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Welcome to the
CHRC Newsletter
March 2010

In this issue!
[ #1 ]Phase II of the Cultural Sector HR Study
[ #2 ]The Art of Managing Your Career modules take root
[ #3 ]LMA funds working for culture in Manitoba
[ #4 ]Upcoming NTAC meetings
[ #5 ]Expanding the TDB...
[ #6 ]Compendium of hubs for Digital Media Content Creation
[ #7 ]Career Focus and Building Careers in Culture
[ #8 ]Membership Renewal
[ #contact ]Keep in touch
[ #9 ]A valuable resource
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Phase II of the Cultural Sector HR Study

The Steering Committee for the Cultural Sector HR Study met with the Conference Board of Canada consultants in late January to give final input into the first-of-its-kind comprehensive Labour Market Information (LMI) of the cultural sector. The consultants continue to refine the report and its recommendations on information gaps that will guide CHRC's research agenda in the coming months and years.
The Steering Committee also reviewed the Online Survey questionnaire that the Conference Board sent out to over 2,000 artists, cultural workers and employers in early March. Respondents choose one of five questionnaires: for employers, employees, self-employed, unemployed or volunteers/students. The survey takes about half an hour to complete. We strongly urge you to take the time to do it. It is a unique opportunity that is being offered to the sector to document the HR issues we are facing and to direct policy and programs to address them.
[ http://www.conferenceboard.ca/culturesurvey.aspx ]www.conferenceboard.ca/culturesurvey.aspx
We also urge you to forward the survey widely. Much of its success depends on this kind of viral distribution.
The results of the online survey will feed into the HR analysis, to be validated at a Roundtable in June and released in September.
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The Art of Managing Your Career modules take root

We're pleased to report that considerable interest has been shown in the recently released modules for teaching The Art of Managing Your Career (TAMYC) at the post secondary level. This is especially encouraging in Saskatchewan and Manitoba where the funds to deliver the modules are from the provincial Labour Market Agreements (LMAs) (federal funds transferred to each province to be used in training delivery).
Saskatchewan Arts Board
In Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Arts Board announced the Entrepreneurial Training Program, "a new pilot program based on the Cultural Human Resources Council curriculum, The Art of Managing Your Career. The program provides self-employed artists with skills, tools, self-awareness and networking resources to help them turn their art practices into sustainable, revenue-generating businesses."
Manitoba Arts and Cultural Industries
In Manitoba, Arts and Cultural Industries (ACI) announced that its workshops on TAMYC will help you to: "envision and develop a career strategy; create a business plan; market and promote your work; manage a project; manage your financial affairs; manage legal matters; communicate effectively; and develop effective business skills. The course is open to anyone with an existing arts practice including actors, craftspeople, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, new media content creators, visual artists and writers. If you are a self-employed artist, or looking to increase the portion of your employment derived from your art, then this course is for you."
Holland College
Educational institutions such as Holland College have picked it up. Computer and Media Studies instructor Alan Dowling, reports: "I will be using the core 16-module package, compressing a few of them, and replacing a couple with modules specific to the music industry, and delivering it over 12 sessions."
Toledo, Ohio
And farther a field in Toledo Ohio: "I'm in a new position [Creative Industry Development Coordinator] for the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo (Ohio) and came across your wonderful program and guide. We're at the beginning stages of developing an online toolkit and workshop series to help our local artists make a career of their artwork. I was hoping I could take a look at your Course Modules..."

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LMA funds working for culture in Manitoba

As mentioned above, Labour Market Agreements (LMAs) have been signed between individual provinces and the federal government to formalize the transfer of millions of training funds dollars to the provinces. The cultural sector is trying to access these funds for training.
In Manitoba, the sector has had considerable success in using LMA funding for training delivery. They are well organized with 4 provincial sector-like councils: Film Training Manitoba, Music Manitoba, New Media Manitoba and Arts and Cultural Industries (ACI) Manitoba; and a provincial government that recognizes the importance of the cultural industries to the overall economy. In addition to using LMA funds to deliver TAMYC modules to self-employed artists as described above, Music Manitoba and Film Training Manitoba have mounted important training initiatives for their communities.
Best Practices in Manitoba

