We hear the speeches, grasp the premise, and accept the analysis, whether Carney in Davos, Hodgson in Ottawa, or others from elsewhere: The world is different. Canada’s place in that world is different. And so...

I lay on the floor of my office, heaped with regret, while the clanging of another jagged cashflow rang in my ears. It wasn’t that I was suddenly encountering my cultural nonprofit’s precarity for the...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society As Canadian as… We started this essay series on Arts & Social Finance with the claim that the standard ways of making sense of our lives...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society Myths of Revenue Diversification and the Exhausted Newfoundlander My previous essay on grant dependence wonders whether the challenge facing cultural nonprofits is not a lack of...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society Does Grant Dependent Mean Precarious? In my previous essay on Arts & Social Finance, I suggested grant dependence is the problem we want to fix. That’s...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society Culture’s Big Reason Why Secretly, I wish these articles could start with little musical memes, just to make writing about cultural policy cool, like skateboarding. Today,...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society Ana Serrano is the president and vice-chancellor of OCAD University. I first encountered her back in 2017, when the Canada Council gathered arts leaders from across...

Simon Mallett enjoys an eclectic career in Canada’s arts world. Anyone who has enjoyed late nights with him around a table knows of his jaw-dropping skills as a magician, although he is more commonly known...