Table of the total (domestic and export) spending by tourists in Canada on culture and sport products. Compares 2016 to previous years, and finds that tourism spending on culture products increased by $49.7 million from 2015 to $1.7 billion in 2016. Of their expenditures on culture products, tourists spent the most on performing arts, which includes attending concerts and plays, followed by film and video, crafts and books.
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/Compares 173 measures of municipal activities in 36 service areas of Canada in 2016, one of which is culture. Eight municipalities report data on their cultural grants and overall cultural expenditures (Calgary, Greater Sudbury, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Windsor). Includes graphs and infographics.
Read MoreThe New Urban Success: How Culture Pays→
/Working off the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract "the creative class" and end up being economically successful, the report mines data from the photo-sharing site Flickr to reveal that a combination of cultural capital and economic capital is indicative of neighborhood growth in terms of house prices, and improvements of socio-economic conditions.
Read MoreBuilding the Case for Business Support of the Arts →
/Research conducted by Business for the Arts, finds that more than half of Canadians favour businesses that invest in arts and culture. Canadians are more likely to choose arts and culture events over sports, and to keep up with this growing interest, business investment in the arts has increased by 49 per cent since 2008. Report includes a literature review on the benefits of arts engagement.
Read MorePanic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries→
/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.
Read MoreProvincial and Territorial Culture Indicators 2016 for British Columbia→
/Shared with the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture for a BC-specific audience. The folder contains a presentation from Canadian Heritage on what the Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators are and key highlights from the report, including statistics and infographics for BC; the new Culture, Arts, Heritage and Sport Economic Impact Model, with its User Guide; and a User Guide and Training Presentation on Statistics Canada’s CANSIM Tables.
Read MoreMore than Money: How social finance can build resilience in the arts sector→
/Explores how social finance can be applied to the arts to build resilience in the Canadian arts sector. Puts forward the case for greater visibility of the arts as an ‘investable’ sector.
Read MoreProvincial and Territorial Culture Indicators, 2016→
/Measures the economic contribution of culture and sport in Canada, nationally and by province. This 2016 report finds that culture GDP in Canada totalled $53.8 billion in 2016, a 1.5% increase from the previous year. Culture accounted for 2.8% of Canada's overall GDP, and culture jobs in Canada were up 2.2% to 652,406.
Read MoreCreative Industries are now Worth £92 billion to the UK→
/Summarizes figures from the DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2016 that show the creative industries grew at twice the rate of the wider economy in the UK in 2015-2016. The sector is now worth £91.8bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK - more than the automotive, life sciences, aerospace and oil and gas industries combined.
Read MoreContribution of the Arts and Culture Industry to the UK economy→
/2017 assessment of the macroeconomic contributions of the arts and culture industry to the economies of the UK. Finds that arts and culture in the UK grew by 10% in 2015, five times that of the UK economy as a whole.
Read MoreHard Numbers: A Study on Diversity in Canada’s Galleries→
/A study from Canadian Art on management-level diversity in Canadian art institutions.
Read MoreBC Creative Economy Strategy→
/In 2014, Premier Christy Clark directed the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development to develop a plan to grow the creative economy.
Read MoreBC Government Arts + Culture Facts & Stats Sheet→
/2014 Provincial and Territorial Culture Satellite Account facts & figures highlighted by the Province of British Columbia.
Read MoreBC Arts Council: Strategic Plan: 2014-2018→
/Serves to guide the Council's development of policy and program priorities as it strives to support the creative and innovative capacity of the arts and cultural community.
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 MoreIn Search of the Creative Economy: Analyses of the Provincial and Territorial 2015-2016 Budgets from the Perspective of Arts, Culture and Heritage→
/Annual analyses of provincial and territorial budgets from the perspective of the cultural sector.
Read MoreMaking It Work: The Education and Employment of Recent Arts Graduates→
/Examines the situation of graduates of arts and arts-related programs. Three key findings from the surveys are that arts-related graduates “have found meaningful employment, are satisfied with their lives, and are pleased that they chose to go to an arts school”.
Read MoreShared Platforms and Charitable Venture Organizations: A Powerful Possibility For a More Resilient Arts Sector→
/Proposes shared administrative platforms, specifically charitable venture organizations, “could make a significant impact on improving the health of the arts sector”.
Read MoreWaging Culture→
/Series of brief web articles aims to depict “the socio-economic conditions faced by Canadian resident professional visual artists” in 2012, with specific articles on ethnicity, sex, and gallery representation.
Read MorePresentation: Is BC a Cultural Mecca? A Statistical View→
/Presentation by Kelly Hill to launch the Assembly of BC Arts Councils' conference, 2007.
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