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If you are not happy with the results below please do another searchAmateur arts and folk culture The federal government does not normally provide funding to the amateur arts leaving it to the provincial and municipal governments and foundations. One interesting exception to this is the CBC Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs to which the Canada Council for the Arts contributes for the administration of the competition. The issue of adequate incentives and support for amateur arts groups is an ongoing issue for debate although not primarily at the federal level. The generally recognised decline in arts appreciation curricula in the schools has contributed to widespread concern that instruction in the arts... read more →
The role of intercultural education in assisting the process of social cohesion in a democratic context is an important aspect of a state's response to diversity. Moreover, intercultural educational measures, which include interculturally-educated teachers, as well as multilingual policies, which attempt to improve intercultural relations and non-centric curricula, help create inclusive, stable and peaceful and democratic polities (Gundara 2001 / 02). While intercultural education is not generally part of the Federal government's cultural policy mandate, there are growing numbers of government initiatives in regard to intercultural education, which is often defined as multicultural education. Some examples of such involvement at... read more →
Childhood experience and education are increasingly recognised as important determinants of later arts and cultural practices. However, Canada has tended to separate culture (concurrently federal and provincial) and education (restricted to the provinces at the primary and secondary levels). This separation may have had the unwanted impact of placing certain limits on government spending in culture and retarding the emergence of a consensus on standardised curricula for the arts, history, literature and culture in Canada. Other issues include the digital divide between rural and urban student access to home computers and educational software and between male and female users put... read more →
While there is no explicit policy linking participation in cultural life to the broader issues of civic participation, citizenship, civil society developments and social cohesion, many recent changes and elaboration of cultural and civic responsibilities in the Department of Canadian Heritage architecture speak to the logical correlation and synergy between the Department's respective policies promoting both higher levels of cultural and citizenship / identity participation. What is needed now is more measurement of the presumed correlation. Another example of Federal government initiatives to boost cultural and civic participation in Canada include the work to enhance literacy by the National Literacy... read more →
Television viewing: By far the largest audiences for cultural content are television viewers. In Canada, there are two (2) ways to measure viewing data: BBM Fall Surveys using diaries and the recently merged Nielsen Media Research / BBM national metered data, which is the most recent and accurate. Television viewing results provided in this document are based on BBM national metered data. Per capita average weekly television viewing decreased slightly from 25.1 hours in 2005 to 24.3 hours in 2006 indicating relatively little displacement of television viewing by computer-related activities such as games and the internet. In 2006, women aged... read more →
While provincial arts councils provide assistance to provincial associations, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage provide support to national arts service organisations, other artists' associations and unions such as the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Canadian Museums Association, the Writers Union and sound recording associations such as FACTOR. The Department of Canadian Heritage provides legislative recognition of artists through the Status of the Artist Act (see also chapter 4.1.3). National arts service organisations (NASOs) are also eligible for charitable tax status, which is another form of indirect support to arts associations.