Heather is a talented and inspiring arts leader ... effective communicator and strategic thinker ... a natural at building relationships.
— Jonathan Da Silva, Hot Docs

CURRENT CLIENTS

The Royal Conservatory / Koerner Hall

HKC Marketing creates strategies and campaign plans, does all of the media planning & buying, arranges media partnerships, and provides coaching and advising for the Marketing Manager and other performance (concerts) division team members.  Directed and oversaw all brand, profile, public and audience communications for Koerner Hall and all concert presentations, 1996 - 2022.

MOCA Toronto (Museum of Contemporary Art)

HKC Marketing oversees MOCA's exhibition marketing, including campaign development and implementation: media planning and buying; media partnerships; copy writing and editing; collateral production and distribution; design management; advising and collaborating with internal staff members; and budget management. We also support grant applications, museum strategy development, staffing, and more.

Portrait Gallery of Canada

HKC Marketing is helping the PGC develop messaging and providing marketing strategy development, campaign planning, and campaign management for exhibitions and events.

NP Entertainment

HKC Marketing is advising NP Entertainment on the new business’s core marketing and communications assets development, while providing marketing strategy and campaign planning services for a national flamenco ensemble tour that NP Entertainment will be presenting in autumn 2024.

John Welsman & Cherie Camp

HKC Marketing is providing guidance and support, through consulting services, for profile-raising marketing and social media, and engagement with a new recording project.

Mass Culture 

HKC provides messaging and copy crafting services. 

Bloor St. Culture Corridor – Toronto's most diverse arts and culture district

Heather Kelly founded the Bloor St. Culture Corridor and provides organizational leadership, and cultivates a forum for information sharing, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among the 22 partnering organizations.

 A Few of Our Past Clients

  • Aga Khan Museum

  • Amber Quail

  • Art of Time Ensemble

  • Art Museum at University of Toronto

  • Artists’ Health Centre Foundation

  • Ashkenaz: A Festival of New Yiddish Culture

  • Asian Heritage Month

  • Audiogram Records

  • Bata Shoe Museum

  • Bravo Niagara!

  • Buffalo Jump Artists Collective

  • Canadian Aboriginal Festival & Pow Wow

  • Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards (CAMAs)

  • Canadian Multicultural Council

  • CanAsian Dance Festival

  • Consulate General of France in Toronto

  • Craft Ontario

  • Dance Umbrella of Ontario

  • DanceWorks

  • Design Exchange (DX)

  • Eve Egoyan

  • Faith and the Common Good

  • Flick the Switch Artist Studios

  • Folk Music Ontario

  • FrancoFete

  • Fujiwara Dance Inventions

  • Gallery TPW

  • George Brown College

  • German Arts Festival

  • Goethe-Institut Toronto

  • Grant MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts

  • Guelph Arts Council

  • Guild of Canadian Film Composers

  • Harbourfront Centre Courses & Workshops

  • Harbourfront Centre Summer Festivals

  • Images Festival

  • Irie Festival

  • Janak Khendry Dance Company

  • Key Porter Books

  • Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC)

  • Lula Lounge

  • Mabuhay! Philippine Arts, Culture & Tourism Festival

  • Mass CultureMi-Young Kim Dance Company

  • MOCA Toronto

  • Modern Times Theatre Company

  • Museum of Estonians in Canada / VEMU

  • Musideum

  • National Film Board of Canada: Mediatheque

  • New Music Concerts

  • OBJECToronto

  • Ontario Arts Council

  • Ontario Association of Art Galleries

  • Ontario Culture Days 

  • Pages Books & Magazines

  • Pleiades Theatre

  • Portrait Gallery of Canada

  • Putumayo World Music

  • Rebecca Singh - Producer, Actor, Singer, Theatre Creator

  • Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival

  • Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

  • Image Centre

  • Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Communication & Design (FCAD)

  • Ryerson University School of Image Arts

  • Shift Accessibility Contractors

  • Six String Nation

  • Small World Music Society

  • Small World Music Festival

  • South Asian Heritage Month

  • St. Philips the Apostle Anglican Church

  • Superior Description Services

  • SympaticoMSN - Digital Advertising Summit

  • Tangled Art + Disability

  • Toronto Blues Society

  • Toronto Festival of Storytelling

  • Toronto International Art Fair

  • Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

  • Toronto School of Art

  • Toronto Summer Chamber Music Festival

  • Toronto Wildlife Centre (Wild Ball)

  • The AFC

  • University of Toronto Galleries

  • Various Musicians, Storytellers, Curators, Artists, and Authors

  • Virgin Music Canada

  • Workman Arts