My Ramblings
Careers in the Arts
It seems ironic to me – and reason for concern – that parents who have nurtured the creative and expressive nature of a child would still be frightened when the child says: I want to be a…. (dancer, an actor, a painter, a musician, etc fill in the blank with some...
The Long Hallway
It is important to make space where creativity can emerge, and where individuals can get help or share ideas not when and where the preset agenda dictates, but in the moment when the need or thought occurs. "The long hallway" refers to a comment made by a participant...
Getting Your Voice Heard
It seems to me that most everyone who has suffered the consequences of funding cutbacks and layoffs and challenges to their existence is now clamoring to be heard by government or other ‘power brokers’. Most of what I hear is a plea for acknowledgement of the...
Cairo to the DTES
I attended an event this afternoon at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue, hosted by SFU and the Aga Khan Foundation. Discussion about regeneration as opposed to gentrification in city neighbourhoods, after viewing a film about the various projects of the Aga Khan Trust for...
On employment and unemployment..
I worry about the latest growth industry in our community: the Employment Industry. Think about it. Here we have a changing world of work, where lifetime employment is a thing of the past, where the ‘hard’ skills we train for can be made redundant by technology,...
School-to-Work Transition for Artists
Summary of Notes for Presentation Montreal Dec 8 2001 Q: What kind of ‘transition from school to work’ initiatives would be the most efficient to implement in a context where 50 percent of the 809,000 cultural workers are fully or partially self-employed? How can we...