As you may or may not be aware, in my other life I'm involved with Ed
Video Media Arts Centre and sit on the board of directors. Why should
you care? Well, that's a disclaimer for this week's Guelph Politicast,
in which I sit down with Scott McGovern, Programming Director of Ed
Video, to talk about arts and culture in Canada, why the the topic
doesn't get much discussion in an election campaign, and how the life
and work of artists living in Canada is often misunderstood.As
fate would have...
As you may or may not be aware, in my other life I'm involved with Ed
Video Media Arts Centre and sit on the board of directors. Why should
you care? Well, that's a disclaimer for this week's Guelph Politicast,
in which I sit down with Scott McGovern, Programming Director of Ed
Video, to talk about arts and culture in Canada, why the the topic
doesn't get much discussion in an election campaign, and how the life
and work of artists living in Canada is often misunderstood.
As
fate would have it, when Scott and I met to record the podcast on
Tuesday, it came the day after the NDP and Tom Mulcair had a big,
splashy announcement about arts and culture funding in Toronto. But as
Scott and I talk about in the podcast, support for the arts means more
than just increasing funding to the CBC, Telefilm Canada and/or the
Canada Council for the Arts. It also means understanding how artists
work, how they themselves are in essence small businesses, and the real
economic impact of the arts on the country.
For the
record, this is not Scott's first participation in a Politico project.
You may recall an item from last fall's municipal election where Scott critiqued several election signs
of candidates running for city council across Guelph. The article was a
pretty big success, and remains one of the most popular this blog has
ever run.
But enough build up, let's get right into this week's Politicast.
The theme music for Guelph Politicast is provided by Crazy Pills and their song "Break It Down" courtesy of Free Music Archive.
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for new episodes of the Guelph Politicast Fridays, and remember that
the Politicast Podbean channel is also the host for podcast versions of
Open Sources Guelph. The previous Thursday's episode of Open Sources
will be posted on Mondays. (Except next week, when we will post two
episodes of Open Sources Guelph so that all the candidate interviews
will be available before the election. Conversely, two episodes of
Guelph Politicast will be available the next week.)
Stay tuned for future editions of the Guelph Politicast.
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