CCA Cultural Policy Workshop: The Politics of Arts and the Art of Politics

CCA Bul­letin 24/09

Sep­tem­ber 30, 2009

 

 

The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is bring­ing its Cul­tural Pol­icy Work­shop to you!  In coor­di­na­tion with local arts groups from around Canada, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) will host work­shops, avail­able in both offi­cial lan­guages, which will inform par­tic­i­pants about how pub­lic pol­icy shapes the nature of arts, cul­ture, and her­itage in Canada. We hope to show you the best ways of mak­ing an impact on these policies.

The Pol­i­tics of Arts and the Art of Pol­i­tics is a half-day work­shop designed for a small group of 20–40 par­tic­i­pants. The work­shops are open to all Cana­di­ans inter­ested in arts and cul­ture: from all dis­ci­plines and prac­tices within the sec­tor itself, artists and cre­ators, munic­i­pal and provin­cial offi­cials, edu­ca­tors and stu­dents, arts activists, vol­un­teers, arts orga­ni­za­tion Board mem­bers and the busi­ness community.

Par­tic­i­pants will leave the work­shop with:

• A brief back­ground of fed­eral cul­tural pol­icy and the recent devel­op­ments to our rich history

• An overview of cur­rent prac­tices in the work­ings of gov­ern­ment and pol­icy development

• A toolkit for advo­cat­ing for the arts

• A prac­ti­cal case study exercise

The first series of work­shops are being held in:

• Regina, with the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, Octo­ber 1, 2009

• Peter­bor­ough, with the Art­space Artist-Run Cen­tre,
  • Novem­ber 4, 2009 1:30 – 4:30 pm
    Art­space, 3/378 Aylmer St. N
    To reg­is­ter, con­tact Art­space at info@artspace-arc.org or 705–748-3883 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              705–748-3883      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
• Kingston, with the Kingston Arts Council,

• • Novem­ber 5, 2009 6:00 – 9:00 pm
    Kingston Fron­tenac Pub­lic Library, Wil­son Room, 130 John­son Street
    To reg­is­ter, con­tact the Kingston Arts Coun­cil at info@artskingston.com or 613–546-2787 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              613–546-2787      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
• Sud­bury, with the Sud­bury Arts Coun­cil,
  • Jan­u­ary 14, 2010 , 6:00 – 9:00 pm NEW!!
    Tom Davies Square, 200 Brady Street
    To reg­is­ter, con­tact the Sud­bury Arts Coun­cil at sac.contact@gmail.com or 705–560‑5412 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              705–560-5412      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• Sault-Ste-Marie, with the Arts Coun­cil of Sault-Ste-Marie and Dis­trict and the NORDIK Insti­tute,
  • Jan­u­ary 13, 2010, 6:00 – 9:00 pm NEW!!
    Algoma Uni­ver­sity, 1520 Queen St. East
    To reg­is­ter, con­tact Jude Ortiz at the NORDIK Insti­tute, jude.ortiz@algomau.ca or 705–949-2301 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              705–949-2301      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
• Water­loo, with Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Lead­er­ship, and Social Inno­va­tion & the Cen­tre for Cul­tural Man­age­ment, Uni­ver­sity of Water­loo
  • Novem­ber 18, 2009, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
    Coun­cil Cham­bers (3rd Floor), Water­loo City Cen­tre
    100 Regina St. South (at William)
    To reg­is­ter, con­tact Bill Poole at the Cen­tre for Cul­tural Man­age­ment, wpoole@uwaterloo.ca or 519–888-4567 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              519–888-4567      end_of_the_skype_highlighting x 35057

Mark your cal­en­dars now to par­tic­i­pate in the dis­cus­sion. Please tell your friends and col­leagues about these work­shops and con­tact the CCA if your com­mu­nity is inter­ested in host­ing one of our Cul­tural Pol­icy work­shops! Host­ing a work­shop for com­mu­ni­ties around the coun­try is the best guar­an­tee that the CCA can truly inform, and be informed by Canadians.

Local part­ners are cru­cial to the suc­cess of the CCA Cul­tural Pol­icy Work­shop because they pro­vide the CCA with advice, logis­tics sup­port and access to local net­works of artists, cre­ators and arts admin­is­tra­tors and edu­ca­tors. We are very grate­ful to our many part­ners for their sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to the Pol­i­tics of Art and the Art of Pol­i­tics workshops.

To reg­is­ter or to bring the work­shops closer to you, please con­tact Megan Forsythe at the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of Arts, megan.forsythe@ccarts.ca or 613–238-3561 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              613–238-3561      end_of_the_skype_highlighting x 18.

I look for­ward to meet­ing with you!

Alain Pineau

National Direc­tor