Toronto artist Lisa Kiss has silkscreened these (limited-edition!) T-shirts that are available now for purchase, with proceeds supporting the Department of Culture. Wear it and stand out on Nuit Blanche. Details for purchasing a shirt — or downloading the design and making your own — are available on our Resources page.
It’s election time, and all of us are prone to hyperbole, but what we’re about to write next is really, really, important.
If you only do one thing this election (besides vote), do this:
Tell everyone you know about this website:
voteforenvironment.ca
It is an interactive site that uses current polls, and previous election results, to allow each [...]
Written and performed by Linda Griffiths
Stephen Harper announced a politically calculated plan to give tax breaks to families with children in arts programs today in an attempt to distract from his antagonistic relationship with culture and artists.
He made unsuspecting children play instruments as part of the media surrounding the announcement. Unfortunately, tax experts had bigger problems with the program than [...]
Check out this poem by John Allemang from Saturday’s Globe and Mail
We agree, and posting it saves us the trouble of posting a long polemic about the best ways we can spend our energies over the next 15 days.
The Wrecking Ball presents
Election ’08:
Green Plan vs Rain Man
Or: Harper Hates Minorities
The writ has been dropped, and, too lazy to bend down and pick it up, our Prime Minister has decided to call an election. And so the Wrecking Ball swings into action to bring you one night only (Oct 6th) of bracing political theatre [...]
There’s now a branch of the Department of Culture active in Winnipeg. There are over a dozen more DOCs gearing up across the country — we’ll keep you posted here, and on our “National” page, as information comes rolling in.
The Winnipeg group has started their own blog, which is available here.
Peter Hum’s article in the Ottawa Citizen this weekend mentions the Department of Culture in some of the most detailed analysis we’ve seen so far on how culture has come to play a central role in this election.
Hum’s article titled Singing The Harper Blues, questions why artists haven’t championed a single leader to counter the [...]
The Toronto DoC’s Oakville Swing Team took advantage of our freshly activated Resources page this weekend. After arriving at the Go Station, our team split into two groups hitting the streets of downtown Oakville and Oakville Place.
The constant feedback: People have not decided who to vote for. We suggested Stephen Harper would make a [...]
What sometimes gets lost in the sophistry surrounding the utility of art conversations that “culture” has raised as an election issue, is the fact that art can also motivate, focus, and give meaning. A founding principal of the DoC came from the dramaturgical rule that it is always better to show than to tell. Don’t [...]
