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Updates from the CCNC...
The CCNC and Board of Directors are Ontario-bound!
The Creative City Network of Canada’s 2010 Annual General Meeting will take place on October 29, 2010 in Toronto, ON at 9:30AM. The AGM and election of the Board of Directors will be held in the Wellington Room at the Strathcona Hotel, 60 York St., Toronto, ON, M5J 1S8. For members who are interested in attending and haven't yet confirmed, please RSVP to
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no later than 5pm PT October 27. And if you are unable to attend, but are interested in voting by proxy, please email Katherine for more details.
Also on October 29th, the CCNC will be participating in Arts Consultants Canada’s Professional Development Session, “Trends and Issues in the Not-For-Profit Arts”, taking place at the Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto, ON. This session is SOLD OUT. However, from 1:15 pm-2:45 pm EST, there will be a free live transmission of a presentation by Robert Hunter, Director General, Department of Canadian Heritage. Robert's presentation will outline the findings from a recent review of the Department's programs, explore observed trends and discuss how programs at the Department have evolved to ensure their continued relevance. To ask questions live, go to: www.artsconsultants.ca/events/live. For more details, download the announcement here (PDF).
French translation of the e-Newsletter
This will be the final e-Newsletter that the CCNC will provide in both English and French. We regret that we will no longer be able to provide the e-Newsletter in French, but hope to again in the future. Thank you to our French readers and our dedicated translators, Célyne Gagnon and Lynda Bolduc for their hard work.
- The CCNC Team
Guest Editorial – David Plouffe, CCNC Board Member, Calgary, AB
Learning Agenda
One of my responsibilities as Executive Assistant to the Director of Land Use Planning Policy at the City of Calgary is for leadership learning inside our Business Unit. Do you have responsibilities for learning inside your organization?
This got me wondering how we deal with keeping learning alive and useful inside our organizations? Or, as an informal educator friend asked “shouldn’t we ask ‘learning for what?’ before going down that road”. Learning is a big responsibility, and managing it well for individuals, for organizations, and for the field we work in is rarely easy.
What is your method for learning and innovating to optimize your impact? I believe making a real difference toward solving complex problems requires cultural planners to do more than asking the question and making learning their personal goal. It requires their organizations to have a systematic approach and a system for innovating.
I define innovating as using knowledge and insight to make changes to what you are doing so that you can have a greater impact. I have found these five fundamentals to be effective at innovating:
- establish partnerships for knowledge exchange and collective learning and action;
- cultivate habits for systematic inquiry, analysis and learning;
- target the kinds of knowledge and insight you need;
- create a supportive environment with rewards for innovating; and
- improve the use of knowledge
Hence, what’s on your learning agenda? Is there anything you’ve read that helped you frame learning inside or across cultural planning in an interesting way? Read more...
Victoria, BC: City scans art scene
“Art enthusiasts, creators and organizers can now benefit from an online directory and map of cultural venues and groups. The City of Victoria compiled the database thanks to a $10,000 B.C. Legacies Now grant. The city matched the funds… Eventually, the website will include an events calendar for the public and a roster of artists… While creating the database, the city also launched a multi-year dialogue with the arts community, to discover opportunities and gaps in arts policy.”
By Roszan Holmen, Victoria News, October 7, 2010 | weblink
Abbotsford, BC: ‘Culture Under Construction’ tackles arts issues
“Culture under Construction was a day of planning organized by the City of Abbotsford and the Abbotsford Arts & Heritage Advisory Committee… Members of the community came together to address various issues related to the question, ‘How can we build and sustain the arts in Abbotsford?’ Tamaka Fisher, Arts & Heritage Coordinator for the City of Abbotsford responded: ‘This is the question we invited over 50 participants to help us answer during a free public cultural planning day… The results of this dialogue are being organized into a report and the findings will be integrated into the Abbotsford Parks, Recreation & Culture Master Plan Update.’”
Doreen Jung, AbbotsfordToday.com, September 28, 2010 | weblink
High River, AB: Culture Minister recognizes the arts
“[Culture Minister] Lindsay Blackett was in town as part of Alberta Arts Days, which ran [Sept. 17-19] in rural and urban communities across the province. Now in its third year, Arts Days was initially a one-day event intended to acknowledge the depth of the province's thriving art scene. Last year, it was increased to three days in response to enthusiastic feedback from participating organizations and communities, including High River's. ‘We've been a part of this since the beginning,’ said Sue Graham, Arts and Culture manager. ‘Since then it's more than doubled in size.’ Graham said this year's celebration has been ‘fantastic’ and was thrilled to find out that Blackett would be a part of this year's event.”
