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Canadian Conference of the Arts fonds [multiple media (some electronic)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1945-2012.

Reference:

R5615-0-X-E, MG28-I189

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Sound recordings, Moving images, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103278

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Canadian Conference of the Arts fonds
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Fonds includes:

16 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1945-2012.

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

ca. 41.4 m of textual records.
1833 photographs : 867 b&w and 322 col.; 5 col. slides.; 268 b&w. and 95 col. negatives; 273 b&w.(ca. 8322 images) and 2 col. contact sheets (23 images).
120 audio reels.
87 audio discs.
3 audio cassettes (ca. 1 h).
1 film reel (2 min).
14 prints : photomechanical reproductions (one in glass frame)
12 drawings : ballpoint pen and felt pen.
11 videocasettes : 6 miniDV, 5 VHS.
31 plates : brass.
4.5 GB of textual records (ca. 5823 files).
828,5 MB of graphic material (ca. 2341 files) : art and photographs.
359.6 MB of sound recordings (19 files).
30.34 GB of videos (24 files).
1.3 GB of photographs (ca. 1583 files).
1 sweatshirt.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French
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Canadian Conference of the Arts fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Canadian Conference of the Arts fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Canadian Conference of the Arts fonds [textual record]

Canadian Conference of the Arts fonds [textual record]
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Fonds consists of analog and digital records of the Canadian Conference of the Arts comprising the following series: administration records; financial records; membership records; conferences, seminars and forums; subject files; publications; correspondence; office files; clippings and scrapbooks; additional records; photography; artwork; promotional material; and Cultural Data Services. comprising alphabetically arranged subject files relating to the administration, policies and activities of the CCA.

Analog and digital photographs in the fonds depict activities of the Canadian Conference of the Arts: conferences, annual general meetings, seminars, awards ceremonies, panel and forum. It includes photographs by Robert C. Ragsdale, Gordon F. Brown, Barbara Novak, and numerous unidentified C.C.A events; portraits of arts and culture personalities; and art works. Fonds also includes photographs depicting CCA directors, CCA presidents, participants in the Seminar 66 and Direction 74 conference; the 1975 Diplome d'honneur winners, architectural model of the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, broadcasting conference in 1985, copyright conference, 1985, Annual awards presentation, 1999; portraits of Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey and H.E. Roland Michener; Alan Jarvis, Peter Dwyer, David Silcox, and various officers of the Canadian Conference of the Arts. Also included, a group photo with the prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Fonds also consists of digital images and logos used mostly for the website and publications.

In addition, fonds includes sound recordings related to the Canadian Conference of the Arts, including conferences and a recording from a Radio-Québec entitled Vous, les arts et l'état, n.d., 1969-1976. It also consists of digital sound recordings and videos of conferences, seminars and forums.

Fonds also includes a film of a meeting of the Canadian Conference of the Arts attended by Governor-General Ed Schreyer and Secretary of State Francis Fox, [ca. 1980], videos of Chalmers conference in 2000, "Thinking culture" forums in 2010, the CCA awards 2000 archival footage and the CCA before the CRTC digital hearings in Ottawa in 2000.

The fonds also includes 7 posters created for promotional events of the CCA and 12 caricatures featuring Richard Simmins, Moncrieff Williamson, Robert Hume, Jean Michaud, Duncan Cameron, Nathan Stolow and four unidentified persons, all attending a semiar on Art Gallery Planning and Design held at Stanley House, 1968.

Fonds contains records created by an affiliated organization, Cultural Data Services (CDS), that was created in 1972 by a grant from the Federal Government's Local Initiatives Program (LIP). CDS was tasking with creating an artists inventory of all artists and arts organizations in Canada with the ultimate goal of creating a nationwide mailing list and directory for the Canadian Conference of the Arts.

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Canadian Conference of the Arts
Additional name(s):

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Hobday, John

Artist: Jarvis, Alan

Photographer: Brown, Gordon F., 1943-

Photographer: Ragsdale, Robert
Biography/Administrative history:

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Canadian Conference of the Arts : The Canadian Conference of the Arts was founded in December 1945, as the "Canadian Arts Council", to further the cultural development of the Canadian people, work for the encouragement and advancement of the arts in Canada and serve the highest interests of Canadian artists. The founders, and first members, were sixteen artists' organizations that had come together in the spring of 1944 to prepare and present what became known as "the artists' brief" to the House of Commons Special Committee on Reconstruction and Re-establishment. With the establishment of the Canada Council in 1957 - and the realization of one of the recommendations of the brief - the CAC changed its name to the Canadian Conference of the Arts.

The CCA was a membership-based organization representing some 200 000 artists and cultural sector workers: creators, performers, technicians, producers and distributors, in all disciplines and in both official languages. The board of governors was elected by the members and represented all regions of Canada and the major disciplines of the arts and cultural industries.

