Leading Tone Art Productions

Leading Tone Arts Productions
An innovative arts organization, Leading Tone Arts Productions promotes arts, environmental and cross-cultural awareness, educating through installations, exhibitions, workshops and performances around the world.

MANDATE
Leading Tone Arts Productions operates with a mandate to originate, develop, produce, perform and/or exhibit interdisciplinary works of art uniting all or some of: music, voice, theatre, dance and visual arts.
And, to educate the public, to teach children and adults, both within and outside the school systems, in respect of the above objects, and to encourage sensitivity to the environment, present positive images of women and men of all ethnic backgrounds, and to develop and foster an understanding of unity in diversity in the arts.

HISTORY
Leading Tone Arts Productions was founded in 1991 by artistic directors Amanta Scott and David Tomlinson. In 1993, the artistic directors brought together as founding members of Leading Tone Arts Productions Inc. a group of persons dedicated to the success of the Leading Tone project, including the late Canadian composer Harry Somers and the late ethicist, educator and businessman Max Clarkson, as well as a number of professionals committed to the arts, who went on to become directors of the corporation. In 1994, Leading Tone Arts Productions Inc. was granted Letters Patent by the Government of Ontario as a not-for-profit corporation. Leading Tone is currently applying for status as a Registered Charity.

Leading Tone Arts Productions is based in Ontario, Canada, with outreach to the global community. Installations, workshops and performances have been presented across Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.

Leading Tone Arts Productions Inc. is an innovative organization that inspires and educates people about the arts, recycling, resource conservation, cultural diversity, mythology and our environment.

Leading Tone gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Ontario Trillium Foundation.