Threads That Become Tendrils: Exploring EDI in the Settler-Canadian Arts and Culture Sector

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This University of Ottawa publication by Shanice Bernicky highlights how Canada’s arts and culture sector is often tasked with “fixing” issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives when funding is cut to education, health, and community programs, yet arts institutions are not equipped to do this. The paper followers one resident researcher’s journey as they were tasked with developing an arts civic impact framework suggesting equity practices in the arts, bringing cultural workers across the country together to develop an accessible tool for arts organizations to engage in EDI practices within the sector.

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Towards gender equality in the cultural and creative sectors

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This report focuses on the role that culture plays in promoting gender equality and, more importantly, how to achieve gender equality within the cultural and creative sectors (CCS). The EU Member States identified gender equality for the first time as a priority for action in the Work Plan for Culture 2019-2022. Indeed, there are many reasons that this topic should receive the attention it deserves. Gender equality is a core value of the EU fundamental rights and a key principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights. It is also a precondition for cultural diversity. The promotion of gender equality and the fight against gender discrimination are twin goals of the EU, including in culture.

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Panic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries→

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Report finds that the cultural and creative sector in the UK is marked by significant exclusions of those from working class social origins. Women, and those from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities face barriers in addition to those associated with social class origin. These inequalities are reinforced by the prevalence of unpaid labour. 

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