June 12, 2024
The 2024 winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today during a school assembly at John English Junior Middle School in Toronto, Ont. The winners were selected by two juries of young readers from the school – a jury of grade 4 studen...
June 6, 2024
Read this month's issue of OAC’s newsletter ! Our goal is to bring you a wide range of news and impact stories highlighting Ontario's arts community, along with valuable resources for artists and arts professionals in the province.
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June 5, 2024
The Arts Forward Framework is an initiative rooted in OAC’s strategic plan for 2022-27, Reset. Renew. Revitalize . This framework will respond to two of the key directions from the strategic plan – to further develop OAC’s funding approach , and to renew program design an...
May 28, 2024
Director and playwright Tawiah Ben M’Carthy is the recipient of the 2024 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-being of Ontario’s theatre community, dis...
May 16, 2024
Today, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) released the shortlists for the 2024 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards . The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student jurors work together to ch...
April 30, 2024
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is pleased to share that Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (MTCS) has confirmed that OAC will receive $60 million as its operating allocation for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
“We are delighted with the government’s affirmation of the ...
April 23, 2024
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC), in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets (LCP), is pleased to announce the creation of the Lillian Allen Prize and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize , which recognize and celebrate spoken word poetry artists working in English...
April 12, 2024
Read the first issue of OAC’s newly relaunched newsletter ! Our goal is to bring you a wide range of news and impact stories highlighting Ontario's arts community, along with valuable resources for artists and arts professionals in the province.
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February 27, 2024
Featured artists span across geographies, generations and disciplines What do the arts in Ontario look like, sound like, feel like? We’ve aimed to provide an answer in just 60 seconds, with Arts for All Ontarians – a video that provides a whirlwind tour of what Onta...
January 15, 2024
With the start of a new year, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is excited to be welcoming several new staff members to our team. We would like to express our thanks to all the individuals who participated in the hiring process for these positions, including several OAC board m...