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All Access Town Hall: Rebuilding Upon More Sustainable and Equitable Foundations – The Environment
Throughout the COVID crisis, many suggested that this is an opportunity for the arts sector to embrace new practices and policies. Could this be a chance to rethink and learn how to be more responsible when it comes to protecting our planet?
A Stronger and More Resilient Canada: Together with the Performing Arts!
The Speech from the Throne, which was given on September 23, 2020, had this to say: "This fall, in addition to extending the wage subsidy, the Government will take further steps to bridge vulnerable businesses to the other side of the pandemic by ... introducing further support for industries that h...Read More
Is age a significant factor in patrons’ intention to return to the performing arts?
Many audience survey reports were released over the last two months. CAPACOA read them and looked for conflicting and converging findings regarding age, comfort levels and reassuring measures. So? Does age matter?
Rebuilding Upon More Sustainable and Equitable Foundations
How can the live performance sector recover from the COVID crisis and at the same time foster innovation, resilience, sustainability and equity? It seems like a pretty big order for a sector that was decimated by months of restrictions on live events.
Participate in #LightUpLive!
We’re calling all live arts organizations to join us, along with the Live Event Community in raising awareness for our industry which continues to remain dark. We are asking live performance venue managers across the country to light up their buildings and marquees in red on Tuesday, September 22, 2...Read More
All Access Town Hall: The Gradual Reopening of Performances
UPDATE: the Town Hall has been postponed to September 15 at 3PM ET)
Employment in arts and culture industries, August 2020
While the Canadian economy is slowly recovering, another 6,600 live performance workers lost their job in August.
Agents and Managers Community Meetings
Since March, CAPACOA has provided a channel through which our business members may assemble. These meetings, moderated by Eoin Ó Catháin (chair of the NAPAMA Canada Executive), have been an invaluable resource for the community of agents and managers in Canada to connect and share with their peers. ...Read More
All Access Town Hall: Global Toronto Successes
Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Time: 14:00 (ET) As an increasing number of artist showcases, pitches, and conferences began to shift from in person to digital platforms, we can glean from past successes to look at our future practices – CAPACOA hosted a town hall on this very subject. On Tuesd...Read More
Employment in arts and culture industries, July 2020
Nearly all arts, culture and heritage industries showed signs of recovery in July 2020. Employment in performing arts industries is still 23% below pre-COVID levels, but hours worked continued to rebound.