CANADA’S FIRST NATIONAL COLLECTIVE OF INDEPENDENT ARTS MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL PLANNING PRACTITIONERS.

Culturescape is Canada’s first national collective of independent cultural strategists, planners, arts management advisors, policy writers, big thinkers, knowledge-sharers, advocates, and generous leaders. The collective is a bilingual offering to colleagues to elevate our sector by shaping and better-supporting arts and culture management, policy, and planning in Canada and beyond.

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

• 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!)

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