Arts and Culture Web Links

Websites relating to BC community arts and culture. Also visit Networked Arts, our list of social networking sites relating to arts and culture in BC.

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1	Creative City Network of Canada A website with an amazing collection of resources.
2	Making the Case for Culture: Personal and Social Development of Children and Youth (PDF) The ability to engage and motive children and youth from all socioeconomic levels in education and community is a respected strength of arts and culture. -- Creative City Ntework of Canada
3	Making the Case for Culture: Culture as an Economic Engine (PDF) Municipalities that adopt culture as an industry have gained positive economic benefits for their communities. Cultural industries create job growth, turn ordinary cities into “destination cities,” create interconnections between arts and business, revitalize urban areas, attract skilled workers, and create spin-off businesses.-- Creative City Network of Canada
4	Making the Case for Culture: Urban Renewal and Revitalization (PDF) Culture-based initiatives have been essential to urban revitalization and urban renewal programs in Canada. The arts ensure a community's habitat reflects who residents are and how they live. Creative City Network of Canada
5	Making the Case for Culture: Building Community Identity and Pride (PDF) The arts have been instrumental in facilitating social cohesion, bringing tourism to unlikely places, fostering a sense of belonging, and preserving collective memory.-- Creative City Network of Canada
6	Making the Case for Culture: Positive Change in Communities (PDF) The arts and culture are powerful tools with which to engage communities in various levels of change. They are a means to public dialogue, contribute to the development of a community’s creative learning, create healthy communities capable of action, provide a powerful tool for community mobilization and activism, and help build community capacity and leadership.-- Creative City Network of Canada
7	Making the Case for Culture: Quality of Life, Quality of Place (PDF) Culture, long overlooked as tools for garnering quality of life, is now being recognized as a means to community building, encouraging outdoor activity, healthy lifestyles, life-long learning, increasing accessibility to programmes for all levels of society, and celebrating diversity and cultural differences. -- Creative City Network of Canada
8	Cultural Renewal: How Arts Can Save Us Now, a talk by Arlene Goldbard, Oct. 2009 (PDF) This is the text of talk delivered on 18 October 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, under the auspices of the International Centre of Art for Social Change: www.icasc.ca. It proposes a new way of developing support for the arts in our culture at a basic level.
9	The Artists' Journal BRITISH COLUMBIA'S MOST COMPLETE LISTING OF ART EVENTS! Since the first issue in May 1997, The Artist's Journal has become a major information source for B.C. artists who paint or draw. The newsletter's goal is to help artists increase their exposure and income. The publication is for novice to advanced artists of all ages. Four issues a year list calls for entry, competitions and shows and sales throughout the province. Regular features include art tips and trivia, a quiz, famous quotations, cartoons, a classified advertising section, and advertising of art services and supplies. PLEASE NOTE: This newsletter will only be of interest to artists living in British Columbia, Canada!
10	Arts Advocacy BC "Though Arts Advocacy British Columbia was formed in response to government cuts to arts funding, we are not a protest group; our purpose is to look to the future. We are a grassroots organization, a groundswell of individual support for the arts. We are audiences, patrons, teachers, parents, musicians, poets, sculptors, painters, potters, actors, dancers, writers, readers, publishers, presenters, graphic designers …"

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