Arts Administration and Cultural Management

Anne began her arts management career in the 1980s at Keyano Theatre, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Moving to Toronto, she worked at the Toronto Theatre Alliance on the 3rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, then at Jeunesses musicales du Canada as Ontario Executive Director. After a Master’s degree in Arts Policy and Management from the City University, London, UK (1987-88) Anne returned to Canada and worked at Harbourfront as Co-ordinator for the Festival of Authors; then as General Manager at Theatre Direct Canada and Mixed Company Theatre. She also taught in the Humber College post-graduate Arts Administration – Cultural Management program, starting in 2000.

In 2002 Anne moved to Owen Sound and worked on revenue development at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, then at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre, a major facility on the Lake Huron shore. In 2003 Anne began to teach in the undergraduate arts management program at University of Toronto, Scarborough. In 2008-9, Anne co-ordinated the Humber program in which she had been teaching. During the five-year suspension of the Humber program, from 2011 to 2013, Anne taught post-graduates in the Culture and Heritage Site Management program at Centennial College as well as teaching job development skills to post-secondary learners in a technical theatre program at Sheridan College. Anne joined Young Associates, offering financial and business services to the cultural sector, in 2013 as a senior consultant, working primarily in revenue development and business planning. Anne resumed the coordinator’s role for the Humber post-graduate arts management program as of 2014, and maintains her consulting practice at Young Associates alongside this full-time faculty position, stewarding her robust and long-standing professional links into the sector alongside her academic role.

Freddy Monasterio is the artistic and administrative director of the LyricFind Foundation as well as the development and grants manager of LyricFind Inc. Freddy has 15 years of experience in project management, fundraising and research in the arts and cultural industries. He is fluently bilingual (English-Spanish) and has completed graduate studies in the fields of business administration (BBA - University of Havana, Cuba), global development studies (MA - Queen’s University, Canada) and cultural studies (PhD -  Queen’s University, Canada). In addition to identifying new funding and strategic partnership opportunities, managing multiple grants, and supporting business development, cultural exchange and international co-operation initiatives with LyricFind, Freddy teaches "Marketing Arts and Culture" at Humber College, chairs the board of directors of the Lula Music and Arts Centre, and co-writes and co-hosts Cuban Serenade, a podcast documentary series exploring the history of Cuban music in Canada. He also volunteers as a youth mentor and interpreter with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. Freddy has represented Canada’s music industry as part of international trade missions in Latin America, and helped launch multiple initiatives such as the Electric Circuits Festival of Electronic Music, Performance and Digital Arts (Kingston, Ontario) and the Soul Shakedown DJ Collective. He has collaborated as a research associate with the Vulnerable Media Lab, the Canadian Live Music Association, and the Cuban Institute for Cultural Research. Freddy’s research on independent music production, entrepreneurship, and the diasporic experience of Cuban musicians in Canada has been published in Latin American Music Review (University of Texas Press), Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal (American Music Research Center/University of Nebraska Press), and Magazine AM:PM.

Heather Clara Young, CPB (Principal, Young Associates), has worked in the field of arts management for over thirty years and as a bookkeeper for most of that time. Her experience includes leadership roles with arts and heritage service organizations, theatre and dance producing companies, facilities, festivals and community organizations. Young Associates, founded in 1993, provides full-service bookkeeping as well as financial planning, strategic planning, HR and data management services to not-for-profits and charities, with a special focus on the arts and culture sector. Heather teaches accounting and financial management in Humber College’s Arts Management program, and has taught for Humber’s Fundraising and Volunteer Management program and University of Toronto’s Arts Management program. She was the 2012 recipient of the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture, and a 2004 recipient of Humber College’s Continuing Education Award of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Contribution. Finance for the Arts in Canada (2005, 2021) is a unique self-study guide, reference source and textbook for the accounting and finance functions in cultural organizations.