From Music Manitoba
Music Skills will train music industry workers, entrepreneurs, and artists with the business skills and industry knowledge they need to fully reach their potential for success. This exciting program will offer free, intensive, and direct training tailored to meet each individual's own career goals.
Music Management Seminar includes intensive training for employees with artist management companies, self-managed artists, and aspiring artist managers to become successful artist managers. The topics include: music publishing and law, accounting and bookkeeping, office management, publicity and marketing, and more.
Video Game Composition provides hands-on training for composers with digital composition experience, songwriters, and composers interested in working within this sub-sector. The topics include: finding work in this field, aesthetic and technical issues, working with game designers, and understanding game software.
Music Industry Personnel has been created to tailor the unique needs of workers with established music companies in Manitoba, entrepreneurs, and artists who self-manage their careers. The topics include: accounting, project management, publicity, and marketing.
 
From Film Training Manitoba
An HR Training Fund encourages employers to support professional development for contract workers. FTM will work with production companies to assess the skill gaps in their employees and assist companies in coordinating the necessary training including workplace essential skills assessment and training, leadership and management training, skills upgrade training, and healthy workplace initiatives.
Crew Training Labs develop Manitoba's emerging creative talent through a combination of intensive group work and mentorship. The labs are developed by Film Training Manitoba in concert with production companies and industry leaders as instructors.

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Upcoming NTAC meetings

"The findings [of CHRC's Showrunner Expert Working Group for the development of the chart and profile of competencies] dovetail beautifully with the Showrunner Code (developed by the Writers Guild of Canada), and provide an exceptional breakdown of the qualities of the Showrunner. The work the Expert Working Group did was exceptional."
- David Kinahan, Director of Communications, Writers Guild of Canada.

The National Training Advisory Council for the Film and Television industry will meet on March 19 in Ottawa under the new title of the NTAC for Screen-Based Training - recognizing the reality of convergence in the industry. On this theme, participants will hear Valerie Creighton speak about the Canada Media Fund; and Benoit Dubois on how CHRC's Convergence Media course modules are being use in Quebec. The agenda also includes developing consensus on national standards for set safety and set etiquette; and reports from emerging Regional Training Organizations (RTOs) - signs of growing strength at the grassroots level of the industry.
The National Training Advisory Council for the Music Industry will meet one week later on March 26 in Ottawa. Participants will be considering key topics raised in the national strategy document: the need for business of music programs, copyright issues, professional development opportunities, and how digital technology is impacting the industry.
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Expanding the TDB...

CHRC is about to launch a transformed Film and Television Training Database under the new name of the Screen-Based Media Training Database. It will include a third stream with training for Digital Media.
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Compendium of hubs for Digital Media Content Creation

With support from Industry Canada, CHRC is undertaking a study to identify hubs for Digital Media Content Creation across the country. This is a follow-up to the Technology Roadmap for Digital Media Content Creation which stressed the importance of collaborative environments (which hubs represent) in the Digital Media Content Creation industry. The compendium of hubs will be a building block in the architecture of a Canadian Digital Media Network. CHRC's interest in the project is the need for training as Canada's content creators find themselves at the cutting edge of the Digital Media industry. A skills gaps analysis is the next phase of this work.
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Career Focus and Building Careers in Culture

The jury for selecting successful applicants for Career Focus and Building Careers in Culture internship program is meeting in early March. Results will be announced soon after. We expect to be able to provide support to over 50 employers through the two programs.
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Membership Renewal

If you haven't already done so, we encourage you to renew your CHRC membership! It is very important to have you on our roster. It demonstrates the importance the sector attaches to addressing HR issues, and gives strength and credibility to CHRC's efforts to gain government support for key projects.
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Keep in touch

We urge you to keep in touch with comments, questions, suggestions, or criticisms. Our ongoing dialogue with you is vital to our success!

