 Thank you, Adrienne and Brent I'm Simon Dove. I'm a director of CSE Artslink and I'm happy to see you all assembled here or assembling probably is a better word as people come in still Two practical announcements first is that given the The gorgeous snowstorm we had yesterday Simon Brault could not get his flight from Ottawa So he's going to be Skyping in instead But given the vagaries of Traveling in Canada. He was in Montreal for the flight and his train back to Ottawa this morning is also cancelled So he's currently on a train So that adds to the the drama of this afternoon But the plan is to Skype with him after the break. So essentially what is in your program? We'll just move 20 minutes earlier up to the break and then we'll take the break Set up the Skype We'll have Simon on Skype and then we'll go straight into the foundation's panel conversation So I just want to welcome you to Just to say for us this is a really important way in which we as CSE Artslink engage with what we are Both thinking of doing but also with the artists we're working with and how we begin to Frame and Develop the kind of work that we feel we need to be doing to support artists both to help us all Imagine and build the world as it needs to be as it can be And we wanted to bring people together to really share both approaches ideas And I hope in an inspiring an informative way that starts to enable conversations to happen So this is really a pilot. We're seeing If this feeds your work as much as it feeds ours and I'm keen that you communicate with me by phone in meetings My email is in the program book Let me know what we could be doing next year We hope this could be an annual event But I'm keen it can feed your work and support the artists that we work with both across the the United States But also internationally so I so please be in touch with me and let me know how better we can make this for next year You should know given the the the the tights time frame for everyone's presentations We've asked people really to stick to their time There won't be introductions for me for everyone the slides will tell you who's speaking and in theory what they're speaking about We have a little musical cue. So if you start to hear a beeping sound, which May may yeah that if you start to hear that when you're speaking, you know You have a minute left and this music will slowly build up to a point where You even if you're still speaking no one will hear you So it really gives you a very clear sense of your time and I'll be at the front waving signs too So let's hope we run to time. We have a short break Which if you need to take some air, please do but it will only be 20 minutes So please be back promptly for the Skype session Welcome, let's assemble