<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings All,<div><br></div><div>Many of you -- or some of your colleagues -- might find this of value to know about.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Creative City Network of Canada" <<a href="mailto:Creative_City_Network_of_Canada@mail.vresp.com">Creative_City_Network_of_Canada@mail.vresp.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 30, 2012 12:08:25 PM GMT-04:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Creative City News - No. 127, March 30, 2012</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Creative City Network of Canada" <<a href="mailto:reply-c1feaae0bb-e1239b2b77-10f6@u.cts.vresp.com">reply-c1feaae0bb-e1239b2b77-10f6@u.cts.vresp.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 2012 Creative City Summit - Registration now open!<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 277px; height: 182px;" title="Picture-327" alt="Picture-327" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/3abb4d4df3/library/Picture-327.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="182" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="277"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/c0c55f2335"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The 2012 Creative City Summit will take place October 21 – 23, 2012 in the City of Victoria, British Columbia. </span></a><br><br>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.<br><br>Members of the Creative City Network of Canada receive a discount on registration. <br><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/6c1f85f654">2012 Summit Registration Form</a><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; 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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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 <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="mailto:tammy@creativecity.ca">tammy@creativecity.ca</a></span> or phone<span style="font-weight: bold;"> 604-688-2489</span>. 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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.<br><br>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! <br>To register and create your Culture Day Account<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/f723b8b77c">View Website</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Richmond Hill Celebrates Its Culture<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 226px; height: 63px;" title="RH" alt="RH" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/74d0badf9d/library/RH.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="63" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="226">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. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">To learn more about Richmond Hill’s Cultural Plan: </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/051d548159">View Website</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> City of St. Albert Unanimously Approves its’ First Cultural Master Plan</h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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: <br>• celebrate cultural assets <img style="width: 254px; height: 184px;" title="1COVER Cultural Master Final" alt="1COVER Cultural Master Final" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/22ba8946f3/library/1COVER%20Cultural%20Master%20Final.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="184" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="254"><br>• increase and deepen cultural participation <br>• promote cultural tourism <br>• establish sustainable funding <br>• ensure infrastructural strength <br>• optimize cultural services delivery <br><br>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. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">The final Cultural Master Plan is available online: </span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/6a319287fd"><span style="font-weight: bold;">View Website </span></a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Banff National Park introduces 'springART' Festival<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/87719235a0">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> National Arts Centre names Jillian Keiley as new artistic director<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 202px; height: 112px;" title="WEB-keiley_JPG_1389056cl-4" alt="WEB-keiley_JPG_1389056cl-4" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/d61fcd57e7/library/WEB-keiley_JPG_1389056cl-4.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="112" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="202">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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/e9a55ace5e/utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Entertainment+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Arts+News%29">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Arts Nova Scotia Board Members Appointed<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cory Bowles</span>, African Nova Scotian, dancer, actor and musician; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Claudia Buckley</span>, consultant and contracted administrator of the Canada Council's Theatre Section's Flying Squad program; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michel de Noncourt</span>, Acadian-Francophone, bilingual visual artist, sculptor and educator; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Susan Hanrahan</span>, executive director of the Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Elizabeth Luka</span>, bilingual arts consultant, award-winning documentary producer and television director; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eric Mathis</span>, personnel and production manager for Symphony Nova Scotia; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barbara Richman</span>, established career arts administrator, consultant and former executive director of Symphony Nova Scotia and Halifax Dance; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura Schneider</span>, director/curator at Cape Breton University Art Gallery; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Don Sedgwick</span>, chairman and past-president of Transatlantic Literary Agency Inc; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Candace Stevenson</span>, is the retired director of Culture and Heritage with the former Department of Education and Culture; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindy Gallant-Zwicker</span> emerging Mi'kmaq artist.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> View the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/4d7983a544/id=20120327001">Website</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Exhibit features urban Coast Salish works: Friendship Centre displays selection of pieces from its collection<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 202px; height: 115px;" title="6342098.bin" alt="6342098.bin" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/0e74fae38f/library/6342098.bin.jpeg" align="right" border="0" height="115" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="202">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. <br><br>[...] 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. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/2667ddb940">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Ontario budget cuts funding to arts community<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.<br><br>[...] 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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/ae11e72403/utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2383745">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Business for the Arts awards $350,000 in matching incentives and sponsorship training to 55 Saskatchewan arts and culture groups<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.[..] <br><br>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. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/7a7d336a70">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Provincial forum focuses on cultural inclusion<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.