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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 Annual General Meeting Ushers in New Board Members and Bylaw Changes

CCA Bul­letin 19/08 June 18 , 2008     Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts held its annual gen­eral meet­ing at the Ontario Col­lege of Art and Design on June 12, 2008. The Pres­i­dent of the CCA, Robert Spick­ler and the National Direc­tor, Alain Pineau also gave their reports on the state of the CCA. Mem­bers greeted the news that through strict man­age­ment of resources, the CCA had man­age to expunge its accu­mu­lated deficit and had recorded a mod­est sur­plus for the 2007-08...

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From the Desk of Alain Pineau: Cultural Policy: Next Generation A New Program From The Canadian Conference of the Arts

  CCA Bul­letin 13/08 May 1 , 2008   Just the Facts For some time, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts has been look­ing at a project called Cul­tural Pol­icy: Next Gen­er­a­tion, which will bring together sev­eral ini­tia­tives whose goal is to train the next gen­er­a­tion of cul­tural work­ers. This project, which has three sec­tions, is part of the 2008–2011 Strate­gic Plan adopted by the CCA Board at its Novem­ber 23, 2007 meeting. The first part of this project will be the estab­lish­ment of a...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts welcomes its 2008–2011 Board of Governors

CCA Bul­letin 11/08 March 26, 2008     Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is proud to announce the com­po­si­tion of its 2008–2011 Board of Gov­er­nors. Fur­ther to the elec­tion process which took place in the sec­ond half of Feb­ru­ary and to the March 20th meet­ing of the cur­rent Board, the new Board of Gov­er­nors will be com­prised of:   Liz Bar­ron – Win­nipeg, Manitoba Arts con­sul­tant Michel Beau­chemin – Mon­treal, Quebec Exec­u­tive Sec­re­tary,...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Chalmers Mini-Conference by John Holden, Head of Culture for the Influential British think tank DEMOS

CCA Bul­letin 03/08   Feb­ru­ary 11, 2008 Just The Facts On Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 31, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts, with the gen­er­ous sup­port of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts, pre­sented a pub­lic lec­ture by John Holden, Head of Cul­ture for the influ­en­tial British think tank DEMOS. This event was held at the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa. Mr. Holden gave a detailed pre­sen­ta­tion on what he calls the “cul­tural sys­tem”, i.e. the frame­work in which var­i­ous stake­hold­ers in the...

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Several Measures Proposed at the CCA Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy

CCA Bul­letin 38/07 Decem­ber 7 , 2007   The Facts On Novem­ber 22nd, at Uni­ver­sité du Québec à Mon­tréal, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) held a one one-day Sym­po­sium on the Role of Arts and Cul­ture in Cana­dian Pub­lic Diplo­macy. One hun­dred and twenty (120) peo­ple work­ing within the artis­tic and cul­tural sec­tor gath­ered, to hear the twelve invited pan­elists’ thoughts.  Par­tic­i­pants dis­cussed the prin­ci­ples and mod­els on which the fed­eral gov­ern­ment...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: What’s up at the CCA?

CCA Bul­letin 32/07 Sep­tem­ber 26, 2007       Many of you may be won­der­ing if the CCA has left for sum­mer hol­i­days and not returned, since com­mu­ni­ca­tions over the past few weeks have been few in-between. I can assure you that noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth: the prob­lem is that we have been so busy over the past three months that we can barely keep you informed of all the work under­way on behalf of the arts and cul­tural sector! Through­out the sum­mer, the Sec­re­tariat of the CCA has...

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Canada will Host Important UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting in December 2007

CCA Bul­letin 28/07 August 1, 2007 Just the facts As reported pre­vi­ously (CCA Bul­letins Jan­u­ary 24, 2007 and April 10, 2007), inter­est among states in the UNESCO Con­ven­tion on the Pro­tec­tion and Pro­mo­tion of the Diver­sity of Cul­tural Expres­sions remains high.  Sixty-three states, as well as the Euro­pean Com­mu­nity, have now joined.  The first Con­fer­ence of Par­ties to the Con­ven­tion was held in Paris from 18 to 20 June 2007, the sec­ond will be held in June 2009. While the...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CRTC Task Force Report on the Canadian Television Fund crisis: an unconditional capitulation to broadcast distributors

  CCA Bul­letin 25/07 July 19, 2007 The CRTC Task Force on the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF) has pub­lished its Report on June 29, just before the long Canada Day week­end and the begin­ning of sum­mer hol­i­days. All inter­ested par­ties have until July 27 to make their views known on the 24 rec­om­men­da­tions of the Task Force, one of which is that these rec­om­men­da­tions  start being imple­mented by the CRTC by Sep­tem­ber 15, in order “to cre­ate a market-oriented pri­vate sec­tor...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Investing in Canadian Arts and Culture: Distinguishing “Need” From “Demand”?

CCA Bul­letin 22/07 June 6, 2007 Secur­ing increased and sta­ble fund­ing for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor has been high on the pri­or­ity list of objec­tives for the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) for decades. As the arts and cul­ture sec­tor cel­e­brates the fifti­eth anniver­sary of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts, this issue has once again re-emerged as a “top-of-mind” issue.  The infu­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of $50 mil­lion dol­lars to the bud­get of the Coun­cil over...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA Intervention on Proposed “Code of Conduct for Procurement”, plus Important Announcements

CCA Bul­letin 10/07 March 13, 2007 Job oppor­tu­nity: the CCA is look­ing for a pol­icy advisor Nom­i­na­tion Dead­line for the 2007 Gov­er­nor General’s Per­form­ing Arts Awards Extended until March 30th “Les États généraux des arts et de la cul­ture” in Cara­quet, NB May 2–6 2007 IETM Ple­nary Meet­ing 30 May-3 June 2007 in Montreal Fur­ther to the pre­vi­ous Bul­letin 08/07, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) recently sent a let­ter to the Hon. Michael Fortier, Min­is­ter of...

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