Ontario-Québec Cultural Exchange Program

Six projects were funded in the first year of the program (2017-18) and another five in 2018-19. Initiatives supported by the program include:
* A market development project, promoting the creation and presentation of dance works by Indigenous and pluralistic dance artists among performing arts presenters in both Ontario and Quebec;
* Co-creation between a Franco-Ontarian theatre company and an Indigenous theatre company of a play for children between the ages of two and six years-old that explores Indigenous cosmogony (theory of the origins of the universe), to be presented in both provinces;
* A one-day conference bringing together artists, cultural workers and organizations from both provinces to consider the challenges of the digital revolution;
* A multi-faceted project exploring ways to integrate cultural diversity into theatre creation, involving a theatre laboratory, a practitioner symposium and a digital portal (postmarginal.ca);
* A crossover creation residency for Quebec and Ontario storytellers to acquaint themselves with each other's storytelling canons with the goal of re-interpreting the stories and legends to new audiences; and
* "LIBLAB bilingue", an inaugural partnership between Opera de Montreal and Tapestry Opera (Toronto), bringing together four composers and four librettists to create 16 operas over a 10-day period, with performance to take place in Montreal and Toronto in 2020.