Since its inception, the CCA had been active in bringing artists and cultural sector workers together, presenting their views to government, conducting research and disseminating information on developments and issues of interest. The organization has been effective on many fronts, perhaps most importantly in gaining recognition of the arts by all levels of government. A report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, "A Sense of Place - A Sense of Being: The Evolving Role of the Federal Government in Support of Culture in Canada" (June, 1999), acknowledged the major influence played by the CCA's "Final Report of the Working Group on Cultural Policy for the 21st Century." Later initiatives of the CCA included active involvement with the issue of culture in international trade agreements, implementation of Status of the Artist legislation at the provincial and federal government levels, promotion of arts and education, and the development of an international network for cultural NGOs. As of 1998, the CCA will also be instrumental in the creation of the International Network for Cultural Diversity which is a worldwide network of artists and cultural groups dedicated to countering the homogenizing effects of globalization on culture.

In 1954 the CCA inaugurated its Diplôme d'honneur to recognize distinguished life-time service to the arts in Canada. It also presented the Rogers Communications Inc. "Media Awards for Coverage of the Arts" (English and French) and the "Keith Kelly Award for Cultural Leadership." The CCA was instrumental in establishing a number of other awards, including the Financial Post awards, acknowledging corporate sector support, and the Governor General's performing arts awards. Since its inception, the CCA has also presented a variety of conferences and symposiums (notably the Thinking Culture seminars and the Chalmer's conferences) meant to inform and educate cultural sector workers as well as give them a venue to communicate, share their knowledge and voice their opinions.

In 2012, the Canadian Conference of the Arts announced that it would begin winding down operations after its funding was eliminated as part of a general deficit reduction program on the part of the Federal Government. Prior to its demise, the CCA had been receiving up to 60% of its budget from the government of Canada (as well as some moneys from the Ontario Arts Council and other provincial departments), but had been working towards a move to a self-sustaining financing model. However due to significant budget cuts, the CCA was forced to close in October of 2012 after sixty-seven years of existence.

Finding aid:

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Textual record (Electronic) This finding aid list the files from volume 1 to 253. Please refer to accession level finding aids for records post-1980. MSS1008 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000154.pdf

Sound recording (Electronic) Refer to the Film, Video and Sound Database (MISACS)for item-level descriptions for accession 1999-0068. For accessions 1976-0074 and 1978-0054, the finding aids are PDF copies of typed lists of descriptions, with associated shelf numbers. Note that shelf numbers preceded by the letter T stand for reel-to-reel audio tapes. (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002924.pdf
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002925.pdf

Moving images (Electronic) Refer to the Film, Video and Sound Database (MISACS) for item-level descriptions. (90: Open)

Archived website (Electronic) Archived on 2011-03-15. Please refer to AMICUS database for additional details. (90: Open)
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/ccarts/2011-03-15/www.ccarts.ca/default.htm
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/ccarts/index.html

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General note:

Fonds presented in 1973, 1975, 1989, 1999, 2009 and 2014 by the Canadian Conference of the Arts.
To consult digital records at the file level, please use the extended archival reference numbers instead of the electronic containers 79 and 80. Container numbers were attributed only for internal purpose.

Several accessions in this fonds have not yet been processed but have been described. Please refer to electronic finding aids attached to each accession notice.

Following the interim processing of accessioned boxes in 2010 and 2011, extents in electronic finding aids may not necessarily be same as indicated in MIKAN accession level description.
Subject heading:

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Lobbyist - Canada // Art and culture

Canada - Politics // Arts and culture

Arts and culture - Conferences

Arts and culture - Administration

Arts and culture - Research
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-05-29)
(1985-10-28)
122-020073-5
1976-0074 MISA
1976-026 PIC
1976-078 NPC
1978-0054 MISA
1978/0095
1981/0021
1982/0378
1983/0232
1984-188 NPC
1984/0278
1985/0378
1986/0303
1989-0149 MISA
1989/0302
1994/0269
1999-0068 VSA
1999-01167-8
2009-00647-X
2010-00799-9
2010-00800-6
2010-00801-4
2010-00802-2
2010-00803-0
2010-00804-9
2010-00805-7
2010-00806-5
2010-00868-5
2010-00869-3
2010-00870-7
2014-00980-5
2612 (1994-12-20)
MG28-I189

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I189
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000141.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1008] 92

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF THE ARTS 1984-188] 5665

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R5615]

[Consultation 90 Open]

29922AV--29941AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

29959AV--29963AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic(photo): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings : electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Graphic material (photo): No restrictions on use. Various copyright exits. See individual items. Credit: Name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / Copy negative no.
Graphic material (art): Variuos copyrights. No transport on some documents. Please consult an archivist from specialized media for help. Credit: Library and Archives Canada.
Sound recordings: Various copyrights. Reproduction with written permission of copyright owner and /or donor. No donor restrictions on material in accession 1978-0054.
Moving images: Various copyrights. Reproduction with written permission of copyright owner and /or donor.

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