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Board of Governors

If you would like to reach any of the CCA’s board mem­bers, please see the con­tact infor­ma­tion below their biog­ra­phy or e-mail the CCA sec­re­tariat at info@ccarts.ca.

Amir Ali Alibhai

Amir Ali Alibhai

Chair of the Edu­ca­tion Committee (Ontario) 2011 — 2014 In Jan­u­ary 2012, Amir Ali Alib­hai moved to Toronto  as con­sul­tant for the Aga Khan Trust for Cul­ture’s project to estab­lish the Aga Khan Museum,  sched­uled to open in Octo­ber 2013. For three years prior to this move, Amir served as exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Greater Van­cou­ver Alliance for Arts and Cul­ture. Amir is well known to most artists through­out the Lower Main­land in BC, and across the province and the coun­try through his work as an...

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André Leclerc

André Leclerc

Sec­re­tary (Quebec) André Leclerc is co-founder and part­ner at Gagné Leclerc Groupe Con­seil. He has more than 25 years of expe­ri­ence in the cul­tural sec­tor. As a con­sul­tant, he spe­cial­izes in strate­gic man­age­ment and plan­ning for a num­ber of pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion and cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions at the munic­i­pal, provin­cial and fed­eral lev­els. He has a vast knowl­edge of the arts sec­tor, hav­ing been man­ag­ing direc­tor of pro­grams at the Con­seil des Arts et des let­ters du...

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Arden Ryshpan

Arden Ryshpan

Trea­surer & Chair of the Finance...

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Clothilde Cardinal

Clothilde Cardinal

Chair of the Awards Committee Clothilde Car­di­nal is co-artistic and gen­eral direc­tor of Danse Danse. After com­plet­ing her under­grad­u­ate stud­ies in com­mu­ni­ca­tions at UQAM and receiv­ing a grad­u­ate diploma in cul­tural man­age­ment from Hautes Études Com­mer­ciales in Mon­treal and the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Clothilde knew that she was des­tined to pur­sue a career in arts man­age­ment and the per­form­ing arts. Hav­ing worked as a coor­di­na­tor for sev­eral the­atre com­pa­nies (Les...

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Erika Beatty

Erika Beatty

Gov­er­nor (Nova Scotia) Erika Beatty is CEO of Sym­phony Nova Sco­tia, one of the most broad­cast and recorded orches­tras in the country. Erika has worked in the arts for more than 20 years and for the past 15 years, has held lead­er­ship posi­tions with orches­tras in New Brunswick, Mis­sis­sauga, Nia­gara and Win­nipeg before mak­ing Nova Sco­tia her home in 2007. She is also a vol­un­teer board mem­ber for Orches­tras Canada, served on the Cul­tural Pol­icy Advi­sory Com­mit­tee for the City of St. Catharines and...

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George Murray

George Murray

Gov­er­nor (Newfoundland) George Mur­ray is an accom­plished writer and arts admin­is­tra­tor liv­ing in St. John’s, New­found­land. Artis­ti­cally, he is rec­og­nized world­wide as a a poet with five acclaimed books and a pub­lish­ing record span­ning all con­ti­nents. He also writes arts jour­nal­ism for mag­a­zines and news papers such as Maison­neuve, the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, the Toronto Star, etc. In 2009, George was a judge for the Gov­er­nor General’s Lit­er­ary Award and has him­self been...

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Ivan Habel

Ivan Habel

Gov­er­nor (British Colum­bia) 2011–2013 Since April 2011, Ivan Habel is gen­eral man­ager for The Bel­fry The­atre, ded­i­cated to pro­duc­ing con­tem­po­rary plays, with an empha­sis on Cana­dian works.  Pre­vi­ously, Ivan was direc­tor of Green Thumb The­atre, a com­pany spe­cial­iz­ing in tour­ing new pro­duc­tions for youth across the coun­try.  Ivan has held var­i­ous arts admin­is­tra­tion posts includ­ing direc­tor of plan­ning and edu­ca­tion at the Strat­ford Fes­ti­val, direc­tor of...