<br><br>[...] 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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/11b1f23c60/e=3488784">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Montreal builds its cultural brand - one piece at a time<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 211px; height: 117px;" title="WEB-montreal-bo_1380630cl-8" alt="WEB-montreal-bo_1380630cl-8" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/4e00a6fcb3/library/WEB-montreal-bo_1380630cl-8.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="117" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="211">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. <br><br>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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/73c3d7e7f6/from=sec434">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Federal government invests in culture in Fort Saskatchewan<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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. <br><br>[...] 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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> View the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/19002d6b80">Website</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Arts community drives economy<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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 with your article text. You can also modify the link below to point to your website or place where additional information can be found.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br>Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/f4fc1c79e5/id=c64ceb5b-dfd6-414d-8030-f3a8f8395955">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Ontario outranks BC as production centre<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 210px; height: 140px;" title="6263776.bin" alt="6263776.bin" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/491faf951c/library/6263776.bin.jpeg" align="right" border="0" height="140" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="210">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.<br><br>"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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/b54d402898">Full Article</a></span><br><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/8dc2ed580f/reflections%202.jpg" alt="reflections 2" title="reflections 2" align="none" border="0" height="29" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="417"></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Can big, bold murals bring value to Baltimore's many vacants?<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 216px; height: 157px;" title="thumb.php" alt="thumb.php" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/fd2830a538/library/thumb.php.jpeg" align="right" border="0" height="157" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="216"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Open Walls Baltimore brings International artists to Station North</span> 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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br>Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/19a7e57418">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Radical culture: playing the future to guide the present<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 209px; height: 125px;" title="group-discussion-at-missi-008" alt="group-discussion-at-missi-008" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/2643a5dca9/library/group-discussion-at-missi-008.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="125" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="209">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.<br><br>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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/76a76e486f">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Arts and culture nourish Calgarians' souls<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/c959c55071">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> The global search for education: the arts face to face<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 209px; height: 138px;" title="2012-02-29-cmrubinworldkuva4500" alt="2012-02-29-cmrubinworldkuva4500" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/e9645aac83/library/2012-02-29-cmrubinworldkuva4500.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="138" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="209">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 <br><br>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."<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/8fb4cd3ec0/utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Notifications">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> New Banff Centre president Jeff Melanson promotes arts and culture in Alberta<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 105px; height: 161px;" title="Jeff-Melanson" alt="Jeff-Melanson" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/7a4a559a36/library/Jeff-Melanson.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="161" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="105">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. <br><br>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.”<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br>Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/b38007393d">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Field Trip!<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 219px; height: 159px;" title="Ormandy" alt="Ormandy" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/ea17921ca7/library/Ormandy.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="159" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="219">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. <br><br>[...] 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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Read the </span><a id="" style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/71d3cab502">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> What can the arts offer in an age of austerity<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 204px; height: 123px;" title="Reckless-by-Mark-Wallinge-008" alt="Reckless-by-Mark-Wallinge-008" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/3432734508/library/Reckless-by-Mark-Wallinge-008.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="123" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="204">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.<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/795e6baea5">Full Website</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> How theater for young people could change the world<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 166px; height: 252px;" title="2012-03-19-WindmillPhotoTonyLewis" alt="2012-03-19-WindmillPhotoTonyLewis" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/5008891fb6/library/2012-03-19-WindmillPhotoTonyLewis.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="252" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="166">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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br>Read the </span><a id="" style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/af7e0bf834">Full Article</a><br><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/8dc2ed580f/abroad.jpg" alt="abroad" title="abroad" align="none" border="0" height="29" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="417"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Brazil's unique culture group stays busy sharing the wealth<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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 strengthenin<img style="width: 211px; height: 130px;" title="20120227_337_BOUNTY-slide-WM6N-articleLarge" alt="20120227_337_BOUNTY-slide-WM6N-articleLarge" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/f391e56754/library/20120227_337_BOUNTY-slide-WM6N-articleLarge.