Media Centre
Welcome to the CCA’s Media Centre. This is your one stop shop to find our latest press releases, useful statistics and other information.
Election Bulletin: Results of the 2015 Federal Election
La Conférence canadienne des arts (CCA) félicite le nouveau gouvernement libéral pour sa remarquable réalisation d’hier soir. Comme tous nos partenaires du secteur culturel, nous sommes impatients de travailler avec le gouvernement pour assurer dans les meilleurs délais la mise en oeuvre de sa plateforme culturelle. La santé et le bien-être des artistes et du secteur culturel dans son ensemble en dépendent. la CCA va continuer de jouer un rôle modeste dans son appui du secteur et entamera des discussions quant à la résurgence...
read moreI VOTE ARTS & CULTURE in the news. . .
Thanks to our partners at Ontario Culture Days in Huntsville, Ontario for helping to get the word out. http://doppleronline.ca/huntsville/culture-days-gallery/ VOTE on October 19th.
read moreShrinking Data due to Funding Cuts
Due to funding cuts, libraries within the following government agencies have been cut or closed: Citizenship and Immigration, Agriculture, Environment, Industry, Transport Canada, National Defence, Public Works and Government Services, the National Capital Commission and the Public Service Commission. These cuts and closings have led to a loss of data. (Ontario Library Commission) For more on this, please click here....
read moreElection Bulletin: Timeline Poster
For the past nine years, the arts have undergone serious cuts– too many to fit on a small poster. We’ve highlighted just a few, as well as some advocacy facts and actions you can take on this PDF of a poster for informational printout/awareness for your arts organization. pour une version française, cliquez...
read moreELECTION BULLETIN: Liberal Party releases Arts and Culture platform
The Liberal Party has released a platform for the arts and culture industries. Included are increasing funding for the CBC, restoring touring funds ProMart and TradeRoutes, and doubling the funding for the Canada Council for the Arts. The entire press release can be found here.
read more2015 Budget Analysis
2015 Federal Budget: Culture and arts still a low priority for the government The Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Canadian Arts Coalition and the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance are pleased to release the analysis of the 2015 Federal Budget which examines federal funding for the arts and culture sector for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. The broad conclusion of this analysis is that while this pre-election budget does not contain any major changes to cultural funding by Ottawa, arts and culture do not figure amongst the political priorities...
read moreELECTION 2015: VOTE ARTS AND CULTURE
This election is crucial. For the past nine years, arts and culture have undergone unprecedented cuts to funding: challenges that have resulted in shuttered archives at government institutions, theatres losing their funding due to censorship, and enormous cuts to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). There have also been cuts to Telefilm, expropriations of copyright ownership through Bill C-11, and cuts to funds for touring and exporting Canadian arts to the world. It is time for change. To this end, we are committed to compiling...
read moreFederal Budget Analysis Provides Thorough Overview of Year 2014
Federal Budget, Culture and the Arts: Still Smarting from Budget 2012 Cuts but Better Times on the Horizon? The Canadian Conference of the Arts, Canadian Arts Coalition and Saskatchewan Arts Alliance are pleased to release the analysis of the 2014 Federal Budget (français) which examines federal funding for the arts and culture sector over the whole 2014 calendar year. The analysis explores funding to the Department of Canadian Heritage and other federal cultural agencies and crown corporations; organizational and funding trends...
read moreCCA : Call for interest
Last Friday, we put in place a caretaker Board of Governors. We will gladly receive and consider any serious offer to reactivate the activities of the CCA.
read moreThe Canadian Conference of the Arts to Close Doors after 67 Years
Press Release The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA), the largest national alliance of the arts, culture and heritage sector across Canada, announces that it will begin winding down its operations immediately. Founded in 1945 by a group of eminent artists, including painters Lawren S. Harris, of the Group of Seven, and André Biéler, the CCA has the unique mandate in the Canadian cultural sector of promoting the interests of Canadian artists and of the cultural sector at large at the federal level, and of providing a national forum...
read moreMedia Centre
Welcome to the CCA’s Media Centre. This is your one stop shop to find our latest press releases, useful statistics and other information.