Susan Annis, Executive Director
Extension 22 - [ mailto:sannis@culturalhrc.ca ]sannis@culturalhrc.ca

Erma Barnett, Finance Officer
Extension 29 - [ mailto:ebarnett@culturalhrc.ca ]ebarnett@culturalhrc.ca

Geneviève Chassé, Manager, Communications and Marketing
Extension 31 - [ mailto:gchasse@culturalhrc.ca ]gchasse@culturalhrc.ca

Lucie M. D'Aoust, Sr. Project Manager
Extension 21 - [ mailto:ldaoust@culturalhrc.ca ]ldaoust@culturalhrc.ca

Geneviève Guilmette, Youth Internship Program Coordinator, Project Manager
Extension 28 - [ mailto:gguilmette@culturalhrc.ca ]gguilmette@culturalhrc.ca

Michael Lechasseur, Web Coordinator
Extension 26 - [ mailto:mlechasseur@culturalhrc.ca ]mlechasseur@culturalhrc.ca
A list of [ http://www.culturalhrc.ca/aboutus/board-e.asp ]2009/2010 Board members can be found on CHRC's web site at [ http://www.culturalhrc.ca/ ]www.culturalhrc.ca
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A valuable resource

Arts Consultants Canada
[ http://www.artsconsultants.ca/ ]www.artsconsultants.ca
Members are accepted through a peer jury process. The objectives of the organization are to serve the professional development of arts consultants by providing networking opportunities with other arts consultants working in the field in Canada, and providing a forum for discussion of issues of concern to the arts and professional consultants. It also seeks to serve artists, arts organizations, funders, public policy-makers and, by extension, arts audiences in Canada by identifying a body of skilled, experienced and knowledgeable colleagues; recommending qualifications, ethics and practices for arts consultants; offering opportunities for the exchange of knowledge and development of the field; and promoting the use of experienced and qualified professionals in the field.

[ http://www.culturalhrc.ca/ ]Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC)
201-17 York Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 9J6
Tel. 613-562-1535   Fax 613-562-2982

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Marnie
 
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Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport News Release - March 22, 2010
 
Today, the Government of Saskatchewan announced that it is investing $250,000 in Prairie Scene, a major multi-disciplinary arts festival planned for Ottawa in Spring 2011. The festival, organized by the National Arts Centre, will showcase the best of our arts and culture, help build new markets for Saskatchewan cultural products and provide national and international exposure for Saskatchewan artists.
 
"Prairie Scene will put the spotlight on Saskatchewan, and will provide Canada and the world with a window into our rich culture, help brand the province as a great place to make a life and spark the interest of tourists," Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Dustin Duncan said. "Prairie Scene is also a direct investment into the Saskatchewan arts sector and is consistent with Saskatchewan's new cultural policy as it fosters artistic excellence and facilitates commercial opportunities for Saskatchewan artists."
 
Prairie Scene is the latest in a series of biennial arts festivals including music, theatre, dance, comedy, literature, visual, media and culinary arts from Canada's various regions. It is hosted by the National Arts Centre to showcase emerging and established artists from Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
 
"The National Arts Centre is excited about Prairie Scene 2011 and our chance to bring the prairies to our nation's capital," Prairie Scene Producer and Executive Director Heather Moore said. "We look forward to working with Saskatchewan to showcase the best of the province's arts and culture scene and share it with Canada and the world."

"We have just seen how Saskatchewan artists, our economy and our beautiful natural heritage was showcased at the Olympics before an international audience," Duncan said. "With Prairie Scene we'll be able to once again highlight our talent and culture."
 
Prairie Scene will showcase approximately 500-600 emerging and established artists from the two provinces, over 13 days in Spring 2011. It is estimated that more than 75,000 people will attend more than 80 performances at more than 20 venues.
 
The National Arts Centre is a federal cultural organization created by the Parliament of Canada. Its mandate is to develop and showcase the performing arts in the National Capital Region and across Canada. Visit [ http://www.nac-can.ca/ ]www.nac-can.ca/ to learn more.
 
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For more information, contact:
Jennifer Johnson
Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
Regina
Phone: 306-787-0619
Email: jennifer.johnson@gov.sk.ca
Cell: 306-529-5805
 

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CCA Bulletin 17/10

June 25, 2010

CCA’s Year in Review

The House has adjourned, the weather is warm and muggy and the earth has shaken in Ottawa. It’s now late June and after our wrap-up of the parliamentary session, it is time to review what the CCA has accomplished over the past year. The CCA’s accomplishments were discussed last week in Ottawa during its annual general meeting and during a board meeting.  While the board meeting was occupied in good part by discussions on important policy issues like copyright reform, foreign ownership of cultural industries and pre-budget submissions, the AGM was an opportunity to reflect on the CCA’s standing after four years of repositioning and reconstruction.

