[All] Fwd: Creative City News - No. 127, March 30, 2012

[Robert Milligan]

Greetings All,

Many of you -- or some of your colleagues -- might find this of value  
to know about.

Robert



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> 2012 Creative City Summit - Registration now open!
> The 2012 Creative City Summit will take place October 21 – 23, 2012  
> in the City of Victoria, British Columbia.
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> The 2012 Summit 'Fertile Grounds: Culture in Your Community' will  
> take a behind-the-scenes look at how communities work with their  
> local governments to be creative, and integrate culture into their  
> long-term sustainability and economic development.
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> Members of the Creative City Network of Canada receive a discount on  
> registration.
> 2012 Summit Registration Form
> CCNC 2012 Memberships
> Thank you to all the new and returning Municipalities for renewing  
> your CCNC membership. If you haven't yet renewed your membership, or  
> you are interested in joining, please contact Tammy Isaacson,  
> General Manager at tammy at creativecity.ca or phone 604-688-2489.  
> Thank you for your continued support of this unique and valuable  
> organization!
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> Culture Days Early Registration
> In less than a week since the launch of the pre-registration period,  
> more than double the number of activities have already been  
> registered at culturedays.ca compared to the corresponding period  
> last year. And along with the many returning to host activities for  
> the second and third year in a row, a considerable number of  
> newcomers are joining the movement for the first time. Whether you  
> have hosted an activity in the past or are new to the Canada-wide  
> movement, individuals and organizations alike are invited to pre- 
> register one or more activities online at culturedays.ca before  
> April 30. And don’t worry if you don’t have all your details  
> finalized at this early stage, you can still start the process now  
> and come back to touch it up later.
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> Early Bird Registration For Culture Days: Be amongst the first to  
> declare your participation in Culture Days 2012 (Sept. 28 - 30). Pre- 
> register before April 30 and appear in a Globe and Mail ad later in  
> the spring!
> To register and create your Culture Day Account  View Website
> Richmond Hill Celebrates Its Culture
> Culture contributes to a vibrant community in so many ways and  
> Richmond Hill has worked hard to define and celebrate its own  
> culture. Through an in-depth community engagement process, the  
> Municipality learned how its residents imagined a more vibrant and  
> culturally rich Town would look. Drawing from its findings and with  
> direction from its Strategic Plan, a 10-year Cultural Plan was  
> created that ensures culture is considered in all aspects of its  
> decision-making and planning processes. Proud to have a plan to  
> enhance and promote cultural activity and creative expression within  
> its community, Richmond Hill has many strengths to build upon to  
> develop its culture, including a strong business environment in  
> creative cultural industries; concentration of heritage buildings; a  
> range of not-for-profit arts groups, culture and heritage  
> organizations; a diversity of festivals and events; a broad array of  
> cultural programs and services; and a strong base of cultural  
> facilities, among others. Culture is more than just the arts or  
> ethnic diversity in Richmond Hill; it encompasses many things that  
> help express the values and aspirations of residents, and means  
> having a vibrant community engaged in all aspects of community life.  
> Proud to have a plan to enhance and promote cultural activity and  
> creative expression within its community, Richmond Hill’s staff and  
> the community have already started work to implement the  
> recommendations from their new Cultural Plan.
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> To learn more about Richmond Hill’s Cultural Plan: View Website
> City of St. Albert Unanimously Approves its’ First Cultural Master  
> Plan
> On March 5, 2012 the City of St. Albert adopted a Cultural Master  
> Plan: Cultivating Community. This is the first Cultural Master Plan  
> developed for the City of St. Albert and launches a ten-to-fifteen  
> year process to ensure the sustainability and vitality of the City  
> of St. Albert’s cultural identity. The final plan is a result of  
> comprehensive research and analysis, extensive consultation with  
> stakeholders and community members, and a visioning exercise among  
> artists and other leaders in the cultural sector. The plan focuses  
> on six priorities in response to the City’s principles and future  
> vision:
> • celebrate cultural assets
> • increase and deepen cultural participation
> • promote cultural tourism
> • establish sustainable funding
> • ensure infrastructural strength
> • optimize cultural services delivery
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> Based on the feedback and comments received during the public  
> consultation process in 2011, revisions were made to the draft plan.  
> The next step in the process involves an initial implementation plan  
> for the short and long term and will be incorporated in the annual  
> business planning process.
