Creative Continuum Conference Arts Network Ottawa

Welcome back to the podcast, brought to you by Arts Network Ottawa. In this episode we revisit a panel discussion held in the spring of 2024 during our Creative Continuum Conference (formerly known as Artpreneur Ottawa Conference). Through the theme “gardening” participants of the conference were invited to go beyond the view of our local arts community as an eco-system and instead as a garden ... requiring cooperation, cultivation and intentional care. In this c...

Welcome back to the podcast, brought to you by Arts Network Ottawa. In this episode we revisit a panel discussion held in the fall of 2021 during our Creative Continuum Conference (formerly known as Artpreneur Ottawa Conference). At the time we were exploring opportunities and pitfalls faced by artists in digitally innovating and adapting their practices to reach audiences during the pandemic. In this conversation, we look specifically at the more traditional, yet esse...

Counting the Cost of COVID-19: Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Ottawa-Gatineau Artists & Cultural WorkersIn this session Nik Ives-Allison (City of Ottawa) and Marisa Gallemit (Ottawa Arts Council) present key findings from Counting the Cost of COVID-19 in November 2020. This joint project of the City of Ottawa and Ottawa Arts Council looks at the economic costs of the pandemic faced by those working in the arts, culture & heritage and the businesses, non-profit ...

What does it mean to be an “artist”, “dancer”, “musician”, “writer”, etc…? The arts industry offers many career options for the emerging professional, but there are no set paths, especially in this time of pandemic. How do we build a career that will sustain us, artistically and financially? How has COVID-19 affected this delicate balance? Jenna Richards leads a panel discussion with Jacqui Du Toit, Sarah Hopkin, and Claudia Gutierrez about arts entrepreneurship, identity, and portfolio careers.

Born an Ottawa native, City Fidelia is a soulful street poet, rapper, singer and songwriter. He launched Real House of Ensemble, a creative agency and arts resource hub, during the pandemic in July 2020 filling a resource gap for local creatives – with big goals for the future. This episode provides an overview about how businesses can continue to dedicate resources towards economic growth and innovations within the hip hop community, which deserves more recognition for sustainable cont...

Today we are witnessing the limitations of an entrepreneurial state driven by the neoliberal logics. The three crises that we are enduring—public health, social and economic—have shone a light on the paradox of labour and embedded reality of artists. In testing times such as these and to envisage a path forward we need to understand where we are now and how did we get to the present crisis? How did the systemic evolution of the cultural labour market premised on the introduction of competitio...