The Alliance for Arts & Culture's Artists' Legal Outreach program and the Open Education Conference present:

remix, vancouver

a creative copyright conversation CCC

These photos were taken by The Social Utilities in response to the BC Arts Cuts. 

The Social Utilities are: Caroline Liffman, Tanya Podlozniuk, Gina Readman, Aliya Griffin, Caroline Sniatynski and Adrienne Wong.  The photos were taken on November 23 at the Wrecking Ball. 

Take a look at the whole series in this slideshow.

It is with much regret that I inform the members of Heritage Vancouver that the Pantages Theatre Arts Society has lost its three-year struggle to preserve and restore the 102-year old Pantages Theatre.  We came within a whisker of success but were derailed by City staff recommending further study rather than a real decision.

The cultural Human Resources council, through its Career Focus program, is seeking proposals from cultural institutions willing to offer dynamic opportunities in the areas of Art practice and Art administration to recent post-secondary graduates ages 30 and under.

If you have a 4 to 12 month position in mind, are able to provide at least 2/3 of the intern salary, and are looking for a positive addition to your team, send them your application!

It is that time of year again.  My first year as ED of the Alliance has been wickedly quick.  I began with a vision of expanding your Alliance, of growing our services and making our collective voice stronger.  Some of this has happened.  The arts and cultural sector has been united and singular in its lobbying of the provincial government to restore arts funding. We have developed a working relationship with the new Minister of Tourism Arts and Culture, and we have been collectively successful in engaging our audiences and communities to join us in our plea.

World Music artists take note!

We are launching an inventive new campaign to send a clear reminder to the government to RESTORE ARTS FUNDING NOW.  You can find some of the early submissions here on the ArtsCutsMemo flickr site.  Please take a moment to create your own.

Here is the call-to-action:

Ottawa, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 – Visual artists have revived a complaint against the National Gallery of Canada for bargaining in bad faith after mediation talks in November failed to resolve a bargaining impasse that has been outstanding for two years. The complaint will be handled by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal (CAPPRT) who can call a hearing to decide the issue.
 

VICTORIA – Students of the Canadian College of Performing Arts are presenting “Grey”, an original work based on a society living through an arts prohibition. This play is intended to bring awareness to the impending risk of 92% cuts in arts funding, and to encourage support of reinvesting in the arts.

Wrecking Ball

Vogue Theatre (918 Granville Street)
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 8:00pm
By donation

Canada’s leading Theatre Artists take on the BC government from Coast to Coast

Vancouver’s theatre community joins actors, directors and designers from across the country in creative and satirical protest to the BC government’s mind-boggling and short-sighted plan to slash 90% of cultural funding, which will make it the only jurisdiction in Canada not to invest in culture.