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

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a creative copyright conversation CCC

Here are the complete listings of Culture Days events in British Columbia.

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Please watch, and circulate, this video documentation of Ziyian Kwan's 'what i am dancing sundays', created by Filmmaker Peg Campbell. Peg captures the performance advocacy of her colleagues in music and dance during a summer of protest against arts cuts in BC.

The Vancouver arts community will have two opportunities this month to meet and hear from Canadian Conference of the Arts national director Alain Pineau. A free public meeting to hear abou the Conference’s role as our eyes and ears in Ottawa will be held Wednesday, September 29 in the auditorium of the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre (rsvp required) and the following day a three-hour workshop by Mr. Pineau will explore “The Politics of Art and the Art of Politics” (registration required).

Here are the details ….

Revenue Canada will hold three Charities Information Sessions in Vancouver this November, focussed on helping charities understand filing requirements related to the 2010 federal budget announcements.

The sessions will cover the following topics:

By Chris Tyrell:  Thank God some arts funding is restored. But what does the future have in store? There is nothing but uncertainty ahead.

It is my thesis that artists who truly care about the arts should be fighting for policy and not simply money. For me, the greater problem is that the government does not know why it is funding the arts; it needs to say so! The “why” of arts funding should be the basis of its arts policy.

• Cultural Services has announced a series of four public information sessions about Vancouver's 125th anniversary plans in 2011 and its 125th Anniversary Grants Program.

This program is a time-limited opportunity which aims to foster awareness and understanding of Vancouver's identities, first nations' heritage and cultural diversity. It will support activities that enrich our society through civic engagement and the celebration of art, culture and heritage.

Community members are invited to attend any one of the four sessions:

VICTORIA – The British Columbia Arts Council will administer $7 million in funding provided through the B.C. government’s 2010 Sports and Arts Legacy to support their strategic plan, Kevin Krueger, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts announced. 

Dear Minister,

I am writing to you today with great concerns about your BC Liberal government’s escalating politicization of arts and culture funding in B.C.

In a time when British Columbian arts organizations are shuttering their doors, cutting programs and cancelling events due to your government’s massive funding cuts - your newly hatched “Spirit Festivals” add insult to injury.

There has been a groundswell of supportive response to the resignation of BC Arts Council chair Jane Danzo, and yesterday morning (Thursday, Aug. 26) Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Kevin Krueger appeared on CBC Radio One's Early Edition with host Kathryn Gretsinger, to add his perspective to the discussion.

A public meeting has been called for 7 p.m. on Monday, September 27 at the Scotia Bank Dance Centre to discuss what the community can do to change the way the arts are perceived in this province.

August 26th, 2010

Dear Premier Campbell,

I am writing you on behalf of the Canadian Dance Assembly in response to the recent and devastating decisions made in British Columbia in the field of arts and culture, affecting our daily mission as a national dance organization advocating for a healthy dance milieu. We are writing on behalf of 33% of our members, based in your province, striving to survive in an environment that, with all due respect, could easily be called a "scorched earth policy".

Dear Minister Krueger:

I want to express my grave concerns at the severity of the funding cuts recently imposed on much of the  BC Arts Community.

This letter is in response to MLA Ron Cantelon's remarks to the Times-Colonist, Saturday Aug 21.

August 20th, 2010 

Former BC Arts Council chair Jane Danzo has released the full text of her letter of resignation, citing a lack of both meaningful consultation and an arms-length relationship with government ...

Dear Minister Krueger,

Thank-you for your kind words in last week’s press release that announced my resignation from the British Columbia Arts Council.

I was very proud to have been appointed to the BC Arts Council and even more so to have been appointed Chair.  I consider it a privilege to have been asked to serve the government for the past four years.