Election 2011: What about arts and culture?

Date: April 20, 2011
Time: 5 pm — 6:30 pm
Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor, Room 110

With the 2011 fed­eral elec­tion set to take place on May 2, the polit­i­cal land­scape in Canada will inevitably change. No mat­ter the out­come, the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor will be impacted in one way or another. As it now stands how­ever, are the arts even a pri­or­ity for the country’s lead­ing polit­i­cal parties?

Join us as we seek to answer this ques­tion and more dur­ing a bilin­gual debate with local elec­tion can­di­dates. We have invited can­di­dates from the polit­i­cal par­ties cur­rently rep­re­sented in the House of Com­mons to share their vision for the future of the arts in Canada, and address top­ics related to pol­icy devel­op­ment and fund­ing mod­els for the cul­tural sec­tor. This presents an impor­tant oppor­tu­nity for any­one with a vested inter­est in the arts and all cit­i­zens to be bet­ter informed on the issues before head­ing to the polls.

Con­firmed par­tic­i­pants to date include:*

Mau­ril Bélanger (Lib­eral can­di­date for Ottawa-Vanier)

Paul Dewar (NDP can­di­date for Ottawa Centre)

This forum will be free of charge. How­ever, we ask that you sup­port the CCA and pro­vide a dona­tion at the door to help fund the forum series.

* We are still await­ing con­fir­ma­tion from the Con­ser­v­a­tive Party. Con­tinue to check our web­site for updated information.