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="130" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="211">g ties with American artists. <br><br>[...] “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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/d818af2095/_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Classical Clubbing: tearing up the rulebook or playing the game?<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/2f979721e6">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> In Europe, where art is life, ax falls on public financing<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 215px; height: 127px;" title="25CUTBACKjp1sub-articleLarge" alt="25CUTBACKjp1sub-articleLarge" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/fd240146e9/library/25CUTBACKjp1sub-articleLarge.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="127" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="215">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. <br><br>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.<br><br>[..] 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.”<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/738e9c4dcd/pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=fb-share">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> China enhances culture industry competitiveness<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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. <br><br>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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/b6f0585ae5">Full Article</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Art the conqueror: the age of swanky new arts buildings draws to a close<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 216px; height: 123px;" title="20120317_BRP005_0" alt="20120317_BRP005_0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/ffbe50e631/library/20120317_BRP005_0.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="123" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="216">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. <br><br>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.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/de5931bdab/fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Far%2Farttheconqueror">Full Article</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Why the arts really mean business<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img style="width: 244px; height: 146px;" title="art-installation-in-the-w-007" alt="art-installation-in-the-w-007" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/dc7a236596/library/art-installation-in-the-w-007.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="146" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="244">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.<br><br>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.<br><br><em>An edited speech: The Culture Capital Exchange conference, Creativity and Business: Connectivity, Values and Interventions, held at the British Library 8 Mar/12.</em> <br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/b87c7a111d">Full Article</a><br><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/Upcoming.jpg" alt="Upcoming" title="Upcoming" align="none" border="0" height="29" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="417"></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> UBC Offers New Course on Culture Plans<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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: <br>- understanding the purpose of culture plans and their relationship to policy and programs <br>- identifying key components of a successful plan <br>- creating a planning process, including internal and external consultations <br>- synthesizing inputs into a coherent, strategic document <br>- developing an implementation strategy that receives stakeholder approval. <br>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 <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/f2896040cc">cstudies.ubc.ca/cultural-planning/courses.html</a>, or if you have questions, please call Dianne Olsen at 604-822-1459.<a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> City Museums: Collisions / Connections, CAMOC Museum of Vancouver, October 24-26, 2012<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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 <a href="mailto:CatherineC.Cole@telus.net">CatherineC.Cole@telus.net</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>View the</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/b866102eb8">Website</a><br><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/8dc2ed580f/resources.jpg" alt="resources" title="resources" align="none" border="0" height="29" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="417"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"></span></font></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Survey reveals new facts about how Canadians see value and importance of performing arts<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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: <br>* 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. <br>* 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. <br><br>This survey along with all other primary and secondary research and consultations undertaken with the field over the past yea<img style="width: 265px; height: 41px;" title="valueofpresenting" alt="valueofpresenting" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/a/d/c/adc355491e/c1feaae0bb/a1c6f13b58/library/valueofpresenting.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="41" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="265">r will be consolidated in a single report of findings to be published in April 2012.<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">View </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/8b7139606e">Website and Reports</a><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> The Federal Budget 2012-13 and Culture: CCA Bulletin<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">View the <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/c65b2c6900">Website</a></span><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> The Economic Spring for Culture: CCA Bulletin<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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.<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">View the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/7f33cd762c/utm_source=CCA+Members+and+Friends&utm_campaign=b096e9fc8f-CCA_Bulletin_05_12&utm_medium=email">Website</a><br></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Business for the Arts: Why Arts Matter<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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: <br>- the arts can have a significant economic impact on local communities <br>- organizations can achieve one or more of their corporate social responsibility objectives by investing in the arts <br>- with the decline of arts education in schools, there is a greater demand for cultural activities in the community <br>- arts education helps children develop higher level skills such as critical thinking and problem solving<br>- the arts can have a positive impact on the development of local communities and social networks <br>- arts and culture help to engage new immigrants with social institutions <br>- culture builds stronger communities <br>- the arts contribute to innovation within a community <br>- arts and culture can foster economic inclusion <br>- cities can leverage the arts as an important part of their revitalization programs<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">View the </span><a id="" style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeCityNetworko/c1feaae0bb/e1239b2b77/4641a726f8">Website</a><a href="#"><br></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <hr style="background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #777;border:medium none;color:#777;height:1px;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> OAS report highlights growing economic benefits of creative industries<br></h3> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> 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. <br><br>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. 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