The Economic Spring for Culture

CCA Bulletin 05/12

There is summer, the harvest season, the cold season and the season of budgets. Over the last two weeks we have read four provincial budgets and tomorrow will be the federal budget. This bulletin is to do a quick recap of the place of culture and arts of the most recent provincial budgets presented in spring 2012, those in Quebec, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick.

Spring and Renewal

    The National Director’s Blog There are big changes hap­pen­ing at the CCA. Read Alain Pineau’s lat­est blog post Rein­vent­ing the CCA: an update to learn more about our ongo­ing efforts to imple­ment our new strate­gic plan.   CCA Spot­light Read CCA Board mem­ber and Alberta Craft Coun­cil Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Tom McFall’s per­spec­tive on the recent Cul­ture Forum 2012 that took place in Alberta. Alberta: busi­ness and cul­ture, two pre­oc­cu­pa­tions of the Red­ford con­ser­v­a­tive...

Reinventing the CCA: an update

Reinventing the CCA: an update

There are big changes happening at the CCA. Read Alain Pineau's latest blog post to learn more about our ongoing efforts to implement our new strategic plan.

March 27th is World Theatre Day

This year John Malkovich is the mes­sage author of the 50th World The­atre Day. Mes­sage of the 50th anniver­sary of World The­atre Day “I’m hon­ored to have been asked by the Inter­na­tional The­atre Insti­tute ITI at UNESCO to give this greet­ing com­mem­o­rat­ing the 50th anniver­sary of World The­atre Day. I will address my brief remarks to my fel­low the­atre work­ers, peers and comrades. May your work be com­pelling and orig­i­nal. May it be pro­found, touch­ing, con­tem­pla­tive, and unique. May...

Study on Employment Standards and Human Resource Management Tools

On March 7, 2012, the Inde­pen­dent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) pub­lished a report on employ­ment stan­dards and human resources in artist-run media arts orga­ni­za­tions. It appears that base salaries in these cen­ters are lower than those in other not-for-profit sectors. The study has found that: Employ­ees are young and highly skilled Two thirds of employ­ees are required to work over­time, up to 10 to 20 hours; Spend­ing on ben­e­fits is low; Employee turnover is high, with over 40% of all employ­ees in their...

WIPO Treaty on performances in the audiovisual sector

Actors and actresses are now demand­ing that their rights be enshrined in a Treaty. After the dis­ap­point­ment of the failed Diplo­matic Sum­mit of the World Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Orga­ni­za­tion (WIPO) in 2000, Bei­jing will be the host of the next Sum­mit in June, which will most prob­a­bly adopt the new Treaty. Actors from around the world are say­ing :...

Canadian content regulations

The loss of Pierre Juneau, father of Cana­dian con­tent reg­u­la­tions served as the pre­text for a good debate on the reg­u­la­tions in the National Post last month. Marni Soup­coff, Lorne Gunter and Matt Gur­ney of the National Post agreed in large part that gov­ern­ment gen­er­ally should not get involved in the arts. They then argue that the absence of quo­tas in the broad­cast and music indus­tries in the U.S. and the United King­dom is some­what healthy. They also claim that “Can­Con require­ments look most...

Alberta: business and culture, two preoccupations of the Redford conservative government

by Tom McFall, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Alberta Craft Coun­cil and CCA Board member The week­end of Feb­ru­ary 26 may prove to be a turn­ing point for Alberta’s cul­ture sec­tor. That week­end Alberta’s new Pre­mier Ali­son Red­ford and Cul­ture and Com­mu­nity Ser­vices Min­is­ter Heather Klim­chuk hosted almost 400 of Alberta’s cul­ture and busi­ness lead­ers at Red Deer Col­lege for an impor­tant dis­cus­sion about the future of cul­ture in Alberta. Cul­ture Forum 2012 gath­ered a cross-section of...

C-11 Legislative Committee on copyright: week one

CCA Bulletin 04/12

The first week of consultations on Bill C-11 saw the first 24 witnesses invited to present their views. The process is moving quickly and will continue at this pace as the government fast tracks the Bill.

Welcome

    Mes­sage from the President The Pres­i­dent of the CCA’s Board of Direc­tors, Kath­leen Sharpe, addresses the chal­lenges cur­rently fac­ing the CCA. Read on!   CCA Spot­light Munic­i­pal Cul­tural Invest­ment in Five Large Cana­dian Cities -  a study com­par­ing cities with the largest num­ber of cul­tural work­ers and artists in Canada – Van­cou­ver, Cal­gary, Toronto, Ottawa and Mon­tréal.  The report was released in Jan­u­ary 2012 by  Hill Strate­gies Research. The Visual Arts Alliance...