COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR – CHANGE.ORG, CANADA

Posted on May 24, 2012 by CPAMO

Change.org is the fastest-growing platform for social change on the web, now with over 14 million members worldwide. We’ve just started opening offices in 20 new countries, including Canada! We empower anyone, anywhere to start and win campaigns for social change. In fact, we just hit 500,000 members in Canada this week.

  This is an incredibly important position and we want to find the best candidate possible. Who wants to help us help Canadians literally change the world?

You should apply here: http://www.change.org/hiring/103

Creative news and views for May 23, 2012

Posted on May 24, 2012 by CPAMO

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So you think you can attend dance performances Canada

“Dance Sees Remarkable Increase in Attendance” according to The Value of Presenting study on dance attendance in Canada, which says that dance attendance by Canadians has grown to 15% in 2011 from about 5% in 1992, in the first Canadian national data on dance attendance available in 14 years. (Dance Attendance Supplementary Analysis ) I don’t know whether Toronto companies have seen this surge at their own box offices (somehow I’d be surprised…) but the report traces this cross-Canada growth to the popularity of TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance, and Dancing with the Stars.

As an old (did I mean to say that?) dance manager I am interested in this idea, which was also a strong theme in Creative Trust’s Audience Engagement Survey and Alan Brown’s Ontario Arts Engagement Study for the Ontario Arts Council. Both found a strong connection between more

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