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The National Director’s Blog

The Sprint Continues

Alain pre­pares for the Annual Gen­eral Meet­ing and looks back on the event­ful year that has just gone by.

Editor’s note

As Alain Pineau has been telling you in his most recent blogs, we have numer­ous projects in devel­op­ment at the moment. One of the projects that I have been work­ing on lately is search­ing for con­trib­u­tors for our mag­a­zine. I know few peo­ple who have time to read every­thing and under­stand the issues and browse through hun­dreds of pages of reports and stud­ies, so we have decided to do that for you and ask the experts to talk about their projects and their thoughts.

CCA Spot­light

Our fea­tured mem­ber, John Hob­day, talks to us about one of his favourite sub­jects: Arts and Edu­ca­tion. What a per­fect sub­ject for UNESCO’s inau­gural cel­e­bra­tion of the Inter­na­tional Arts Edu­ca­tion Week.

Dou­glas Gib­son, the author, shares his expe­ri­ences with Amazon, the large inter­na­tional dis­tri­b­u­tion cor­po­ra­tion.  Beware of Ama­zon.

Denis J Bertrand, con­sul­tant for audi­ence devel­op­ment of art for the 50Carleton firm and pre­vi­ously the gen­eral direc­tor of Théâtre Action (2000–2004), pens his first monthly col­umn on audi­ence devel­op­ment, trends, and obser­va­tions. Share your pas­sion. Develop your audi­ence. Audi­ence devel­op­ment: a mat­ter of the heart.

In Bei­jing new rights for per­form­ers and pro­duc­ers in the audio­vi­sual sec­tor will be dis­cussed. We talked to Ray­mond Legault, pres­i­dent of Union des artistes about it. New rights for per­form­ers and pro­duc­ers: The World Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Organization’s Sum­mit — Take 2

Watch out for …

Canada/European Union nego­ti­a­tions – the lat­est news