Today marks the release of the “In Conversation” video series, presented by Culture Days’ National Broadcast Partner, CBC. The series showcases key leaders in the Canadian arts and culture sector and the organizations they represent. Highlighting the important role these organizations play in further galvanizing the relationship between arts and culture and the Canadian public, the series reveals the many and diverse ways in which Culture Days is helping to foster and grow this connection.
These short clips will be rolling out over the next weeks in the lead up to the Culture Days event weekend, starting with insights from:
Kirstine Stewart, Executive Vice-President of CBC English Television and member of the Culture Days Steering Committee
Kirstine, expresses how Culture Days is an opportunity for the CBC, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, to connect and engage with communities whose families have welcomed the CBC into their homes since its inception, and envisions a time when Canadians will celebrate “Culture Day in Canada” along side Hockey Day in Canada.
Antoni Cimolino, General Director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Chair of the Culture Days Steering Committee
Antoni recounts his experience of the “real magic of Culture Days” when artists in Stratford came together to plan an activity for the inaugural Culture Days event weekend in 2010 and how the culmination of their planning was expressed in a large street fair where over 3500 people came together to celebrate the arts, artists and the Stratford community itself.
Marc Mayer, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada
Marc describes how the National Gallery of Canada has built programs that serve the entire country and how its participation in Culture Days enables the formation of a deeper relationship between the public and the arts. This ultimately, Marc explains, helps the museum to further its goal of providing the public with access to the museum’s national collection and places Canadians’ visual culture within the greater context of art history.
Piers Handling, Director and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival
Piers speaks of the impact Culture Days will create within communities and expresses how TIFF’s participation in Culture Days allows that organization to play a leadership role for other festivals and organizations by opening its doors and offering its resources to the public over the Culture Days event weekend.
Forthcoming “In Conversation” clips will feature interviews with:
Bruce Kuwabara, Founding Partner KPMB Architects
Zaib Shaikh Actor, Director & Producer
Martha Henry, CC, Leading Actor
Jeff Melanson, Executive Director & Co-CEO Canada’s National Ballet School
Louise Sicuro, CEO Culture pour tous
Andy Kenins, Chair Elect Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Luce Moreau, CEO Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
James (Jim) Fleck, OC, Chairman, Business for the Arts
Janice Price, CEO Luminato Festival
Stuart Reid, Executive Director MacKenzie Art Gallery
Marie Lavigne, CEO La Société de la Place des Arts de Montréal
Sarah Iley, VP Programming The Banff Centre
Sal Ferreras, Academic Vice-President Vancouver Community College
Tom McCabe, President & CEO Theatre Calgary
The first videos in this series are now LIVE and available on the Culture Days YouTube channel! Be sure to check back as more videos will be added in the lead up to the Culture Days event weekend.
