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Category Archives: Cultural Economy
Council supports Cultural Plan in tough times
Despite the need to make deep cuts in spending as a result of steeply-reduced revenues, Vancouver City Council recognized the importance of maintaining the momentum on implementation of the Cultural Plan as a contributor to local economic regeneration.
Full details of how the budget reduction will impact the implementation process has yet to be heard, but [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Capacity Development, Cultural Economy, Uncategorized
Tagged creative space, cultural plan, economy, policy, revitalization, vancouver city
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Emerging Habitat for a Creative Economy Threatened by City Budget Cuts.
This is an excerpt from an email alert I sent to my networks in the creative community earlier this week. The ‘troops’ rallied and spoke eloquently on behalf of this keystone project, we continue to advocate and the decision is on Tuesday April 7 09 at the regular Council meeting:
Vancouver City Council considers cutting implementation [...]
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Tagged creative space, cultural plan, economy, policy, revitalization, vancouver city
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Artists are a renewable resource.
Artists are a renewable resource. They often produce so much out of thin air that it seems like photosynthesis to me. And they seem compelled to produce creative ideas and objects regardless of the outcome, unable to resist some cellular imperative – kind of like salmon heading upriver to spawn and then to [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Creative Capital, Cultural Economy
Tagged Advocacy, Arts, ponderings
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More opinion on the Creative Class
(from a posting I made to the Sirolli Institute Public Forum on April 21, 2007, which generated a little bit of a buzz)
….I apologize in advance for the length of this rant, but here goes..
The coveted Creative Class referred to by Florida, is that ‘class’ of knowledge worker whose earnings are large and whose skills [...]
The ‘Creative Class’: Did I Pass or Fail?
There has been something bugging me amidst all the ballyhoo about the arts driving the economy, the rise of the creative class and the cult of innovation. I live in a city swimming in creativity, stuffed with artists, overwhelmed with visual stimuli, intellectual smorgasbords and art smarts.
Do you remember that old show Columbo, where the [...]
Money and mindset and the arts…
money issues….
It seems to me that the people who were least interested in math and science, and perhaps who suffered failure in these because the methods used to teach them were not effective with us creative types, are the ones now wanting to offload responsibility for fundraising and financial management for our nonprofit organizations. It [...]
School-to-Work Transition for Artists
Summary of Notes for Presentation Montreal Dec 8 2001
Q: What kind of ‘transition from school to work’ initiatives would be the most efficient to implement in a context where 50 percent of the 809,000 cultural workers are fully or partially self-employed? How can we better prepare graduates for the realities of the cultural sector workplace?
A: [...]