The latest news on BC's arts, culture and heritage sector.

Hill Strategies Releases Brief On Organizational Stress + Resilience in the Arts

Hill Strategies Releases Brief On Organizational Stress + Resilience in the Arts

Click through for the key findings of Organizational stress and resilience in the arts in Canada.

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New Resources from Mass Culture Tackle Arts + Mental Health, NFP Governance and More

New Resources from Mass Culture Tackle Arts + Mental Health, NFP Governance and More

New resources include the culture chapter of the Alternative Federal Budget, a report back from a conference on arts and mental health, and new ideas in board governance.

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New UK Research: "Culture: The Missing Link to Climate Action"

New UK Research: "Culture: The Missing Link to Climate Action"

The latest international research by Julie’s Bicycle – Culture: The Missing Link to Climate Action – combines data that analyses publicly available national arts policies of 25 countries, a survey to arts and culture bodies with a national mandate and cultural ministries, as well as in-depth roundtables and interviews with leading international arts leaders.

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Hill Strategies Releases Arts Research Monitor on Deaf and Disability Arts

Hill Strategies Releases Arts Research Monitor on Deaf and Disability Arts

Hill Strategies has released a new volume of its Arts Research Monitor, focusing on Deaf and disability arts. The issue features insights into the arts practices of Deaf and disabled peoples, their accessibility challenges, and suggestions for improvement, based on four recent reports from Canada and the United States.

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Hill Strategies: "On Precarity in the Arts"

Hill Strategies: "On Precarity in the Arts"

The Canadian arts sector has been one of the hardest hit industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been reflected in decreased employment levels, high stress and burnout among employees, and financial uncertainty among organizations. Click through to learn more.

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Statistics Canada Issues Report on Arts and Culture in 2020

In August 2021, StatCan released “Financial impacts of the pandemic on the culture, arts, entertainment and recreation industries in 2020.” Click through to find out more.

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CAPACOA Releases Report on Data Governance in Performing Arts

CAPACOA has issued its new report, a culmination of exploratory activities to develop a governance framework for open and shared data in the performing arts sector.

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BC WIL Releases Employer Survey Results

BC WIL Releases Employer Survey Results

The BC Work-Integrated Learning Council has just released the results to its Employer and Community Partner Survey, which polled over 800 employers and community partners on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their WIL student hiring/engaging.

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Submit Your Story of Pandemic Resilience to Hill Strategies

Submit Your Story of Pandemic Resilience to Hill Strategies

Hill Strategies is leading the research for the first phase of a new project, Cultural Resilience: Using Innovation to Stabilize in Times of Crisis, and is seeking stories of innovation (whether digital or analog) that are expected to have a lasting impact on the organization or artist.

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The Latest Results from Our Everyday Creativity Study

The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture and Nanos Research distributed a general population survey to more than 500 adult residents of British Columbia, focused on the role of creativity in their lives before and after the pandemic. The results underscore the importance of making creativity accessible.

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GVPTA Releases Spring 2021 COVID-19 Impact Report

GVPTA Releases Spring 2021 COVID-19 Impact Report

GVPTA has released its Spring 2021 report on COVID-19's impact on the arts and culture sector across British Columbia, through the GVPTA COVID-19 B.C. Arts & Culture Impact Survey.

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Arts Research Monitor: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Arts

Arts Research Monitor: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Arts

The new issue of Hill Strategies Research’s Arts Research Monitor investigates the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the arts and culture sector, based on four Canadian sources.

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New Research Project Examines COVID-19 Impacts on Film and TV Equity

New Research Project Examines COVID-19 Impacts on Film and TV Equity

The impact of COVID-19 on the film and television production industry across Canada – in particular its risk to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion – is the subject of a new research project launched by the Women in Film and Television Canada Coalition.

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CAPACOA Releases Data from Labour Force Survey

CAPACOA has released employment info on arts and culture jobs, acquired via the Labour Force Survey, a monthly survey of approximately 56,000 households. Among the findings: one in four arts workers lost their job in 2020.

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New Arts Research Monitor Tackles Audience Attendance and COVID-19

New Arts Research Monitor Tackles Audience Attendance and COVID-19

The latest Arts Research Monitor features insights into entertainment spending expectations as well as digital and in-person arts participation during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on two Canadian and two American surveys.

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CSA Releases Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators for 2018

CSA Releases Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators for 2018

The Culture Satellite Account has released information about the economic role of arts and culture in Canada in 2018. The cultural GDP continued to steadily rise in 2018, with strong growth in interactive media and design, but significant declines in non-digital publishing.

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GVPTA Announces New Data on Arts and Culture

GVPTA has announced initial results from B.C. Patron Insights, its decentralized data collection strategy to provide an understanding of arts and culture patron sentiment across British Columbia during our sector’s COVID-19 recovery efforts.

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New Arts Research Monitor Focuses on Audience Attendance and COVID-19

New Arts Research Monitor Focuses on Audience Attendance and COVID-19

Hill Strategies Research has released the latest issue of Arts Research Monitor, focusing on insights into the potential return of audiences to cultural activities, based on recent Canadian reports.

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Canadian Arts Coalition Survey Points to Slow Recovery

Canadian Arts Coalition Survey Points to Slow Recovery

Emphasizing the precarious state of artists and arts organizations in Canada, 85% of those recently survey by the Canadian Arts Coalition believe they will be unable to recover from the effects of the pandemic for another 18-24 months.

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WolfBrown Issues New Report on Music, Child Development and Well-Being

WolfBrown Issues New Report on Music, Child Development and Well-Being

WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation have released a new report entitled Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families.

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