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Category Archives: Capacity Development
Cognitive Surplus: put it to work..
I love synergistic thinking. Clay Shirky has hit on something that I appreciate with all my quirky soul. A fascinating analysis of the side-effect of paradigm shifts on the humans trying to cope with them. This is an excerpt from the transcription of the video presentation I’ve included at the end of this posting. Worth [...]
Posted in Capacity Development, Creativity, Right Brain
Tagged Creativity, innovative thinking, ponderings, synergy
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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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Alternatives to Creating “Yet Another” NonProfit Arts Organization
When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: “How do we form a nonprofit society?” followed closely by “Where do we get grants and how do we [...]
Posted in Capacity Development, Community Benefit, Leadership, Professional Development
Tagged Arts, Governance, Management, policy, ponderings
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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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Do silos need busting?
As I sat in a room full of creative thinkers, stimulated beyond belief by feeling connected and understood – hearing about the innovative projects that represented “Silo-Busting Strategies” from different parts of the world – I realized once again that there were assumptions in the room that needed to be challenged. Even here, especially here.
Once [...]
Posted in Capacity Development, Economics
Tagged capacity-building, innovative thinking, ponderings
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Advice to an overworked arts manager
Here’s the summary of a conversation I recently had with a member of an Artist-Run Centre’s management collective. I sit on the Board, and chair the HR committee:
Posted in Capacity Development, Leadership, Professional Development
Tagged Artist-run centres, Arts, Management
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Leading your own life
Leadership and entrepreneurial qualities are very similar. And career self-managers must develop these qualities in order to lead themselves in their own lives and livelihoods….
Leadership is generally assumed to be a set of skills and qualities that are applied in relationship to other people – peers, subordinates, family, work groups, etc. But those very same [...]
Posted in Capacity Development, Leadership
Tagged encouragement, Leadership, 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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