Angela Hill, The High River Times, September 20, 2010 | weblink
See also: ‘High River chosen as ‘coolest’ community’, The High River Times | weblink
‘High timefor success’, Calgary Herald | weblink
Ottawa, ON: Aboriginal art committee a go
“Ottawa will get a new team to oversee the promotion and development of local aboriginal art. The city’s Arts, Heritage and Culture Advisory Committee (AHCAC) voted unanimously [Sept. 21] in favour of creating a sub-committee to represent aboriginal interests in the arts. The front-woman for the proposal, local Métis artist Jaime Koebel, pitched the idea, saying that public spaces in Ottawa lack visible modern-day aboriginal art… According to Koebel, the sub-committee will not only be beneficial for the aboriginal art community, but Ottawa at large, as it has the potential to advise on various other aboriginal issues and community projects.”
Margaret Campbell, Centretown News, September 22, 2010 | weblink
Kingston, ON: City Council approves Kingston Culture Plan
“This document, which will guide the cultural development of Kingston over the next decade, was the result of year-long process lead by the City’s Cultural Services Department that engaged the Canadian Urban Institute to facilitate a wide range of consultations both inside City Hall and within the community to look at ways to support cultural vitality to benefit local residents as well as visitors to the area… The Kingston Culture Plan articulates a sustainable, authentic, long-term vision for cultural vitality in Kingston that includes a total of 60 recommendations that identify opportunities for growth, the need for more diverse resources and possibilities for connections between cultural organizations and other stakeholders… The Culture Plan is available for download online (PDF file).”
Heather Denise, Kingston Herald, September 22, 2010 | weblink
See also: ‘Culture Plan takes centre stage’, The Kingston Whig-Standard | weblink
Collingwood, ON: Murals highlighted at symposium
“Collingwood will be in the spotlight in November for a bit of official graffiti. Town spokesperson Tanya Mazza said the three-day, 13th National Mural Symposium will be hosted by the Town of Collingwood from Nov. 5-to-7. The three-day conference is presented annually by Toronto arts organization Mural Routes, in partnership with mural towns across Ontario. ‘The symposium offers an impressive lineup of speakers in the field of public art…’ said Mazza. Collingwood's murals will be featured in From Preservation to Policy: A Mural Restoration Success Story, presented by Catherine Campbell, Chair of the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee and Mazza.”
The Enterprise-Bulletin, October 8, 2010 | weblink
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Culture Days fever takes over 700 cities and towns
“For three days, hundreds of thousands of Canadians in every province and territory celebrated arts and culture in their communities during the first annual edition of Culture Days, a free, grassroots, Canada-wide event designed to inspire and catalyze greater public participation in arts and culture. From Sept. 24 to 26 (Sept. 17 to 19 for Alberta Arts Days), artists, groups, organizations and municipalities in more than 700 Canadian cities and towns opened their doors and offered 4500 free Culture Days hands-on classes, excursions, tours, demonstrations, seminars, panels and behind-the-scenes experiences. Culture Days 2010 marked the biggest event of its kind in Canadian history.” For more info, visit www.culturedays.ca
Canadian Newswire, October 1, 2010 | weblink
BC: 14 local governments receive arts and cultural funding
“2010 Legacies Now and the Province of British Columbia are providing $132,000 in Creative Communities funding to 14 communities to invest in developing arts and culture in their regions. This is the final round of funding for Creative Communities… Between 2005 and 2010, Creative Communities funding supported local governments and arts organizations to assess cultural resources together with community leaders and develop long-term cultural plans. Through collaboration, they enhanced cultural offerings and found opportunities to use the arts to meet social and economic objectives. Funding was made available in three categories: cultural mapping, cultural planning and cultural tourism strategy.”
News Release, 2010 Legacies Now, September 23, 2010 | weblink
Double community and arts funding, top lobbyist tells B.C.
“Alliance of the province's largest arts lobby groups says it should get a larger share of increasing gambling revenues… Amir Ali Alibhai, executive director of the Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture, said Victoria expanded gambling on the understanding that 33 per cent of profits would be plowed back into important social and community services. With the recent cuts to gambling grants to arts and community groups, that figure has been slashed to about 10 per cent…”
Kevin Griffin, Vancouver Sun, October 9, 2010 | weblink
See also: ‘Non-profit groups say B.C. duped them over casino proceeds’, The Globe and Mail | weblink
‘Charities want their fair share’, The Province | weblink
Ontario creates $27M Arts Investment Fund
“The Ontario government has announced it will give an additional $27 million over the next three years to non-profit arts groups as operating funds… There will be $11 million in funding in 2010-11 administered through a new Arts Investment Fund… An additional $10 million will be available in 2011-12 and $6 million the following year. Non-profit arts groups that have previously had grants through the Ontario Arts Council will be invited to apply. The OAC will administer the fund…The OAC also has an additional $1.1 million over the next three years for English and French language book and magazine publishers in Ontario."
