Testimonials

“The Cul­ture Office of the City of Lon­don belongs to the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence for the Arts because it helps us to con­tinue to be informed about arts and cul­tural issues which are hap­pen­ing at the national level which pro­vides us with a con­text for issues that are affect­ing our munic­i­pal­ity and local cul­tural community.”

- Robin Armis­tead, Cul­ture Man­ager, City of London

“The Kingston Arts Coun­cil is a mem­ber of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts because we believe that artists and arts orga­ni­za­tions in Canada need an advo­cate and orga­nizer work­ing at a national level to speak for us to gov­ern­ment and to all Cana­di­ans about the value of our work and its impact on our country.”

- Karen Dolan, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Kingston Arts Council

 

 

 

 

“At Cana­dian Actors’ Equity Asso­ci­a­tion, we see mem­ber­ship in the CCA as an inte­gral piece of our advo­cacy strat­egy. The CCA is able to deliver a high level view of pol­icy deci­sions and how they affect var­i­ous sec­tors as well as pro­vide us with timely and use­ful research that we really don’t have the inter­nal capac­ity to generate.”

– Arden Rysh­pan, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Cana­dian Actors’ Equity Association

 

 

 

“The CCA is an instru­ment facil­i­tat­ing fruit­ful dia­logue and rich reflec­tions. It is a forum where we can share infor­ma­tion and build con­sen­sus around issues of cru­cial impor­tance to all cre­ators and artists.”

- Ray­mond Legault, Pres­i­dent, Union des artistes

 

 

“CCA is an impor­tant intel­li­gence and advo­cacy table, espe­cially for those orga­ni­za­tions that aren’t in Ottawa’s halls of power every day. Their con­ven­ing work, pol­icy work, and rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the sec­tor are impor­tant addi­tions to the work we do alone”.

– Kelly Duf­fin, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, The Writ­ers’ Union of Canada

 

 

 

“SAW Video renews its CCA mem­ber­ship every year because they’re such great com­mu­ni­ca­tors. Of par­tic­u­lar impor­tance to us is the valu­able clar­ity they pro­vide around bewil­der­ingly com­plex issues such as copy­right and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions policy.”

- Penny McCann, Direc­tor, Saw Video Association

“CCA’s analy­ses of fed­eral arts and cul­ture spend­ing, poli­cies and prac­tices help CAPACOA to make informed deci­sions on behalf of our own sec­tor. They don’t just make our job eas­ier, they help to make our voices heard.”

- Erin Ben­jamin, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Cana­dian Arts Pre­sent­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (CAPACOA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

“CCA’s timely analy­ses, research and pol­icy reports pro­vide the Ontario Asso­ci­a­tion of Gal­leries with informed and crit­i­cal per­spec­tives on national arts and her­itage issues impact­ing visual art orga­ni­za­tions all across the coun­try. This sig­nif­i­cantly enhances our own abil­ity to sup­port dia­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tion among our mem­bers, and to encour­age the high­est stan­dards for the care, preser­va­tion and pre­sen­ta­tion of the visual arts among Ontario’s pub­lic art galleries.”

– Deme­tra Chris­takos, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Ontario Asso­ci­a­tion of Arts Galleries

“There is only one orga­ni­za­tion in the coun­try that brings together the whole of the Arts com­mu­nity – that’s the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts. Sup­port for the CCA is really a way of keep­ing Canada’s cul­tural nar­ra­tive alive and relevant.”

- Gerry Barr, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Direc­tors’ Guild of Canada

 

 

 

 

“The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts is a unique orga­ni­za­tion we can­not do with­out as it allows mem­bers of the cul­tural com­mu­ni­ties from all over the coun­try to speak with one voice on issues of con­cern to them all.”

- Car­o­line Fortier, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Asso­ci­a­tion des réal­isa­teurs et réal­isatri­ces du Québec

 

 

 

“The CCA has long been an impor­tant advo­cate for the arts in Canada. With the mul­ti­plic­ity of arts organ­i­sa­tions in Canada, the CCA brings a sin­gle voice to the pub­lic pol­icy work that has become increas­ingly impor­tant for the arts and artists in Canada.”

- Stephen Wad­dell, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Alliance of Cana­dian Cin­ema, Tele­vi­sion and Radio Artists (ACTRA)

 

 

 

 

 

“We sup­port the work of the CCA because it’s the only voice in Canada for the entire spec­trum of Cana­dian cre­ators, rights own­ers and investors in cul­ture. Only the CCA can speak for such a broad con­stituency, and only the CCA has a track record of hav­ing done so for decades.”

- David Basskin, Pres­i­dent, Cana­dian Musi­cal Repro­duc­tion Rights Agency (CMRRA)