We’re Looking for Talent!
Are you enrolled at Sheridan College as a post-secondary student? Yes! Are you creative, driven to improve, and a passionate problem-solver? Double-yes! Then apply to join our award-winning team. Applications due 13 September 2019.
Two Streams
Research Assistants use creative problem solving to design a novel fundraising campaign for Toronto Fringe’s Theatre Entrepreneurs’ Networking & Training (TENT) program. Learn how to apply here.
Creative Documenters use their art & design chops to create novel outputs that showcase student talent and raise awareness about the project’s innovations, impact, and methodologies. Learn how to apply here.
Super-Powers: You Got’em, We Need’em
Creative Problem Solving
Apply CPS processes to reliably generate wonderfully new ideas.
Graphic Design
Wield Adobe Creative Cloud to create beautiful illustrations, graphics, and posters.
Marketing
Use your knowledge of marketing, publicity, and social media to blast a siren call to our audience.
AV Production
Collaborate with a team to produce short videos and podcasts.
Design
Make spaces and experiences that embody the Toronto Fringe brand and wow guests.
Copy Writing & Publishing
Put pen to paper to author blog posts, communications, and magazine-style reports.
Administration
Plan our event, manage budgets, and mesaure return-on-investment.
Photography
Tell our story with snazzy snaps.
Performing Arts
Share your knowledge of theatre and artrepreneurship to serve emerging producers.
Fine Art
Make public art that solves problems.
News
Sheridan Students Take Centre Stage at Toronto Fringe
Oavkille News featured our project work at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. “Sheridan College research students have a front row seat at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, which kicks off July 3. Sheridan students are generating a buzz in Toronto’s theatre industry for their pioneering work in expanding Toronto Fringe’s Theatre Entrepreneurs’ Networking and Training (TENT) program.”
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Taking Care of Business
The Toronto Raptors aren’t the only ones bringing home hardware this spring: Victoria Webb (BBA Marketing Management) and Karly-Anna O’Brien (BBA Supply Chain Management 2019) won two major awards for their outstanding research. The Pilon School of Business all-stars have been applying their creativity and entrepreneurial know-how to train emerging producers in Toronto’s theatre community. These two exceptional women are slam dunking their way to success!
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TENT Project Featured by Sheridan Research
Our talent-orientated research is boosting the career development of Sheridan students and emerging theatre producers.
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Creative Humanities Featured in Curiosities
Find out how an ecceltic team of undergraduate researchers at Sheridan College are collaborating with Toronto Fringe to bring new ideas to the Theatre Entrepreneurs’ Networking & Training program. Together, they’re helping emerging producers thrive in the theatre business.
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TENT Collaboration Featured in Alchemy
The word spreads thanks to Brittany German’s pen. The collaboration’s lead wordsmith, German (BA, Creative Writing & Publishing) is raising awareness about the impact we’re bringing to Sheridan students and Toronto’s theatre community.
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Creative Problem Solving at the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals
Who doesn’t love a road trip? The mere suggestion invokes the idea of an adventure: discoveries to be unearthed, friendships formed, strengthened, deepened. All of this is exactly what happened when we took our collaboration with Toronto Fringe on the road one grey day in early November and headed west to the town of Windsor.
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New Opportunities for Toronto Artists
We designed and instructed innovation workshops for TENT & Toronto Fringe in July 2018. Find out what we did and what’s in store for fall 2018!
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Undergraduate Research
We’re applying creative problem solving to bring social innovations to Toronto Fringe and enhance the development of top-talent in Canada’s theatre biz. Find out why our research matters and how you can use our insights.
Want to be a creative businessperson?
Victoria Webb (BBA, Marketing) shares how her research with the Creative Humanities is helping her become more open and adaptable, two creativity-boosting characteristics. Click the button below to find out how you can enhance your creativity with the right mindset.
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5 Tips to Stay on Top of Work & School
Contributing to a major research project is, well, a lot of work! Robyn Miller (BA, Creative Writing & Publishing) shares how she balances a busy research and school schedule.
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Inspiring the Domino Effect
Karly-Anna O’Brien (BBA, Supply Chain Management 2019) shares how she’s mobilizing her passion for entrepreneurialism to produce a domino effect in Toronto’s theatre community.
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Get Creative when Blogging for Business
Brittany German (BA, Creative Writing & Publishing) is our lead copy writer on the TENT project. She shares some tips on how to craft content that fuses creativity with business. With her help, you will not only be able to celebrate the value creativity brings to business but also showcase its impact through tantalizing prose.
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The Importance of an Online Presence
Jacquelyn Ferguson (BA, Creative Writing & Publishing) shares how developing curriculum for the Theatre Entrepreneurs’ Networking and Training program helped her better appreciate how many opportunities social media opens up for emerging talent in the creative industries.
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Talent
Creative Humanities is an experiment in talent-orientated research. We’re finding new models that boost the career development of undergraduate students, regarless of their area of practice. Most humanities projects make ideas; we make talent.
Designing Talent & Creativity
Michael Rugo (BA, Interaction Design 2019) created our snazzy social media graphics and helped plan our dissemination campaigns. Find out how he’s adapting his user-design skills to showcase our outputs and collaborators’ achievements.
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Creating Leaders & Impact
Sandra Ghobrial (BBA, Marketing 2019) is a skilled operator of the sticky notes, papers that appear at every facilitation–they just wouldn’t be CPS facilitations otherwise!
Super Fun Creativity Workshop!
Kate Dockeray (BA, Photography 2019) was the project’s first Creative Documenter. Find out how she used her artistic talent to share our story and what she’s learned from our collaboration with Toronto Fringe.
LEARN MOREA Colourful New Logo
Kayden Chan (BA, Illustration) designed two logos for the Creative Humanities project. Find out about Kayden’s creative process and how the abstract images tantalize curiosity.
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Projects
We’re grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with amazing community partners in Toronto’s creative industries.
Mobilizing Social Innovation to Train the Next Generation of Theatre Entrepreneurs
We’re leveraging Sheridan’s expertise in social innovation and community-engaged research to expand Toronto Fringe’s Theatre Entrepreneurs’ Networking and Training program (TENT) and recommend models for fiscal sustainability.
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Breaking Through Barriers to Gender Equity in Canadian Film
We applied humanities research and creative problem solving (CPS) to facilite a new, three-year strategic plan for Breakthroughs Film Festival.
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Hello!
Creative Humanities is a hub for research projects directed by Dr. Brandon McFarlane, a Professor of Creativity & Creative Thinking at Sheridan College.
We’re committed to creating new approaches to humanities research & education that better serve students and Canadian communities.
We’re grateful for the support of SSHRC and Sheridan College for our collaborations with Toronto Fringe and Breakthroughs Film Festival.
