We Support Caregivers
in the Performing Arts
The aim of Balancing Act is to create increased equality, accessibility, and inclusion for parents and caregivers※ working in the performing arts. We collaborate with artists, arts workers, and arts organizations to develop pathways for change at an individual, organizational and systemic level.
Balancing Act is an initiative of Theatre Direct.
※ Balancing Act defines a ‘caregiver’ as individuals who care for children, aging adults, those in need of personal or primary care, and anyone who self-identifies as a caregiver. We acknowledge that care work can include blood, adopted, or chosen family, colleagues, and caring for others out of duty.
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- ANNOUNCING “WRAP AND UNPACK!”Wrap and Unpack: Embodying the Care Package A series of knowledge mobilization and community sharing events – coming to a region near you! EVENTS IN…Continue Reading
- Welcome to our 2023-24 Level UP! Strategy Partners!Balancing Act is excited to announce the third and final cohort of the Level UP! Initiative! Joining us from coast to coast to coast, 36…Continue Reading
- Level UP! Applications Open – Info Session Upcoming
Balancing Act is still accepting applications for our third year of Level Up! Initiative. To learn more please join us online for our final Level…Continue Reading
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Wrap & Unpack Montreal is today!!!
Meet the people involved!
Facilitating today's conversation Murdoch Schon, Associate Artistic Director of Imago Theatre. And we are welcoming Curtain Razors Theatre's Artistic Associate Johanna Bundon, joining us as ambassador from our Saskatoon Wrap & Unpack event in October. Johanna is an independent artist whose practice includes dance and theatre performance, choreography, teaching & gathering. Her choreographic work has been presented by New Dance Horizons, Globe Theatre’s Sandbox Series, the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival, and the Prairie Dance Circuit.
We are also pleased to have Kimberley de Jong, a Level UP! partner and Montreal-based dance artist, who will be our Movement Scribe. Kimberley is a dancer and choreographer based in the Tiohtià:ke territories. She is interested in how the body's personal history can serve as an expressive tool in her creations. She works as a rehearsal director for Cie Chouinard. Kimberley is also a birth attendant, pilates instructor and mother of three.
Thank you to Imago Theatre and Professional Association of Canadian Theatres for this partnership!!
Visit the 🔗 below to learn more!
balancingactcanada.com/en/wrap-and-unpack/
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Today is the National Day of Action!
The child care movement has always been on the move. Child Care Now and advocates across Canada are calling for increased public funds to raise educator wages and increased capital funding to build equitable access to not-for-profit and public early learning and child care
There is a rally happening TODAY at 12pm in front of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario at Queen’s Park (south lawn).
Visit the 🔗 below to learn more!
childcarenow.ca/dayofaction/
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Mothra: Artist-Parent Project invites artists to fill out this important survey: The Art of Parenting: A Survey for Contemporary Visual Artists in Canada.
The purpose of this survey is to gather information about the benefits and challenges of care work in harmony (or not) with artistic practices.
It closes in 2 days, so be sure to add your voice to this movement!
Balancing Act Steering Committee member Sarah Cullen is the founder of MOTHRA: Artist-Parent Project (@artistparents). MOTHRA is an artist-led, artist-parent collective based in Toronto who run residencies for artists and their children. Thank you for your advocacy Sarah!!
Visit the 🔗 below to learn more and fill out the survey!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/TheArtofParenting
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