Regional Dialogue Sessions: CCNC offers Canada’s culture workers the opportunity to connect within their region ahead of a second year of COVID-19 sector impact.
Join the Creative City Network of Canada and your regional neighbours for condensed 2-hour Regional Dialogue Sessions (Zoom platform) designed for municipalities, organizations, and individuals working in the culture sector. Attendees will share and discuss the top-of-mind topics in the sector through the lens of their region. Special guest Nancy Duxbury is available to discuss her research in creative tourism, cultural policy, and culture work in small and rural communities in a Q&A session. Simply select the appropriate RDS from the list below to learn more and register.
Regions and Dates:
Atlantic Canada: Tuesday, February 23
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
Hosted by Théa Morash, St. John’s, NF
Central Canada: Thursday, February 25
Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut
Hosted by Konrad Skorupa, Toronto, ON
Canadian Prairies: Tuesday, March 2
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories
Hosted by Emma Morris, Regina, SK
Western Canada: Thursday, March 4
British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon
Hosted by Brent Oliver, AB
Over the past year, CCNC has offered national calls themed around the sector’s challenges during the COVID 19 pandemic to its membership. Now, we open the discussion to all culture workers concerned with the sector’s survival and recovery. Sessions will be led by regional hosts who will explore topics and concerns of their region’s culture workers. Municipalities, organizations, consultants, and academics are all encouraged to join this important series and be part of the discussion.
Special Guest Nancy Duxbury
One of CCNC’s contributing founders, Nancy Duxbury is an active scholar of cultural policy and creative tourism at the municipal level. We are thrilled to have her in attendance at each of our four Regional Dialogue Sessions.
BIO—Nancy Duxbury, PhD, is a Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture Research Group at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a member of the European Expert Network on Culture. Her research has examined cultural mapping, culture in local sustainable development, culture-based development models in smaller communities, book publishing development policy, and creative tourism. She was the Principal Investigator of “CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas,” a national research-and-application project involving 5 research centres and 40 pilot projects (2016-2020) that aimed to catalyze and develop creative tourism in small cities and rural areas across four regions of Portugal. She is also a member of the European research projects “UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture” and “URBiNAT: Healthy Corridors as Drivers for Regeneration of Social Housing Neighbourhoods through Co-creation of Social, Environmental and Marketable Nature-based Solutions”, and a collaborator in the Canadian research project, “Creative Economies: Exploring the Nexus of Culture and Tourism in Rural and Peripheral Canada.” She was a co-founder and Director of Research for the Creative City Network of Canada in its earlier years and is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University and Thompson Rivers University. She holds a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada… More