In her second report to our members, CCA President Kathleen Sharpe said that the organization has been able to consolidate its status as a key, authoritative observer and analyst of the issues and events at the federal level that affect our vast sector in one way or another. She noted that the CCA’s unique perspective on issues has received increased recognition from Parliamentarians and regulators, the result of several well thought-out public interventions over the past f our years. This point is illustrated by the fact that the CCA was the first group invited by the newly formed all-party Arts Caucus to give an overview of the cultural sector and the main issues that it faces. The CCA was also invited to make presentations to the caucuses of the Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois on current policy issues.

The CCA has been very active on the policy front, having appeared as a witness in front of several parliamentary committees and the CRTC on various issues such as the federal budget, the [ http://www.ccarts.ca/en/advocacy/bulletins/2010/1310.htm ]digital economy, the private copying levy, the importance of investing in artistic experimentation and the controversy surrounding the “value–for-signal” matter, which for months has pitted cable and satellite companies against traditional broadcasters.

During the year, the CCA also met with groups in various parts of the country. We participated in panels in Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec and Newfoundland. Thanks in part to the support of the Trillium Foundation, the CCA was able to present its Cultural Policy 101 Workshop in several communities in Ontario. All in all, we participated in no less than 23 public events.

Throughout the year, the CCA pursued work on long-term issues of importance for the vitality of arts and culture in our society such as cultural statistics, trade negotiations with the European Union and arts and learning. It is well known that important issues are rarely urgent. Given their limited resources and the immediate challenges they face on an on-going basis, arts service organizations and their members rarely have the time or energy to engage in long-term and fundamental issues, often only tangential to their immediate preoccupations. Because of the breadth of its membership and the perspectives it takes on issues, the CCA believes that part of its unique mandate is to deal with such long-term policy issues.

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Building on the relationship we have established with the University of Ottawa, the CCA developed an exciting new project titled Thinking Culture. In partnership with the Centre for Continuing Education, the Centre for Governance and the School of Political Studies at the university, the CCA will offer an annual series of forums dedicated to cultural policy issues. This series will launch in September and will offer at least five forums in the first year, all of which will be made available throughout the country through webcasts. This new initiative will further establish the CCA as a leading forum for thoughtful debate and analysis of arts and cultural policy issues.

With the support of a distinguished national steering committee chaired by Garry Neil,  we have been working hard on the planning of our next National Policy Conference, Artists: Powering the Creative Economy? The conference will take place on November 2 and 3 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and will be preceded on the evening of November 1 by a gala evening celebrating the CCA’s 65th anniversary, during which we will present the CCA Awards.

All of this work has been done in what I can only describe as a challenging year for the CCA. The CCA started the year with a $46,000 deficit incurred the previous year. This was not the result of bad management, but the consequence of having taken on a number of initiatives in keeping with our strategic plan for which, against reasonable expectations, supporting revenue did not materialize.

Thanks to the considerable efforts of the staff, we are happy to report that we have erased this deficit almost completely and have therefore started the current fiscal year from a much better position. We are proud of this achievement in what remains a difficult time for membership retention and recruitment. However, our financial success has come with a price. Given less money and the additional workload on everyone in the secretariat, some activities have suffered, including our communications with stakeholders and our research projects.

Supporting the work of the strategic coordination committee after the March 2009 Chalmers Conference in Ottawa required a lot of time and energy between April and October. Then the committee lost momentum, due in part to the loss of urgency of an impending federal election. But this initiative has not been abandoned. It will be part of some major developments in the coming months, including the way in which the CCA involves its membership in the running of its activities.

I must open a parenthesis here to acknowledge that much remains to be done in communicating what added value the CCA brings to a sector where, at all levels of government, arts service organizations have multiplied, each addressing the specific needs and interests of the various disciplines, cultural institutions and industries. The CCA knows what its unique mandate is. It has a clear vision of where it wants to go and an increasingly focused idea of how to get there. However, a pre-condition of the CCA realizing its overarching goals means securing the full involvement and backing of its membership. This reality will be at the core of the revision of our strategic plan and of some substantial initiatives which will be announced in the coming months.

During the past four years, the CCA has managed to not only survive several challenges and two near-death experiences, but also improve its ability to move forward in its repositioning. It has largely rebuilt its credibility with its main funders, political personnel and the press, and to a large extent, with its membership, a vital element to its very existence.

