[CI-Announce] Grant, teaching, and registration deadlines for Ontario Regional Contact Jam

[Ontario Regional Contact Jam]

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The next Ontario Regional Contact Jam will be Easter/Passover weekend,
Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21, 2019 at the National Ballet School,
400 Jarvis Street, in Toronto.

Three deadlines are coming up:

   -

   2018 Dec 31 — Grant applications
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1da0Dtxmk8CJONqImCwAhDBg2_1tSq-NY7Fs6ZgSDGpg/edit?usp=sharing>
   .
   -

   2019 Jan 18 — Teaching proposals
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MLv9aEXJInCtPpHMIpJIHzgmn002EM2foQqBTdMVjAo/edit?usp=sharing>
   .
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   2019 Jan 31 — Early-bird registration
   <https://orcj.yapsody.com/event/index/332921/ontario-regional-contact-jam-2019>
   .


2018 Dec 31 — Grant applications.

We have seed money for your project to broaden or deepen the practice of
contact improv in Ontario.

The Ontario Regional Contact Jam, founded 2000 or 2001 (who's keeping
track, really?) in Kitchener is an unincorporated non-profit -- like a
bunch of friends having a potluck picnic. And like a potluck with a lot of
leftovers, we've accumulated a surplus over the last decade. We'll always
keep some cushion for a rainy day, and we generally aim to break even on
our events, offering financial accommodation to all who ask. But we still
have a surplus that we'd like to apply to projects that further our mission
of broadening and deepening the practice of contact improvisation in
Ontario.

Here are the handwritten notes
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jWBxKS3-uiRmNLbFNuRjcwWUI4eGt3eFpwVUVzUVBHZ0xR/view?fbclid=IwAR0stzN0hBVHopznEozshiCmZbYeE9RkmFs8UU8YNQfAQr5T5eKiv8nHGrQ>
and a rough transcription
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eFPXiY-CVHbb886BsKDcqTYfOzUbrYjqpstqtJo3BPs?fbclid=IwAR02okKDHv9TZaYyoIOOZEQtPEv3kk4NPIqnx_zpcxLvizCLW5Ywq-4HyOI>
from the discussion Henry Wai facilitated at ORCJ 2017. They are full of
ideas about what goals we should have and how we might apply our surplus to
achieve them. Feel free to steal someone else's idea as the basis for a
concrete proposal.

Here are the projects we've supported to date:

   1.

   Earthdance Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship.
   2.

   Contact Improvisation Peterborough.
   3.

   Accessible package for the Contact Dance International Film Festival.
   4.

   Men's and women's circles after the Wednesday contact jam.
   5.

   Saturday accessible contact jams.
   6.

   Operating loan to Toronto Sunday Jam.

To apply for a grant, please copy this template
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IIBpShRaBTqqVdbZvUgv0n7LJSxi3AP4sjv1rjLmyzg/edit?usp=sharing&fbclid=IwAR0OTb0R3sbq7fZYXxhaabmXoyCe2huwKw2lcVTFDxdOhxn4EqjHHAco2g0>,
edit on Google Drive, and then share it back to us at
ontjam at contactimprov.ca.

2019 Jan 18 — Teaching proposals.

Theme: ‘We too: Playing with Community and Consent’

Are you interested in teaching a workshop that will help us to find
elasticity and playfulness in divisive times? Could you suggest a way for
us to hear each other over the fire alarm? How could your idea provide a
different kind of environment, a laboratory, where individual learning
experiences come together in a shared way? The We is the ‘who’ and Too is
the ‘consent’.

Some jumping off points:

   -

   Play with gender roles in the dance. Dance with someone in your own
   gender, then swap, then swap again, etc.
   -

   Find a partner. How can this not feel like the Farmer in the Dell? Or a
   call to torture?
   -

   Power dynamics. Who lifts who (big/small, strong/weak, s/he)? Who asks
   who?
   -

   What would a ‘completely safe’ dance look/feel like? Would anyone come?
   -

   What would an ‘anything goes’ dance look/feel like? Would anyone come?
   -

   What are the elements of risk? What are the elements of play? How can we
   integrate these? And should we?

If you have an idea inspired by something you’ve read above or a completely
different idea related to the theme, please submit your teaching proposal
(1 page max) to laurie at lauriejdavis.ca and celiajanemcbride at gmail.com by
January 18, 2019 with the following information:

   -

   Who are you? What is your teaching/facilitating/leadership experience?
   What is your CI experience?
   -

   What is your idea and how does it relate to ‘playing with community and
   consent’? How will you execute your idea? Do you want a 60, 90 or
   120-minute class? Or do you care?
   -

   Would you be prepared to repeat the class at another time during the
   weekend?
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   Two references. Who can we talk to about your teaching style?
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   Anything else you think we need to know.


2019 Jan 31 — Early-bird registration.

Discounted registration is now open at orcj.yapsody.com. Prices are $100
through the end of January, $120 in February, and $140 in March. Lunches
and snacks are included. Early out-of-town registrants have the best chance
of getting matched up with local hosts.

Celia and Laurie are planning more options, more music, more discussion,
more dancing, more snacks, more community, more inclusion. Three days of
contact improvisation on one entire floor of the Canadian National Ballet
School. Three beautiful light-filled studios. Nearly 300 people to dance
with. Especially welcoming to new people, non-dancers, people of all sizes,
ages, shapes, mental and physical abilities. The venue is completely
wheelchair accessible. LGBTQ welcoming.
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