<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><img height="156" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="522673BA-57C5-41FC-B620-0179DB06A1C5" src="cid:B75A1B33-A88E-4CA2-9CED-0598F25A7CFD" class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><img height="287" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="F84DA0BD-6E77-44CA-A2B6-E0708D631557" src="cid:5AA15317-B509-4099-BEA3-7BFC8CDA5CE5" class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130);" class="">Monica Gattinger’s History of the Canada Council Would Suggest Way Forward Is… Complicated </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Ottawa policy expert and author hosts provocative panel at Unrestricted about what government funding should look like in the 21st century.</font></div></div><span style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class=""><font size="4" class="">BC Alliance for Arts + Culture and Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance present</font></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130);" class="">UNRESTRICTED</span></font></strong></div><div class=""><strong class=""><font size="3" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class="">June 13 and 14, at BMO Theatre Centre (162 W. 1st Ave., Vancouver)<br class="">Ticket prices vary and are <a href="https://www.allianceforarts.com/unrestricted/?utm_source=Media&utm_campaign=b8d7a52f9a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dd9f3da8a4-b8d7a52f9a-&mc_cid=b8d7a52f9a&mc_eid=[UNIQID]" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(244, 121, 32); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class="">available here</a> (</font></strong><font size="3" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><a href="http://allianceforarts.com/unrestricted" style="color: rgb(244, 121, 32); text-decoration: none;" class="">allianceforarts.com/unrestricted</a>) <br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px;" class=""><img height="427" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="C005B4A3-9E75-4AEA-9784-AF5D9DABBCB4" src="cid:D1F40D5D-9843-4E23-870C-EE6F45B0A932" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font color="#4d4b4b" size="3" class="">This year, the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture has teamed up with the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance to produce its annual conference, this year titled Unrestricted. It’s all about forging collaborations without restrictions. </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""> </div><span style="text-align: left;" class=""><font color="#4d4b4b" size="3" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">Unrestricted is also about pushing boundaries and fostering new practices around inclusion and equity, funding policy, reconciliation, audience engagement and creativity. Some of the discussions are bound to </font><strong class="">agitate </strong><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">those comfortable with tradition, but it’s time to innovate—and </font><strong class="">think in unrestricted ways</strong><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">. </font></div></font><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font color="#4d4b4b" size="3" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class="">Unrestricted features 40 of the brightest minds in the arts and culture sector, including Margo Kane, Marcus Youssef, Prem Gill, JB the First Lady, and Hanna Cho. Lisa Beare, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture will be there to welcome delegates. </div></font><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">Monica Gattinger, who is the director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa, leads the session called The Future of Arts Funding, which will see representatives from BC arts organizations, both established and emerging, and with significantly diverging concepts of funding priorities, explore together what government funding should look like in a new cultural era. </font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font color="#4d4b4b" size="3" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">Gattinger will draw upon </font><a href="http://www.mqup.ca/roots-of-culture--the-power-of-art--the-products-9780773551633.php?utm_source=Media&utm_campaign=b8d7a52f9a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dd9f3da8a4-b8d7a52f9a-&mc_cid=b8d7a52f9a&mc_eid=[UNIQID]" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(244, 121, 32); text-decoration: none;" class="">her new book</a><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">, </font><em class="">The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art: The First Sixty Years of the Canada Council for the Arts</em><font color="#4d4b4b" class="">, which traces key tensions the Canada Council has navigated throughout its history as it strives for relevance in an ever-changing world, to explore such questions as: Is the latest CCA funding model working? Should "artistic excellence" be a key criteria for eligibility when people of different cultures value engagement over virtuosity? What are promising new models of arts funding? How are large organizations being affected by changes at the CCA? </font></div></font><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font color="#4d4b4b" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font size="3" class="">In short, Gattinger’s session at Unrestricted will explore the past, present and future of arts funding and, consequently, the evolution of arts organizations. The discussion promises to be challenging and enlightening.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><span style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130); font-size: 18px;" class=""><strong class=""> More highlights of Unrestricted's jam packed schedule<br class=""><br class=""></strong></span><font color="#4d4b4b" size="4" class=""><img height="130" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="44E369AF-9EF8-42B5-B051-12307F97F7D1" src="cid:4E9F39AA-4B3A-4ECC-A5AB-99170D692C47" class=""></font><br class=""><br class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><span style="font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">COLLABORATION ACROSS SECTOR</strong></span></span><strong style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif;" class="">S</strong><span style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><span style="font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif;" class=""> Real-deal insights about cross-sectoral approaches for innovation. Moderated by </span></span><span style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Hanna Cho</strong> (NGX Interactive) with </span><span style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><span style="font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Marcus Youssef</strong> (Neworld Theatre), <strong class="">Sarah Pocklington</strong> (First Peoples' Cultural Council) and </span></span><strong style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif;" class="">Prem Gill</strong><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""> (Creative BC) (<em class="">as ordered in picture above</em>)</font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" class=""><strong class="">BOX OFFICE STRATEGIES: PWYC TO DYNAMIC</strong> Pay What You Can, tiered pricing, 2 for 1, dynamic, and more: What’s best? </font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class="">BUILDING A CULTURE OF MENTORSHIP</strong> What does meaningful mentorship look like for the mentor and mentee? </font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class="">NOT YOUR USUAL CONVERSATION ABOUT DIVERSITY</strong> Unrestricted discussion about realities of identity and oppression and ways forward.</font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class="">SPACE FOR ARTS & CULTURE: A CONVERSATION WITH SPRE </strong>Affordable space is under constant threat. Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative talks solutions.</font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class="">INTERSECTING MARKETING, CRITICISM AND JOURNALISM</strong> Unpacks the role of arts journalism today. </font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class="">WHAT CONSTITUTES HARASSMENT? </strong>Lawyers and an HR expert explore scenarios that challenge what constitutes sexual harassment.</font><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" class=""><strong style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class="">THE ART OF SIGN LANGUAGE IN THEATRE</strong><font color="#4d4b4b" class=""> Incorporate sign language into performance, with </font></font></span><strong style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="">Landon Krentz.</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" class=""><font color="#4d4b4b" class=""> </font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font face="lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><strong class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130);" class="">UNRESTRICTED</span></font></strong></div><div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class=""><strong class=""><font size="3" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class="">June 13 and 14, at BMO Theatre Centre (162 W. 1st Ave., Vancouver)<br class="">Ticket prices vary and are <a href="https://www.allianceforarts.com/unrestricted/?utm_source=Media&utm_campaign=b8d7a52f9a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dd9f3da8a4-b8d7a52f9a-&mc_cid=b8d7a52f9a&mc_eid=[UNIQID]" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(244, 121, 32); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class="">available here</a> (</font></strong><font size="3" style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75);" class=""><a href="http://allianceforarts.com/unrestricted" style="color: rgb(244, 121, 32); text-decoration: none;" class="">allianceforarts.com/unrestricted</a>) </font></div></div><br class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></font></span><br style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(77, 75, 75); font-size: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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