Manitoba Arts Network. Focusing on arts activity in rural and northern Manitoba communities.
CULTURE DAYS 2010
September 24 - 26, 2010
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Information from the Manitoba Task Force
for Rural and Northern Communities in Manitoba
* NEW GLOBE & MAIL ARTICLE speaking to the important role that Culture Days will play in 'Cultural Participation'
* UPDATED INFO PDF - CULTURE DAYS - English (574K) As of January 27, 2010
* UPDATED INFO PDF - CULTURE DAYS - French (623K)As of January 27, 2010
News Bite from the recent ACI MB Colloquium which was held at Fort Gibraltar on March 15th, with Simon Brault as its keynote speaker. Simon Brault was a co-founder of the Quebec 'Jours de la Culture'. It was great to hear Mr. Brault's message on the core importance of Culture, but it also good to see it within the context of the new pan-Canadian 'Culture Days'. He emphasized that Jours de la Culture (as is Culture Days) is a 'MOVEMENT' and advocacy for arts & culture.
*link to Morley Walker's WFP article on Simon Brault and the Colloquium:
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Link to Manitoba Arts Network Member planning and Activity for Culture Days web page on this site.
The Journées de la culture, representing the combined efforts of players from professional arts and culture circles have been held in Quebec for over ten years. This event which invariably kicks off on the last Friday of September, brings hundreds of institutions, organizations, artists and crafts people into contact with people from an equally large number of Quebec municipalities. The intent was to put forward the idea that it was in the best interests of artists and cultural workers to plan and launch a voluntary movement to promote a better understanding of culture and the arts among fellow citizens. The project has allowed artists and citizens to affirm the importance of culture in our society.
Last year a National Task force which consists of representation from across Canada, was struck to explore the possibilities of extending Culture day into a celebration of arts and artists across Canada. The project aims to raise awareness among citizens from each province about the importance of arts and culture in their community's social and economic development. It is driven by voluntary involvement of citizens, professional and amateur artistic organizations who have been invited to develop and produce accessible, free activities. It will support and promote the artistic and cultural life that is lived, created and expressed in small and big towns alike. It will take the shape of artistic demonstrations, hands-on workshops or guided tours focusing on the creative process and the inner workings of the arts and cultural world and include those events already in place.
The National Task force has overseen the development of a business and implementation plan, a governance model, terms of reference for the provincial task forces as well as draft a web strategy. David Moss is the Project Manager based in Montreal. He made a Culture Day presentation at the recent Manitoba Arts Council workshop.
Initiated and supported by Canada's largest cultural organizations through the Canadian Arts Summit and endorsed and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta, Ontario, BC and NWT Governments, the Ontario Arts Council and now Manitoba Arts Council, Culture Days is gaining momentum with enthusiastic interest amongst leaders and provinces across the country.
The Manitoba Task Force has been established with positive results.
CULTURE DAYS / NUIT BLANCHE
The Manitoba Task Force
Jean Giguère (Chair)
Francine Morin (Chair, Assembly for Arts Education)
Cherry Karpyshin (GM, Prairie Theatre Exchange)
André Prevost (Manitoba Arts Network)
Kevin Walters (Manitoba Homecoming 2010)
Thomas Sparling (Arts and Culture Industries Manitoba)
Pat Sanders (Manitoba Arts Council)
Gerry Couture (Chair, Manitoba Theatre Centre)
Jeff Herd (COO, Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
Javier Schwersensky (Manitoba Museum)
Crystal Kolt (Flin Flon Arts Council)
Dorothy Dobbie (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra)
Judy Murphy (Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce)
Tina Keeper (Actor, Writer)
Carol Phillips (WAC)
Sylviane Lanthier (CCFM)
Trudy Schroeder (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra)
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Call for Submissions
Culture Days is creating a video montage of photos and video clips to showcase the vast range of artists, arts and culture in communities across Canada. Want to be part of the public announcement of Culture Days? Submit your photos and videos today! Deadline: March 12, 2010.*
We’re looking for all varieties of arts and culture, from crafts and visual arts, to dance and theatre, to design and architecture, to literature and music, and much much more.... Amateur and community groups are highly-encouraged to be a part of Culture Days. If you’re asking yourself “...I wonder if they want my photos/videos?” – the answer is yes! Images that show interaction with the public are particularly welcome.
Don’t have HD-quality videos? Submit your work anyway; we’ll try to work with it. Just send us the largest files, best resolution you’ve got, the sooner the better.
*By submitting your photo(s) and/or video footage, you are authorizing us to use your materials without renumeration to promote and communicate the Culture Days initiative via print, web, TV or any other media. Please include credit information if possible.
By mail (sorry, we are unable to offer return of your materials):
Keith Baguley, Endeavour Marketing
RE: Culture Days video montage
22 St. Clair Avenue East, 14th Floor
Toronto, ON M4T 2S3
By FTP:
host: ftp.endeavourmarketing.com
u: CultureDaysVideo
p: CDV_EMftp
By email:
info@culturedays.ca
subject line: video montage
Culture Days is a collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. To learn more, please visit our website: www.culturedays.ca
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Manitoba call for participation - coming soon!
Under the leadership of Provincial Task Force Chair Jean Giguère and Manitoba Task Force members, Culture Days Manitoba continues to surge forward with exciting updates. A few highlights:
Culture Days Manitoba will take place September 24 – 26, 2010. A project manager is in place to support the many groups that have joined the provincial movement. Already activities are being announced in the Flin Flon-Creighton (MB-SK) area, including: theatre and visual arts showcases, music concerts, Busking Bonanza, Museum Musts, Panning for Gold, seniors' and youth activities, Metal Madness, Pottery Classes, Aboriginal Art and Customs, Amazing Race-Heritage, Hip Hop Dancing, and Multicultural Flavours. To mark Culture Days, Winnipeg Canadian Cultural Capital (WCCC) 2010 will launch "City Stories," a mobile story exchange centre that travels across the city, encouraging citizens to interact with performance artists in the creative process of storytelling. The first edition of Nuit Blanche Winnipeg will also be launched on the Saturday of Culture Days 2010.
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As an inclusive initiative driven by solidarity and collaboration, Culture Days relies on the participation of you and your colleagues. Check out the national Culture Days website which has online tools to facilitate cross-collaboration, promote new connections, and you can share your thoughts and stories about how you are reaching out to engage the public in the arts and cultural life of your community.
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