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CCA Publishes its 2012–2013 Analyses of Provincial and Territorial Budgets

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Letter from the President

The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is happy to meet its commitment to publish its Analyses of the Provincial and Territorial 2012-13 Budgets from the perspective of arts, culture and heritage.

National Director’s Blog

This morn­ing the CCA issued a press release titled, The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts closes its doors after 67 years. I don’t need to tell you how dif­fi­cult it has been to write those words down and how we have tried our best not to express them. But there comes a moment when real­ity stares down the most hope­ful out­look on things. It is seven years to the day that I was given the job of National Direc­tor of the CCA. Dur­ing these years I have devel­oped the great­est of respect for this orga­ni­za­tion and the...

Letter From the Chair

It is with great sadness that the Board of Governors of the CCA came to the conclusion last week that we have to shut down operations immediately. I can tell you that the decision announced today, while not a surprise given the known challenges we were facing, was most difficult to take...

Thinking Canada Guest Blog

Intro­duc­tion For the sec­ond year in a row the CCA is play­ing host to EU stu­dents tak­ing part in the Think­ing Canada pro­gram. Dur­ing the pro­gram, stu­dents spend three and a half weeks tour­ing Canada and learn­ing about our var­i­ous insti­tu­tions before par­tic­i­pat­ing in a two month intern­ship. We asked this year’s stu­dents, Eszter Szenczi from Hun­gary and San­dra Siew­ert from Ger­many, to share some of their ini­tial impres­sions and some of what they have learned so far in their...

Thinking Canada Guest Blog

Intro­duc­tion For the sec­ond year in a row the CCA is play­ing host to EU stu­dents tak­ing part in the Think­ing Canada pro­gram. Dur­ing the pro­gram, stu­dents spend three and a half weeks tour­ing Canada and learn­ing about our var­i­ous insti­tu­tions before par­tic­i­pat­ing in a two month intern­ship. We asked this year’s stu­dents, Eszter Szenczi from Hun­gary and San­dra Siew­ert from Ger­many, to share some of their ini­tial impres­sions and some of what they have learned so far in their...

The New CCA: A New Style of Governance

The New CCA: a new style of governance

Like I wrote in my last blog, we are working very hard to identify what the new CCA will be. We are working to ensure it will be a CCA the entire cultural sector can be proud of and one that responds to the needs of its members. We are systematically examining our model of governance to ensure the sector feels a sense of belonging and participation in the decision we make as was recommended in the Five Year Strategic Plan adopted by the board last March.

The National Director’s Blog

The Winds of Change

The last two months have slipped through our fingers! We worked hard this summer, as usual you say, but this time it's different. We worked on projects for the future. We weren’t just working on the survival of the CCA: do more with less or just do it differently.

CCA President’s Blog – Time for Change!

As I indi­cated in my report to the June 18th Annual Gen­eral Meet­ing, the last year has been a very busy one for all of us and now, the CCA has entered what is prob­a­bly the most crit­i­cal phase of it re-birth process. We are fac­ing a period of rad­i­cal change as we rein­vent the busi­ness and gov­er­nance mod­els of the CCA to make it a strong and inde­pen­dent voice. In our efforts to trans­form this unique instru­ment serv­ing the Cana­dian arts, cul­tural and her­itage sec­tors, we can build on an...

Summer Projects

We all know the expres­sion “the cheque is in the mail.” And yet I have never waited for a cheque with so much impa­tience as the one that we received elec­tron­i­cally this week from Cana­dian Her­itage. Along with the mem­ber­ship con­tri­bu­tions we have received over the past six weeks, this brings us until mid-autumn, plus a con­tin­gency reserve of more than three months that we intend to keep and even­tu­ally build on. Already it’s a more com­fort­able sit­u­a­tion than we have been in the last three months,...

The Sprint Continues

The Sprint Continues

It’s the last magazine before our June 18th annual general meeting in Ottawa and like in a suspense film, I’m about to prepare my annual report without knowing quite how it will end! In a few weeks, another crucial step towards the future of the CCA will be realized...