tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76859652927592182152024-02-20T09:05:27.901-08:00Contemporary Art MattersWe are a herd of nomads tracking the elusive contemporary arts space in South Surrey, BC, Canada.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019248277313472674noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685965292759218215.post-67260940116405805022015-05-27T09:27:00.003-07:002015-06-01T11:30:00.893-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Contemporary Art Matters is looking forward to working with BC Artscape ......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phase 2 Semiahmoo Development – Proposed Contemporary Art Space</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The art space
will provide a venue dedicated to a diverse range of contemporary art practice,
performance, and exhibitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Programming will be local, regional, national, and international in
scope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The space may include a
small library/resource centre, media lab, and screening capabilities.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A social
enterprise café, adjoining the gallery space, will help to finance the art
programming.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The café and
gallery will be a comfortable and inviting meeting-place for</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">
people to gather around art as a means for exploration, experimentation, and
connection with the world. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The proposed
space will address an identified cultural void, as presently this kind of
programming does not exist in South Surrey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In Surrey, this is only available at the Surrey Art
Gallery, which is often not accessed by those on the Semiahmoo Peninsula.)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is
envisioned to be an artist-run space, with governance by a board of directors,
with consultation from an advisory board of experts in the field of
contemporary art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019248277313472674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685965292759218215.post-9510011697711043572013-04-20T16:24:00.000-07:002013-04-20T16:24:07.363-07:00Your thoughts? note this info is from 2008<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Excerpts from Edge Cities: Competitive and Collaborative Creative Economy Strategies for Surrey. White Paper for the Surrey Economic Summit September 18, 2008 Catherine Murray, PHd Professor and co-director Centre for Policy Studie<span style="font-size: x-small;">s i</span>n Culture and Communities Simon Fraser University </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a Cultural Capital of Canada in 2008 (and the only one of the three edge cities in this study to win such a designation), Surrey is poised with strong potential for achieving recognition as an inclusive, sustainable and creative centre of scientific, <span style="font-size: small;">artistic</span> and technological innovation with flourishing economic and cultural sector and talented and diverse citizens. Its festivals, <span style="font-size: small;">visual</span> and performing arts, museums, cuisine, design, architecture and sport stand a the cusp of making Surrey a great place to create, visit, study, work and live.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A new regionalism may be emerging, but it is based on a competitive assessment of strengths and weaknesses, new thinking about service standards, and a rejection of a cookie-cutter creative city strate<span style="font-size: small;">g</span>y, instead seeking to define 'authenticity' (i.e., unique, local differentiation) in creative city visions.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the past ten years, Surrey has spent $67 million on <span style="font-size: small;">cultural</span> and recreational facilities (now worth triple that value) b<span style="font-size: small;">ut only a relatively small <span style="font-size: small;">amount (some $12 million or 4% of the total $298 million, including parks) w<span style="font-size: small;">e</span>nt to culture.</span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">2 of 4 recommendations:</span></span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">2<span style="font-size: small;">. A separate office of cultural planning should be established with increased staffing levels and cultural granting programs instated, drawing from other edge City models. Cultural <span style="font-size: small;">Planning interests should be integrated horizon<span style="font-size: small;">t</span>ally in all planning processes of the City.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. To become a more <span style="font-size: small;">attractive place for cultural creatives to work and live, planning for live/work space initiatives, including subsidized artist housing (expanding the <span style="font-size: small;">current three sites of social/non market co-op housing in Surrey), studio space and zoning flexibility should be considered.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><i> </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> </i></span><u>Edge Cities </u></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Bedroom</span></span>' post-suburban or edge cities adjacent to Canada's major metropolitan areas (Mississauga, Laval and Surrey) face special challenges and opportunities as engines of creativity in the transition to the 'Creative Economy.'</li>
<li>Edge cities may be endowed with potential comparative advantage, including lower rental rates to attract artists who wish to reside and work there and (usually) excess manufacturing space stock at more affordable rates, well suited to rehearsal, storage and creative inputs such as large scale set design. </li>
<li>Edge Cities are beneficiaries of unrestrained gentrification at the core, as artists are forced out of the original districts and arts organizations strain to keep afloat.</li>
<li>Some studies of these migrant creators and organizations paint a picture of mid-career artists who seek greater artistic security and stability in live/work space over the buzz of the urban core and precarious nature of the night time economy (Bye 2006)</li>
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