Canada Council Wants to Foster Demand for Culture
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"We get very positive feedback from the minister," says the council director, Robert Sirman, a Conservative appointee with oodles of experience as a cultural arts administrator for the Ontario government.
In a wide-ranging interview, Sirman noted the mandate of the council is essentially to create both supply and demand for cultural products. The official wording of the founding legislation is "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."Parcelling out these funds has been a major pre-occupation -- "a burden," Sirman says only slightly ironically -- since he arrived at the council less than a year ago from his post as the administrative director of the National Ballet School of Canada.See the full content of this document
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Canada Council Wants to Foster Demand for Culture
By Paul Gessell
OTTAWA -- The Canada Council for the Arts officially becomes 50 on Wednesday, turning the organization into what the French might term, euphemistically but still cruelly, un certain age.The federal council,...See the full content of this document
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