessesmusicales.com, jmarquis@jeunessesmusicales.ca
- Website
LCMS (Lakeshore Chamber Music Society)
Non-profit organisation, whose purpose is to provide, at a modest cost, chamber music concerts of high quality, covering a wide range of styles and instruments, in a setting of acoustic excellence.
The LCMS also provides music students residing in the West Island with an opportunity to gain experience performing in public. Their concerts are frequently co-produced with the CBC and Radio-Canada for subsequent public broadcast.
- Member services
- Provides music students residing in the West Island with an opportunity to gain experience performing in public
- Awards
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-457-5756
- lcms.smcl@rocler.qc.ca
- Website
Le Conseil québécois de la musique
Non-profit, francophone, government-funded society for the development of concert music.
Maintains Diapaison, a management service created to help musical companies achieve efficiency in their operations and to contribute to the professional development of companies and individuals.
- Member services
- Adopt a musician program
- Help for financially troubled companies, with services such as accounting, PR, and grant writing
- Presents the Journée internationale de la Musique and the Prix Opus
- Typical Membership
Quebec-based musical ensembles
- Phone
514-524-1310
- Website
Les Filles Electriques
Not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to create, distribute and archive interdisciplinary artworks and events in oral, written and electronic literature.
"Our principal goal is to offer a platform for emerging voices. Taking as a starting point the tradition of the “spoken word”, the organisation introduces artists, poets, writers, storytellers and singers who perform on stage their own texts in a context of interdisciplinarity and linguistic plurality."
- Member services
- Sponsors events with artists such as the Festival Voix d'Ameriques Band de poètes, the Chérivolver collective, and the duo Mankind, as well as the Poètes Publics series
- Typical Membership
Artists, poets, writers, storytellers and singers.
- Phone
514-495-1515
- lesfilles@electriques.ca
- Website
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)
The MAI is a pluridisciplinary presenter of professional contemporary artists, with an intercultural mandate.
An independent, non-profit organisation, the MAI is comprised of a theatre, a gallery space, a café and two rehearsal rooms. "An incubator for the arts favourable to reflection and research, a space for dialogue and interchange between cultures stimulating collaboration between different partners, MAI has the mandate of supporting creation, presentation and outreach of intercultural arts for a diversified audience."
- Member services
- Residencies
- Collaborations
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-982-1812
- info@m-a-i.qc.ca
- Website
MASC
A community-focused arts organisation and registered charity created to introduce Canadian children to the arts.
MASC performs for over 145,000 children and youth each year in eastern Ontario, Outaouais and western Quebec: "connecting artists and learning".
- Member services
- Hires artists to give performances and workshops
- Residencies
- Typical Membership
- Phone
613-725-9119
- masc@masconline.ca
- Website
Musician's Guild
The Musician's Guild has the mandate of promoting and supporting new Canadian music in Canada and abroad.
The Musicians Guild's main focus is to help up and coming musicians gain contacts, confidence and experience by mixing beginner, intermediate and veteran players.
- Member services
- Networking
- Promotion
- Typical Membership
Beginning, amateur, and profesional musicians and songwriters.
- Phone
- stephanie@musiciansguild.ca
- Website
OCSM/OMOSC (Organisation of Canadian Symphony Musicians)
OCSM/OMOSC is a conference of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) representing Canada's professional symphony musicians.
"There are twenty member orchestras with approximately one thousand musicians working under collective agreements. Together with other players' conferences (ICSOM, ROPA, RMA, and TMA), we work with the AFM to improve conditions across the continent."
- Member services
- Conferences
- Health and safety information
- Typical Membership
Professional symphonies and musicians.
- Phone
n/a
- Website
Orchestras Canada
National service organisation for all Canadian orchestras
"We work on behalf of Canada's professional orchestra community by providing leadership and service in advocacy, professional development, communication and networking."
- Member services
- Professional and organisational development and training and employment information
- Education and community outreach programs
- Various discounts
- Typical Membership
Our member organisations include major symphony orchestras, regional professional and chamber orchestras, semi-professional, community, university and youth orchestras as well as ensembles, presenters and music educators.
- Phone
416-366-8834
- info@oc.ca
- Website
Outiller - la releve artistique Montréalaise (City of Montreal)
A project initiative from the Conseil des Arts de Montreal to "improve the socio-professional integration of young artists in Montreal".
Created to support collaboration and dialogue between emerging artists and those working in culture, education and government.
- Member services
Advocacy for artists in all disciplines.
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-280-3580
- Website
http://www.artsmontreal.org/artsmontreal.org_non_ssl/releve.php?lang=en
PRIM (Productions Réalisations de Montréal)
Independent, francophone film collective with on-site editing suites.
Prim's mandate as a self managed centre is to contribute to training opportunities with educational programs, and the production of media work with grant based programs and co-productions. PRIM is, therefore, a centre of human and technical resources, destined for the elaboration and creation of media work, open to the whole artistic and cultural community. PRIM's commitment is to enable the artists to assume professional status and to encourage quality improvement in independent production. It offers access to a complete array of production and post-production equipment, be it for video, audio or information technology, enabling the production of professional standard work; PRIM also offers various training programs and assistance to support the artists in their creative endeavours and productions.
