June 13, 2025
The 2025 winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today during a school assembly at Birch Cliff Heights Public School in Scarborough, Ont. The winners were selected by two juries of young readers from the school – a jury of grade 4 ...
May 30, 2025
The New Orford String Quartet perform at Westben’s Digital Concerts at The Barn in Campbellford. (Photo courtesy of Westben) Read our latest newsletter here. Our goal is to bring you a wide range of news, research highlighting Ontario's arts community, along with va...
May 28, 2025
Sophie Moynan , a production craftsperson who specializes in props and costuming, is the recipient of the 2025 Pauline McGibbon Award . This award is presented to an Ontario-resident professional artist in the early stages of their career who has contributed to the well...
May 21, 2025
The League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario Arts Council are excited to announce that nominations and submissions are now open for the second annual Lillian Allen Prizes , which recognize and celebrate spoken word poetry artists working in English or French.
The Lill...
May 15, 2025
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) released the shortlists for the 2025 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards . The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student jurors work together to choose the win...
March 28, 2025
Visitors look at books for sale at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. (Photo courtesy of the festival) Read our March newsletter here. Our goal is to bring you a wide range of news and research highlighting Ontario's arts community, along with valuable resources for ...
February 20, 2025
Support local With our bird's-eye view of the province, the Ontario Arts Council wants to help you find Ontario-made arts and culture events, experiences and creations. Here are some ideas to get you started and to support local and made in Ontario .
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December 12, 2024
Dear colleagues,
I want to take a moment to thank you for your engagement with the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) this year. Before this year comes to a close, I want to share OAC’s 2024 Year in Review report . It’s thanks to your collaboration that we are able to build a v...
December 5, 2024
Children visit the Emergence exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston.
Pictured work: Norval Morrisseau, Sacred Medicine Bear , 1974, acrylic on canvas.
(Photo: Garrett Elliot) Read our December newsletter here. Our goal is to bring you a wid...
October 30, 2024
Toronto-based poet, dancer and performer Cassandra (My'z) Myers and Mississauga-based writer and spoken word artist Lisa Shen are the first recipients of the Lillian Allen Prize and Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize for spoken word poetry. The laureates of the inaugura...