Strategic Moves

Northern Manitoba Arts Sector Development

Strategic Moves has been collaborating with several Manitoba arts and arts service organizations since 2011. With COVID that engagement accelerated significantly. In 2021, we developed a Digital Action Plan with the Manitoba Arts Network and delivered an initiative to better understand how to Power Up the Arts in Manitoba. Resulting from this work provincially, Strategic Moves has been working with ImagiNorthern (spearheaded by the Flin Flon Arts Council) Creative Manitoba and the University College of the North, along with the Manitoba Arts Network on strengthening the arts in Northern Manitoba through a number of initiatives. In March 2023, Inga Petri was invited to co-facilitate the Northern Arts Workshop, which featured a keynote by Jesse Wente, chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, and a highly engaging and engaged 3-day-long intensive conversation about pathways forward among participants.

The following documents are foundational to the ambitions for the arts sector in Northern Manitoba.

Artists and Arts Organizations in Northern Manitoba: A Baseline Study, Strategic Moves/ImagiNorthern, 2022

Northern Arts Workshop, March 2023

• Presentation of Highlights from the Study by Inga Petri, March 22, 2023

• Reflections Workshop including reflections on Strategic Moves’s research on the shared characteristics of thriving rural and remote communities fueled by the arts, Inga Petri, March 22, 2023

• Action Planning Workshop, March 23, 2023

Digital Playbook for the Performing Arts

Starting prior to the COVID pandemic, Strategic Moves ran a national digital literacy and intelligence project, Making Tomorrow Better: Taking Action in the Digital World, on behalf of the Atlantic Presenters Association and in partnership with the Manitoba Arts Network, BC Touring Council, Island Mountain Arts, the Yukon Arts Centre and the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. As COVID struck we pivoted to digital training.

We delivered 84 workshops between 2019 and 2021 that culminated in National Digital Arts Nation Online Conference in November 2021. We also published a substantial Digital Playbook for the Arts that anyone in the sector is welcome to use in their day to day work.

Digital Playbook Series (2021 to 2022)

How to Assess and Benchmark Your Digital Presence

Building an Effective Web Presence in 2022: Understanding Search Engine Optimization

Social Media Marketing 

How to master discoverability of your events, organization and artists 

Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online in 2022

How to Design and Deliver Awesome Online Conferences and Events

How to Create Effective Conferences and Events for Blended (in person and digital) Audiences

Featured in Yukon Entrepreneur Podcast Series by Kari Johnston

As part of Yukon Innovation Week, Kari Interviewed Inga Petri about the work I do in arts & culture in the digital world. I discuss my mission to help artists and arts & culture organizations use digital technologies in profound and new ways and build successful digital business models. It’s not about merely building a website, but about leveraging the latest web technologies and ways in which web 3.0 works to secure viable spaces for artistic and cultural expression and experiences.

 

Digital Innovation Council for the Performing Arts

• Digitizing the Performing Arts: An Assessment of Opportunities, Issues and Challenges
• La numérisation des arts du spectacle : Évaluation des possibilités, des enjeux et des défis

MEDIA Coverage

• The Globe and Mail article
• Le Devoir article
• CBC North Interview

Arts in the Digital World, January 2018, Canada Council for the Arts/Yukon Government

Yukon Arts Digital Day Presentation by Inga Petri

CRD Arts Development Service – Public Consultation on Arts Plan Implementation Priorities

• Final Report: BuildingourArtsFuture-ImplementationPlan_Final and BuildingourArtsFuture-FacilitiesPlan_Final
• Building our #Arts Future Together (Greater Victoria) – full suite of interim reports and draft Plan

Growing a Sustainable Performing Arts Eco-system in Rural Communities

• Exploratory original research presented at 2nd SPARC Symposium 2016: KeyNote
• Workshops at 3rd SPARC Symposium 2018
  • Organizing for Success: Board Leadership and Governance
  • Digital Innovation in Action
  • Key Performance Measurement

Book Strategy Group/Association of Canadian Publishers

• Public Opinion on the Value of Books in the English Language Book Sector

Canada Dance Mapping Study  (Canada Council for the Arts/Ontario Arts Council)

• Summary of complete Dance Mapping Study: http://canadacouncil.ca/research/research-library/2016/12/dance-mapping-study

Two research projects I worked on within that study are:

• Yes, I Dance: A Survey of Who Dances in Canada  @ http://dancewheel.ca/
• Oui, je danse : un sondage auprès de ceux et celles qui dansent au Canada @ http://www.cercledeladanse.ca/
• Survey of the Social Impacts of Dance Organizations in Canada
• Enquête sur l’impact social des organismes de danse au Canada

Plenary Presentation at Tourism Industry Association of Yukon

• Cultural Tourism: Unleashing Yukon’s Potential

The Value of Presenting: A Study of Performing Arts Presentation in Canada (CAPACOA)

• Final Report 
  • Infographic: Attendance
  • Infographic: Benefits
• Le rapport final 
  • Visualisez les données: Frequentation
  • Visualisez les données: Bienfaits
• Reflections and Recommendations on Strengthening Performing Arts Presenting Field: Reflections_Future_March2013

Keynotes/Presentations (Video)

• • • • • CAPACOA National Conference – January 2015
          • Breaking the Fifth Wall: Digitizing the Performing Arts
          • Powerpoint only: Breaking the Fifth Wall_Final

• • • • • SPARC – Symposium for the Performing Arts in Rural Communities – April 2014
          • Community, Partnership and Performing Arts: Co-creating a Culture of Place

• SPARC – Supporting Performing Arts in Rural Communities. Network Summit – November 2014

SPARC Summit from Sticks and Stones Productions on Vimeo.

• • • • • Northeastern University, Boston, MA – February 2014
          • Presentation Research and Highlights from Value of Presenting
          • Breakout session – report
          • Panel: The Benefits & Challenges of Big Data Collaboration in the Arts

Canadian Geographic – Canadian Atlas Online

• • • Interactive Thematic
      • Performing Arts Presentation
      • La diffusion des arts vivants
    • Vimeo Channel
      • 10 short videos
      • Les vidéos en français

(Inga has scripted 37 of these thematics between 2003 and 2013; she wrote the Performing Arts Presentation thematic based on The Value of Presenting study’s original research.)

Supplementary Reports and Webinars

• • • • Aboriginal Presenting, August 2012 (PDF)
      • Rural and Northern Presenting, May 2012 (PDF)
      • Dance: The Evolution of Canadians’ Attendance, April 2012 (PDF)
      • Literature Review, Updated April 2012 (PDF)
      • Overview of the History of Presenting in Canada, Updated April 2012 (PDF)
    • • Presentation – Changing Demographics, Nov. 26, 2012 (PDF)
        • Webinar recording – Changing Demographics, Nov. 26, 2012 (Flash)
      • Presentation – Highlights of Findings, Nov. 2, 2012 (PDF)
        • Webinar recording – Highlights of Findings, Nov. 2, 2012 (Flash)

Training: Atlantic Presenters Association and Ontario Presents

• Making Better Decisions: The Dos and Don’ts of Research in the Arts (Nov 2014, webinar)
  • Download bonus files

Media Coverage

• • • Formulating a Framework for SPARC (Haliburton/Minden)
    • The Haliburton Echo (Haliburton)
    • Performing Arts Thrive in Rural Communities – The Highlander (Haliburton)
    • Value of the arts found within community collaboration (London)
    • Sistema Growing Above 49th parallel (The Sistema Fellows Program)

Sistema Canada

• • Needs Assessment and Feasibility Report (PDF)