AGENDA REFLECTS TIMELINESS OF CCA CONFERENCE

CCA Bul­letin 10/06

Feb­ru­ary 9, 2006

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The com­plete agenda for the CCA’s upcom­ing con­fer­ence Map­ping Canada’s Cul­tural Pol­icy: Where do we go from here? is now avail­able on our web­site.

The CCA’s two day national pol­icy con­fer­ence brings together the key play­ers and stake­hold­ers in cul­tural pol­icy in Canada — indi­vid­ual artists, cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions and indus­tries, labour groups and gov­ern­ment bureaucrats.

Con­fer­ence del­e­gates will tackle key ques­tions such as:

• Could it be that Canada already has a national cul­tural pol­icy with­out know­ing it?
• What will the cul­tural envi­ron­ment of tomor­row be?
• Do exist­ing poli­cies equip Canada for the future?
• Where do we go from here?

Among the agenda high­lights are two con­cur­rent work­shops that will exam­ine spe­cific issues relat­ing to artists/creators’ issues and those rel­e­vant to producers/cultural indus­tries.  Dis­cus­sions will focus around three CCA doc­u­ments that will be sent to del­e­gates in advance of the con­fer­ence: an overview of Canada’s cul­tural pol­icy, and two papers relat­ing to spe­cific issues fac­ing each group.

Keynote speaker Paul Hof­fert will kick off the con­fer­ence with a provoca­tive pre­sen­ta­tion on new approaches to pro­duc­tion and dis­sem­i­na­tion of cul­ture and the arts which will pro­vide a back­drop to the del­e­gates’ dis­cus­sions. The con­fer­ence will also have a dynamic edge through “graphic facil­i­ta­tion” pro­vided by facil­i­ta­tor David Has­bury – a process of reflect­ing back con­fer­ence dis­cus­sions through­words and images, plus on-the-spot “rap­portage” by spo­ken word artist Greg Frank­son sum­ma­riz­ing each ses­sion in his own way.

This con­fer­ence is cru­cial to the sector’s advo­cacy process as it will lead to the CCA’s Strate­gic Action Plan for the com­ing 18 months or so. Make your voice heard – be part of the dis­cus­sion. Ensure your pri­or­i­ties inform advo­cacy with our new government!