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Federal Budget Analysis 2021

Featured on this page are the Culture Chapter from the Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Alternative Federal Budget as well as accompanying infographics.

Additionally, you can find video and image responses from the arts sector prompted by discussion points related to the Alternative Federal Budget. These include conversations touching on building back better in the context of individuals in the arts and culture sector, creating value for cultural spaces, expanding community infrastructure to include cultural infrastructure, making activities more accessible to varying communities and understanding how artists can be better supported.

Thank you to those who contributed their time: Ben Dick, Naomi Stokes, Neeha Dsouza, Louis-Etienne Dubois, Amy Gottung, Emmanuel Bochud, charles c. smith and Jason Samilski.

Arts Chapter

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Responses from the sector

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In relation to the current federal budget and what you feel is possible, how can artists be better supported?

Regarding [...] intergovernmental cooperation, I would add cross-sectoral collaboration. The innovation and creativity within the arts sector are very under-leveraged assets. This is at a time when we face historic concurrent crises. The federal government should, for example, acknowledge that reducing carbon emissions requires large-scale cultural and paradigm shifts, and invest in cross-sectoral collaborations between the artists, Indigenous communities, climate researchers, social and behavioural scientists, industry, and organizations.

Jason Samilski, Managing Director, CARFAC Ontario

CPAMO has been championing work across Canada to engage artists and arts organizations to embed equity, anti-racism, anti-oppression in all of their efforts as a pathway to pluralism. [...] we have created toolkits, conducted research, coordinated national, provincial and local forums, seminars, skill-building workshops on such matters as: conflict resolution and stopping workplace harassment, diversifying staff/board and volunteers, community engagement, and developing policies/procedures and actions plans on these issues. [...] we continue to work with the constant concern about precarity for IBPOC, Deaf, disabled and other marginlized artists and arts organizations since it is only recently that funders have turned their attention to us. This leaves us with a question about surivival and having to wait for equity initiatives of funding bodies to support substantive change - not later but now!

charles c. smith, Executive Director, Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario

Co-Authors

Ben Dick
Ben Dick has been involved with municipal cultural planning, mapping, and research since 2009 – first with the City of Peterborough and now with the City of Ottawa. Some of his past projects include: coordinating the development of a municipal cultural plan for the City of Peterborough; determining the net impact on municipal revenue of Peterborough’s Heritage Property Tax Relief Program; leading a cultural mapping project in Ottawa; analyzing the distribution of federal funding for culture; and an analysis of the incomes and diversity of the culture workforce in Canada’s major cities. Ben also founded and manages the Ottawa Culture Research Group and is a Mass Culture Research Partner. Ben has a BA in economics and cultural management from the University of Waterloo, and an MA in political economy from Carleton University.
Naomi Stokes
Naomi Stokes is an international student from the Arts Administration and Culture Management program at Humber College, who was born and brought up in Mumbai, India where she went on to get her Bachelors in Arts degree in Psychology and Anthropology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She has worked as a project coordinator and administrator for Mass Culture. She is also currently part of the Festival Producers and Administers program with Paprika Theatre Festival. Along with her cohort-mates, Naomi was part of a research project in collaboration with Mass Culture that seeked to have conversations with IBPOC leaders that lead IBPOC Art Service Organisations, and bring forward their stories about their impact and contributions to the arts called Woven Histories – IBPOC edition.

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