- “So…you can make a living as an artist?” – A conversation between Kris Joseph and another patron at an Ottawa show provokes a good discussion about the wrong definition of value
- In NOW magazine, Robert Priest contrasts government “liquidity injections” to banks (which go straight into vaults) and to artists (which get spent)
- Adam Thurman argues on Mission Paradox about how “seeking permission to do art”, getting people to see it, and getting paid for that art are no longer the connected concepts that they used to be
- Finally, Howard Sherman decodes theatrical marketing and publicity euphemisms
- The Ontario Non-Profits Network is advocating for changes to the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act
- With the opening of a new Performing Arts Centre in Burlington, following openings in Brampton, Richmond Hill and Barrie, and construction underway in Cambridge and St. Catharines, communities around the GTA/GHA are “banking on culture to fight big-box sprawl”
- Claire Hopkinson, Executive Director of the Toronto Arts Council, was the subject of the first in a series on The Grid about how the 2012 City of Toronto budget is going to impact various organizations (Bravo to The Grid for leading with the arts)
- Congrats to all of the winners of the 2011 Ottawa Capital Critics’ Circle awards
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