Addresses challenges faced by Canadian arts and culture organizations in advocating for the arts and examines successful cases in other countries.
Read MoreBC’s Music Sector – From Adversity to Opportunity→
/Highlights BC’s wealth of talented artists and music assets—sources of economic diversity and job creation in communities throughout the province—and the factors that have put these assets at risk.
Read MoreCultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy: Why culture Needs a Democratic Mandate→
/Addresses the culture sector's "crisis of legitimacy," which is the loss of support and public investment from government over time due to a general lack of understanding about culture's benefits. The author calls for cultural professionals to take the lead in solving the problem, and outlines the process for doing so.
Read MoreUnderstanding the Value and Impacts of Cultural Experiences→
/International literature review, organized through the dual portals of 'individual impacts' and 'orgnizations' creative capacity'.
Read MoreInside, Outside, Beyond: Artistic Leadership for Contradictory Times→
/Recommended reading: This Bluecoat initiative articulates the need for support of existing + emerging arts leaders and sets out “a simple framework for artistic leadership in the future, one which can be used to develop ways of working, organisations and networks which can be adaptive and resilient and which can produce the kind of rich cultural value desired.” Bluecoat is Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts and the UK's oldest arts centre.
Read MoreBuilding a Resilient Sector →
/An attempt to debunk myths around innovation and identify how grant-makers can support adaptive change.
Read MoreChoreographing Our Future: Strategies for Supporting Next Generation Arts Practice→
/Argues for need to realign arts policy mindset and funding practices via collaborative action on the part of the arts community and its funders.
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