The Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA) is the voice of the professional dance sector in Canada and advocates for a healthy, sustainable environment in which professional dance practice can grow and...
Urban Worker Project is an initiative to give a stronger voice to the growing numbers of independent workers across the country. Learn about their campaigns and resources, including their
Via Non Profit: Always Fresh, Kids are the future? So are older adults! is an article advocating for an end to ageist practices across our sectors.
Each election year, Arts Vote BC via the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture provide a range of resources for voters and candidates to keep arts...
The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is British Columbia’s leading arts information aggregator and a resource to the arts, culture and heritage community. They offer many services to the...
Fractured Atlas is an American organization that supports cultural sector workers and operations. Mostly this includes individual artists and arts organizations. Check...
Making Your Life As An Artist is a guide to building a balanced, sustainable artistic life. DON’T STARVE. MAKE ART.
Speak With Your Feet
Attending an Annual General Meeting is a major service for dance companies. Your attendance is recorded and reported to funders that financially support these companies. Often companies like...
Speak With Your Feet
Dance does not exist in a vacuum. It is affected by, and related to, many things. Like all cultural forms, dance is part of a rich web of...
Advocacy Alert from the Canadian Dance Assembly:
With the 2015 federal election on the minds of every MP, this International Dance Day remind your MP that your vote is directly-related...
Save the date!
The 2014 CADA/West Annual Conference will take place May 10, 1–5pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Stay tuned for more details, but this year’s theme is Communication.
Many ideas and actions...
PROGRAMS…RESOURCES…PROGRAMS…RESOURCES!
Our newsletter & website POSTS give insights into managing a professional career in dance, as well as updates on CADA/West programs and services:
ADVOCACY…ADVOCACY…ADVOCACY…ADVOCACY…YOU!
Our monthly ADVOCACY CHALLENGES, Speak with your Feet, promote activities pertinent to keeping dance vital all year through:
Speak With Your Feet
Speak to someone, everyday, about your art. Talk about dance with those you love, as well as to complete strangers.
How often are you confronted with questions about...
Next month BC heads into provincial elections. We encourage you to take a few minutes to handwrite a thank you card to our politicians. Let them know how government funding means jobs, creative...
Our monthly ADVOCACY CHALLENGES, Speak with your Feet, promote activities pertinent to keeping...
Are you an advocate for professional standards in dance? Great at fundraising? Passionate about training? Looking to develop new skills? Plenty of organizations rely on the contribution of committee members and joining is a...
What better way to learn more about the creative process, or get in on what inspires your favourite artist, than directly from the source? Artist talks, salons, and audience Q & A’s after performances...
Volunteering at dance shows supports your dance community, your citizenship in it and helps expose you to live performing arts in your city.
Social media is a great place to...
What helps get you through a long day of dancing?
Is there a website, accountant, printer, physio that you could not function without?
Where did you get those wicked kneepads?
Any good workshops...
These helpful hints and links from Arts Alive are created specifically for aspiring dance artists.
At the 2012 on the MOVE, conference for emerging dance artists, hosted by the DTRC in Vancouver BC on February 10, I had the pleasure of...
From the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, this document is a great community tool kit to help organizations and individuals advocate for the arts.
Anyone who cares about arts...
Talk about dance with those you love, as well as to complete strangers.
How often are you confronted with questions about what you do as a dancer?
...
The Canadian Arts Coaltion is a collaborative non-partisan movement of national arts service and membership organizations, united in the belief that the future of our citizens, their towns and cities,...
On January 14, 2012 CADA/BC hosted an Unconference for its Members and...
From Hill Strategies, the Arts Research Monitor provides synopses of qualitative and quantitative research findings in arts and culture. The site is useful to artists, arts managers, funders, policy makers,...
This letter is in response to MLA Ron Cantelon’s remarks to the Times-Colonist, Saturday Aug 21:
Dear Ron,
I have just read your comments about arts cuts in the Victoria Times Colonist.
Having these grants administered by independent peer review and based on population is a positive step. The government did listen and did hear the importance of these two issues.
Regrettable that this new program is...