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The Emerging Arts Professional Network has heard from both emerging and senior management on labour trends in the arts. Nobody has spoken for the middle managers, who are ostensibly the next generation of arts organization leaders…if they can manage to climb an already crowded ladder. More...

Networking is key. If everyone held all their secrets in all the time, everyone would be constantly re-inventing the wheel. What’s the point in that? By sharing and getting to know one another, we share our ideas, our struggles, failures, and victories … and the process that brought us there. More...

Single digit unemployment may mean a tightening of the labour pool but that doesn’t mean that there are no workers to be had. The question is just what skills does this remaining pool bring to the table? What do organizations have to do to bridge the skills gap? More...

I am floating in the ocean - not a cloud in the sky, the sun blazing. I turn to another playwright splashing into the water near me. “I’m trying to figure out how this is part of my professional development,” I say with a laugh. Touch down, Winnipeg. –30∞C and knee-deep snow. Back home from the other side of the world. More...

The term “professional development” is something of a misnomer when applied to the art of theatre. Conventionally, professional development often refers to a program of activities that either a corporation or institution implements to make sure their workers are, ideally, being continually educated and brought up to speed with developments in their industry. More...