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Tag Archives: Arts
Art is Your Business – October 2011
Join me in Wells, BC to help weave the tapestry of this great warp and woof of talent and experience. Over the course of these days in October, the little town that could (create) will be bursting with artists sharing … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Development, Careers, Creativity, Professional Development
Tagged Artists, Arts, Business, Wells BC
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The True Power of the Performing Arts
Ben Cameron offers us challenges and encourages hope.
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
