NB: Le français suit l'anglais
Dear colleagues:
The Canada Council for the Arts is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Anniversaries are occasions for celebrating the achievements of the past, but they also provide an opportunity for looking to the future.
The Canada Council is in the process of developing a strategic plan for 2008-2011, to guide the Council’s programs and priorities over the three-year period. We are inviting you to participate in this process, by giving us your thoughts on where the Council should be going in the short- and long-term.
As of May 14, a discussion paper will be posted on the Canada Council’s web site at
canadacouncil.ca/en/consultation. We would appreciate your reading the discussion paper and sending us your ideas and suggestions by June 15. Your opinion – and especially your responses to the questions in this paper – will inform and enrich the strategic plan and provide ideas and inspiration for the long-term development of the Council.
The Council will also be meeting with national arts service organizations on June 18 to discuss together the strategic plan. If you are a member of a national arts service association, you can also provide input through your membership.
The Council’s strategic plan will be developed over the summer and early fall, and will be reviewed by the board of the Canada Council during its 50th anniversary meeting in Montreal in October 2007. Once approved by the board, it will be released to the public and posted on the Council’s web site.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Robert Sirman
Director
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Chers collègues,
Cette année, le Conseil des Arts du Canada célèbre son 50e anniversaire et, comme tous les anniversaires, celui-ci représente un moment privilégié pour célébrer nos réalisations, ainsi qu’une excellente occasion de contempler notre avenir.
Le Conseil des Arts a entrepris de développer un plan stratégique visant la période de 2008 à 2011 : le plan guidera les programmes et les priorités du Conseil pendant ces trois années. Par la présente, nous vous invitons à participer à ce processus, en nous communiquant vos idées sur les orientations que le Conseil devrait suivre à court et à long terme.
À compter du 14 mai, un document de discussion sera affiché sur le site web du Conseil, à l’adresse www.conseildesarts.ca. Nous vous saurions gré de lire le document de discussion et de nous communiquer vos idées et vos suggestions au plus tard le 15 juin. Votre opinion – notamment vos réponses aux différentes questions posées dans le document – contribueront à la conception d’un meilleur plan stratégique et serviront d’inspiration pour l’évolution à plus long terme du Conseil.
Le 18 juin, le Conseil rencontrera ensemble les organismes nationaux de services aux arts et discutera avec eux du plan stratégique. Si vous êtes membre d’une association nationale de services aux arts, vous pourrez aussi participer au processus comme membre de ces organismes.
Le plan stratégique du Conseil des Arts sera élaboré pendant l’été et au début de l’automne; le document sera révisé par le conseil d’administration de l’organisme à sa réunion prévue à Montréal en octobre 2007, pour célébrer son 50e anniversaire. Une fois approuvé par le conseil d’administration, le document sera publié et affiché sur le site web du Conseil des Arts du Canada.
Nous anticipons avec plaisir de connaître vos points de vue. D’ici là, acceptez, chers collègues, mes sincères salutations.
Le directeur,
Robert Sirman
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Tonight's lineup:
shirt: grey-green short sleeve
This past week, when I went by the NB Filmmakers' Co-op on bike I went behind the building, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre to lock my bike to the fire escape. Found this "Broken Jaw Ethics" graffiti on the wall. I didn't do it. Haven't heard about it from anyone else. Wonder how long it's been there . . . ?
did neil armstrong discover the moon?
from treeless windswept sheep-dotted
Seriously blonde hair and tan, and a hand-painted shirt I made at a youth hostel in Belgium in August before I crossed the Channel and went north to Scotland, this is me, September 1983, back in Dartmouth, after four months travelling around Western Europe, England, Wales & Scotland. Photo was taken by my mother against the house wall. 
I had heard about the Guerrilla Girls at NSCAD, before going to NYC. This poster and other activist actions of theirs were truly incredible, and totaly necessary. This group of women artists came together in 1985 to draw attention to issues and inequalities in the art world. With the assumed names of dead women artists, they wore gorilla masks in public, potested, and performed interventions.
Back in the Days before computers took over visual communication design I was a sometimes cheeky one at NSCAD. Was in VisCom 1 in the spring of 1985 when I filked "The Lord's Prayer". In the weird contradictions of the times used Letraset on a sheet of handcrafted paper by K. Reith Blake to make this poster/piece.
The Havana recital is within the context of the XII Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana, May 28-June 2, 2007, supported by Proyecto Cultural Sur, and Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, la Comisión Nacional Cubana de la UNESCO, la Sociedad de Beneficencia de Andalucía y el Centro Cultural Dulce María Loynaz.
I'm suspecting that some of the scenes for Sticks and Stones will be shot there today.
The new and temporary downtown "Brockton, MA" on the corner of York and King streets.
Another straight up serving of Can Lit:
BookExpo's VIDEO SHOOT OUT wants to offer one lucky indie artist the chance to win a complete BookShorts video production package complete with post-production.
Step 1.
It would be even better if more people make the suggestion to them. Then they'll reall get the message and would be more inclined to make it so.
Eric Hill, of recently formed BlackTop Motorcycle Gang, reading yesterday as part of Surge!THREE (part 1) @ Ingrid Muller, Art + Concepts, @ 117 York St, Fredericton, NB. Artist Deanna Musgrave, giant Chris Giles, and BiffMitchell.com (and other not shown audience members) watch & listen.
Sign from Surge!THREE (part 2) in the auditorium @ Charlotte Street Arts Centre
[maybe, at that time, this band didn't yet exist. their brokenjoe.com website doesn't state when they were formed. they have a CD out, Long Walk to Nowhere, released 1 aug 2006, consisting of "17 tracks of acoustic roots, including blues, folk, country and bluegrass, most of them Brokenjoe originals."]
saint john river was exceptionally calm . . . making for great reflections. this is the scene from cathedral to legislature building
A disconnected reflect of pine and other trees in a nashwacksis flooded field.
on the ground under the hardwood, the fiddleheads, trout lily and red trillium are bold colour against the faded grey and browns of last year's foliage and ground cover. ontario has claimed the white trillium, and that's great for them, but i prefer the red almost burgandy trillium for its colour burst.
got no car. no truck. wtf. i want kitchen and apartman painted. don't give an f about the p. lot (that's almost a 4-letter word, as W.O. Mitchel was wont to say)
