C-11 Legislative Committee on copyright: week one

CCA Bulletin 04/12

The first week of consultations on Bill C-11 saw the first 24 witnesses invited to present their views. The process is moving quickly and will continue at this pace as the government fast tracks the Bill.

The National Director’s Tour

Alain Pineau is back in the office after his cross-country tour. Along his route he vis­ited Vic­to­ria, Van­cou­ver, Saska­toon, Regina, Win­nipeg, Cal­gary, Edmon­ton, Fredric­ton, Saint John, Monc­ton, Char­lot­te­town, Québec, Hal­i­fax and St. John’s. Details on his trav­els and con­sul­ta­tions with CCA mem­bers and arts sup­port­ers are shared in his blog. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts would like to thank its sup­port­ers who hosted and assisted in the orga­ni­za­tion of the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions across the coun­try....

Welcome

    Mes­sage from the President The Pres­i­dent of the CCA’s Board of Direc­tors, Kath­leen Sharpe, addresses the chal­lenges cur­rently fac­ing the CCA. Read on!   CCA Spot­light Munic­i­pal Cul­tural Invest­ment in Five Large Cana­dian Cities -  a study com­par­ing cities with the largest num­ber of cul­tural work­ers and artists in Canada – Van­cou­ver, Cal­gary, Toronto, Ottawa and Mon­tréal.  The report was released in Jan­u­ary 2012 by  Hill Strate­gies Research. The Visual Arts Alliance (VAA), the umbrella orga­ni­za­tion of Cana­dian...

The Impact of Digital Media on the Performing Arts

A new report enti­tled Beyond the Cur­tain: How Dig­i­tal Media is Reshap­ing The­atre was recently released by Ballinran Enter­tain­ment Ltd. in part­ner­ship with Dig­i­tal Wiz­ards Inc., Cana­dian Actors Equity Asso­ci­a­tion, and Strat­ford Shake­speare Fes­ti­val.  It con­tains a study of the chal­lenges fac­ing the per­form­ing arts in the sector’s attempt to embrace and achieve the right bal­ance with new media and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. The research involved inter­views with lead­ing the­atre pro­fes­sion­als and an online sur­vey that...

Europe and gender equality

Dur­ing a ple­nary ses­sion held in Brus­sels on Octo­ber 27, 2011, the Euro­pean sec­toral social dia­logue com­mit­tee for the audio-visual field for­mally adopted a frame­work of action on gen­der equal­ity, rep­re­sent­ing a suc­cess­ful out­come to two years of nego­ti­a­tion between social partners. The agree­ment aims to improve the sit­u­a­tion in the sec­tor in the fol­low­ing areas: - Gen­der rep­re­sen­ta­tion; – Gen­der role at work; – Wage equal­ity; – Decision-making equal­ity; and, – Bal­ance between career and home. Drawn up by...

Municipal Cultural Investment

Mon­tréal and Van­cou­ver Lead the Way in Cul­ture Funding On Jan­u­ary 10th, Hill Strate­gies Research released a study called Munic­i­pal Cul­tural Invest­ment in Five Large Cana­dian Cities. The study com­pares cities with the largest num­ber of cul­tural work­ers and artists in Canada – Van­cou­ver, Cal­gary, Toronto, Ottawa and Mon­tréal. This report writ­ten in part­ner­ship with the cul­tural staff of the five cities cov­ered, the Cre­ative City Net­work and the Cana­dian Urban Libraries Coun­cil aims to fill a gap in the level of infor­ma­tion...

Message from the President

Dear Mem­bers and Colleagues, By now many of you have been made aware of the CCA’s chang­ing rela­tion­ship with its major fun­der, the Gov­ern­ment of Canada. Indeed, many of you may already or will soon be fac­ing the prospect of reduced sup­port fed­er­ally. The model is shift­ing and chang­ing for all of us. It is an immense chal­lenge for this orga­ni­za­tion given its reliance for 45 years on fed­eral sup­port. The board and staff have been work­ing since last sum­mer on a series of finan­cial options and a busi­ness plan that will allow us to move for­ward...

EU negotiations: the culture angle">Update on Canada/EU negotiations: the culture angle

CCA Bul­letin 03/12 Feb­ru­ary 21, 2012 Just the facts Some encour­ag­ing news con­cern­ing the sta­tus of cul­ture in the on-going trade nego­ti­a­tions between Canada and the Euro­pean Union! The CCA learned dur­ing the brief­ing ses­sion held by the Depart­ment of For­eign Affairs and Inter­na­tional Trade (DFAIT) that: • It is more than likely that, with the sup­port of some Euro­pean coun­tries, Canada will be able to include a direct ref­er­ence to the UNESCO Dec­la­ra­tion on Cul­tural Diver­sity at the top of the Com­pre­hen­sive Eco­nomic and...

St. John’s — last port of call!

Feb­ru­ary 19, 2012 For weeks, I have won­dered what kind of weather awaited me in the last leg of my pan­cana­dian tour. Hal­i­fax and St. John’s are two cities well known for their win­ter storms. Well, the Gods were kind to me all through­out my five weeks on the road! After spring-like tem­per­a­tures and sun­shine in Hal­i­fax, I arrived in St. John’s on Thurs­day night to the New­found­land ver­sion of spring, with above aver­age tem­per­a­tures, a thick fog and pour­ing rain! Another more recent con­cern of mine had to do with how many peo­ple would...

Halifax

Feb­ru­ary 16, 2012 I have always loved Hal­i­fax for its friendly atmos­phere, the qual­ity of its cul­tural life and its restau­rants. In fact, I must con­fess that I have a soft spot for Nova Sco­tia where, over the years, I have spent four sum­mer hol­i­days. But it is the first time that I set foot in the Nep­tune The­atre where, after a short inter­view for Radio-Canada’s tele­vi­sion ser­vices, I join the thirty peo­ple or so who have gath­ered in one of the rehearsal rooms on the third floor of this vast build­ing in the heart of old Hal­i­fax. Erika Beatty,...