Digitizing the Performing Arts: An Assessment of Opportunities, Issues and Challenges is designed to offer a springboard for new conversations and digital capacity- and skill-building in the presenting field.
Are you Open to Collective Digital Opportunities?
June 21, 2017 – In the fall, Canada Council for the Arts will be accepting applications to the $88.5 million Fund for the Arts in Digital World. This will be a strategic fund, rather than a granting program. So, let's strategize. Read more
Labour Mobility: Could NAFTA be the Alternative?
June 19, 2017 – In the face of visa processing delays, expensive visa fees and recent challenges related to heightened scrutiny, U.S. industry associations have had bipartisan bills introduced in Congress to streamline immigration services for artists. These are worthy efforts, in that they present immigration barriers as a U.S. issue, but their odds of success are fairly low. What about the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement, then? Read more
A Change and New Challenges for Canadian Artists Entering the U.S.
June 16, 2017 – If you thought last fall's U.S. visa processing fee increase would be the last bad news from USCIS, we're afraid to tell you that isn't the case. The Artist from Abroad website reported a number of changes since March. The following could bear impact to Canadian artists. Read more
English and French Canada Networks of Performing Arts Presenters Explore Possible Collaborations
May 26, 2017 – Network members of CAPACOA and RIDEAU had a joint meeting for the first time to learn from one another and explore ways to collaborate in the future. Read more
International Taxation – There could be light at the end of the tunnel
May 16, 2017 – After months of relentless efforts, we are finally receiving positive messages from Members of Parliament and from the Canada Revenue Agency. Read more
A new national report, published by Community Foundations of Canada in partnership with the Canadian Arts Presenting Association, is shining a spotlight on the power of the arts to build a greater sense of belonging to our communities, to our country and to each other.
