Hill Strategies Reports on Cultural Volunteers and Donors in Canada
/Report funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council
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Hill Strategies Reports on Visual Arts and Heritage Organizations
/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.
Read MoreThe latest installment of the Hill Strategies Arts Research Monitor
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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 Moreremix, vancouver
/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
Read MoreCultural Amenity Space Available at CBC Building: Updates to Key Date Info
/The City of Vancouver is inviting ‘expressions of interest’ to tenant the CBC cultural amenity space at 750 Hamilton. Approximately 8,500sf of finished space will be available for long-term lease in mid-2014. Eligible organizations must be Vancouver-based cultural not-for-profits with a focus on performing, media arts or festival arts.
Read MoreMerging Media 2013 Conference
/Creative BC is a sponsor of the Global Edition of the 4th annual Merging Media Conference, on November 6 and 7, 2013 at The Arts Club Theatre on Granville Island in Vancouver. This edition showcases the best and brightest cross-media innovation. Take part in discussions on the latest transmedia trends, business intelligence and creative strategies that are shaping the industry worldwide.
Read MoreTourism Vancouver's President & CEO Rick Antonson to Leave in 2014
/Tourism Vancouver board chair Bob Lindsay announced yesterday (August 20) that the organization's president and CEO Rick Antonson will leave to become a full-time book author in June 2014.
Lindsay said in his announcement, "We began planning this over two years ago at Rick’s request, so the transition is strategic. Tourism Vancouver and our industry are heading into some of the most exciting and successful years, so the timing for this transition is very good."
Read MoreCity Opera: Arias In The Park
/This weekend City Opera Vancouver will offer a unique open-air preview of two arias from the company’s next new opera, “Pauline”, based on the life and final days of Canadian writer, poet, and actress Pauline Johnson.
Join the company at Lost Lagoon (Chilco at Alberni) and hear mezzo Rose-Ellen Nichols and pianist David Boothroyd present two arias, with music by Tobin Stokes and libretto by Margaret Atwood. Mohawk poet Janet Rogers will give a talk on the significance of Johnson.
Read MoreNew TELUS Fund To Finance Creation of Digital and TV Productions That Promote Health and Well-Being
/TELUS announced this week the launch of a new fund to help Canadian producers create innovative health and wellness content for digital mediums and television.
The TELUS Fund is an independently governed, not-for-profit corporation funded by TELUS and charged with encouraging the development and production of Canadian content showcasing social and technological innovation in the field of health and wellness. The fund plans to support 10 to 20 projects a year with up to $250,000 per project.
Read MoreCulture Days PR Toolkit Available Now
/Want to learn more about how to promote your Culture Days activity to the media in the weeks leading up to the big weekend? Be sure to download the 2013 Culture Days PR Toolkit! This free resource is filled with useful information and tips about how you can get the word out about your activity to local media.
Read MoreNew Director for Canada Council's Arts Disciplines Division
/Roger Gaudet has been selected as the new Director, Arts Disciplines Division at the Canada Council for the Arts, effective October 15, 2013.
Read More"We Are BC" Call for Submissions
/Star in a “home movie” featuring BC residents’ relationship with, and hopes and fears about, the current and future state of BC’s economy. Share your story and be part of We Are BC - a crowd-sourced, user-generated video portrait on our province’s economic life.
Read MoreSFU To Host Indigenous Writers Conference
/A two-day, participant-driven conference on the reality, representation and recognition of Indigenous writers in Canada.
Publishing@SFU is set to host the inaugural National Indigenous Writers Conference, October 19-20, 2013.
The two-day conference will feature panels, round-tables, keynote speakers and a series of writing and publishing workshops.
Read MoreReports Provide Indexes and Indicators of Cultural and Social Well-Being
/The latest Hill Strategies newsletter features a number of recent reports that have provided indexes and indicators of cultural and social well-being. This issue highlights two arts-specific reports, including an American arts index and a proposed set of cultural indicators for Australia. The issue also examines whether and how culture is integrated into two international indexes of social progress and well-being. You can find the newsletter and reports here.
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Shane Koyczan To Write Anti-Bullying Opera Libretto
/Vancouver Opera has commissioned internationally-recognized Canadian spoken word poet and performer Shane Koyczan to create the libretto for a new opera whose theme – bullying – is a central issue in our community, in communities across the country and around the world.
Aimed at audiences of all ages, and drawing upon Mr. Koyczan's own experiences with bullying, both as a victim and as a perpetrator, the 80-minute opera will be based on Stickboy, Mr. Koyczan's acclaimed 2008 novel in verse.
Read MoreArts-In-Learning Association Conducting Survey
/A new association of advocates for art in education is inviting cultural organizations to participate in a nation-wide survey to help create a profile of arts-in-learning activities across Canada.
The Canadian Network for Arts and Learning / le reseau canadien des arts et de l’apprentissage (CNAL/RCAA) is a new national association of artists, arts organizations, educators, policy- makers, researchers, and other advocates for arts-in-learning led by the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Professor Larry O’Farrell, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
Read MoreArt/Book Fair Coming In October
/Fans of artist books, magazines, zines and experimental publishing will have the chance to browse publications by a plethora of local, national and international artists, designers, writers, publishers and institutions at the second annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair (VA/BF) this October 5 and 6 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Read MoreThe Key Events List: A Helpful Guide For Event Planners. August 2013 Edition
/The Key Events List (pdf), compiled by your Alliance for Arts and Culture, lists upcoming events in and around Metro Vancouver through the next 12 months.
Read MoreCanada Council Releases New Reports on the Public Lending Right Program
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The Canada Council for the Arts has released the third and final of three reports commissioned over the past two years from author and arts consultant Roy MacSkimming on the Council’s Public Lending Right program. The reports document the opportunities and challenges facing the program in light of changes in publishing, library practices and new technology, and all three are now available on the Council’s website. The first report, The Policy Foundations of Public Lending Right in Canada, was released in 2011 and tracks the origins of the program’s formal objective “to compensate authors for the use of their works through Canadian libraries.” The second report, Canada’s Public Lending Right Program: Program Design, International Comparisons, and the Impact of Technology , was released in 2012 and sheds light on how the Canadian program compares internationally in setting compensation, defining who is an author, measuring use, identifying works, and delineating libraries. The third report is entitled Public Lending Right Program: Options for Renewal and outlines current realities and possible future directions for the program. “The Public Lending Right program, its origins and its significance to Canadians are not as well-known as they deserve,” said Canada Council Director and CEO Robert Sirman. “The release of these papers helps fill this gap, and we commend Roy MacSkimming for his excellent work in setting the scene for the next stage in the program’s evolution.” “The members of the Public Lending Right Commission thank the Canada Council for the Arts for having commissioned these reports,” said Aline Apostolska, Chair of the Commission. “They are and will continue to be very important for us in the context of our deliberations on the future of the program.” The Public Lending Right program was established by the Canada Council in 1986 and is guided in its design and administration by the Public Lending Right Commission, composed primarily of writers, librarians and book publishers and specifically created for this purpose. The program has an annual budget of $10 million and last year issued payments to over 18,000 eligible authors, illustrators and translators. |
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Cultural Amenity Space Available at Vancouver's CBC Building
/The City of Vancouver is inviting ‘expressions of interest’ to tenant the CBC cultural amenity space at 750 Hamilton. Approximately 8,500sf of finished space will be available for long-term lease in mid-2014. Eligible organizations must be Vancouver-based cultural not-for-profits with a focus on performing, media arts or festival arts.
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