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First Peoples’ Artists Forum
An essential stage of development for the local First Peoples’ arts community is the delivery of a gathering that will bring together First Peoples’ artists and the cultural knowledge keepers of the region. The gathering will offer a platform to the First Nations, Inuit and Métis arts community to dialogue, share information, and generate ideas to effect action and development for the First Peoples’ community in the NCR . This will be a facilitated gathering that will make use of a dynamic dialogue process to reach the following outcomes:
1. Create common understanding of the current issues related to recognition, awareness, commemoration, reclamation, investment and access to First Nations, Inuit and Métis arts, heritage and culture in the National Capital Region;
2. Identify the relative importance of the issues and establish clear and workable priorities to focus resources and ensure action in addressing the issues;
3. Formulate a working document of the forum that formalizes the priorities, to inform and direct future initiatives in the development of the First Peoples’ art and culture in the NCR in the following ways:
a) Enhance the First Peoples’ arts and culture community by creating opportunities for artistic knowledge and skills exchange.
b) Support the transference of cultural knowledge and practices through the learning, doing, and expression of works of art and performance.
c) Create more opportunities, at all levels, for the practice and presentation of First Peoples’ art and culture in the NCR.
The gathering will also offer the opportunity to maximize networking development by building a contact list of artists, arts organizations, and key public and private sector partners.
Background:
The Ottawa 20/20 Arts and Heritage Plan was approved by Ottawa City Council in 2003. In addition to 20-year strategic directions, the Plan identified strategies, policy statements and a first five-year action plan. The Plan was to be renewed every five years, and a renewal process began in August 2009. This renewal process brought together the strongest diversity of representation and participation ever for municipal cultural planning purposes in the area. Voices of First Nations’, Inuit and Métis individuals and communities; representatives of the Anglophone and Francophone cultural mosaic; diverse citizenry from rural, suburban and urban neighbourhoods; new Canadians and arts, heritage, festival and fair representatives were heard. Continue reading
Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) 
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