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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The State of Diversity Among Leadership Roles Within Canada’s Largest Arts and Culture Institutions

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This Emerald Insight journal issue by Charlie Wall-Andrews, Rochelle Wijesingha, Wendy Cukier, and Owais Lightwala aims to explore whether the membership of Canada’s largest arts and cultural organizations well-reflect the country’s diversity and examine the state of diversity among leadership roles within these institutions when viewed through a geographical, gender, racial, and intersectional lens. The authors found that there is a disconnect between Canada’s diversity and the leadership representation among the largest arts and culture organizations.

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Setting the Bar: A Guide to Achieve New Standards for Reconciliation within the Heritage Sector

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Understanding heritage as the human imprint on the earth, Heritage BC recognizes that heritage professionals, volunteers, and enthusiasts must fully commit to learning about and respecting the diversity and inclusivity of experiences and perspectives that form our local and provincial heritage.

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Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation: A Special Edition of Culture Track

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LaPlaca Cohen is excited to share the new phase of the “Culture + Community” research in collaboration with Slover Linett and Yancey Consulting. The second wave of this national study, Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation: A Special Edition of Culture Track, includes an even broader frame for culture (from libraries to parks, music venues, and festivals), as well as deeper involvement with small, rural or BIPOC-serving organizations.

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It Feels Like Having a Sugar Daddy. But in the Worst Way”: Thoughts from Racialized 2SLGBTQ+ Youth Artists in the Toronto Scene

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In 2018, the little sister team decided to do some community-based research on the experiences of QTBIPOC youth artists in the Toronto and GTA area. this report was the result of our findings.

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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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The Status of Women in the Canadian Arts and Cultural Industries: Research Review 2010-2018→

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This research review from the Ontario Arts Council provides a synthesis of existing research on the status of women in the arts in Ontario and Canada. The authors found that while the overall gender composition of the arts and cultural industries in Ontario is equal, gender imbalances exist in some disciplines. Even in sectors that were numerically gender balanced or equal, significant gendered differences exist in areas like income, leadership roles, and career and industry recognition.

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The Status of Women in the Canadian Arts and Cultural Industries: Research Review 2010-18→

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A review of the existing research on the status of women in the arts and cultural industries in Canada (with a particular focus on Ontario) commissioned by the Ontario Arts Council. Covers six sectors: visual arts, dance, theatre, literature, music, and media arts/screen. Key findings include employment inequality (divided by sector) and a gender-based income gap, despite equivalency in education and training.

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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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Patterns of Attendance and Cultural Participation by Young People in the Canadian Theatre for Young Audiences and Children’s Festivals Sector→

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examines “the patterns of attendance and cultural participation by young people in the theatre for young audiences (TYA) and the children’s festival sector in Canada”.

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Figuring the Plural: Needs and Supports of Canadian and US Ethnocultural Arts Organizations→

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358-page report of findings concerning “the characteristics, needs, and support systems” of “ethnocultural arts organizations” including 32 recommendations for better support.

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