2012

PACE AGM – Monday, October 22, 6:30 p.m. @ Ortona Armoury

October 2nd, 2012

Contact admin@pacedmonton.com today to confirm your PACE membership is current. PACE full members (versus affiliate) are entitled to vote at special and general meetings of our membership. Please send nominations for the PACE Executive Planning Council (Board) to admin@pacedmonton.com by October 21. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor.

Donation Presentation Thursday, June 21, 2012

June 19th, 2012

PACE issued the following Media Advisory for our annual Donation Presentation wherein our chosen charity partner receives a special cheque from the proceeds of our Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts. PACE has contributed over $147,000 over the years to charities in support of their arts-related activities.

In this, our silver anniversary year, Mayor Stephen Mandel and PACE are proud to have the Rock and Roll Society of Edmonton’s Centre for Art and Music as our charity partner.

RFP issued today for Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts producer positions

June 19th, 2012

Mayor Mandel welcomes guests to the 25th Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts.

Thank you, one and all, for your past support over the years. You are all one of the main reasons why PACE’s Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts – honouring the wonderful partnerships among Edmonton’s arts and business sectors – has become such a tremendous success.

Those of you at our Silver Anniversary event last April may recall that 2012 was the last year for our long-time event organizer Sallie Johnson of SJ Event Management. Sallie has certainly left her mark on the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts for the better. Her departure, however, has offered PACE an opportunity to re-visit the production of this signal event.

You could be one of the people making everyone this happy on April 29, 2013. Think about it!

Please click here to access our RFP for four positions that will have key roles in producing our 2013 Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts. We hope to see lots of interest in these opportunities. The deadline for submission of proposals is Monday, July 16, 2012. Submissions can be sent to our mailing address at P.O. Box 11933, Edmonton, AB, T5J 3L1 or to this e-mail address: admin@pacedmonton.com.

2012 Alberta Election – ARTS FORUM April 20, 2012

April 14th, 2012

What a great evening with SIX parties running candidates in Alberta’s 2012 provincial elections being represented!!

Alberta Liberals – Laurie Blakeman, running in Edmonton Centre
Alberta NDP – Nadine Bailey, running in Edmonton Centre
Alberta Party – John Hudson, running in Edmonton McClung
Evergreen Party – Trey Capnerhurst, running in Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview
PC Alberta – Heather Klimchuk, running in Edmonton Glenora
Wildrose Party – Doug Main, Communications Consultant (no candidates were available)

There was much lively discussion on the future of our province’s arts, culture and heritage sector. Links to photos and recordings of the event are provided below with more to come (Hint: The most exciting (and revealing) parts start around the middle of the forum):

PACEdmonton YouTube Channel featuring 23 videos from our Edmonton Arts Forum on April 20, 2012. WARNING: Our Coordinator filmed these so they are VERY amateur, but at least you can follow what happened.

Here are vastly more professional sound recordings compliments of Mike Tully (Listen Loud Productions):

While you’re enjoying the recordings, you might also want to have a look at the press release we sent out yesterday following the Arts Forum.

Come to Edmonton’s Only Arts Forum

Have a heart-to-heart chat with Alberta election candidates about their parties’ visions for arts, culture and heritage in our province.

PACE is organizing an Arts Forum for this Friday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jefferson Room at the Prince of Wales Armouries, 10440 – 108 Avenue.

Bring your arts, culture and heritage questions with notebooks and pencils to the Prince of Wales Armouries this Friday. Tell all your professional artist and arts supporters friends to come, too. Let’s impress upon all these candidates how important arts, culture and heritage is to all Albertans.

Party representatives confirmed so far:

Alberta Liberals – Laurie Blakeman
Alberta NDP – Nadine Bailey
Alberta Party – John Hudson
PC Alberta – Heather Klimchuk
Wildrose Party – TBA

Again, here are the details on our upcoming Edmonton ARTS FORUM:

Date: Friday, April 20, 2012

Time: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Place: Jefferson Room, Prince of Wales Armouries, 10440 – 108 Avenue

2012 Provincial Election – ArtsVote in Action!

April 9th, 2012

Want to know where the different parties stand on arts and culture issues in the province of Alberta? PACE recently sent the following information and questions to the leaders of every party running candidates in the current election.

PACE is starting to receive responses to the “ask” it sent to all political leaders running in the 2012 Alberta provincial election. We have heard back from the Alberta NDP and the PC Alberta leaders so far. Click here to see the answers they gave to the questions we asked on behalf of Alberta’s arts and culture sector.

In the meantime, we encourage members of the arts community and all their supporters to pose these same questions to candidates at forums and on the doorstep. We need to impress upon them that the Alberta arts sector is vital to our province and we are taking an active role in the outcome of this election.

What you need to know about arts and culture in Alberta before you answer our questions:

91% of Albertans feel art activities are important in contributing to the overall quality of life in their community. Source: Annual Survey of Albertans, Resinnova Research & Consulting Inc. 2010
Albertans receive a 12:1 return on every dollar spent on the arts. Source: Summary of the Economic Impact of the Arts in Alberta,Alberta Foundation for the Arts, 2005.
88% of Albertans feel it is important that the Government of Alberta continues to fund and support the arts. Source: Culture and Community Services Annual Survey of Albertans on Culture, Leger Marketing, 2011
All three levels of government receive tax revenue through the arts sector. A total of 67.9 million in taxes is collected (in Alberta) through taxation systems each year. Source Culture and Community Spirit Department Fact and Figures 2010

Please give us your position on the following:

1. Do you support a restoration of the 2010 16 per cent cut to the AFA?

2. If elected to serve the people of Alberta in the next Legislature, will you work towards immediately increasing lottery money investment to arts, culture and heritage by 25%?

Here are the arts and culture platforms put out so far. We will post more as they become available. Check out what these parties have to say on our future:

Alberta Liberal Party: http://www.albertaliberal.com/files/Yes%20-%202012%20Election%20Platform.pdf (p.22 – includes sports)
Alberta New Democratic Party: http://albertandp.ca/wherewestand/details/supporting_the_arts
Alberta Party: http://www.albertaparty.ca/creative_industries
PC Alberta Party: http://www.votepc.ca/public/data/documents/AlbertaByDesign-DraftV5-04-12-12.pdf (p. 31)
Wildrose Party: http://www.wildrose.ca/media/2012/04/Pledge.pdf (p. 19)

Click here for some interesting comparison information provided to us by our friends at the Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations.

And check out the following links:

Also, have a look at the great campaign ArtsVote Calgary has been doing! Click here to view coverage on the arts forum they hosted in Calgary.

General provincial advocacy information is available at the Public Interest Alberta website.

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