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> The final Cultural Master Plan is available online: View Website
> Banff National Park introduces 'springART' Festival
> March 22, 2012, Canadian Newswire, BANFF, AB - Banff National Park  
> is leaping into spring with a new festival, 'springstART', that will  
> celebrate the coming season with an array of cultural and artistic  
> events April 6 - 29, 2012. Offering a rich collection of events that  
> will highlight Banff National Park's mountain culture, the new  
> 'springstART' festival will allow visitors to enjoy live  
> performances, photography workshops and special gallery exhibits  
> throughout the town of Banff over the course of three weeks. [...]  
> Amongst many other events, highlights of 'springstART' will include  
> screenings of mountain films, First Nations' storytelling, and  
> mountaineering camps in Banff Avenue Square.Replace this paragraph  
> with your article text. You can also modify the link below to point  
> to your website or place where additional information can be found.
> Read the Full Article
> National Arts Centre names Jillian Keiley as new artistic director
> March 27, 2012, The Globe and Mail - The National Arts Centre has  
> named a new artistic director for its English Theatre: Jillian  
> Keiley, the award-winning founder of Artistic Fraud theatre company  
> of St John's. “Jillian Keiley is a brilliant theatrical artist who  
> is rooted in Newfoundland but also has a wonderful sense of the  
> country,” NAC President and CEO Peter Herrndorf said in a release  
> announcing the news Tuesday. Keiley will take the reins from  
> outgoing artistic director Peter Hinton this summer. She will be  
> directing Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, a play set in and around a  
> giant swimming pool, next fall in the final season programmed by  
> Hinton.  Read the Full Article
> Arts Nova Scotia Board Members Appointed
> March 27, 2012 - Eleven Nova Scotians from across the arts sector  
> will shape the policies and decisions of Arts Nova Scotia. The new  
> board met for the first time today in Halifax to begin to shift  
> funding responsibilities for artists and the organizations that  
> support them to Arts Nova Scotia. [...] The first appointees to the  
> board, for two-year terms, are: Cory Bowles, African Nova Scotian,  
> dancer, actor and musician; Claudia Buckley, consultant and  
> contracted administrator of the Canada Council's Theatre Section's  
> Flying Squad program; Michel de Noncourt, Acadian-Francophone,  
> bilingual visual artist, sculptor and educator; Susan Hanrahan,  
> executive director of the Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council; Mary  
> Elizabeth Luka, bilingual arts consultant, award-winning documentary  
> producer and television director; Eric Mathis, personnel and  
> production manager for Symphony Nova Scotia; Barbara Richman,  
> established career arts administrator, consultant and former  
> executive director of Symphony Nova Scotia and Halifax Dance; Laura  
> Schneider, director/curator at Cape Breton University Art Gallery;  
> Don Sedgwick, chairman and past-president of Transatlantic Literary  
> Agency Inc; Candace Stevenson, is the retired director of Culture  
> and Heritage with the former Department of Education and Culture;  
> Mindy Gallant-Zwicker emerging Mi'kmaq artist.  View the Website
> Exhibit features urban Coast Salish works: Friendship Centre  
> displays selection of pieces from its collection
> March 22, 2012, The Times Colonist, VICTORIA, BC - The Victoria  
> Native Friendship Centre opens its doors [...] to present a  
> selection of pieces from its collection of nearly 300 artworks. The  
> collection serves a dual purpose for the community, said co-curator  
> Peter Morin, who is also Tahltan curator-in-residence at Open Space.  
> "There aren't very many aboriginal art collections," and usually  
> they belong to philanthropists," Morin said. And those in museums  
> often having what he calls a "silencing" effect, he says, because  
> the names of the artists aren't printed next to the works, so they  
> become artifacts, rather than art.
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> [...] Each exhibition features 14 works. Many pieces of art arrive  
> at the Native Friendship Centre as gifts - often from community  
> members, in exchange for accessing one of the centre's many  
> services. Some arrive from outside the community, like the Ojibway  
> art from Eastern Canada received through the annual meeting and gift  
> exchange with other friendship centres across the country. In other  
> cases, the centre has purchased art. "What others refer to as 'art,'  
> we refer to as 'cultural property,' " Mcgarry said. "In 53  
> indigenous languages across Canada, there is no word for art. It's  
> not perceived to be different from life." Art plays a  
> multifunctional role in the community.  Read the Full Article
> Ontario budget cuts funding to arts community
> March 28, 2012, The Globe and Mail - In the next three years, the  
> Ontario government plans to winnow tens of millions of dollars from  
> its support of the culture, tourism and sport sector, including a 23  
> per cent reduction in funding to Toronto’s high-profile Luminato  
> festival and modest decreases in operating assistance to such  
> venerable institutions as the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art  
> Gallery of Ontario.