The CCA secretariat will be busy all summer responding to various consultations currently underway and planning for what promises to be a busy schedule in the fall, especially given the possibility of another federal election within the next several months! Stay tuned!

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CCA Bulletin 17/10

25 juin 2010

Une revue de l’année de la CCA

La Chambre des communes est vide, le temps est chaud et humide et la terre a tremblé à Ottawa. C’est la fin juin et après notre revue de la dernière session parlementaire, propre bilan. C’est là matière à réunion de conseils d’administration et à assemblée générale des membres, et la Conférence canadienne des arts (CCA) a tenu l’une et l’autre la semaine dernière à Ottawa. Les discussions du conseil ont été dominée en bonne partie par des préoccupations politiques comme la réforme de la loi sur le droit d’auteur, la propriété étrangère de nos industries culturelles et la prochaine soumission pré-budgétaire. L’Assemblée des membres aura été l’occasion de faire le point sur le chemin parcouru au cours des douze derniers mois quant au repositionnement et à la reconstruction de l’organisation.

Dans son second rapport annuel, notre présidente Kathleen Sharpe a souligné que la CCA a su raffermir sa position comme observateur et analyste de premier plan de tout ce qui, au niveau fédéral, affecte d’une façon ou d’une autre notre vaste secteur. Elle a fait remarquer que parlementaires et régulateurs apprécient de plus en plus la perspective unique que la CCA apporte sur les enjeux qui confrontent art, culture et patrimoine au Canada, un fait qu’elle attribue aux nombreuses interventions réfléchies que nous avons faites au cours des quatre dernières années. Une illustration parfaite de cela : la CCA a été le premier groupe invité par le nouveau Caucus des arts multi-partis à donner un survol du secteur et de ses grands enjeux politiques. La CCA a également été invitée à faire des présentations d’ensemble au caucus du Parti Libéral et à celui du Bloc Québécois. 

La CCA a par ailleurs été très active sur le front politique, apparaissant comme témoin devant plusieurs comités parlementaires et devant le CRTC sur des sujets aussi divers que le budget fédéral,   l’économie numérique,  le régime de copie privée, l’importance d’investir dans la recherche et l’expérimentation artistique ou encore la controverse qui a opposé câblodistributeurs et radiodiffuseurs au sujet de la « valeur des signaux ».

Tout au cours de l’année, la CCA a rencontré des groupes un peu partout à travers le pays, participant à des panels en Saskatchewan, en Ontario, au Québec et à Terre-Neuve. Grâce en partie à l’appui de la fondation Trillium, la CCA a pu présenter son atelier Politique culturelle 101 dans plusieurs communautés ontariennes. Au total, nous aurons participé à pas moins de vingt-trois événements publics au cours de l’année.

En parallèle, la CCA a poursuivi son travail sur des enjeux à long terme d’importance vitale pour les arts et la culture dans notre société, comme les statistiques culturelles, les négociations commerciales avec l’Union européenne et les arts et l’apprentissage. Compte tenu de leurs ressources limitées et des défis quotidiens auxquels elles doivent répondre, les organisations de service et leurs membres ont rarement le temps ou l’énergie de se préoccuper de pareils sujets, qui sont souvent tangentiels à leurs intérêts immédiats. À cause de la diversité de son membership et des perspectives qu’elle doit prendre sur les enjeux politiques, la CCA considère qu’il fait partie intégrale de son mandat de se préoccuper de pareils sujets.  

Nous avons par ailleurs continué de developper notre relation avec l’Université d’Ottawa avec laquelle nous allons lancer sous peu un excitant projet intitulé Pensons culture. En partenariat avec le Centre d’éducation continue, le Centre de gouvernance et l’École de sciences politiques de l’Université, la CCA offrira à compter de l’automne une série d’au moins cinq forums publics consacrés à des sujets culturels. Les conférences seront rendues accessibles à la largeur du pays par webcast. Cette nouvelle initiative viendra renforcer le rôle de la CCA comme forum na tional où sont débattus des aspects importants touchant les arts et la culture.