- Member services
- Bursaries for training, coproductions, and production costs
- Residencies
- Film and sound studios, equipment rental
- Courses in various AVID applications
- Typical Membership
Directors, producers, film artists, etc.
- Phone
514-524-2421
- info@primcentre.org
- Website
Performance Creation Canada
"Nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes."
"As such, Performance Creation Canada (PCC) will endeavour to identify and advance the multifaceted interests of a multidisciplinary definition of work that is performed by the artist(s) who created it."
- Member services
- Conferences in many provinces
- Online discussion and information sharing forum
- Typical Membership
Artists, administrators, educators, funding institutions, presenters, agents, archivists and critics.
- Phone
n/a
- mgreen@performancecreationcanada.ca
- Website
QCGN (Quebec Community Groups Network)
A non-profit organisation which supports minority English language culture in Quebec.
"QCGN promotes cooperation with provincial, regional and municipal government authorities in order to support and assist the development and enhance the vitality of the English-language minority communities", with arts being among the priority sectors of involvement. Members of QCGN's Community Evaluation Committee meet with representatives from Canada Council and Canadian Heritage-IPOLC to discuss and exchange information on the growing needs of the English-speaking artistic community in Quebec.
- Member services
- Advocacy on legal issues, language issues, political and constitutional affairs
- Publishes Arts Ahead bulletin with practical information to the artistic community
- Provides useful links to information, resources, and federal and provincial government websites pertaining to Anglophone communities in Quebec
- Typical Membership
Anglophone community organisations.
- Phone
418-681-2112
- qcgn@qcgn.ca
- Website
RAIQ (Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec or Quebec Interdisciplinary Arts Network)
The RAIQ aims to bring together artists, arts organisations and companies working in the interdisciplinary arts in Quebec to ensure representation on all levels.
"The RAIQ aims to nurture the development of its members and of different interdisciplinary practices, by initiating activities that promote research and experimentation, such as conferences, studies, training and networking events."
- Member services
- Education
- Promotion
- Typical Membership
Artists, organisations.
- Phone
514-380-3093 (office hours: Monday and Tuesday)
- raiq@studio303.ca
- Website
ROSEQ (Réseau des Organisateurs de Spectacles de l'Est du Québec)
Francophone association for the promotion and support of the performing arts in Eastern Quebec, especially in rural areas.
Member of RIDEAU (an independent, francophone network of performing arts presenters).
- Member services
- Tour planning
- Educates members on marketing issues
- Negotiates with agents on behalf of members
- Organisational help
- Typical Membership
- Phone
418-723-4323
- roseq@globetrotter.net
- Website
SALA (Société des Arts Libres et Actuels)
Non-profit organisation which seeks to "nurture, support and sustain the human right to musical freedom" and the promotion of experimental music.
Presents and promotes "under-represented, emerging, cutting edge and liberation arts including (but not limited to) musics such as: free jazz, improvisation, turntable art, soundscapes, experimental rock, electronica, musique actuelle, and spoken word."
- Member services
Organises the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Sounds for the People) festival.
- Typical Membership
Musicians and their supporters.
- Phone
514-284-0122
- info@suoniperilpopolo.org
- Website
SAT (Société des arts technologiques)
Transdisciplinary centre dedicated to "research, creation, production, presentation, education and conservation in the field of digital culture".
On top of its frequent programming of media artists, DJs, and visual artists, the SAT wishes to make its gallery section a place to showcase research processes and free experimentation, in particular in the fields of interface design, communication design and interactive design.
- Member services
- Space of 36,000 square feet available
- Residencies, collaborations
- Workshops
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-844-2033
- info@sat.qc.ca
- Website
SMCQ (Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec)
Professional society representing musical creativity and creators in Quebec.
The SMCQ is led by well known composer Walter Boudreau.
- Member services
- Commissions, premieres and records creations by Canadians and foreigners
- Organises the Montreal series of contemporary music, Montreal/New Music festival and the MusiMarch Week in collaboration with the Schulich School of Music (McGill)
- Youth-music program
- North American and European tours
- Streaming music player from its website
- Typical Membership
Contemporary composers
- Phone
514-843-9305
- smcq@smcq.qc.ca
- Website
SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada)
A Canadian membership-based organisation specializing in copyright and intellectual property management for recording artists and associated professionals.
SOCAN is the Canadian copyright collective that administers the performing rights of more than 80,000 composer, author and publisher members, and hundreds of thousands of members of their affiliated performing rights organisations (PROs) worldwide, by licensing the use of their music in Canada.
- Member services
- Collects and distributes license fees, without deducting any amounts from royalties
- Group-rate insurance program on instruments and home studio equipment
- Customers (venue operators, broadcasters, promoters, etc) get access to a worldwide repertoire of copyright-protected music through a single central entity
- Typical Membership
Canadian creators and publishers of music. A music creator can be: a composer who writes music but not lyrics, a lyricist who writes lyrics but not music, a songwriter who writes both lyrics and music. For more info go to our Who We Serve page.