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> [...] To avoid what it calls “overlap and duplication,” the minority  
> government also plans to collapse four granting programs, including  
> the Museums and Technology Fund, into one, saving $11-million in the  
> process. Also included in the scheme is the end of the Entertainment  
> and Creative Clusters Partnership Fund, started in 2006 under the  
> aegis of the Ontario Media Development Corporation.  Read Full Article
> Business for the Arts awards $350,000 in matching incentives and  
> sponsorship training to 55 Saskatchewan arts and culture groups
> March 5, 2012, Market Watch - Business for the Arts announced today  
> the first round of pre-approved artsVest participants in  
> Saskatchewan. artsVest Saskatchewan is a sponsorship training and  
> matching incentive program created by Business for the Arts and  
> delivered in Saskatchewan with funding from Canadian Heritage and  
> the Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture  
> and Sport, and with support from SaskCulture Inc.[..]
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> Business for the Arts will bring sponsorship training and $350,000  
> in matching funds to Sports, Culture and Recreation Districts each  
> year for two years (2012 - 2013). The matching funds include  
> $100,000 each for Regina and Saskatoon, and $150,000 to be shared  
> among the surrounding districts.  Read the Full Article
> Provincial forum focuses on cultural inclusion
> March 2, 2012, Daily Herald Tribune, RED DEER, AB - Discussions from  
> a recent cultural forum are expected to continue throughout the  
> province as people begin to realize how culture invades countless  
> aspects of everyday life. Close to 400 delegates attended the  
> Culture Forum 2012 held in Red Deer last weekend. Hosted by Minister  
> of Culture and Community Services Heather Klimchuk, the group  
> included members from various sectors such as arts and heritage to  
> corporate and non-profit. “A lot of the groups meet individually,  
> which is great, but I think what people realized is some of the  
> commonalities and challenges that they all have,” Klimchuk said.
>
> [...] Robert Steven, executive director for the Prairie Art Gallery,  
> saw the forum as a chance to share what works in a community. “I  
> think we brought some success stories. In Grande Prairie there’s a  
> lot of discussion of partnerships and we have done a lot of them  
> recently,” he said, referring to events such as Alberta Arts Days  
> and the Street Performer’s Festival.  Read the Full Article
> Montreal builds its cultural brand - one piece at a time
> March 2, 2012, The Globe and Mail, MONTREAL - Montreal Museum of  
> Fine Arts director Nathalie Bondil likes to call her museum a  
> village. It’s an apt word for the heterogeneous buildings that  
> cluster around a pair of intersections on Sherbrooke Street and that  
> now include the new Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and  
> Canadian Art and concert hall.“The ensemble is very complex,” Bondil  
> says, referring to the buildings, the underground passageway that  
> connects them, and the changing purposes to which they are being  
> put. The Bourgie Pavilion complicated the picture further, by  
> prompting the movement of 4,000 pieces of art as collections were  
> shifted and reinstalled, while the museum remained open.
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> A complex village – that may also be a good description of the  
> increasing agglomeration of cultural buildings in the city core.  
> Montreal has always had a vibrant culture, but these days there’s a  
> new will to intensify it, by raising new buildings and emphasizing  
> the links between them.  Read the Full Article
> Federal government invests in culture in Fort Saskatchewan
> March 6, 2012, FORT SASKATCHEWAN, AB - [...] This funding will  
> support the two-day festival, which will be held at the Fort  
> Saskatchewan Museum and Historic Site on May 10 and 11, 2012.  
> Planned activities will celebrate and commemorate early settlers in  
> the Fort Saskatchewan region. Aboriginal and pioneer life will be  
> showcased through dance and historic storytelling. Visitors will  
> also experience interactive demonstrations of sawing, weaving,  
> spinning, and butter and bannock making, as well as Red River cart  
> rides.
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> [...] The Peoples of the North Saskatchewan Festival is now in its  
> third year. The Fort Saskatchewan Historical Society was  
> incorporated in 1970, and aims to promote interest in the history of  
> the region and support the Fort Saskatchewan Museum and Historic  
> sites. The Government of Canada has provided funding of $2,300  
> through the Building Communities through Arts and Heritage program  
> of the Department of Canadian Heritage. This program provides  
> Canadians with more opportunities to take part in activities that  
> present local arts and culture and celebrate local history and  
> heritage.  View the Website
> Arts community drives economy
> March 24, 2012, Nanaimo Daily News, NANAIMO, BC - A rich array of  
> arts and culture amenities could draw more young professionals to  
> the Harbour City. That's the word from local arts and culture  
> experts, which say the creative economy could help generate wealth  
> in Nanaimo by attracting businesses eager to provide clients and  
> employees with the right work/life balance. The city has already  
> seen significant growth in the arts, culture and entertainment  
> sector, one part of the creative economy. Business licences in the  
> sector have risen by 38% since 2007. City officials and members of  
> the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce want the sector to continue to  
> flourish, seeing it a key economic driver.Replace this paragraph  
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> to your website or place where additional information can be found.
