REALIZING POSSIBILITIES ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPACT REPORT | 2019 CALGARY ARTS DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPACT REPORT | 2019 Page 1 Land Acknowledgement Calgary Arts Development is situated on Treaty 7 Territory, home of the Kainai, Piikani, Siksika, Tsuut’ina, Stoney-Nakoda Nations and Métis Nation Region 3. Acknowledging the traditional territories on which we gather has become a customary practice at Calgary Arts Development and an important step in our reconciliation journey. More than just words to memorize and recite, the land acknowledgement is a way to remember and honour the First Nations of this land—the people who have been here for millennia. In this spirit, we created a musical land acknowledgement to begin the 2019 Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champions, featuring Olivia Tailfeathers and the Grassland Singers, visual artist Mandy Stobo, and Calgary Arts Development President & CEO Patti Pon. We believe that finding a personal connection is essential and we strive to communicate that personal meaning every time. Adding music and visual arts to the land acknowledgement at the Mayor’s Lunch was a way to connect the meaning of our work to this land and the peoples who have lived here since time immemorial. CALGARY ARTS DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPACT REPORT | 2019 Page 1 Table of CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM PAST CHAIR DEAN PRODAN Page 4 MESSAGE FROM CURRENT CHAIR BRIAN FRANK Page 5 MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT & CEO PATTI PON Page 6 PAGE ABOUT CALGARY ARTS DEVELOPMENT 7 A NEW FOUR-YEAR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK PAGE GRANT INVESTMENT PROGRAMS OPERATING GRANT PROGRAMS 12 PROJECT GRANT PROGRAMS Organizations Individuals INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROGRAM ORIGINAL PEOPLES INVESTMENT PROGRAM (OPIP) ARTSHARE PAGE ARTS DEVELOPMENT LEVERAGING RESOURCES 55 TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION WORKSHOPS AND CAPACITY BUILDING PAGE KNOWLEDGE, IMPACT & EVALUATION KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH 60 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS WARD MAP PAGE AWARENESS AND CONNECTION COMMUNICATIONS 64 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Poet Laureate Program Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champions Cultural Leaders Legacy Artist Awards PAGE ARTS-LED CITY BUILDING CULTURAL ACTIVATION FUND GOVERNANCE Page 82 70 VIBRANT DOWNTOWN Overview EVERYDAY CREATIVITY Committees Board policies CREATIVE ECONOMY PEOPLE Page 83 Board Staff Contractors PAGE ARTS SPACES Committees, Assessors, and Volunteers INCREASED VIBRANCY COMMUNITY SUPPORT Page 85 77 INTERACTIVE MAP CSPACE KING EDWARD Cover: A mural by Al Runt, part of the Beltline Urban Murals Project | Photo: Matt Greer Contents: Elaine Weryshko | Photo: Melanie Gauer Page 2 CALGARY ARTS DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPACT REPORT | 2019 CALGARY ARTS DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPACT REPORT | 2019 Page 3 MESSAGE FROM DEAN PRODAN Chair, Board of Directors, February 2013 – June 2019 That first year of my tenure also saw support equity, diversity, inclusion, and a new focus on supporting individual accessibility. artists, and equity-seeking artists and Things come in full circle. I joined the arts groups through our community board during a year of transformational investment programs. Over the past six change and I completed my tenure during years Calgary Arts Development has a year of transformational change. In 2019 placed intentional focus on reaching, our grant from The City went from $6.4 serving, and sharing resources with million to $12.4 million. This increase artists and communities that were will go a long way toward fostering a more previously underserved. Changing a sustainable and resilient arts sector in system is a long-game strategy that Calgary as well as bringing an increased happens over decades, not in a single ability for arts-led city building for the year. Although there is still a long way benefit of all Calgarians. to go, I am proud of the new granting streams that have been introduced—such It was a pleasure to serve as chair of the as ArtShare for equity-seeking artists board for the past six years. As a born and Dean Prodan | Photo: Courtesy of Dean Prodan and arts organizations, the Original raised Calgarian, I care deeply about my People’s Investment Program for First city. Arts and culture have always been y six years as the chair of the Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and arts part of my life and I enjoy having access MCalgary Arts Development board organizations, and increased support for to vibrant and diverse arts experiences in flew by. I joined at a transformative time individual artists. Calgary. Not only do I enjoy experiencing in 2013, when Calgary Arts Development Calgary’s arts scene with family and There have been so many more highlights was just starting its work on the arts