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Jason van Eyk

Jason van Eyk

Gov­er­nor (Ontario) In May 2011, Jason van Eyk was named Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of ArtsS­marts — an inno­v­a­tive model of arts-centred, in-school part­ner­ships that push the bound­aries of learn­ing, rede­fine the envi­ron­ment of school­ing, and re-imagine stu­dent success. Jason may be new to ArtsS­marts, but he is no stranger to the trans­for­ma­tional power of the arts, per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally. While his first love is music – Jason holds an M.Mus from the East­man School of Music – his...

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Kathleen Sharpe

Kathleen Sharpe

Pres­i­dent & Chair of the Audit Com­mit­tee (Ontario)     Kath­leen Sharpe is a senior man­ager and admin­is­tra­tor in gov­ern­ment and the cul­tural sec­tor. She has been exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Ontario Cul­tural Attrac­tions Fund since its incep­tion in 1999. The Fund, a unique pro­gram estab­lished to sup­port cul­tural tourism attrac­tions through a com­bi­na­tion of grants and loans, has com­mit­ted over $40 mil­lion to almost 400 orga­ni­za­tions around the province. Prior to OCAF, Kath­leen...

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Luc Fortin

Luc Fortin

Vice Pres­i­dent & Chair of the Gov­er­nance Com­mit­tee (Quebec) Since 2006, Luc Fortin has been pres­i­dent of the Que­bec Musi­cians’ Guild, a pro­fes­sional asso­ci­a­tion of more than 3200 free­lance musi­cians. A part­ner of the Amer­i­can Fed­er­a­tion of Musi­cians and mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Musi­cians, the Guild defends and pro­motes the eco­nomic, social, moral and pro­fes­sional inter­ests of its mem­bers. Fortin is also a board mem­ber for the Cana­dian...

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Nicole Matiation

Nicole Matiation

Gov­er­nor (Manitoba) 2011–2013 Nicole Mati­a­tion is the exec­u­tive direc­tor of On Screen Man­i­toba. This past year, she was the project man­ager for Manitoba’s Cul­ture Days initiative. Nicole has an MA in media arts from Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­sity and has held com­mu­ni­ca­tions, devel­op­ment, pro­gram­ming and man­age­ment posi­tions in the arts sec­tor for 20 years. This includes work at the National Film Board of Canada in Mon­treal coor­di­nat­ing an in-house film fes­ti­val and a video...

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Robert Spickler

Robert Spickler

Past Pres­i­dent & Chair of the Nom­i­nat­ing Com­mit­tee (Quebec) Ex-officio Robert Spick­ler has worked in the edu­ca­tion and cul­tural sec­tors for over 35 years. He was the co-founder, co-director and admin­is­tra­tive direc­tor of Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (1970–1979) and admin­is­tra­tive direc­tor of Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde (1985–1987). Mr. Spick­ler has also held var­i­ous posi­tions at the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts (1983–1985 and 1987–1990). From 1990 to 1995, he was the exec­u­tive...

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Skip Kutz

Skip Kutz

Gov­er­nor (Saskatchewan) 2011–2013 Skip Kutz, a Saskatchewan based musi­cian and uni­ver­sity edu­ca­tor, has stud­ied with Guy Fal­lot of the Paris Con­ser­va­tory and War­ren Ben­field, prin­ci­pal bass of the Chicago Sym­phony Orches­tra. As a per­former, he has played with many ensem­bles includ­ing the Orchestre Jeunesses Musi­cales, the Con­gress of Strings as well as the Saska­toon Sym­phony Orches­tra. As a con­tem­po­rary jour­ney­man bassist, he has per­formed with Colin James, the Mamas and Papas,...

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Tom McFall

Tom McFall

Chair of the Mem­ber­ship Com­mit­tee (Alberta) Tom McFall is the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Alberta Craft Coun­cil, Alberta’s largest provin­cial arts ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion. The Coun­cil oper­ates the sec­ond largest pub­lic gallery in Edmon­ton and the only gallery in Alberta ded­i­cated to craft cul­ture. The Craft Coun­cil orga­nizes 15 to 20 exhi­bi­tions annu­ally for Edmon­ton, Cal­gary, provin­cial and occa­sion­ally national or inter­na­tional audi­ences. The Coun­cil also pro­vides a wide...

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