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The Department of Culture -- departmentofcultre.ca

WHO WE ARE

We are the Department of Culture, a growing community of Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation in the face of a Federal Government that is ( Read more... )

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Since coming to power, Stephen Harperʼs Conservative government has:

1. Cut funding to Status of Women groups and required changes to their mandates - removing its important advocacy role
2. Eliminated funding for literacy programs - $17.7m for adult literacy
3. Cancelled the proposed National ( Read more... )

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While Hirst breaks ground by jumping from studio to auction house immediately (and skipping dealers and galleries in the process), this become even MORE intriguing!

Reposted from e-artnow...

The Free Art Fair (Jasper Joffe)
14,19, 21 New Quebec Street and 5,8,16 Seymour Place
Portman Village London W1H
nearest tubes: Marble Arch and Edgware ( Read more... )

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Go Darren, Go! ... and the person in the second video... "Whoo!" to you too =-)

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Extra! Extra! The arts don't matter!
RUSSELL SMITH, Globe and Mail, September 4, 2008 at 3:55 AM EDT

Nothing like the back-to-school blues: September begins with news from everywhere that the arts are simply not important in this country. CBC Television has decided it's easier to show American game shows than make our own ( Read more... )

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Writers, activists urge campaign to defeat Conservative MPs in looming federal election
Bruce DeMara, The Toronto Star, Sep 04, 2008 04:30 AM

Supporters of arts and culture rallied last night in a sweltering downtown Toronto theatre to denounce more than $40 million in recent cuts to ( Read more... )

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Old news, but funny news... reposted from Coilhouse.net

(Yeah, we know. This is already yesterday’s poos. Don’t care. Must blog for sake of prost… er… posterity.)

Via the Nainamo Daily News (and ten gazillion other websites): “A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an ( Read more... )

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Behind the scenes of Eugenio Recuenco's stunning commericial for Nina Ricci... :swoon:

The embed code won't copy, so you'll have to click here: http://www.eugeniorecuenco.com/makings/making_nina.html