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Based in Toronto and founded in 1950, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America with an international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation. The COC currently enjoys a remarkable 99 per cent attendance rate for its mainstage season. The company’s new home, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, was designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects Inc. and is Canada’s first purpose-built opera house. Acclaimed as one of the best opera houses in the world, the Four Seasons Centre is also the performance venue for The National Ballet of Canada.

If you can read and write, you can learn to do, and be, anything. That’s the idea behind CODE. A Canadian NGO with over 50 years of experience, CODE advances literacy and learning in Canada and around the world. With the generous support of its donors, CODE builds literacy by providing schools and community libraries in developing countries with well-written books that children can relate to, and teachers with the skills they need to bring these books to life.

In collaboration with various community institutions and organizations, the Society hosts a variety of programs, including lecture series, speaker series, exhibitions, special cultural events, and travel opportunities focusing on the arts of the Asia Pacific region. Many programs address pan-Asian themes rather than focusing on a particular culture or region within Asia. The Society also holds the long-range goal of attaining a permanent location for the display of Asian arts and education about Asian arts and culture in the Lower Mainland. Established in 1969, the Society will be celebrating its 40th year in 2009 with major efforts underway to raise funds to ensure the future sustainability of the organization.

Founded in 1969, The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC) is a non-profit charitable organization that addresses environmental issues in British Columbia, with a particular focus on urban communities in Lower Mainland and the Georgia Basin. SPEC is a member-based society with an elected Board of Directors and a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. The Directors, members, staff and volunteers actively participate in SPEC’s on-going environmental projects.

In 1967 Tom Lawson, a teacher in Port Hope, Ontario brought together high school students from around the province to participate in an invitational debating tournament. Over the next few years, more and more students from all over the country were drawn to the event and in 1972 the invitational enjoyed its first year of national participation. This marked the beginning of the Canadian Student Debating Federation, an organization which has evolved in the decades since to become an overarching organization responsible for the promotion and support of high school debating in Canada. The crowning event of the CSDF is the annual National Student Debating Seminar which evolved from that first invitational tournament into a week-long tool for introducing students to the art of debating. Held in a different province each year and incorporating both official languages and various styles of debate, the National Seminar is both a debating event and a chance for cultural exchange.

Situated on a beautiful campus bordered by the sparkling Rideau River and Canal, Carleton University is just minutes from the heart of our nation’s government and enjoys easy access to the many organizations, associations and businesses which thrive in Ottawa.

Since Carousel Players began in 1972, over 2.7 million students, teachers and families have seen our productions. We regularly perform in schools across Ontario, and frequently tour to theatres in London and Toronto. Our award-winning plays have toured as far away as England and Japan. Carousel Players operates out of the historic Courthouse in downtown St. Catharines. We also present public performances for Niagara families in the Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre at 101 King Street. Our facility is actively used by local theatre, dance and music organizations from the Niagara region. Carousel Players was founded by Desmond Davis, a Professor of Drama at Brock University to serve youth in Niagara. Other artistic leaders of the company include Duncan McGregor, Pierre Tetrault, Kim Selody and Pablo Felices-Luna, our current artistic director.

Carousel Theatre for Young People (CTYP) has produced 150 plays over 38 seasons. In its early years the company performed at several venues in Vancouver including the Arts Club Seymour Street and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. CTYP has been based on Granville Island since 1981, where we operate a small arts complex that includes administrative offices, rehearsal halls and a costume shop. The company’s dedication to artistic excellence has resulted in critical acclaim and twelve Jessie Awards in the Theatre for Young Audiences category, with 53 nominations in the past five seasons. Each season approximately 40 000 young people and their families benefit from CTYP’s diverse programming and activities, which include a Mainstage season of Literary Classics, a summer Teen Shakespeare Program, and a year-round Theatre School for young people aged 3 to 17 years.

“Alberta’s international-award-winning Catalyst Theatre revels in juxtaposition” Gilbert A Bouchard, The Globe and Mail, Canada Catalyst Theatre is an Edmonton-based theatre company that creates and tours new work developed under the leadership of Artistic Director Jonathan Christenson and Resident Designer Bretta Gerecke. Since 1997, Catalyst’s artistic team has created original productions that have toured the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States, garnering many awards and much critical acclaim along the way. In Edmonton, Catalyst has received numerous Sterling Awards including eight for its of 2006 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and seven for 2008's Nevermore. In 2009/2010 Catalyst gave 87 performances for over 32,000 audience members. Catalyst operates its own venue in Edmonton’s funky Old Strathcona district. Depending on the season 75% to 84% of the company's budget goes directly artistic and production expenses.

The Cataraqui Region Conservation Foundation raises funds to assist with the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority's conservation education and land acquisition programs. The Foundation has been the CRCA's fundraising arm for more than 40 years. The Foundation is a registered charitable organization with a formally-constituted board of directors and organization by-laws. The board elects its officers and maintains its records at the CRCA Administration Office in Kingston, Ontario. In 1994, the Foundation became a membership-based organization. Persons interested in the aims of the Foundation can make contributions to specific projects (for example, Partners-in-Education) and may purchase a tax-receiptable annual membership. Our website for further information is: www.cataraquiconservationfoundation.org

CAUSE Canada is an international relief and development agency working in West Africa and Central America. Our development priorities include: Primary Health Care (PHC) Water and Sanitation Education Reforestation Gender-Specific Development Initiatives (Women’s Projects) Micro-enterprise Projects CAUSE Canada understands that development is a process rather than an end, and that to develop is not to have but to become. Consequently, CAUSE Canada plans, organizes, fundraises for, implements, and evaluates international development programs, in close long-term partnership with communities, that focus on the strengths people and communities already posses and assisting them to utilize those assets to become what they want to become. This is our affirmative assets-based approach.

The Music Gallery (est. 1976) is a Toronto presenter and venue devoted entirely to the presentation of leading-edge contemporary music in all genres. We present approximately 50 concerts each year. We are the premier Canadian stage amongst an international network of concert halls committed to the promotion of the composers of our time, and the furtherance of creative art music. Responsible for offering Toronto audiences compelling and intelligent concerts, we continuously research and uncover the most daring and original musical artists, most of whose work fit no other forum. Boasting an Artistic Advisory Committee of international scope, the Music Gallery is widely regarded as the place in Canada where the latest developments in art music are unveiled. Our concerts take place in the acoustic splendour of St. George the Martyr Church situated on the cusp of Grange Park in the heart of Queen Street West.