- Phone
1-800-797-6226
- Website
SODEC
SODEC is a francophone Quebec government corporation overseen by the Minister of Culture and Communications. It supports the production and distribution of Quebec culture through cultural industries.
SODEC's general mandate is to provide public financial assistance for enterprises active in the following fields: book publishing, recording and variety shows, film and television production, and arts & crafts. SODEC offers a wide range of programs for the various cultural industries. Its assistance takes the form of project investments, grants, or repayable subsidies.
- Member services
Financing
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-521-5541
- info@sodec.gouv.qc.ca
- Website
SODRAC (Société des droits de Réproduction des auteurs, compositeurs, et éditeurs du Canada
A collective management society for the reproduction rights of authors, composers, publishers of musical works and visual artists.
It represents the repertoire of more than 5,000 Canadian songwriters and music publishers including the majority of rights holders in Quebec. It also administers within Canada the repertoire of musical works coming from more than 100 countries and territories. SODRAC participates in the CPCC's private copying regime.
- Member services
Manages reproduction rights
- Typical Membership
- Phone
514-845-3268
- sodrac@sodrac.ca
- Website
SOGEDAM
SOGEDAM is a collective management society that represents the interests of Canadian musicians who are members of foreign societies.
Membership in SOGEDAM is composed of musicians; the collective has about 40 members.
- Member services
- Manages equitable remuneration, copying for private use, and right of fixation.
- Typical Membership
Musicians
- Phone
n/a
- Website
SOPREF
A non-profit network created to support "amplified, alternative, emerging, and independent music" and those who create it.
The first aim of SOPREF is to improve the conditions surrounding the creation, self-production, diffusion and promotion of independent music in Quebec by equipping this medium with a permanent structure of support.
- Member services
- Maintains CIME-Montréal (Centre d'information pour les musiques émergentes): an information centre offering directories of important players in the Quebec music scene, Guide Autoprod 101, and a resource and media library
- Promotion
- Training
- Typical Membership
Independent francophone bands.
- Phone
514-845-9994
- cynthia@sopref.org, info@sopref.org
- Website
SPACQ (Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec)
Collective management group for authors and composers.
The SPACQ's mission is to "to defend the rights and the moral, professional and economic interests of authors and composers, as well as the rights inherent in their works". The SPACQ was created BY authors and composers FOR authors and composers.
- Member services
- Specializes in legal services to authors and composers in order to explain various aspects of their profession, full-time lawyer available
- Negotiates collective agreements with producers and broadcasters
- Administrative services, including the drafting of briefs to defend the creative artist's point of view in a variety of circumstances
- Typical Membership
Composers, lyricists
- Phone
514-845-3739 or 1-888-445-3739
- info@spacq.qc.ca
- Website
SQRM (Société québécoise de recherche en musique )
Non-profit, francophone organisation for the development, promotion, support, diffusion and the conservation of music research in Quebec.
Many unique activities, services, and member initiatives, helping members put themselves forward, and making it possible to integrate the SQRM into all areas of the professional music milieu. By doing this, the SQRM addresses itself to a growing audience, that of the public music lover, which is at the centre of the SQRM's concerns.
- Member services
Presents the Journees de Musique Quebecoises.
- Typical Membership
Musicologists, musicians, music educator, librarians, historians, independent researchers, etc.
- Phone
514-987-3000 ext. 3942
- info@sqrm.qc.ca
- Website
Songwriter's Association of Canada
National association of songwriters.
Part of the S.A.C.'s mandate is to establish activities which allow members to reach out and enjoy a sense of community.
- Member services
- Song Assessment Service from music industry professionals
- Date With a Demo (monthly in the Toronto area), a program where your demo is critiqued by industry professionals
- Free classified ad in Songwriters Magazine
- Canadian Song Depository, a song registration service that provides creators of musical works with a registered date of ownership [more info at http://www.songwriters.ca/SRV30.php]
- Typical Membership
Songwriters of all kinds.
- Phone
416-961-1588 or 1-866-456-7664
- leah@songwriters.ca
- Website
Studio XX
Women's digital resource centre.
Aims to demystify digital technologies, to critically examine their social aspects, to facilitate women's access to technology, and to create and exhibit women's new digital art.
- Member services
- Small workshops in a friendly environment, customized courses
- Technical assistance, access to computer lab
- Residencies, coproductions, collaborations
- Training bursaries
- Free admission to all Femmes Br@nchées evenings and to the Maid in Cyberspace Web Festival (les HTMlles)
- Typical Membership
Female media artists, practicing and aspiring, and supporters.
- Phone
514-845-7934
- Website
TUYO-Music on contrived instruments
Tuyo's mission is the promotion of musical creation, research, and experimentation, as well as the production of shows born of a combination of different fields of activity in the performing arts.
Produces original creations, performances, and workshops. "Tuyo has been performing contemporary music for the last 16 years with a comprehensive approach to performance; direction, sets, costumes, lighting."
- Member services
Sound exploration workshops, introducing microtonal music, for children.
- Typical Membership
Creators and composers
- Phone
514-849-7205