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...

Everywhere you look these days, people are bringing renewed intensity to the different ways we have for looking in the mirror, asking themselves “who are we?” without the usual assumptions at play.

The precarity of Canada’s cultural nonprofit sector, post-pandemic, is now widely understood, and the challenge of building it back into roaring form is being explored coast to coast by organizational leaders, policymakers, and arts funders...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society I had the pleasure of speaking with Upkar Arora recently. In addition to being the CEO of Rally Assets, and one of the wholesalers of Canada’s...

To say the world is at a crossroads is to name the current lump in our collective throat. As former IPCC researcher John Robinson said, “there is no future that is not transformative.” Given deepening...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society Much of Metcalf’s recent work with Canada’s cultural sector is driven by complementary convictions: First, that the challenges we are facing require deeper experimentation than we...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society A profession we might think about with a little more compassion these days is policymaking. Shaping policy to address the unpredictability, polarization, and decline our country...

By David Maggs, Metcalf Fellow on Arts and Society A lot of what we’ve been doing at the Metcalf Foundation over the past few years is looking out into Canada’s cultural sector and beyond, trying...