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Terry Costa leads Mirateca Arts Management
Canadian-born Costa was raised in Pico island (Azores, Portugal) returning to Canada in 1989. Past leadership positions include Managing Artistic Director of AQT Vancouver (2002-2006), and UNI Theatre (1997-2001) in Mississauga-Ontario; he also lead the 6-month pilot project Spaces (2003-2004) and the Looking Forward, Looking Black festival (2005) in beautiful Gastown.
LIVE STAGE: Costa has produced, directed or presented over 250 events (in the last 5 years) including music (The Boom, Sara Tavares, Margens, Helena Lavouras Quartet, KoosKoos, Antony, +), theatre, dance, and multi-disciplinary works across Canada and abroad. In 2005 he created An Evening of Fado - a history-lane of Portugal's soul music through song and text. In 2007 he created Latin Vox, a showcase of artists with the romantic languages at the forefront and the benefit Vancouver's Next Gay Top Model premiering in 2008.
MUSIC: Currently, Costa works with various musicians including managing Suzana da Camara on the international stage, developing and marketing Pe de Cana, Canada's only choro trio band, and represents various international artists with Mirateca Arts Management.
THEATRE: He created many new works for the theatre stage including the international award-winning hit 69 Moments of Life [over 200 performances around the world], the day I gave Jesus head, Stories Grandma Never Told Me, discovery@erotic, Phaedra’s Dreams and Inception in Extremis. He also directed and managed the Canadian and U.S.A. tour of Shannon Jardine's award-winning audience and critical hit play Torch River, the Canadian premiere adaptation of Douglas Coupland's Life After God, Jan Caruana's Kitty Kat Klub and Daniel MacIvor's Humans along with the official Canadian premiere of Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange. He was the producer/director of the Mississauga Arts Council 20th Anniversary Celebrations and the 2001 Mississauga Arts Awards at the Living Arts Centre’s Hammerson Hall.
TV: Costa is a freelance correspondent/reporter for OMNI/RTPi and the show Canada Contacto; consultant and story-developer for Mosaico TV. Since 2003 he has been on the western Canada team for Canadian Idol (CTV/Insight). Other work includes television specials Anne Murray Duets, Gemini Awards, COPAs, and while in college he dabbled in every show possible at the local station.
FILM: Currently developing Sounds from the Island and in production for Easy to Understand and TOP12.
As an "artist of artists" his mandate is to take an idea, develop it and raise its visibility from local to national, and at times around the planet Earth - step by step.
WORKSHOPS: Terry Costa speaks in various communities about Youth Participation and Partnerships in Arts+Culture; he has been at various events across the country of Canada as an invited guest speaker or panel participant including Pacific Contact, Toronto Youth Conference "Encontro", YOUCAN in Ottawa, Portuguese-Canadian National Congress, among others; he was a guest of the Government of Azores as a speaker, workshop leader and facilitator.
EDUCATION: Costa continues to develop professionally through workshops and conferences but most importantly by "doing it" and "experiencing it" himself. Costa's institutional education comes from certificates, diplomas and a degree:
Community Building and Strengthening for Ethnocultural Groups Certificate, Canadian Ethnocultural Council/AMSSA (2005)
The Art of Managing Your Career, The Cultural Human Resources Council (2002)
International Arts Management, NYC College (2001)
Honours B.A. Theatre and Drama Studies, University of Toronto (1999)
Acting Diploma, Sheridan College (1998)
Loyola Secondary School, Oakville (1994)
Externato Particular da Madalena, Pico-Azores (1989)
FAVOURITE THINGS: good food, good beverages, good times with friends, soccer, dancing, travel, aimless walks with no destination, long cross-country drives...
For more fun tidbits you can visit Terry Costa at myspace
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