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New president and vice-president to guide Canadian Conference of the Arts

OTTAWA – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the elec­tion of Andrew David Ter­ris as pres­i­dent and Robert Spick­ler as vice-president of its board of governors. Mr. Ter­ris, who has worked as an artist, designer, researcher, writer, admin­is­tra­tor and con­sul­tant over the past 35 years, brings an impres­sive wealth of knowl­edge and lead­er­ship to the CCA. He was the author of Pub­lic Pol­icy and Cul­tural Devel­op­ment in Nova Sco­tia, a 1990 report which even­tu­ally led...

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Jean Malavoy leaving Canadian Conference of the Arts

OTTAWA – Jean Malavoy, the cur­rent National Direc­tor of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts, will be leav­ing the CCA on June 21s t, 2005, after one year at the helm of Canada’s old­est and largest arts advo­cacy organization. About his deci­sion to leave, Malavoy said: “I am not a per­fect fit for the CCA. Although I am very pas­sion­ate about Cana­dian cul­ture and the place of the artist within our soci­ety, I feel that my resources and exper­tise will be bet­ter uti­lized towards what I excel in:...

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CCA Urges Government to Pass the Budget Before an Election

See below for CCA’s open let­ter sub­mit­ted to Cana­dian polit­i­cal lead­ers, May 6th2005. Ottawa, May 6, 2005 Whether a fed­eral elec­tion will begin in a mat­ter of a few weeks or thirty days after the planned con­clu­sion of Jus­tice Gomery’s inquiry later this year, it is clear that Cana­di­ans will head back to the polls some­time in the next eight months. What is less clear though, at this point, is the future sus­tain­abil­ity of Canada’s arts, cul­ture, and her­itage sec­tor. When the 2005 Fed­eral...

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MPs Talk Advocacy with the Arts and Cultural Sector

Ottawa, April 13th, 2005 — Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment rep­re­sent­ing each of Canada’s four fed­eral polit­i­cal par­ties will debate the mer­its of var­i­ous advo­cacy strate­gies as part of this Friday’s Chalmers Con­fer­ence, orga­nized by the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA).  The panelists, including Ed Broad­bent  (NDP, Ottawa-Centre), Sar­mite Bulte (Par­lia­men­tary Secretary, Canadian Her­itage, Parkdale-High Park), Bev Oda (CPC, Cana­dian Her­itage Critic), and Maka Kotto (BQ,...

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New Board Confirmed for CCA

Ottawa, March 29th, 2005 — The Pres­i­dent and Chair of the Board of Gov­er­nors of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the con­fir­ma­tion of the thir­teen indi­vid­u­als who will form the new CCA Board when the cur­rent one is dis­solved this April.  “Given the qual­ity and vast con­tri­bu­tions over the years of these incom­ing mem­bers to Canada’s cul­tural com­mu­nity, they are, as a group, ide­ally suited to car­ry­ing CCA for­ward,” stated out­go­ing...

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CCA Announces 2004 National Arts Awards Winners

Ottawa, Novem­ber 10th, 2004 — A dynamic hus­band and wife team with a his­tory of cul­tural patron­age and one of the shin­ing lights of the the­atre com­mu­nity will receive the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts’ 2004 National Arts Awards at a cer­e­mony in Regina on Novem­ber 19, 2004. The CCA is pleased to announce John and Bar­bara Poole and Mal­lory Gilbert as the award win­ners for 2004. The Keith Kelly Award for Cul­tural Lead­er­ship will be pre­sented to one of Canada’s most respected arts man­agers,...

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Free expression arrested ! Canadian Government to pass Bill C-12, says arts must serve ‘public good’

Ottawa, ON (March 5, 2004) — The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts ( CCA ) and The Writ­ers Union of Canada (TWUC) are opposed to the elim­i­na­tion of the artis­tic merit defence in sec­tion 163.1 of Bill C-12 (for­merly Bill C-20), an Act to amend the Crim­i­nal Code (pro­tec­tion of chil­dren and other vul­ner­a­ble per­sons).   The Bill is cur­rently sched­uled for third read­ing in the House of Com­mons on Mon­day, March 8 th . CCA and TWUC will hold a joint press con­fer­ence, fol­lowed by a pub­lic...

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