> Read the Full Article
> Ontario outranks BC as production centre
> March 7, 2012, Victoria Times Colonist - Ontario has overtaken B.C.  
> as a film and television production centre in Canada for the first  
> time in many years despite overall spending on the west coast  
> increasing 16 per cent in 2011 to nearly $1.2 billion. Community,  
> Sport and Cultural Development Minister Ida Chong painted a rosy  
> picture of the industry in a release issued Monday that said  
> production spending last year was up $167 million over 2010.
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> "It was a decent year for foreign production, but domestic  
> production continues to decrease," said Peter Leitch, chairman of  
> the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of B.C. "And  
> we're fighting against a more competitive tax credit in Ontario.  
> [...] Leitch said that while the industry is committed to working  
> with government to ensure B.C. success, Ontario and Quebec have been  
> "very aggressive" in terms of adding new tax incentives in 2010 that  
> B.C. didn't match. He said overall credits in Eastern Canada are 20  
> to 25 per cent higher than B.C.
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> Can big, bold murals bring value to Baltimore's many vacants?
> Open Walls Baltimore brings International artists to Station North  
> March 6, 2012, Baltimore Brew - Passersby might think that the big  
> white bird painted on the front of the vacant former fried chicken  
> joint at Charles Street and North Avenue is a dove and simply one of  
> the countless murals Baltimore has used for years to perk up  
> struggling neighborhoods. They’d be sort of right . . . but off by  
> several orders of magnitude. The artwork is the first of at least 20  
> to be painted in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District by  
> local, national and international artists as part of the nearly  
> $100,000 Open Walls Baltimore project. And the bird, shown held in a  
> human hand, is actually a carrier pigeon, says the artist. “It’s a  
> bird that has a relationship with man – we affect it. People have  
> this relationship with the natural world that’s complicated,” said  
> Gaia, Baltimore’s homegrown (and now world-renowned) street artist,  
> who is curating the show. “It’s maybe, less a metaphor than a  
> straight appreciation of this beautiful bird.” But what message is  
> the pigeon and the whole project – sponsored by PNC Bank, a National  
> Endowment for the Arts grant and other donors – delivering? “It’s  
> going to let people know this is really an arts district,” said the  
> former Maryland Institute College of Art student.
> Read the Full Article
> Radical culture: playing the future to guide the present
> March 27, 2012, The Gaurdian, UK - Thirty diverse innovators  
> gathered in Paris for Mission 2062, to imagine the role of culture  
> and creativity in 50 years' time.
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> Mission 2062 was an important conversation and seriously playful  
> workshop which took place over three days at La Gaîté Lyrique, a  
> stunning new venue in Paris dedicated to digital culture. As part of  
> the British Council's Cultural Leadership International programme,  
> Mission 2062 brought together 30 creative professionals from Europe,  
> the Middle East and North America, all united by their interest in  
> discovering new ways of working towards a sustainable, equitable and  
> diverse global culture.  Read the Full Article
> Arts and culture nourish Calgarians' souls
> March 26, 2012, The Calgary Herald, by D'Arcy Levesque -  In April,  
> Calgary officially launches the 2012 Cultural Capital of Canada  
> event calendar. This is a year when we, as a city, will have many  
> opportunities to participate in the arts and reflect on the  
> evolution of culture in Calgary. On the eve of the many festivities  
> that will be taking place around our city to celebrate our status as  
> 2012 Cultural Capital, I'd like to take this opportunity to  
> highlight the value of arts and culture in our lives, and to stress  
> how important it is for all of us - governments, individuals and  
> corporations - to support them. Because arts and culture offer us  
> huge rewards. They fulfil us, enhance our well-being and nourish our  
> souls. They stimulate dialogue and contribute to an active  
> democracy. They bring large numbers of people together as  
> participants and audience members, creating a vibrant urban  
> landscape. They promote communication across linguistic and ethnic  
> differences, helping us recognize our collective humanity. They  
> stimulate spending, and generate billions of dollars of investment  
> and expenditure in our communities. And they attract business,  
> industry and a skilled labour force to our communities, making them  
> more diverse and sustain-able. Can you imagine a city without arts  
> and culture? It would be like a person without a soul.  Read the  
> Full Article
> The global search for education: the arts face to face
> February 29, 2012, The Huffington Post - "In the Finnish public  
> education system we already have a music, visual arts, and crafts  
> education that is compulsory for all students." - Dr. Eija Kauppinen
>
> The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, a member driven  
> association of arts education entities, held its 2012 Face to Face  
> conference last week. Presentations were made on best arts practices  
> in both domestic and international communities, which included  
> successful programs in Dallas Texas, Venezuela, Scotland and  
> Finland. Co-Chair Kati Koerner commented, "These are places where  
> they are thinking about arts education across entire nations. Given  
> the fact that arts education access is still [...] distributed quite  
> inequitably across our 1700 schools in New York City, it is  
> inspiring to hear that in other places every child has the  
> opportunity to engage in hands on arts learning. That is a beacon  
> for us. It makes us realize that we have a long way to go."
