History of the Awards

SSS Members enjoy a recent Secret Sounds event at the Masters Gallery, featuring The Torchettes The Calgary Folk Music Festival’s donor outreach program, Secret Sounds Society, was born as an Action Learning Project (ALP) during my time as a student in the third cohort of the Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP). Secret Sounds is a membership-based social club; members are told the dates and times of the four events in the season, but we keep the location and the concept of e

Following her time with the Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP), Barbara Thorson presented her Action Learning Project at the University of Calgary on March 14, 2017. My Action Learning Project started out as a proposal to create a Policy and Procedure Manual for Cowtown Opera. However, immediate concerns for lack of space in my home and garage (where Cowtown Opera had resided for the past six years), led me to begin the search for a new location. The challenge would be to

In 2015-2016, Karen Brown Fournell, General Manager of Rapid Fire Theatre, participated in the Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP) and through that program developed an Action Learning Project (ALP). Rapid Fire Theatre (RFT) is Edmonton’s longest running improv theatre that aims to provide affordable, high-energy improvisation and alternative theatre to their audiences, while providing exciting opportunities for their participants. One of the things that improv offers, over

Each year, participants of the Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP) present their organization's board and RAMP faculty with an Action Learning Project, or ALP. This project applies their learnings from the program into a real world plan to move their organization forward. Donna Barrett, Operations Specialist at the Alberta College of Art + Design's Continuing Education Department, shared her experience with us. I, and the ACAD Continuing Education department, continue to be

From September 2015-April 2016 I participated in the inaugural hosting of the Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP) held in Edmonton. RAMP is the Rozsa Foundation’s unique certificate program designed for mid to senior level arts professionals and has been offered in Calgary for 6 years and in Edmonton for 1 year. Along with 20 colleagues from 16 Edmonton and area arts organizations, we heard from leading professionals on various topics including human resources, financial man

The Ally Toolkit Conference is a one-day conference offering a holistic toolkit for better ally-ship in schools, at work and in our communities. This project grew from a previous RAMP (Rozsa Arts Management Program) marketing project completed by Fairy Tales staff in 2015. The research found a startling lack of audience identifying as ‘allies’ who were attending the festival. This made the opportunity for audience development through education and context building an ideal av

Contributed by Val Duncan, Artistic Producer of Theatre Encounter, following the presentation of her RAMP Action Learning Project. [April 10, 2017] My Action Learning Project started as an audience development initiative. The artistic directors at Theatre Encounter had known for years that their work aligned more closely with contemporary visual arts than with traditional theatre, but, the company just couldn’t seem to integrate people interested in contemporary art into th

Photo: Mary Rozsa de Coquet and Damon Johnston The 2015/2016 RAMP season concludes with graduates' ALP (Action Learning Project) presentations, covering everything from new audience development, board succession planning, fund development, strategic planning, membership development, organizational sustainability, human resources, youth and community outreach, plus many more challenges faced by the arts sector. As always, participants gained new insights into arts management a