Your Member Benefits:

• FREE – Borrow from over 300 documentaries and independent films in our Member Film Library
• FREE – Borrow a set of hiking poles and/or snow shoes (one-day rental)
• FREE – Participate for free at one of our land art days
• FREE – Vote for our board of Directors, run for the Board, and help shape the organization
• 10% off – 4e t-shirts, hats, books, and catalogues

What does your membership do for 4e?

Memberships demonstrate to our funders that we have community support; this helps us access funding to provide high quality community programs.

FREE 2014 community programming

• Bonnie Blink Exhibition & visiting artists and author talks
• Early Learning Project: 2 month long environmental , inquiry-based learning project at Little Current Public School and Churchill Public School
• Get Active with the Arts: a year long series of art excursions on trails around Manitoulin, collaborating with several local groups and communities
• Free Land Art, Painting and other workshops: Manitoulin Passage Ride; Grade 9 and 10 students at MSS; KTEI Fall Harvest Festival; ELK class (LCPS); Espanola Fibre Arts Festival

Low-fee and subsidized programs

• Kids 2-5 year old art studio sessions; Indigo Dyeing Workshop with Manitoulin Spinners and Weavers
• Manitoulin Resilience Roster: cultural worker and cultural organization training sessions
• Low cost meeting space at our new Kagawong Studio

Behind the Scenes

• Steering committee member, Social Enterprise Evolution project; Committee Member, Training and education Constellation; participation in the development of the Manitoulin Arts and Cultural Council; Chairing of New Initiatives Committee; Member, Billings Economic Development Committee
• Juror, 2014 Artastic Fusion Art Show
• Hosted meetings ; several PARO meetings (association of Northern Ontario women entrepreneurs); youth social enterprise asset mapping meeting
• Support, advice and consulting to local cultural organizations, projects and new cultural businesses
• Facilitated a 3-day training program for land and place-based arts educators.

2014/15 MEMBERSHIP FEES

1 year membership – $10

1 year organizational/business membership – $30