CBC News, September 24, 2010 | weblink
See also: ‘Increased arts funding in Ontario’, The Brock Press | weblink
N.B.'s 1st aboriginal art gallery to open
New Brunswick's first art gallery devoted to aboriginal art has opened in Moncton. The Klu'skap Gallery, owned by Métis artist Pascal Pelletier, celebrated its grand opening on Sept. 30. Pelletier grew up in Quebec but after 12 years spent in British Columbia, “a visit to Moncton convinced him to move to New Brunswick. Pelletier said he was shocked that such an old province with such strong Acadian culture had nothing to offer as far as First Nations art. ‘What I'm doing right now with the gallery is providing what I didn't receive when I was young,’ Pelletier said. ‘I didn't have an example of a gallery or even an artist that I could see myself, recognize myself in, and my inspiration. So I decided that was something that someday I would love to do.’”
CBC News, September 29, 2010 | weblink
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USA: Responsible philanthropy
“A great deal has been written in recent weeks about the new English government's plan to slash government funding for the arts. Understandably, the arts organizations in England are deeply concerned. They have relied on government funding for large portions of their budgets and do not feel equipped to fill the budget gap that will result from this sudden reduction in income. This is not a unique situation. Governments and other major institutional funders across the globe are cutting arts funding as other social needs take precedence. This situation inevitably leads to a discussion of the responsibility large donors bear when they wish to cut their grants substantially… If a funder truly cares about the arts (or any sector of the not-for-profit sector it funds, for that matter) it should do three things…”
Michael Kaiser, The Huffington Post, September 30, 2010 | weblink
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European Union and UNESCO join hands to use culture as a tool for development
“[T]he European Commissioner for Development, ahead of the High-Level Round Table on Culture and Development, signed an agreement with UNESCO for a €1 million Expert Facility to support governance of the cultural sector. This facility will allow the governments of developing countries to take advantage of experts' knowledge in developing effective and sustainable cultural policies. It will contribute to implementation of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions… The European Commission was a major player in the negotiations of the Convention and has been deeply committed in promoting cultural diversity in EU's cooperation with partner countries all over the world.”
eGov monitor, European Commision, September 24, 2010 | weblink
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 November 4 – 7, 2010
My City’s Still Breathing: A symposium exploring the arts, artists and the city
“This symposium gathers local, national and international experts from a wide range of disciplines to deliberate and debate the current and future relationship of art and design to city-making.”
Winnipeg, MB - Cultural Capital of Canada 2010
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New Moncton [NB] Cultural Plan now available on line
“The new Moncton Cultural Plan: Telling our Story, recently adopted by the City of Moncton can now be found on line at www.moncton.ca on the home page, in the Living in the City blue box. This is the City of Moncton's first-ever action plan for cultural development, and it will help orient the municipality's cultural services for the next five years.”
2009-10 Annual Report – Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Council for the Arts’ Annual Report 2009-10 is now available online along with the document, Funding to Artists and Arts Organizations: Provincial and Territorial Profiles. “The Profiles tell some interesting stories of the artists and arts organizations who received funding… In the past year, the Council supported 4,400 artists and arts organizations living and working in 536 communities across Canada. It also made payments to 17,058 authors in 1,765 communities for the availability of their books in libraries through the Public Lending Right program.” For more information:
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Arts attendance, participation and public perception
Hill Strategies Research, Inc., Arts Research Monitor, Vol. 9 No. 3, October 2010 | weblink
“In this issue: A summary of four major statistical reports, including a Canadian survey of arts participation and public perception of the arts, a Canadian index of leisure and culture, an American arts index, and an American survey of arts participation.”
Arts Management Newsletter – Human resource management
Arts Management Network, Issue No. 99, September/October, 2010 | weblink to PDF
“Human resource management plays an important role in the cultural sector as it is focused squarely on individuals and how they, through their abilities, creativity, and ability to innovate, play an eminent part in organizations as a whole. The cultural sector is currently being subjected to fundamental changes, and therefore it is all the more necessary to find and hold onto the right people for the job, as well as to offer them the chance to continue their training…”
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Translation: Lynda Bolduc
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