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Category Archives: Advocacy
Building Digital Canada
I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing.
I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference and I think it gave me [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Capacity Development, Cultural Economy
Tagged creative space, cultural plan, economy, policy, revitalization, vancouver city
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Mt. Pleasant Community Centre Building – Convert to Arts Centre or Demolish?
There are a number of projects that are gathering interest and momentum in Vancouver these days. The work of the City’s Office of Cultural Affairs to develop a Cultural Plan that will not only ensure a Creative City that is healthy for the arts but also for the economy, has engaged an incredible spectrum of [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Capacity Development, Community Benefit, Uncategorized
Tagged Advocacy, Arts, creative space, cultural plan, policy, 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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Getting Your Voice Heard
It seems to me that most everyone who has suffered the consequences of funding cutbacks and layoffs and challenges to their existence is now clamoring to be heard by government or other ‘power brokers’. Most of what I hear is a plea for acknowledgement of the importance of the work we do, the community we [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Capacity Development, Leadership
Tagged Advocacy, Governance, policy
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On employment and unemployment..
I worry about the latest growth industry in our community: the Employment Industry. Think about it. Here we have a changing world of work, where lifetime employment is a thing of the past, where the ‘hard’ skills we train for can be made redundant by technology, change is rapid, economies are global, the ‘knowledge economy’ [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Careers, Professional Development
Tagged Careers, economy, employment
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