About I Want To Showcase
I Want to Showcase is a collaboration between Ontario Contact and Contact East, and their goal is simple: to offer artists applying to showcase a site that is easy to navigate, understand and use. In developing IWTS, it became clear that Ontario Contact and Contact East were so similar in their showcase applications that the process could be streamlined into one format. This multi-conference application system not only serves a need in both organizations but also saves artists time and money. This new approach makes sense on a number of levels as it allows the artist to apply online to one or multiple showcases at a time, to receive a discount for applying to more than one showcase, and then to pay for it all at the same time and place.
Contact East and Ontario Contact are happy to work jointly in order to serve this need in our market, and we think you will find this method simple, refreshing and convenient.
We welcome our partner conferences as they join us in working together for the benefit of our artists.
Our Partner Conferences
Contact: Matt Schuurman or Brenda O'Donnell
Phone: 780-644-4840
Email: matt@artstouring.com
Web: www.artstouring.com
Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta
Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta
11759 Groat Road
Edmonton, AB Canada
T5M 3K6
Alberta Showcase 2012
Fort Saskatchewan, AB (Oct 11-14, 2012)
Now in its 35th year, Alberta Showcase brings touring artists together with community presenters searching for artists for special events, series and community celebrations. It is four days that will inspire you!
Every October the Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta brings together presenters from across Alberta who are searching for artists who will tour to their communities. Many of these soft-seat presenters offer subcription series. They are looking for a diverse, challenging line-up of artists with broad audience appeal. Alberta Showcase 2012 will take place October 11-14 in Fort Saskatchewan. All applications are reviewed by a jury, and the top applicants are selected.
"When Lewis and I discovered SHOWCASE we began getting great gigs, and lots of them. Our gig fee bumped up to another stratosphere, the venues we played were no longer bars, and we began to improve as performers, and it became more about the music."
Royal Sproule
Lewis & Royal
"I was so thrilled to be involved with Showcase and it has made a huge difference to my 2011-2012 tours."
Lizzy Hoyt
Contact: Andrea Ellis
Phone: 902.892.6269
Email: andrea@atlanticpresenters.ca
Web: contacteast.ca
Contact East - Atlantic Presenters Association
115 Richmond St.
Charlottetown, PE Canada
C1A 1H7
Contact East 2012
Fredericton, NB (Sep 19-23, 2012)
Contact East 2012 is in Fredericton, NB from September 19th to September 23rd. An exciting, engaging celebration, Contact East is an opportunity for those working in the touring performing arts sector to network and share information in a four-day conference featuring contemporary and classical music, dance, theatre, spoken word, and young audience programming. Contact East brings together artists, presenters, agents/managers and other arts professionals from around the globe to facilitate the number and diversity of performing arts activities in Canada and on international stages.
What makes a strong application? How does Contact East select showcasing artists? Read more about making your application to Contact East.
Contact: c/o Cheryl Ewing
Phone: 519.579.8564
Email: cheryl@ccio.on.ca
Web: www.ontariocontact.ca
Ontario Contact
563 Krug Street
Kitchener, ON Canada
N2B 1L8
Ontario Contact 2012
Kitchener, ON (Oct 25-27, 2012)
An exciting, engaging celebration, Ontario Contact is an opportunity for those working in the touring performing arts sector to come together to network, and to share information in a three-day conference featuring contemporary and classical music, dance, theatre, spoken word, and youth orientated programming.
We will be engaging over 500 artists, presenters, workshop leaders, and various government and arts service agencies in showcase performances, workshops, and an arts industry marketplace. Produced by the Ontario Presenting Network - CCI, Ontario Contact will continue to address the ongoing needs of Ontario's cultural presenters, and assist local, national, and international artists and their agents to tour and perform for Ontario audiences.