Stakeholder Meeting - The Portal

We want to hear from you! Over the next 9 months YRAC will be working to create The Portal. An online space in support of arts, culture, and artists!

The Portal will address sectoral-wide challenges identified in YRAC's Creative State of York Region report. The report identifies challenges including:

• York Region Arts & Culture Sector is not functioning as a cohesive sector
• The sector lacks or has limited marketing and outreach resources to reach markets
• The sector lacks connectivity for community resource sharing

By creating the Portal we will address these challenges in a digital way, supporting the overall sector's shift to a more digital world while visualizing & mapping arts activity throughout York Region.

In order to create this tool, we need to hear from you! We will present our initial ideas regarding what the Portal could be and then open the floor to hear from you about:

• What challenges you're facing in art making
• What online tools would be helpful to you
• What ideas you like or don't like
• What are the most important pieces to you?

If you are an artist or arts organization based in York Region, we want to hear from you! Please join us to learn more about the Portal and make your voice heard!