Avec l’appui d’un comité aviseur formé de membres d’à travers tout le pays et présidé par Garry Neil, nous avons travaillé fort à la planification de notre prochaine conférence politique nationale dont le thème est L’artiste, moteur de l’économie créative? La conférence aura lieu les 2 et 3 novembre prochains au Centre national des arts à Ottawa et sera précédée le premier novembre par un souper gala marquant le 65ème anniversaire de la CCA, au cours duquel on remettra le Diplôme d’honneur et le prix Keith Kelly.

Tout ceci a été accompli dans un contexte que je ne puis que qualifier de difficile. La CCA avait commencé l’année avec un déficit de quarante-six mille dollars encouru l’année précédente. Ce déficit n’était pas le résultat de mauvaise gestion de notre part : il découlait plutôt du fait que nous avions poursuivi certaines priorités en conformité avec notre Plan stratégique et dont, contre toutes attentes raisonnables, le financement ne s’était pas m atérialisé.

Grâce aux efforts de toute l’équipe du Secrétariat, nous avons pu effacer ce déficit  presque complètement et commencer l’année en cours dans une bien meilleure position financière. Nous sommes fiers de cette réussite, surtout quand on considère qu’elle a eu lieu durant une période où le recrutement et la rétention des membres est particulièrement difficile. Mais il ya eu un prix à payer pour rééquilibrer nos finances. Le manque d’argent et une charge de travail accrue pour tous les membres du secrétariat  se sont traduits entre autres par un ralentissement de nos communications et de nos projets de recherche.

Des initiatives importantes comme les rencontres du Comité de coordination stratégique, lancé dans la foulée de la Conférence Chalmers de mars 2009, avaient requis des efforts considérables d’avril à octobre. Elles ont perdu de leur élan par la suite, en partie également à cause d’une perte d’urgence face à la tenue d’un scrutin fédéral. Mais rassurez-vous : cette initiative n’est pas abandonnée. Elle fera partie de développements importants dans les mois qui viennent quant à la façon dont la CCA implique ses membres dans sa gestion.   

Je dois ouvrir ici une parenthèse pour reconnaître que nous avons encore beaucoup à faire pour communiquer la « valeur ajoutée » de la CCA dans un environnement où, à tous les niveaux, prolifèrent des organisations de service qui répondent aux besoins et intérêts spécifiques des diverses disciplines, institutions et industries culturelles. La CCA connaît bien la place unique qu’elle occupe dans le secteur; elle a une vision claire d’où elle veut aller et une idée de plus en plus précise de comment y arriver. Mais une condition fondamentale à sa réussite passe par l’implication et l’appui de ses membres. Cette réalité sera au coeur de la révision de notre plan stratégique au cours des prochains mois et nous annoncerons sous peu des initiatives importantes en ce sens.

Au cours des cinq dernières années, la CCA a non seulement réussi à échapper deux fois à la disparition et à surmonter des défis de tailles : elle a amélioré sa capacité à se réinventer. Elle a rebâti sa crédibilité avec ses principaux bailleurs de fonds, avec les personnels politiques et la presse et, dans une mesure non négligeable, avec ses membres, une condition fondamentale à son existence.

Le Secrétariat s’affairera tout l’été à répondre aux diverses consultations en cours et à planifier ce qui promet d’être un automne chaud, toujours sous la menace d’une autre élection fédérale. Nous vous tiendrons informés au fur et à mesure!

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Alain Pineau
National Director / Directeur général
Canadian Conference of the Arts / Conférence canadienne des arts
406 – 130, rue Slater Street
Ottawa Ontario K1P 6E2
Tel: (613) 238-3561 ext. 12 poste 12
Fax / Télécopieur: (613) 238-4849
[ mailto:alain.pineau@ccarts.ca ]alain.pineau@ccarts.ca | www.ccarts.ca

The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada. It provides research, analysis and consultations on public policies affecting the arts and the Canadian cultural institutions and industries. The CCA fosters informed public debate on policy issues and seeks to advance the cultural rights of Canadians.

La Conférence canadienne des arts (CCA) est le forum national de la communauté artistique et culturelle au Canada. Elle effectue des recherches, produit des analyses et fournit des expertises sur les politiques publiques concernant les arts, les institutions et les industries culturelles canadiennes. La CCA favorise et éclaire le débat public entourant les enjeux politiques et travaille à la promotion des droits des Canadiens en matière de culture.

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