History of the Awards

by Sue Elliott, General Manager & CEO, Calgary Opera The balancing acts that arts leaders need to navigate on a daily, weekly, and seemingly perpetual basis these days can make it challenging to maintain perspective, adaptability, and resilience. The list of big leadership questions we contemplate can feel endless…Do or dream? Expand or focus? Change or double-down? Now or later? Why? Why not? And perhaps my all-time favourite question, “What if we could…?” Enter the Rozsa F

by Samanatha MacDonald, Director of Training Since 2012, the Rozsa Foundation has been uplifting arts managers and leaders through various training interventions. One such intervention, originally titled Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP), now Rozsa Foundations of Arts Leadership, has seen well over 300 graduates in its fourteen years. Recently, we had the opportunity to undertake a data project that looked at participant program evaluations for RAMP from 2013 to 2025 – the