Um Wow! According to the Globe and Mail site, Ontario understands the internet and the new age industries.  So much that they are putting $10 million to fund it.

On Thursday, the province’s minister of culture, Aileen Carroll, is announcing an investment of $10-million in something called the Intellectual Property Development Fund. It’s a one-year pilot program, retroactive to April 1 of this year, that reimburses Ontario “screen-based companies” for expenses they incur in getting a feature film, TV series, video game, “webisode” or Internet property off the ground.

Their way to acquire the grant might not be too easy for most companies tho, but that doesn’t mean we all can’t try it out.

Read the rest of the article here The Globe and Mail

Create Your Own Artist Trading Card to celebrate the Cultural Olympiad!

The East meets the West!

The City of Mississauga, Culture Division and the Art Gallery of Mississauga are partnering with the City of Calgary to celebrate the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

Everyone is invited to make a card.

DESIGN A CARD
Cards must be 2.5 x 3.5 inches, made of sturdy paper.
Media can be: pencil, paint, pastels, fabric, collage, etc.
Suggested Themes: Sportsmanship, Friendship, My Canada
Sign the back of the card and include your city name.

For more info go to Bridget MacIntosh’s face book link

This is a program that one of my colleagues is doing in Mississauga.
It is NOT affiliated with the “official” Cultural Olympiad in B.C.

I am totally doing this, i hope you guys find some time to try this out cause i’m gonna make some time for it ^^

I’ve admired Zines and the kind of culture that creates alot of these, but our purposes are obviously different.  So we’re just workin’ on an idea of making a Zine for King of all Trades that will be all the information of OLA.  Within every month we will be picking great photographs of cities within Ontario, Artworks created by local OLA members (uploaded in their album).  We are planning on doing interviews with some creative layouts designs by graphic designers, to try to give some challenges for Graphic designers.  The Zine can pose good challenges and rewards.  We can feature artists, we can put their work on the cover, and so on.  Right now it is on a conceptual stage but i’m hoping to get some response from people to see what other things you would like to see put in the magazine.