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Tag Archives: Arts
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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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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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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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: [...]