> Read the Full Article
> New Banff Centre president Jeff Melanson promotes arts and culture  
> in Alberta
> March 1, 2012, Alberta Venture, BANFF, AB - Melanson, who served as  
> dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music between 2000 and 2006 before  
> doing a stint as the executive director and co-CEO of Canada’s  
> National Ballet School, replaced outgoing president and CEO Mary  
> Hofstetter on January 1, 2012.
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> On what the Banff Centre’s next phase of growth will look like: “I  
> think there’s a really interesting opportunity for the centre to  
> serve as a very large-scale incubator for new creative ideas, for  
> new business concepts. What we’re hoping to do is create a community  
> where we have this overlapping talent pool of business innovators  
> and entrepreneurs, creative industries representatives and this hub  
> of technology and opportunity with respect to digital media.”
> Read the Full Article
> Field Trip!
> Arts Journal Blog by john Thomas Dodson - Throw a stone in a lake  
> and watch the rings dance. They last a long time. Ray Sommerfield  
> threw a stone over fifty years ago. Back in 1960 he loaded up nine  
> of his students from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania and drove them off  
> to hear a concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra. There wasn’t a  
> school bus available, so he borrowed a hearse. Yes, a hearse. Not  
> the most elegant way to go to a concert, but it would do.
>
> [...] John is an architect who doesn’t play music. He just got  
> hooked because fifty-two years ago, an English teacher thought there  
> was something more to teach his students than just the next lesson  
> in the textbook. I think he just taught his lesson again. How do you  
> build an arts community? You decide to invite someone to a concert.  
> If there isn’t a bus, you take a hearse; you trust the Art to do the  
> rest. Throw a stone in a lake and watch the rings dance. They last a  
> long time.
> Read the Full Article
> What can the arts offer in an age of austerity
> March 26, 2010, The Guardian - What are the arts for in an age of  
> austerity? This was the huge question under discussion at a Saturday  
> morning Open Weekend session for around 30, with a panel of four:  
> me, chair and head of books Claire Armitstead, arts correspondent  
> Mark Brown and founder of Poems on the Underground Judith Chernaik.  
> [...] Here are a few reasons: 1. Because everyone is still at it.  
> Cultural appetite is stronger than ever, despite the gloomy  
> predictions of a couple of years ago: record cinema box office  
> figures, a buoyant West End, sell-out exhibitions in London, a  
> strong Royal Shakespeare Company, Glasgow art scene and much more.  
> 2. Culture attempts to explain where we're up to, from Lucy  
> Prebble's play Enron to John Lanchester's novel Capital to Up in the  
> Air with George Clooney. It's the most imaginative, creative way of  
> talking about what's happened, and about what's likely to happen; it  
> goes deeper than any government white paper. 3. The arts, like  
> sport, are a necessary, universal diversion and a solace, whether  
> that's burying yourself in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall or going to see  
> a musical. 4. Culture gives us community – again, like sport, it's  
> the big shared experience, through concerts, theatre, the huge  
> British appetite for festivals. Alongside the huge expansion in the  
> availability of culture online is this hunger for the real – actual,  
> live contact with artists and other audiences.
> Read the Full Website
> How theater for young people could change the world
> March 19, 2012, The Huffington Post - [...] We don't understand each  
> other, and we don't want to. But theater invites us -- no, forces us  
> -- to empathize. As my friend Bill English of San Francisco's SF  
> Playhouse says, theater is like a gym for empathy. It's where we can  
> go to build up the muscles of compassion, to practice listening and  
> understanding and engaging with people that are not just like  
> ourselves. We practice sitting down, paying attention and learning  
> from other people's actions. We practice caring. Kids need this kind  
> of practice even more than adults do. This is going to be their  
> planet and they've got more time to apply that empathy and make a  
> difference. Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax challenges us to actively  
> and specifically teach children [...] empathy. Why not take your  
> child to the theater to do just that.
