arts and culture
Investment in art pays off for the Houston economy
Monday, November 17th, 2008The city of Houston invests $10 million public investment in the arts, the state of Texas invest $3.9 million. Result: the citizens of Houston are getting a fifty-four percent rate of return on their tax investment. Public money invested in the arts is profitable for society.
The arts minister of the iPod generation
Sunday, November 9th, 2008STEVEN CHASE
Globe and Mail Update [source]
November 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM EST
— Should you have trouble concentrating, newly minted federal Heritage Minister and iPod junkie James Moore has just the prescription for you: baroque music.
The 32-year-old British Columbia MP - who’s just made history in becoming Canada’s youngest-ever federal cabinet minister - describes this […]
Vancouver - All Party Forum October 6
Monday, September 29th, 2008Alliance for Arts and Culture
Advocacy Alert
September 29, 2008
October 6th all-Party forum
On October 6th, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, we have an opportunity to pose questions to the candidates of the Conservative, Liberal, New Democratic and Green Parties.
WE WANT THE QUESTIONS TO COME FROM YOU.
Please send us your questions by email to peter [at] allianceforarts […]
What makes classical Classical?
Sunday, September 21st, 2008The term “classical music” – once so clear in meaning – has become murky. On the one hand, it is invoked in a positive sense, to suggest “bestness”; on the other hand it has acquired (in some circles) negative connotations of stuffy over-formality and pretentiousness.
Harper Plays Populist Tune on Arts Cuts
Saturday, September 20th, 2008No Point Funding Programs ‘People Actually Don’t Want’.
James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail, September 11, 2008
TORONTO — In his first detailed defence of $45-million in controversial
cuts to arts and culture funding, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper
called his party’s decisions good governance and said the government
must walk “a fine line” between providing financial stability and
“funding things that people […]