Election Bulletin: Results of the 2015 Federal Election
La Conférence canadienne des arts (CCA) félicite le nouveau gouvernement libéral pour sa remarquable réalisation d’hier soir. Comme tous nos partenaires du secteur culturel, nous sommes impatients de travailler avec le gouvernement pour assurer dans les meilleurs délais la mise en oeuvre de sa plateforme culturelle. La santé et le bien-être des artistes et du secteur culturel dans son ensemble en dépendent. la CCA va continuer de jouer un rôle modeste dans son appui du secteur et entamera des discussions quant à la résurgence...
read moreI VOTE ARTS & CULTURE in the news. . .
Thanks to our partners at Ontario Culture Days in Huntsville, Ontario for helping to get the word out. http://doppleronline.ca/huntsville/culture-days-gallery/ VOTE on October 19th.
read moreShrinking Data due to Funding Cuts
Due to funding cuts, libraries within the following government agencies have been cut or closed: Citizenship and Immigration, Agriculture, Environment, Industry, Transport Canada, National Defence, Public Works and Government Services, the National Capital Commission and the Public Service Commission. These cuts and closings have led to a loss of data. (Ontario Library Commission) For more on this, please click here....
read moreElection Bulletin: Timeline Poster
For the past nine years, the arts have undergone serious cuts– too many to fit on a small poster. We’ve highlighted just a few, as well as some advocacy facts and actions you can take on this PDF of a poster for informational printout/awareness for your arts organization. pour une version française, cliquez...
read moreELECTION BULLETIN: Liberal Party releases Arts and Culture platform
The Liberal Party has released a platform for the arts and culture industries. Included are increasing funding for the CBC, restoring touring funds ProMart and TradeRoutes, and doubling the funding for the Canada Council for the Arts. The entire press release can be found here.
read more2015 Budget Analysis
2015 Federal Budget: Culture and arts still a low priority for the government The Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Canadian Arts Coalition and the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance are pleased to release the analysis of the 2015 Federal Budget which examines federal funding for the arts and culture sector for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. The broad conclusion of this analysis is that while this pre-election budget does not contain any major changes to cultural funding by Ottawa, arts and culture do not figure amongst the political priorities...
read moreELECTION 2015: VOTE ARTS AND CULTURE
This election is crucial. For the past nine years, arts and culture have undergone unprecedented cuts to funding: challenges that have resulted in shuttered archives at government institutions, theatres losing their funding due to censorship, and enormous cuts to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). There have also been cuts to Telefilm, expropriations of copyright ownership through Bill C-11, and cuts to funds for touring and exporting Canadian arts to the world. It is time for change. To this end, we are committed to compiling...
read moreFederal Budget Analysis Provides Thorough Overview of Year 2014
Federal Budget, Culture and the Arts: Still Smarting from Budget 2012 Cuts but Better Times on the Horizon? The Canadian Conference of the Arts, Canadian Arts Coalition and Saskatchewan Arts Alliance are pleased to release the analysis of the 2014 Federal Budget (français) which examines federal funding for the arts and culture sector over the whole 2014 calendar year. The analysis explores funding to the Department of Canadian Heritage and other federal cultural agencies and crown corporations; organizational and funding trends...
read moreCCA : Call for interest
Last Friday, we put in place a caretaker Board of Governors. We will gladly receive and consider any serious offer to reactivate the activities of the CCA.
read moreThe Canadian Conference of the Arts to Close Doors after 67 Years
Press Release The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA), the largest national alliance of the arts, culture and heritage sector across Canada, announces that it will begin winding down its operations immediately. Founded in 1945 by a group of eminent artists, including painters Lawren S. Harris, of the Group of Seven, and André Biéler, the CCA has the unique mandate in the Canadian cultural sector of promoting the interests of Canadian artists and of the cultural sector at large at the federal level, and of providing a national forum...
read more