The Creative City Network of Canada commissioned a series of reports on Developing and Revitalizing Rural Communities through Arts and Creativity. The summary overview of these reports sets the context: “As rural communities re-envision and reposition themselves, they are seeking to revitalize, diversity their economic base, enhance their quality of life, and reinvent themselves for new functions and roles.”
The literature review in the Creative City Network of Canada series of reports on Developing and Revitalizing Rural Communities through Arts and Creativity examines the nature of cultural activity in rural communities, the community context for arts development, the role of the arts in economic development, and governance strategies.
Ce site, qui se veut un guide sur l’élaboration et la gestion du marketing international de biens et de services à l’intention des artistes et travailleurs culturels, propose des ressources, des conseils et des pièges à éviter pour atteindre des acheteurs et des publics internationaux.
Statistics Canada provides raw data annually on trade in culture goods and services. Hill Strategies Research has analyzed the most recent culture goods trade tables for this issue of the Arts Research Monitor.
Statistics Canada provides raw data annually on trade in culture goods and services. The most recent culture services trade tables, providing data from 2006, have been analyzed by Hill Strategies Research for this issue of the Arts Research Monitor.
Intended as a guide for artists and cultural workers in developing and managing international marketing of cultural goods and services, this site gathers resources, tips and pitfalls in reaching international buyers and audiences.
This report includes an estimate of the overall revenues and net value-added of the cultural sector, largely based on Statistics Canada’s discipline-based reports and the Conference Board’s macroeconomic models of the Canadian economy. The report indicates that “the cultural sector of Canada’s economy will be hit harder by the global recession than the overall Canadian economy”.
Statistics Canada’s Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institutions and Volunteering provides information on the economic size and scope of the non-profit sector in 2005. The non-profit sector “exceeded the value added of the entire retail trade industry, and came close to the value added of the mining, oil and gas extraction industry”.
The International Forum on the Creative Economy, a two-day forum in Gatineau, Quebec in March 2008, provides “evidence on the current and future economic forces and trends impacting the innovation, creative, and knowledge-based economies”.
For Ontario to become a “world leader in the creative age”, this report argues that building prosperity for all Ontarians will require “drawing more broadly on the creative skills of our people and workforce, developing stronger clustered industries, and harnessing the creative potential of current and future generations”.
