When will a Bill on tax averaging for artists become law?

To Fol­low On May 31st, MP Tyrone Ben­skin (NDP, Jeanne– Le Ber) tabled Bill C-427 which seeks to mod­ify the Income Tax Act so that artists can aver­age their income over a max­i­mum of five years. The CCA is sup­port­ing this Bill and we invite our mem­bers to do the same by con­tact­ing the gov­ern­ment and the par­lia­men­tar­i­ans at the oppor­tune moment. This request for tax aver­ag­ing is not new. For years, the CCA and a num­ber of its mem­ber orga­ni­za­tions have been call­ing for this mea­sure that bet­ter reflects the eco­nomic real­i­ties of...

Summer Projects

We all know the expres­sion “the cheque is in the mail.” And yet I have never waited for a cheque with so much impa­tience as the one that we received elec­tron­i­cally this week from Cana­dian Her­itage. Along with the mem­ber­ship con­tri­bu­tions we have received over the past six weeks, this brings us until mid-autumn, plus a con­tin­gency reserve of more than three months that we intend to keep and even­tu­ally build on. Already it’s a more com­fort­able sit­u­a­tion than we have been in the last three months, when we have been fol­low­ing the...

10 Cultural Must Do’s across Europe this summer!

UK / The 2012 Sum­mer Olympics; The Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val Fringe The Lon­don Olympic Games is the place to be even for cul­ture freaks! Zaha Hadid’s Lon­don Aquat­ics Cen­tre will remind you of a flow­ing river. Hurry if you want to see the famous works by Picasso, you’ve got until July 15th, or encounter Damien Hirst’s grand exhi­bi­tion, until Sep­tem­ber 9th, both at Tate. To take a rest from the sport mania envelop­ing Lon­don, visit the famous Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val Fringe tak­ing place from August 3rd to 27th. This year 2,695 shows will take place in the­atres,...

Share your passion. Develop your audience.

The Public: An Ally first, Then a Consumer

A few months ago a performing arts presenter was telling me that he was very pleased with the attendance rates at his shows which were averaging around 80%. I responded that obviously his venue was well known to the public and that they appreciated the programming.

Copyright reform: the Canadian cultural sector calls on the Senate to repair Bill C-11

The Cana­dian cul­tural sec­tor urges the Sen­ate to seri­ously con­sider amend­ments to mit­i­gate the destruc­tive effects of the Bill C-11 (Copy­right Mod­ern­iza­tion Act) on con­tri­bu­tions that artists, cre­ators and pro­duc­ers make to the knowl­edge economy. Cul­tural organ­i­sa­tions across Canada pre­sented a list of amend­ments to Bill C-11 in Feb­ru­ary to Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans aimed at min­i­miz­ing the neg­a­tive impacts of the Bill. Stephen Wad­dell, ACTRA’s National Exec­u­tive Direc­tor said, on behalf of the coali­tion, “We...

When the Copyright Bill Will Be Passed and the Not So Positive Aspects of the Budget for Culture

CCA Bulletin 10/12

The Pre-summer Marathon has Begun

We really feel the end of the parliamentary session in Ottawa these days; it’s a race against the clock to break for the summer, either June 22nd or even maybe as early as June 15th...

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National Conference for Visual Artists & Art Lawyers

June 8th – 10th, Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa

Those of you who fol­low us on Twit­ter and/or Face­book may have already heard of the upcom­ing Art + Law con­fer­ence orga­nized by CARFAC National that will be held in Ottawa from June 8–10...

What are Canadian Heritage’s priorities for 2012–2013?

CCA Bulletin 09/12

May 28, 2012

The Canadian Conference of the arts is hard at work on our detailed federal budget analysis from the perspective of the arts, culture, and heritage for 2012-2013. For a number of reasons the task is particularly complicated this year...

Suiting All Tastes

Suiting All Tastes

This month we talk about a variety of topics with several new collaborators. Don't forget to renew your CCA membership. TogetherCCA!

New rights for performers and producers:

The World Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Organization’s Sum­mit — Take 2 After 12 years of waiting, the Diplo­matic Con­fer­ence on the pro­tec­tion of audio­vi­sual per­for­mances will meet at last in Bei­jing from June 20th to 26th 2012. Based on the arti­cles pro­vi­sion­ally approved in 2000 (19 items out of 20), Mem­ber States will have to con­firm the new arti­cle on the trans­fer of rights,  agree on three addi­tional  joint state­ments and  final­ize the admin­is­tra­tive arrange­ments of the new treaty. “The stum­bling block to...