INNOVATION & RESILIENCE
IN CANADA’S CULTURAL SECTOR

Kelly Hill recently conducted a number of presentations in smaller cities, including St. John’s, St. Catharines and Barrie. These presentations provide some insights into the situation of arts and culture in smaller and regional centres.In St. John’s… View this resource

This briefing paper, written for generalist planners, highlights how “arts and culture strategies help to reveal and enhance the underlying identity – the unique meaning, value, and character” – of a community. The paper outlines four way… View this resource

This discussion paper provides British examples of how the arts and culture sector can help stimulate and sustain economic growth, build a sense of shared identity, promote community cohesion, and help address challenges regarding infrastructure and… View this resource

This report, prepared for the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance by Hill Strategies Research, relies on Statistics Canada data to examine provincial government spending on culture in 2008-09. The provincial data includes operating spending, capital spending… View this resource

This examination of federal cultural spending between 2008/09 and 2010/11, provided as a Bulletin from the Canadian Conference of the Arts (a national forum for Canada’s arts and cultural community), is based on “funding figures from the Department o… View this resource