CARFAC Ontario

📣Join CARFAC Ontario for our Annual General Meeting

🗓️DATE: March 4, 2026
⏰TIME: 6 - 8 pm EST / 5 - 7 pm CST
🖥️Virtual via Zoom
📋Register here: shr.pn/2025AGMCarfacOntario (link in bio)

On behalf of CARFAC Ontario’s board of directors, we invite our members, and members of the broader visual arts community, to join us online on March 4th, 2026 for our Annual General Meeting (AGM).

✨We will be announcing a new CARFAC Ontario initiative to support visual artists, and will be providing organizational updates. The AGM is also a great opportunity for members to contribute feedback and engage in conversation with CARFAC Ontario’s staff, board members, and fellow members.

🗂️CARFAC Ontario members can access and review key organizational documents through our Members’ Portal.

👋We welcome both members and non-members to join our AGM, but only active members will be able to vote. ☑️ If you need to renew your membership, or would like to become a member, please visit our website (carfacontario.ca)

📧If you have questions, or need support with joining or renewing your membership, please email [email protected]

👉Please register through ZOOM (link in bio), and registration closes at 5pm EST / 4pm CST on March 4th, 2026.

⛄️CARFAC Ontario invites members to join our biannual member’s social.

👉This session will provide a relaxed, casual, virtual space for CARFAC Ontario members with an opportunity to connect, share your practice, ask questions, discuss current advocacy directions, and to support each other in our artistic endeavours.

Upcoming session
🗓️Date: December 3rd, 2025
🕧Time: 12 - 1pm ET / 11am - 12pm CT
🌐Virtual via ZOOM
This session will not be recorded.
Access accommodations can be requested upon registration and we will do our best to accommodate.

FREE
📋Register here: bit.ly/CARFACONMemSocialDec2025 (link in bio!)

Indigenous creatives: Learn to protect your creative legacy and advocate for your rights 🎨✨

FREE | Link in bio~

Indigenous Curatorial Collective, OCAD University Indigenous Student Centre, ALAS, and CARFAC Ontario invite you to an essential conversation exploring protecting cultural and artistic intellectual property, data sovereignty, navigating and negotiating contracts, and artist rights including fair pay. 

Date: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
Time: 12PM to 2PM ET / 9AM-11AM PT / 10AM-12PM MT / 11AM-1PM CT
Virtual via ZOOM
This session will not be recorded.

ASL interpretation and auto-captioning will be provided.
This virtual session is intended to provide a relaxed space for Indigenous creatives to learn from each other and from our expert facilitators—Claire Johnston (visual artist and relational-maker), Sage Paul (artist and designer), Ariadni Athanassiadis (intellectual property lawyer) and Sara Mainville (intellectual property, copyright and entertainment lawyer). Designed as a community-led forum, participants are encouraged to bring and share their questions, experiences, struggles, and successes with their peers and facilitators.

Topics include:
* Intellectual Property Rights specific to Indigenous cultural contexts
* Negotiating fair contracts that respect both your work and cultural heritage
* Understanding and advocating for appropriate compensation
* Protecting your creative legacy while honouring traditional knowledge
* Practical strategies for addressing common challenges 
This session welcomes Indigenous creatives from all disciplines.
FREE | Register here: bit.ly/ProtectIndigenousArt
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts de l’Ontario et le gouvernement de l’Ontario, et la Ville de Toronto par l’intermédiaire du Conseil des arts de Toronto de leur soutien financier.

Ontario’s arts and culture sector contributes $27 billion to the provincial GDP, and provides almost 300,000 jobs–more jobs than in real estate, auto-manufacturing, forestry and mining combined.

As the President of the United States threatens economic warfare against Canada, and continues to make threats about Canada becoming an American state, Ontario’s artists, arts workers, and arts organizations, are calling the next Government of Ontario to PROTECT CANADIAN CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY, and commit to the following critical priorities:

1. Increase funding at the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) by $40 million annually
While the Ontario arts and culture sector contributes $27 billion to provincial GDP and provides almost 300,000 jobs, the OAC’s budget has been frozen since 2009. Now more than ever, it’s time that the Government of Ontario invests properly in our sector.

2. Strengthen the Status of Ontario’s Artists Act
Our current Status of the Artist act does not address artists’ legal and economic rights, nor fair pay. Better legislation could easily improve the labour environment for artists and those who engage them.

3. Increase access to arts and culture space
While 19% of Canadians work mostly from home, 20% of Toronto office space is available for lease, there are fewer affordable spaces for artists. Incentivizing cross-sectoral collaborations can address this.

In collaboration with the Provincial Arts Services Organizations of Ontario Coalition, CARFAC Ontario has shared these priorities with each of the four main provincial parties. The full brief can be read here: bit.ly/ProtectCanadianCulturalSovereignty (link in bio)

We welcome our members, and the broader arts community to join us in this advocacy.

On behalf of:
Alliance culturelle de l'Ontario
Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario
ArtsBuild Ontario
BRAVO > Bureau des regroupements des artistes visuels de l'Ontario
Canadian Artists’ Representation / le front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) Ontario
Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO)
Dance Ontario
Dance Umbrella of Ontario
Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries
Indigenous Curatorial Collective/ Collectif des commissaires autochtones
MANO-RAMO
Ontario Culture Days
Ontario Presents
Orchestras Canada/Orchestres Canada
Théâtre Action
TAPA Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
Work in Culture