> Read the Full Article
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> Brazil's unique culture group stays busy sharing the wealth
> March 27, 2012, New York Times, SÃO PAULO, Brazil — All over the  
> world cultural organizations are tightening their budgets and paring  
> back productions. But Danilo Miranda faces a different challenge,  
> one that makes him the envy of his peers. As the director of the  
> leading arts financing entity in Brazil, his budget is growing by 10  
> percent or more annually, and he must figure out ways to spend that  
> bounty, which amounts to $600 million a year. [..]  Mr. Miranda’s  
> organization, SESC, a Portuguese acronym for Social Service of  
> Commerce, is also strengthening ties with American artists.
>
> [...] “Our fundamental guiding principle is to use culture as a tool  
> for education and transformation, to improve people’s lives, and  
> we’re in a position to fulfill that mission, thank God,” Mr. Miranda  
> said. “Over the last decade our budget has been doubling every six  
> years or so. It’s incredible, no?” SESC owes its enviable position  
> largely to a financing model that its leaders believe is unique in  
> the world. A private, nonprofit entity whose role is enshrined in  
> the national Constitution, the organization derives its budget from  
> a 1.5 percent payroll tax imposed on and collected by Brazilian  
> companies, so as the workforce in this nation of nearly 200 million  
> people expands, so does the organization’s budget.  Read the Full  
> Article
> Classical Clubbing: tearing up the rulebook or playing the game?
> March 23, 2012, The Guardian, UK - Harry White reports on the  
> clubnights taking classical music out of the concert hall for two  
> pints of lager and a Bach minuet.
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> Finding ways to tap into new demographics will be central to  
> marketing strategies in most arts organisations this year. So it's  
> no surprise that the rise of the rather spuriously coined 'classical  
> clubbing' trend has caught the attention not just of the music  
> industry, but the wider professional arts community.
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> The concept, which takes classical music performance into venues  
> more associated with dancing and drinking, is nothing new of course.  
> As far back as the 18th century, JS Bach's Collegium musicum was  
> entertaining punters in Leipzig coffee houses. Yet, recent positive  
> media coverage has got people talking; have the brains behind  
> 'classical clubbing' finally found a way of augmenting audience  
> numbers by engaging a new, previously alienated demographic?  Read  
> the Full Article
> In Europe, where art is life, ax falls on public financing
> March 24, 2012, The New York Times European governments are cutting  
> their support for culture, and American arts lovers are starting to  
> feel the results. In Italy, the world-famous opera house La Scala  
> faces a $9 million shortfall because of reductions in subsidies. In  
> the Netherlands, government financing for arts programs has been cut  
> by 25 percent. Portugal has abolished its Ministry of Culture.
>
> Europe’s economic problems, and the austerity programs meant to  
> address them, are forcing arts institutions there to curtail  
> programs, tours and grants. As a result, some ensembles are scaling  
> down their productions and trying to raise money from private  
> donors, some in the United States, potentially putting them in  
> competition with American arts organizations.
>
> [...] Artists worry that money will flow to established entities  
> that tend to be more conservative, rather than to more experimental  
> companies that have served as incubators of new talents. That, they  
> say, has profound implications for the artistic process. The  
> established companies “need to refresh their work by working with  
> younger artists, and it’s the small and middle-sized companies that  
> bring diversity and innovation,” said Ivana Müller, a choreographer  
> based in Amsterdam. “You’ve created a different dynamic of  
> production now,” she added, “and A lot of good work will disappear  
> because it can’t sustain itself.”  Read the Full Article
> China enhances culture industry competitiveness
> February 29, 2012, China Daily, BEIJING - The Ministry of Culture  
> released Tuesday a cultural development plan that includes a goal of  
> doubling the added value of the culture industry by 2015. The plan  
> specifies guiding principles, strategies, goals and policy support  
> for the culture industry from 2011 to 2015, Vice Culture Minister Li  
> Xiaojie said. The ministry oversees opera houses, libraries, art  
> galleries and art troupes.
