The Blog
The CCA communicates regularly with its members and the public regarding its work promoting and defending the arts, culture and heritage sector. From time to time, Alain Pineau adds his personal touch as presented in this blog. Read on and share your thoughts by posting replies.
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...
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: News from the CCA
CCA Bulletin 18/09 June 29, 2009 The warm weather seems to have finally arrived to the Eastern part of the country… but without the promise of a summer of leisure for the CCA! We have completed our move to our new office space and are emerging from our boxes. Phones are back in order and so is our email, both having stayed the same despite the change of premises. The CCA Secretariat is now back in business after a short interruption and will take advantage of the summer to plan for what promises...
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: National Cultural Strategy Workshop Final Report
National Cultural Strategy Workshop Final Report
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: 2009 Chalmers Workshop — Building Consensus
CCA Bulletin 9/09 March 19 , 2009 Just the Facts March 12 and 13, 2009 were productive days for the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) and the Canadian arts and cultural sector in general. The CCA brought stakeholders together from around Canada to continue the process of consensus building initiated through the 2008 Regional Forums. With an aim to foster unified policy platforms and increased sector-wide networking, the two days featured frank discussions and open...
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: The CCA publishes its Report on the Regional Forums 2008
CCA Bulletin 6/09 February 26 , 2009 Throughout November and December 2008, I had the great pleasure of conducting Regional Forums in 14 cities across Canada and to which more than 430 persons participated. These forums enabled a national conversation on the state of the arts and culture sector, the advocacy priorities we should be pursuing, and the necessary strategies which should be harnessed to identify and achieve common goals. These conversations were...
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Research at the Canadian Conference of the Arts
CCA Bulletin 1/09 January 16, 2009 Just the Facts Continuing in our pursuit of rigorous research and informing stakeholders in the arts and cultural sector, the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) has established a permanent Research Advisory Committee. In consultation with Canada’s arts and cultural sector, this Committee will guide the CCA’s direction in pursuing the most relevant research themes. The expertise of the committee will allow...
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau – From the Regional Forums to the March 12 Chalmers Conference
CCA Bulletin 51/08 December 17, 2008 Dear colleagues, The past four months have significantly altered the Canadian cultural landscape. We have seen over $ 65 million in cuts to arts and cultural programs (factoring in the abolition of the New Media Fund and of the PromArt program), an election campaign where the arts and culture featured as a key national issue, and an international crisis putting investments, pension funds, endowments, and the whole Canadian economy...
read moreFROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau – The CCA enters the Blogosphere!
CCA Bulletin 43/08 October 10, 2008 Thanks to a set of circumstances which nobody could have foreseen, arts and culture have occupied with politicians and journalists a most unusual place in the course of the federal election campaign. The question is: what will happen on the day after the election? Several months ago, the CCA had chosen the theme of its March 2009 National Policy Conference and of the series of Regional Forums which will precede it: how can we best work together to...
read moreThe CCA Hits the Road This Fall: Join the Conversation!
CCA Bulletin 33/08 Ottawa, September 5, 2008 Preoccupations about arts and culture have been very much in the press lately, but one cannot say that they are normally at the top of the public agenda. The latter has been a preoccupation of the CCA for quite some time and this is why, over the past six months, we have been working here at the Secretariat on planning a series of fourteen regional forums which will allow me to meet with members of the cultural sector and other...
read moreMore Budget Cuts to Culture and some news from the CCA
CCA Bulletin 32/08 Ottawa, September 2, 2008 New cuts to federal programs for arts and culture have surfaced just before the long Labour Day weekend. It has been confirmed that the government has put an end to the Canada New Media Fund designed to further the development, production, and marketing/ distribution of high-quality, original, interactive or on-line Canadian cultural new media works, in both official languages, at home and abroad. The New Media Fund was a decade-old...
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