Special project!
Cultural Resilience: Using Innovation to Stabilize in Times of Crisis
In the summer of 2021, CCNC asked Canadians to share stories of culture organizations who changed things up during the pandemic to keep their art on offer, to maintain revenue and audiences, or to find new audiences. We collected over 200 stories from across the country!
In total, over 200 such stories were collected by Hill Strategies Research from all provinces and two territories. The results were completely inspiring and exceptional. The final report documents how artists and organizations stabilized revenue, maintained audiences, or created new streams of revenue during the pandemic. “The artists’ outside-of-the-box thinking demonstrates the strength of Canada’s culture sector. The report as a whole is a storied collection of inspiring Canadian innovation.” -Executive Director Kathleen Darby.
The data will be invaluable for every level of government looking to develop programs and policy that supports innovation in the cultural sector.
In Phase Two, new professional development tools for cultural and creative industries have been created in collaboration with project partners, the Cultural Human Resources Council and Les Arts et la Ville. This interactive 3-hour training workshop will being touring Canada in the summer of 2022. It will be available in English and French to arts and culture organizations throughout Canada.