1 Jini Stolk Executive Director, Creative Trust for Arts & Culture Performing Arts Education Overview HIGHLIGHTS FROM A SURVEY OF TORONTO-AREA DANCE, MUSIC, OPERA AND THEATRE COMPANIES DECEMBER 2011

50 survey respondents  Senior arts education staff members or artistic directors  Range of disciplines (7 dance, 7 music, 3 opera, 20 general theatre, 4 TYA, 6 multidisciplinary, 3 other)  Smaller organizations: 8 with budgets under $250,000  Larger organizations: 9 with budgets over $5 million 2 Survey goals  Understand the contributions of performing arts companies to arts education  Creative Trust and PAONE wish to support companies in their continued development of arts education programs and activities  successful audience development and community engagement

 Spent $12 million on arts education activities in most recent fiscal year  Sources of funding: Private donors/foundations: 71% of respondents Government operating funding: 65% Corporate funders: 58% Government project funding: 44%. Student ticket sales: 44% Fee-based workshops: 42% 3 Arts education spending and funding

4 Reach and impact  537,000 participants (of all ages)  37 organizations are active in 4,371 schools

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 Ensuring exposure to the arts (18%)  Introduction to or exploration of a specific art form (16%)  Training / skills development in a specific discipline (14%)  Community building (12%)  Building audiences for the future (12%) 9 Diversity of primary goals

10 Most significant successes  Specific arts education programs or organization’s longevity in the field 45 years of providing arts in schools Continuity of arts education programs as well as seeing the generations taught in the professional field of dance.  Impacts on arts education participants Offering thousands of young people the opportunity to build awareness, appreciation and understanding of symphony music over decades of sustained support Former students coming back to the theatre years later, saying they are 'hooked' or 'addicted'. Inspiration of young people and music educators through workshops, rehearsals, performance and personal interaction.

11 Future of arts education in performing arts organizations  33% anticipate a substantial increase in arts education activities  47% anticipate a minor increase  12% anticipate “little or no changes”  Only 2% anticipate a minor decrease  Only 7% anticipate a substantial decrease