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CCA Covers Federal Review Processes

CCA Bul­letin 17/09 June 11 , 2009     Just the Facts The recent announce­ment of strate­gic reviews includ­ing the CBC, the National Film Board and the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts has trig­gered some under­stand­able con­cerns within the arts and cul­ture sec­tor.  To help under­stand this process and its pos­si­ble con­se­quences, this bul­letin will aim to clar­ify the types of expen­di­ture review processes under­way across the full range of fed­eral depart­ments and agen­cies. If there is any...

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Provincial Initiatives to Help the Arts Weather the Recession — An Overview

  CCA Bul­letin 16/09 May 20, 2009   Just the Facts As some provin­cial gov­ern­ments began announc­ing ini­tia­tives to sup­port the arts, the CCA thought it timely to review what provin­cial gov­ern­ments are doing to help arts orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als in the sec­tor weather the eco­nomic down­turn. While we have not been able to col­lect infor­ma­tion from all juris­dic­tions, here is what we have gath­ered so far. British Colum­bia As BC vot­ers went to the polls on May 12, 2009 the...

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Marquee Tourism Event Cash Starts to Flow Next Deadline May 8, 2009!

CCA Bul­letin 15/09 May 1, 2009     Just the Facts In the last fed­eral bud­get, the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty announced that $ 100 mil­lion in new money would flow over two years to mar­quee fes­ti­vals and events to boost their capac­ity to attract tourists. The Pro­gram, admin­is­tered by the Depart­ment of Indus­try, is a wel­come replace­ment for the fund­ing that was can­celled by the Paul Mar­tin gov­ern­ment in the wake of the adver­tis­ing scan­dal stem­ming from the...

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Focus on Arts Funding: a report from the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and another one on cultural infrastructure

CCA Bul­letin 14/09 April 29, 2009   Just the Facts Two recently released reports on arts fund­ing have refo­cused the debate on fed­eral gov­ern­ment invest­ments in the arts and cul­ture sector. The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Her­itage recently pub­lished a report fur­ther to the hear­ings held in the wake of fund­ing cuts to the arts made over the course of the sum­mer and fall of 2008. The Com­mit­tee heard from a wide range of wit­nesses that tes­ti­fied about the impact of the cuts on...

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Waging Culture –Canadian Visual Artists In Focus

CCA Bul­letin 13/09 April 20, 2009   Just the Facts Michael Miranda and his col­leagues at the York Uni­ver­sity Art Gallery had had enough. Fol­low­ing the pub­lic dis­cus­sion of arts fund­ing dur­ing the last fed­eral elec­tion, the lack of cred­i­ble data on the state of the visual arts had to be addressed. No com­pre­hen­sive data on the socio-economic state of visual artists had been pro­duced since the 1993 Cana­dian Cul­tural Labour Force Sur­vey. Intent on redress­ing this lacuna, Michael embarked...

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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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Canadian Cultural Exports: A Growing Success Worth Investing In

  CCA Bul­letin 11/09 April 7, 2009   Just the Facts Accord­ing to the lat­est data avail­able, Canada has gone from a small cul­tural trade deficit in 1997 to a mod­est sur­plus ten years later. Sta­tis­tics Canada has recently released data on Cana­dian cul­tural imports and exports for the period of 1997 – 2006. The data exam­ine imports and exports for Canada’s top twenty trad­ing partners. The num­bers reveal a rel­a­tive suc­cess story for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor with exports dou­bling...

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American Arts Organizations Hit Hard by Recession

CCA Bul­letin 10/09 March 24 , 2009   Just the Facts The cur­rent eco­nomic reces­sion is tak­ing its toll on the Amer­i­can arts com­mu­nity. The National Endow­ment for the Arts (NEA), the Amer­i­can ver­sion of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts, reports that unem­ploy­ment for artists has risen sharply. The NEA is also admin­is­ter­ing a fifty mil­lion dol­lar recov­ery fund to keep jobs in the arts. The fund is part of the larger $ 787 bil­lion dol­lar recov­ery pack­age passed by the...

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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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The New Canada Media Fund: A glass half full, or half empty?

CCA Bul­letin 8/09 March 12, 2009   Why this should inter­est you The audio-visual sec­tor in Canada rep­re­sents a large source of employ­ment for the cul­tural sec­tor and the most widely con­sumed form of cul­tural expres­sion. Hill Strate­gies recently noted that “although artists work in many dif­fer­ent sec­tors of the econ­omy, the indus­try with the high­est num­ber of artists is arts, enter­tain­ment, and recre­ation (52,600 or 38% of all artists).” In 2004 The Cul­tural Human Resources...

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