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Artists Inspiring Artists – a FREE series to ignite creativity, presented by the Canadian Opera Company!
March 17 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
Free
Calling all creative people in our community who want to be inspired! Join the Canadian Opera Company and Elora Centre for the Arts for a transformative evening workshop designed to fuel your artistic spirit. Hosted by Renée Salewski, a talented Teaching Artist from the Canadian Opera Company, this workshop is crafted to push you beyond your artistic boundaries. Explore new techniques and perspectives through improv, acting, creative writing, and visual art.
This is open to artists from all disciplines, inviting participants to step outside of their comfort zones and learn innovative strategies that can enhance any artistic pursuit. Whether you’re a dancer, actor, musician, writer, or visual artist, there’s something for everyone.
Details:
- Location: in the gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts
- Cost: FREE! (thanks to the generosity of the Canadian Opera Company)
- When: March 17
- Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM
- Registration is required – sign up now to reserve your spot (scroll down for registration – limited spaces available)
This is a unique opportunity to learn from a talented performer and teaching artist in a welcoming and supportive environment. Don’t miss out on the chance to connect with other creatives and elevate your artistic journey in 2025!
Photo credits (below) Karen E. Reeves, Taylor Long, Adobe Stock
A bit about the Instructor
Renée is a vibrant performing arts professional with twenty-five years of diverse performing, teaching, writing, and directing experience from stage to film, to things in between. Creative opportunities have taken Renée all over the UK, London’s West End and off West-End, Europe, Canada, Korea, Central Asia, and many other inspiring places. Highlights as a director/performer over the years include, English Touring Opera (company principal and teaching artist), D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (Savoy Theatre, 2002 Season, ensemble and swing), Marsinah in Kismet (The Arcola Theatre), Associate Director for Noise Ensemble composed by Ethan Lewis Maltby (Edinburgh Fringe, Seoul Drum Festival, European Tour), director of Little Red Riding Hood composed by Tom Smail (Toronto Fringe Kids), director- Le Nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’amore, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, The Merry Widow, Die Zauberflote, Don Pasquale (Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts), Opera Revue (Blitzkeig Cabaret), and coaching, writing, and producing with long time creative partner Allyson Devenish (Rubi: Shades of Love, Struggle and Protest, The Audition Clinic). During the pandemic, Renee enjoyed remotely directing Endymion’s Dream, The Pirates of Penzance, and La Clemenza di Tito for COSA Canada whilst continuing to work with singers and actors online. In 2022, she had the pleasure of being an RBC Artist Mentor with the Association for Opera in Canada, a teaching artist with the Canadian Opera Company, a principal performer in Risk!: A Climate Cabaret (Silverman and Eastman), a choral clinician to the Durham Girls Choir, a core faculty member on the inaugural COC Summer Intensive, an invited teaching artist at SOLLT, U of T, Hart House Theatre, and The National Opera Studio (London, England), as well as a teacher/coach/mentor to individual singing actors at varying stages of their development and careers.