Spring and Renewal

The National Director’s Blog

There are big changes hap­pen­ing at the CCA. Read Alain Pineau’s lat­est blog post Rein­vent­ing the CCA: an update to learn more about our ongo­ing efforts to imple­ment our new strate­gic plan.

CCA Spot­light

Read CCA Board mem­ber and Alberta Craft Coun­cil Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Tom McFall’s per­spec­tive on the recent Cul­ture Forum 2012 that took place in Alberta. Alberta: busi­ness and cul­ture, two pre­oc­cu­pa­tions of the Red­ford con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment.

The loss of Pierre Juneau, father of Cana­dian con­tent reg­u­la­tions served as the pre­text for a good debate on the reg­u­la­tions. Read some of what was said in the National Post and the join the debate in the com­ments sec­tion on our website.

The Inde­pen­dent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) pub­lished a report on employ­ment stan­dards and human resources in artist-run media arts orga­ni­za­tions. Read about their find­ings about employ­ees and their remu­ner­a­tion in their Study on Employ­ment Stan­dards and Human Resource Man­age­ment Tools.

Actors and actresses are now demand­ing that their rights be enshrined in a Treaty. After the dis­ap­point­ment of the failed Diplo­matic Sum­mit of the World Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Orga­ni­za­tion (WIPO) in 2000, Bei­jing will be the host of the next Sum­mit in June, which will most prob­a­bly adopt the new Treaty. Actors from around the world are say­ing : “It’s Time”.

March 27 is the 50th anniver­sary of World The­atre Day. Read actor John Malkovich’s mes­sage.

Watch out for …

The fed­eral bud­get is expected to be released on March 29th. Keep an eye out for the CCA’s analy­sis as well as a look at the provin­cial bud­gets being released this month.