>
> The industry is expected to see an annual growth rate of over 20  
> percent in years towards 2015, increasing gross added value of the  
> industry to between 800 and 900 billion yuan ($127 and 142 billion),  
> Li said. The development plan came days after China published a  
> detailed culture reform outline from 2011 to 2015. The added value  
> of the culture industry under the ministry control amounts to nearly  
> 400 billion yuan, almost one third of the total added value of the  
> nation's culture industry, Li said. "People's vigorous demands for  
> cultural products are the biggest impetus for realizing the  
> 'doubling goal,'" the vice minister said.  Read the Full Article
> Art the conqueror: the age of swanky new arts buildings draws to a  
> close
> March 17, 2012, The Economist - The squat black building by the  
> fishing beach in Hastings on England’s south coast does not stand  
> out as a temple to art. The Jerwood Gallery, which opens on March  
> 17th, is the latest in a long line of cultural centres built over  
> the past 15 years. Local residents hope this ceramic-clad museum, on  
> the site of a former car park and public loo, will revive a decaying  
> seaside town still best known for a battle that took place nearby  
> almost a millennium ago.
>
> The idea that the arts can reinvigorate local economies has been in  
> vogue in America since the 1980s and gathered pace elsewhere after  
> the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1997. In Britain a  
> government spending spree from the late 1990s, combined with a  
> proliferation of lottery cash earmarked for capital projects,  
> created hundreds of new cultural sites. Althea Efunshile of Arts  
> Council England says the grant-making body has spent £1.5 billion  
> ($2.4 billion) on construction projects since 1995. Councils and  
> development agencies more than matched that sum. All cultural forms  
> have benefited, contemporary visual art most of all.  Read the Full  
> Article
> Why the arts really mean business
> March 19, 2012, The Gaurdian, UK - Only by integrating the arts in  
> our DNA can we create a true 21st century organisation, says  
> Giovanni Schiuma.
>
> When we think about creativity, we need to think of it as something  
> we do every day – like thinking. We cannot avoid thinking and  
> creativity is the same. We cannot avoid being creative. So when we  
> ask the question: How does the corporate world value creativity?  
> (and vice versa), our focus should not be creativity but something  
> else. Culture. Organisations need the arts. They need culture in  
> their business. We are living in a transition time and this time  
> calls for new models, a new management mind set and new management  
> tools. 21st century organisations are managed and organised for the  
> 20th century business landscape.
>
> An edited speech: The Culture Capital Exchange conference,  
> Creativity and Business: Connectivity, Values and Interventions,  
> held at the British Library 8 Mar/12.
> Read the Full Article
>
>
>
> UBC Offers New Course on Culture Plans
> The UBC Centre for Cultural Planning and Development is offering a  
> new 8-week, 100% online course on Culture Plans starting on May 1,  
> 2012. This course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and  
> perspective required to develop, implement and evaluate culture  
> plans. This includes:
> - understanding the purpose of culture plans and their relationship  
> to policy and programs
> - identifying key components of a successful plan
> - creating a planning process, including internal and external  
> consultations
> - synthesizing inputs into a coherent, strategic document
> - developing an implementation strategy that receives stakeholder  
> approval.
> Culture Plans was authored and is taught by Sue Harvey, former  
> Managing Director, Cultural Services, City of Vancouver. This new  
> course is being offered at a reduced rate of $500. Students will be  
> asked at the end of the course to provide feedback on content and  
> the educational experience. Enrolment is limited to 20 students.  
> Register for this course online at cstudies.ubc.ca/cultural-planning/ 
> courses.html, or if you have questions, please call Dianne Olsen at  
> 604-822-1459.
> City Museums: Collisions / Connections, CAMOC  Museum of Vancouver,  
> October 24-26, 2012
> CAMOC, the International Committee for the Collections and  
> Activities of Museums of Cities of the International Council of  
> Museums (ICOM), in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver,  
> invites papers for “City Museums: Collisions | Connections”, a  
> conference on city museums and their engagement in city life to be  
> held at the Museum of Vancouver, October 24-26, 2012. We are  
> soliciting panels, presentations (15 minutes in length), virtual  
> exhibitions/apps, films, and other presentations about city museums.  
> The conference will bring people together to talk about how city  
> museums are reconsidering their role in civic life due to the  
> enormous pressure cities face in terms of aging infrastructure, the  
> need for urban regeneration, economic and environmental crises, and  
> social issues such demographic shifts, global diasporas, increasing  
> immigrant and urban Aboriginal populations. The conference will look  
> at city museums under development, urban/suburban city museums, and  
> city museums in large and small cities. For further information or  
> to submit a proposal (300–500 words accompanied by a 200-word  
> biography by April 15, 2012), contact Catherine Cole at CatherineC.Cole at telus.net
> View the Website
>
>
>
> Survey reveals new facts about how Canadians see value and  
> importance of performing arts
> This report summarizes the findings from the survey of 1,031  
> Canadians on the value of performing arts presentation. It  
> complements the survey of presenters we released in February in  
> drawing a more complete picture of the value, impact and benefits  
> the sector contributes to Canadians. Some highlights include:
> * 75 % of Canadians attended at least one performing arts event by  
> professional artists in 2011. This is an increase of 54% compared to  
> Statistics Canada’s 2005 General Social Survey.
