Marathon Museum Wants Its Piece of the $1 MILLION DOLLAR Aviva Community Fund – Your Click Will Help!
Marathon District Museum
MARATHON, ON – Chantal Gingras, Intern at the Marathon District Museum has enterred the museum into the Aviva Community Funds contest again this year and is hoping area residents will take the time to click to better last year’s 14th place finish. For 2013, there’s ONE MILLION DOLLARS to be shared among the winners with all ideas which make it into the finals guaranteed a minimum of $10,000 (yes 10 thousand dollars) which could go a long way in supporting the Marathon District Museum and the Group of 7 related tourism project that Gingras has submitted as the museum’s 2013 ‘idea’ for the Aviva funding.
HOW IT WORKS
An idea is submitted, (OVERVIEW of the Marathon District Museum’s 2013 Idea below) there are 3 voting rounds to get into semi-finals (Marathon District museum needs to make it into the top 10 during ONE of these rounds).
FIRST ROUND VOTING
The first round began September 30th, people can vote every day until October 14th when first round voting closes. OntarioNewsNorth.com will keep a button on the home page to help you remember (currently it’s in the Aviva banner near the top of the page, click on the “Vote for this idea” button).
Vote using the button below don’t forget to vote every day of Round 1!
During Semi-Finals
- Entries have ONE chance to get voted into the finals (10 top ideas continue).
In the finals
- Judges will decide which ideas get what amount of money based on originality and other factors.
- All ideas that make it into the finals are guaranteed a minimum of$10,000!
CLICK HERE to vote now!
OVERVIEW of Marathon District Museum’s AVIVA CONTEST Idea:
The Group of Seven is the an internationally known group of Canadian artists from the 1920s. It is made of of Franklin Carmicheal, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley. This group often made visits to the North Shore of Superior, creating some great art pieces! Many of the areas these paintings were created have been found! We’d like to showcase the importance of the North Shore of Lake Superior to the Group of Seven and their works.
To do this we will need:
- Trails built to locations used by members of the Group of Seven to create these works that will allow people to visit these spots;
- High-quality reproductions of Group of Seven paintings specific to the North Shore;
- Durable storyboards that explain the Group of Seven’s history on the North Shore
- New display cabinets that will house displays created to record the Group of Seven’s body of work along the North Shore;
- Professionally-made brochures, posters and other advertising materials that can be used to promote the display (on-line and in museums).
- Tours geared to classroom teachers to learn about the Group of Seven.
This will help to make Marathon and the North Shore of Lake Superior a spot to visit while promoting and interpreting a group of artists that are integral to Canadian culture!
