In this issue: A focus on the visual arts sector, including a report on the role of artist-run centres within the visual arts, a statistical summary of heritage organizations in Canada, a British report that aims to provide benchmarks regarding visual arts audiences, and a British study of socially-engaged visual arts organizations.
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In this issue of Arts Research Monitor: Four reports that examine arts attendance and attendee motivations, including a survey of Canadians’ performing arts participation, a Montreal conference that examined the changing nature of cultural participation, an international study of theatre attendee motivations, and an American study of factors in performing arts attendance.
Read MoreThe Alliance for Arts & Culture's Artists' Legal Outreach program and the Open Education Conference present:
a creative copyright conversation CCC
Read MoreNow in its 14th year, BC Arts and Culture Week highlights the vital contribution that arts and culture make in learning and in life. Art, in one form or another—music, film, books, visual and media arts, theatre—is part of our daily lives. It helps bring communities together and makes them more vibrant, creative, and economically diverse.
Read MoreHelp celebrate PTC's 40th Anniversary with host Jenn Griffin at a fundraising event on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 to support the second cohort of the PTC Associates.
PTC at 40: The Anniversary Suite presents intimate encounters with plays and playwrights PTC has been championing since 1973.
Read MoreThe Status of the Artist Act (SAA) was enacted in 1992 and the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal (CAPPRT) came into full operation in 1995. The SAA gives legal recognition and protection to collective bargaining by independent self-employed artists and federally regulated producers. The ability to bargain collectively is critical to artists and producers in the face of a continuously changing and challenging marketplace.
Read MoreRegister now for the 34th Annual ArtsBC Conference & AGM from May 3 to 4 at the Vernon Community Arts Centre in Vernon, BC. The conference, hosted by the Arts Council of the North Okanagan is the place to get connected and find ideas and solutions to ensure the vitality of your organization and the arts in your community.
Read MoreIn the first four years of this program, $3.6 million in grants to 92 projects has leveraged ~$20 million cultural space improvements, helping Vancouver-based non-profit cultural organizations with their space needs.
The Cultural Infrastructure Grant can assist with:
Read MoreThe City of Richmond and the Board of Directors for the Richmond Art Gallery Association welcomed Rachel Rosenfield Lafo as the new director of the Richmond Art Gallery, effective February 12, 2013.
Lafo's many years of experience as a museum administrator and curator include a position as director of curatorial affairs at the DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and as associate curator at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreIn a ceremony yesterday (February 26) at Vancouver City Hall, Mayor Gregor Robertson presented Vancouver's Civic Merit Award to Fred Mah, founding member of the Chinatown Society Heritage Buildings Association.
Mr. Mah's work assisted with the rehabilitation of historic buildings in Chinatown and led to its designation as a national heritage site. As part of the Chinese Benevolent Association, Mr. Mah played a key role in the installation of Shanghai Alley and the memorial statue at Keefer Plaza.
Read MorePuSh Festival co-founder Norman Armour has been tapped to direct “Pauline”, the first opera to feature a libretto by Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood, City Opera Vancouver president Nora Kelly announced today.
“Pauline” is a first foray into opera by Armour as well as Atwood, while the score is by Tobin Stokes, whose operatic credits include “Rattenbury”, “Fallujah” and “The Vinedressers”.
Read MoreThe Vancouver International Dance Festival is awarding Michelle Olson, artistic director of Vancouver’s Raven Spirit Dance, the inaugural VIDF Choreographic Award. With this biennial award, the VIDF recognizes the work of Ms. Olson for her outstanding artistic achievement and artistry in choreography through her notable creations inspired by the land and the culture of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people of the Yukon.
Read MoreThe Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is launching a residency program that will provide studio space for artists and / or artist collectives at no charge in exchange for community arts based engagement.
Eligibility: This call is open to artists, artist collectives and arts organizations working in the artistic disciplines of environmental and performing arts.
Submission Deadline: March 27, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. PST
Read MoreOn Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Finance Minister Michael de Jong presented the British Columbia government's 2013 budget. Highlights of the budget include a modest overall surplus and a plan which emphasizes investment in families.
Read MoreThe Government of Canada announced funding last weekend for the Port Moody Arts Centre Society, helping to stimulate Port Moody’s economy and contribute to the community’s cultural vitality.
Read MoreRegistration deadlines are closing in, but do not miss an opportunity to enroll in one of the two new online courses offered by the UBC Centre for Cultural Planning and Development starting on April 2, 2013. Save $100 on registrations received by March 15.
Courses starting April 2:
Festivals, Events, and Eventful Communities
Apr 2-Jun 2, 100% online. Registration closes Mar 25.
Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) and the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa have released the Analyses of the Provincial and Territorial 2012–13 Budgets from the perspective of arts, culture and heritage.
Read MoreThe Arnold Edinborough Award celebrates a young business professional under 40 who has demonstrated exemplary leadership and volunteerism in the non-profit arts sector in Canada.
Read MoreGentrification is typically associated with change in inner city housing markets. The goal of this speaker series is to advance some wider perspectives on gentrification, recognizing that housing change is only one aspect of this broader social and economic process.
As part of the speaker series Gentrification and the City hosted by SFU's Department of Urban Studies, a lecture on gentrification and the arts will be presented.
Gentrification and the arts
Read MoreVICTORIA – Last month, Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Bill Bennett announced that the BC Arts Council (BCAC) will receive a budget of $24 million in 2013-14. This represents the highest level of funding in BCAC history. The funding includes $5.25 million for BC Creative Futures, a recently announced three-part strategy to support sustainable, long-term success for the province’s creative sector.
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