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UnFolding in Ottawa
Last in print However you’ve landed here, welcome. I’m hoping it’s because you are part of, or just interested in, Ottawa’s arts and creativity. That’s what UnFolding’s blog is all about, as will be...
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The Debate about Arts and Culture: Part 2
When I saw a movie called Blade Runner in 1982, I felt my first real empathetic pang of what death could feel like. The movie had violence, eroticism and very cool special effects, and maybe that’s...
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Arts, Politics and a Dewar Warning
Frustration with politics seems to fester in the reality-free gap between expectation (or, in some cases, campaign promises) and execution. One of the reasons arts gets too-short a rope in our culture...
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A Glorious Opportunity at City Hall
Ottawa's fractured arts. Picasso by Juan Gris. Photo from Wikimedia. In 2003 Ottawa’s plan for its future – 20/20 – included a gift from the gods for the city’s arts: more money, more venues, more...
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Canada’s Parliamentary Arts Caucus
The Dilemma. Photo by Mike Levin. I’ve often written about the lack of squeak in the wheel of Canada’s arts communities. For an industry under a rising tide of marginalization, to be so quiet is...
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Arts Funding: The Difference Between Promises and Realities
How sincerity rarely reflects reality. Courtesy of artbypop.blogspot. By Mike Levin Politicians are great at “This is what we need;” pretty good at “This is how we’re going to get it;” and terrible at...
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