6 FOCUS - MARCH 2019 168 Queen St.,Port Perry 905-985-2521 www.brocks.ca spring arrivals in store now The Scugog Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that it will host a one and a half day multi-arts symposium in Port Perry, in partnership with the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation at their Health & Resource Centre 22600 Island Rd., Port Perry. With a goal of increasing and develop- ing connections between the many arts and cultural practitioners and organiza- tions, in the Township of Scugog and nearby communities, the delegates will include per- forming arts practitioners and organizations, visual artists and visual arts organizations, craft guilds, arts presenters of theatre, music, visual art and special events, and members of writer’s and literary circles. Equally important, they will connect with township staff and councillors representing cultural services as well as business people through the Chamber of Commerce and BIA. The Symposium will also be open to art teachers and tourism operators that recognize arts and culture as important elements in our community. The Symposium sessions will focus on “audience building” and will include facilitated round-table discussions and brain storming sessions, panel discussions covering a wide variety of topics, a key-note speaker, and all important non-structured social network- ing time. Details about speakers, topics and schedules will be available shortly. The event will support collaboration and capacity of local creators, present- ers, producers and community animators. Through these activities we hope to achieve three outcomes: • Build the skills of individual arts practitioners and organizations through collaboration in several ways • Encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration • Create concepts for new initiatives This symposium is open to members of Arts Organi- zations and individual arts practitioners, or any event presenter. Cost is $25 each or $40 for an organization to send two delegates. For more information and to register, go to: www.scugogarts.ca/symposium. April 11 (evening) April 12 (all day) SCUGOG CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: A MULTI-ARTS SYMPOSIUM