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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...

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FROM 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...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: National Cultural Strategy Workshop Final Report

National Cul­tural Strat­egy Work­shop Final Report

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FROM 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...

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FROM 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...

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FROM 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...

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FROM 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...

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FROM 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...

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The 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...

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More 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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