Canada’s first national collective of independent arts management and cultural planning practitioners.
Projects. Practice Support. Peers.
Welcome!
Bienvenue!
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Culturescape is an invitation…
…to be part of a collective of independent cultural strategists, planners, arts management advisors, policy writers, big thinkers, knowledge-sharers, advocates, and generous leaders.
Our sector has been siloed for too long, and too many voices aren’t being heard. It is time…
… to Advance nationally, together.
About Us
Culturescape is a bilingual offering to colleagues to elevate our sector by shaping and better-supporting arts and culture management, policy and planning in Canada.
To share knowledge, opinions, trends, observations, data professional development and skills training.
To professionalize, organize and recognize the role of arts management and cultural planning as a distinct practice.
To advance arts and culture leadership.
To highlight many voices and many ways of knowing.
Learn and share knowledge collectively, rather than by artistic form or by gatekeepers.
Highlight leaders both urban and rural, and the Canadian context of our work.
Shed fear-based approaches to our work, based on last-century practices.
Center the cultural sector in national and local political, economic, social, environmental and technology discourse.
Our Purpose
As a collective of arts and culture strategists and planners, we aim to:
Advance sector development through knowledge-sharing in arts and cultural management and policy within a Canadian context.
Offer co-promotion to team members and collaboration opportunities on client projects.
Curate sector development information from aggregated sources:
News, articles, videos, opinions, trends, data, and resources.
Training and professional development opportunities
Reduce the silos and represent all art forms,
Provide a platform for new and under-represented voices.
Support the next generation of arts and culture leaders.
Present an annual national conference for arts and cultural workers (eventually!)
Offer a knowledge-management and critical analysis for a Canadian Context.
Our Values
Curiosity and lifelong learning
Making space for under-served voices and offering safer spaces for sharing
Working with an intersectional and decolonizing lens
Being present and future-oriented while acknowledging historical contexts
Language--- protecting it, preserving it, sharing it and meaning.
Pride in our sector and our work.
Our Offering
Do you wish you had a group of colleagues you could call upon to help with your projects? Or maybe collaborate with on a large or small scale? Maybe it is just a quick call to act as a sounding board? Or someone to cover your practice if you’re unavailable due to illness or because you’re taking a break (imagine that!). These are just a few of the practice supports offered by being a team member.
Placing value on life-long learning as arts professionals
Collaborating on projects
Comarketing and promotion of individual members’ practices
Fostering national connections and community with a focus on knowledge assets
Building peer-based trust amongst professionals
Removing discipline-based silos
Broadening an understanding of arts management
Generating and sharing relevant content to advance sector development
Offering space for dynamic learning and sharing
Influencing industry practice and different ways of knowing
Stopping the status quo and giving recognition to ideas
Why Join Culturescape?
Too often, independent arts workers are held back from pursuing larger project opportunities because they lack the practice infrastructure. These limitations can include insurance costs, business licensing fees, contracting experience, project management support, or uncertainty around expanding their services.
Joining Culturescape can support your own practice development while also being part of a collective and the opportunity to be part of a project team.
About You
1. You are an independent arts and culture practitioner in one of the following:
arts management including: strategy, leadership/management, organization assessment and development, governance, HR, operations and productions, financial; systems and resources; facilities; marketing/communications and engagement; development; programming, evaluation and measurement.
public art and creative place-making; policy writing, cultural planning (including heritage planning); engagement, and/or equity advisor.
2. You have your own practice name and some client project experience.
3. You have experience working with government clients (municipal to federal) and/or working at a community level.
4. You are trained in anti-oppression and maintain an active daily practice in decolonization and JEDI work.