{"id":71332,"date":"2021-06-10T12:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=71332"},"modified":"2021-06-10T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:21:48","slug":"scoop-ontario-reopening-friday-means-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/06\/10\/scoop-ontario-reopening-friday-means-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Ontario Is Reopening Friday: What This Means For The Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ontario-step_1-_reopening-arts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of Ontario will be reopening its doors on Friday. The marks the official move towards Step 1 of the province\u2019s Ontario\u2019s economic reopening plan.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage focuses on opening mostly outdoor events, as well as re-opening business with highly restricted occupancy rules, rather than outright closures as before.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>We know what you\u2019re thinking\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u2026 What does this mean for the arts?<\/p>\n<p>Concert venues, theatres and cinemas may open outdoors for the purpose of rehearsing or performing a recorded or broadcasted concert, artistic event, theatrical performance or other performance with no more than 10 performers, among other restrictions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>And for those running summer festivals, is this news too late?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Probably\u2026 It takes time to plan events, and Summer Festivals have already held off as long as they could. Most have already started to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/06\/08\/the-scoop-toronto-summer-music-gives-us-hope-for-the-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fully online seasons<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>And everyone else?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Outdoor social gatherings and organized public events with up to 10 people.<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor religious services and ceremonies, including wedding services and funeral services, capped at the number of people that can maintain a physical distance of two metres.<\/li>\n<li>Indoor religious services and ceremonies, including wedding services and funeral services permitted at up to 15 percent capacity of the particular room.<\/li>\n<li>Non-essential retail permitted at 15 percent capacity, with no restrictions on the goods that can be sold.<\/li>\n<li>Essential and other select retail permitted at 25 percent capacity, with no restrictions on the goods that can be sold.<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor dining with up to four people per table, with exceptions for larger households.<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor fitness classes, outdoor groups in personal training and outdoor individual\/team sport training to be permitted with up to 10 people.<\/li>\n<li>Day camps for children permitted to operate in a manner consistent with the safety guidelines for COVID-19 produced by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.<\/li>\n<li>Overnight camping at campgrounds and campsites, including Ontario Parks, and short-term rentals.<\/li>\n<li>Concert venues, theatres and cinemas may open outdoors for the purpose of rehearsing or performing a recorded or broadcasted concert, artistic event, theatrical performance or other performance with no more than 10 performers, among other restrictions.<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor horse racing tracks and motor speedways permitted to operate without spectators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/guidelines-gatherings-and-winter-holiday-celebrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See here<\/a> for all the details.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of Ontario will be reopening its doors on Friday \u2014 what does this mean for the arts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,35839,39,3693],"tags":[35697,39366],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ontario-step_1-_reopening-arts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iyw","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71334,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71332\/revisions\/71334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71332"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}