> * Canadians experience live professional performing arts in a  
> variety of settings beyond the concert hall or theatre. Yet, they  
> believe there is a role for performing arts facilities/venues in  
> providing community-wide benefits, such as quality of life, sense of  
> pride and economic development, and perhaps to a greater extent than  
> the performing arts themselves. This highlights an understanding in  
> the general public that the facilities, places, and structures that  
> host the performing arts are both symbolically and functionally  
> important to communities.
>
> This survey along with all other primary and secondary research and  
> consultations undertaken with the field over the past year will be  
> consolidated in a single report of findings to be published in April  
> 2012.
> View Website and Reports
> The Federal Budget 2012-13 and Culture: CCA Bulletin
> March 30. 2012 - Budget day has finally arrived. The verdict has  
> been handed down. Much of the economic news was eclipsed by the  
> abolition of the penny. However there was good news! The Canada  
> Council for the Arts’ budget was maintained, as Minister Moore had  
> been suggesting for the last few weeks. Like others the CCA is  
> thrilled with this decision, which was the main recommendation of  
> our pre-budget submission. The government is also maintaining the  
> funding of Canada’s national museums.
>
> Now for the bad news, the cuts that will affect the audio-visual  
> sector for the next three years: $115 million cut to the CBC, $10.6  
> million to Telefilm, and $6.7 million to the National Film Board.  
> Other disappointing news: $9.6 million in cuts to Library and  
> Archives of Canada, which doesn’t benefit from the protections given  
> to other federal heritage institutions.
>
> Finally, on the score of things we are still waiting to find out:  
> what will the effect of the $46.2 million in cuts to the Heritage  
> department be? How much of these cuts will come from staff and how  
> much from programs, which the budget says will be limited and will  
> be accomplished through “the establishment of priorities for grants  
> and contributions”? Heritage Canada should immediately adopt “a more  
> integrated and strategic framework focused on the social and  
> economic benefits its programs provide Canadians and their  
> communities. In addition, the ministry will focus on financing  
> activities giving rise to contributions from partners.” We will have  
> to wait to find out the meaning of this cryptic language in the  
> coming months.Replace this paragraph with your article text. You can  
> also modify the link below to point to your website or place where  
> additional information can be found.
> View the Website
> The Economic Spring for Culture: CCA Bulletin
> March 28, 2012 - 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 the federal budget will  
> come out. This bulletin is to do a quick recap of the place that  
> culture and arts hold in the most recent provincial budgets  
> presented in spring 2012, those in Quebec, Saskatchewan, Ontario and  
> New Brunswick.
> View the Website
> Business for the Arts: Why Arts Matter
> Building a Case for Investment in the Arts Studies and research  
> continue to uphold the economic impact and social importance of the  
> arts. In a McKinsey & Company report commissioned by Business for  
> the Arts in 2008, some of the key findings included:
> - the arts can have a significant economic impact on local communities
> - organizations can achieve one or more of their corporate social  
> responsibility objectives by investing in the arts
> - with the decline of arts education in schools, there is a greater  
> demand for cultural activities in the community
> - arts education helps children develop higher level skills such as  
> critical thinking and problem solving
> - the arts can have a positive impact on the development of local  
> communities and social networks
> - arts and culture help to engage new immigrants with social  
> institutions
> - culture builds stronger communities
> - the arts contribute to innovation within a community
> - arts and culture can foster economic inclusion
> - cities can leverage the arts as an important part of their  
> revitalization programs
> View the Website
> OAS report highlights growing economic benefits of creative industries
> WASHINGTON, USA — The Organization of American States (OAS) has  
> received a report from the World Intellectual Property Organization  
> (WIPO) on the economic importance of the creative industries in 30  
> countries of the world, including various member states, that  
> highlighted the rapid growth of the sector — 2.5 times faster than  
> the average growth of economies in general — and the significant  
> contributions it makes to the development of countries.
>
> The report, with studies developed in Canada, the United States,  
> Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Peru, and ongoing in Brazil and Trinidad  
> and Tobago, was elaborated by the World Intellectual Property  
> Organization (WIPO) and presented at an event co-organized by the  
> International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) and the OAS  
> Executive Secretariat for Integral Development.Replace this  
> paragraph with your article text. You can also modify the link below  
> to point to your website or place where additional information can  
> be found.  View the Website
>
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