Performing Arts Selection Process and Booking Deadlines

The selection process starts eleven months in advance of any particular season.

Showcases are presented at Showcase in October every year to begin touring as early as September of the following year.

Price Lists and OSAC Performing Arts Online Directory

Price Lists of performers interested in touring Saskatchewan are distributed by mail to Arts councils approximately one month prior to Showcase. Updates of this list are distributed at Showcase.

Price List information includes name of performer, type of performer, number in group, fee schedule, technical requirements, workshop availability as well as website, video and image links. Wherever applicable, performers are required to include hospitality, accommodation and technical requirements (i.e. providing their own production, sound and lights), as part of their fee.

OSAC now has an online Performing Artist Directory. This is a searchable online directory for arts councils to look for artists that suit their needs.If you do not have the username and password for your arts councils contact the Performing Arts Coordinator.

Block Booking Process

While arts councils may choose any performer they wish, booking should be made through OSAC for a concert series to facilitate collective buying (block booking). Only bookings made through the OSAC office or approved by the OSAC office are eligible for the performing arts grant. School Shows, and special events (senior home shows, fundraisers, etc.) booked through OSAC are not eligible for the performing arts grant.

Arts councils make series choices or single event choices or both by sending performers' names to the office on the Performing Arts Grant Application form (see SAMPLES section) which OSAC supplies for "Stars" and "Kids". First choices are made at the Performing Arts Booking Meeting at Showcase. Any changes from the first selection must be finalized by November 30 and submitted on the Performing Arts Grant Application.

While it is rare OSAC cannot route an artist to all interested communities, when there are more requests from arts councils for performances of a particular performer than are available for booking, preference will be given to arts councils on a first-come, first-served basis according to the submission date of the OSAC choice lists which may be emailed. mailed or faxed to OSAC by November 30.