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The Canadian Conference of the Arts to Close Doors after 67 Years

The Canadian Conference of the Arts to Close Doors after 67 Years

Press Release   The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), the largest national alliance of the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor across Canada, announces that it will begin wind­ing down its oper­a­tions imme­di­ately. Founded in 1945 by a group of emi­nent artists, includ­ing painters Lawren S. Har­ris, of the Group of Seven, and André Biéler, the CCA has the unique man­date in the Cana­dian cul­tural sec­tor of pro­mot­ing the inter­ests of Cana­dian artists and of the cul­tural sec­tor at large at the...

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CCA’s FEDERAL BUDGET ANALYSIS TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

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Federal Budget and Culture: aftershocks worse than the earthquake, the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ federal budget analysis from the perspective of arts, culture and heritage, will be released on September 18, 2012. This report is widely sought after as an authoritative source of information on federal investments in culture and...

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Arts, Culture and Heritage Organizations Present Common Platform for Election 2011

Ottawa, ON (April 21, 2011) — Over 70 national, provin­cial and munic­i­pal cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions from across the coun­try have come together to sign a com­mon plat­form in the con­text of the 2011 fed­eral elec­tion, in which they ask fed­eral par­ties to make more sus­tained com­mit­ments to Cana­dian arts, cul­ture and her­itage. This com­mon plat­form, the first ever achieved by the sec­tor, was estab­lished after a series of con­sul­ta­tions and dis­cus­sions led by the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence ...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Announces its National Arts Award Winners for 2009

(Ottawa, ON) Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010 — The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the win­ners of its national arts awards for 2009. Françoise Sul­li­van and Joyce Zemans will receive the Diplôme d’honneur, while Mau­rice For­get and Robert Jekyll will receive the Keith Kelly Award for Cul­tural Lead­er­ship. The win­ners will be pre­sented with their awards dur­ing the CCA’s 65th anniver­sary Gala din­ner, tak­ing place on Novem­ber 1, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre (NAC) in Ottawa. The...

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PAUL GROSS ANNOUNCED AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT CCA 65 TH ANNIVERSARY GALA DINNER

Ottawa, ON (Sep­tem­ber 8, 2010) – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce that acclaimed Cana­dian actor and direc­tor Paul Gross will be the keynote speaker at its 65  anniver­sary gala din­ner. The gala will take place on Novem­ber 1, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre (NAC) in Ottawa and will cel­e­brate the CCA’s accom­plish­ments and legacy in Canada’s arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor since its incep­tion in 1945. “We are hon­oured to have Paul Gross deliver the keynote address...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Launches New Cultural Forum Series

Ottawa, ON (August 25, 2010) –The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the launch of Think­ing Cul­ture, a new forum series focused on arts, cul­ture and her­itage issues. Pre­sented in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa’s Cen­tre for Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion, Cen­tre on Gov­er­nance and School of Polit­i­cal Stud­ies, the forums will explore the com­plex­i­ties of cul­ture in Canada and abroad and how it con­tin­ues to affect society. This series will pro­vide...

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Canadian Conference of the Arts Announces Details for National Policy Conference

Ottawa, ON (June 29, 2010) – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has announced details for its upcom­ing National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence, Artists: Pow­er­ing the Cre­ative Econ­omy?, tak­ing place Novem­ber 1–3, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre in Ottawa. The con­fer­ence will fea­ture pan­els, pre­sen­ta­tions and white­board ses­sions explor­ing poli­cies and issues affect­ing the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor within the cre­ative econ­omy. As Canada and other coun­tries move towards an...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts urges the CRTC to put communities back in community television

Ottawa, ON (May 4, 2010) — Today, Alain Pineau, National Direc­tor of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), urged the CRTC to put com­mu­ni­ties back in com­mu­nity tele­vi­sion. He also deplored the lack of data made avail­able for a full eval­u­a­tion of how cable oper­a­tors use the $ 130 mil­lion they col­lect for com­mu­nity television. The cur­rent hear­ing explores how best to achieve the social and cul­tural objec­tives of com­mu­nity broad­cast­ing as set in the Broad­cast­ing Act. ...

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CCA TO CRTC: PROTECT CONSUMERS BY REGULATING CABLE AND SATELLITE RATES

The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) weighed in yes­ter­day on the pub­lic debate on whether cable and satel­lite oper­a­tors should be called upon to pay over-the-air (OTA) tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ers for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of local signals. The CCA sup­ports the intro­duc­tion of a value for sig­nal pay­ment, pro­vided that the CRTC also imposes Cana­dian pro­gram­ming expen­di­ture require­ments on OTA broad­cast­ers equiv­a­lent to 6% of their rev­enue.  In order to pro­tect the inter­ests...

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CCA applauds CRTC’s decision to support Canada’s cultural sector

Ottawa, ON (Octo­ber 30, 2008) — The CRTC’s deci­sion to sup­port local Cana­dian pro­gram­ming clearly meets the require­ments of Canada’s broad­cast­ing leg­is­la­tion and Cana­di­ans’ desire, for more and better-funded Cana­dian pro­gram­ming, says Canada’s old­est and largest arts advo­cacy and cul­tural pol­icy devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tion, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA). “By strength­en­ing cable and satel­lite com­pa­nies’ finan­cial com­mit­ments to Cana­dian...

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