plan, friends, but also as a businessman I see since 2013. We saw the opening of a which became Living a Creative Life: an the value—the return on investment—the number of significant arts spaces in Arts Development Strategy for Calgary. arts sector delivers to our city. The strategy laid the groundwork for Calgary including Calgary Folk Festival’s many of Calgary Arts Development’s Festival Hall, Studio Bell, home of the I thank all of the other volunteers I served deep relationships with diverse groups National Music Centre, the Bella Concert with, the Calgary Arts Development staff who align their work in support of a Hall, the DJD Dance Centre, the Calgary led by President & CEO Patti Pon, and vital, prosperous, and connected city Film Centre, cSPACE King Edward, and our shareholder—City Council. I wish through the arts. Since its launch the arts more. We celebrated a Year of Music you all the best in the years to come and development strategy has gained more in 2016. The arts sector endured an can’t wait to see how the arts will play an than 180 signatories, has had two baseline economic downturn with the help even greater role in a renewed vision and research reports published, has inspired of some emergency relief and bridge identity for our great city. a storytelling project with multiple ways funds from The City. We focused more of sharing stories of Calgarians who are attention and resources on research living creative lives, and has encouraged and impact, and we began serious, Dean Prodan civic partners and other organizations intentional work on right relations with Past Board Chair to include the arts and creativity in their Indigenous communities as well as strategic plans. starting to develop better strategies to Page 4 CALGARY ARTS DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPACT REPORT | 2019 MESSAGE FROM BRIAN FRANK Chair, Board of Directors, June 2019 – Present forms of art, exhibitions, and events. collaborator, and supporter. Our Music, dance, theatre, opera, media and impact research and data are being visual arts, literary arts, spoken word, recognized by others as meaningful Indigenous arts, cultural celebrations, and constructive and we continue to be festivals, installations, works by emerging leaders in research. We practice right artists, newcomer artists, arts for social relations with Indigenous artists, leaders, change, for youth development and at- and communities and we have been risk youth, arts for health and wellbeing, more intentional about equity, diversity, for creative aging, arts by the maker inclusion, and accessibility, not only in community, and on and on. our own work but in the arts sector as a whole and in the relationships we foster. The arts provide economic and social impact and celebrate the diversity of The transformational increase to our our population. A vibrant arts scene budget in 2019 is enabling us to realize encourages young people to stay in possibilities by providing much needed our city, and attracts new people and increased support to arts organizations businesses. The arts bring people that had experienced stagnant Brian Frank | Photo: Courtesy of Brian Frank together and enable us to connect. operating grants over the past decade. want to start my comments by thanking It is also opening our programs to new The arts matter from an economic Dean Prodan, who was chair from 2013 organizations, creating support for more I perspective. For the small investment of to 2019, and by thanking Katherine equity-seeking artists, and helping us about $10 per Calgarian per year, the arts Wagner, Tim Mah, and Rob Harding who increase public awareness of what’s on in sector’s contribution to the provincial also completed their time on the board Calgary’s vibrant arts scene. In 2019 we economy was $134M in Gross Domestic in 2019. distributed $9,789,980 through our grant Product in 2018 (our most recent study). investment programs (a 102% increase This happens via the people who do Having lived in cities all over the world, over the 2018 total of $4,868,255), which the work, then make purchases, and I have seen how a healthy and vibrant represented 81% of the total grant pay taxes. And the arts matter because arts community is the lifeblood of any received from The City of Calgary. The of their social impacts by connecting city. And what I’ve come to learn is rest was used for arts development us through telling and sharing our the overwhelming breadth and depth programs (13%) and administration and collective stories of celebration, loss, and of our city’s remarkable arts scene. It overhead (6%). was eye opening to learn that Calgary redemption. Arts Development disburses grant A healthy, vibrant arts sector could Calgary Arts Development acts as a investments to more than 170 nonprofit be the way forward for Calgary, by strategic advisor to City Council and is an arts organizations and arts collectives, contributing to a new economy, a vibrant excellent steward of public dollars for the and hundreds of individual artists. city, and a city that includes everyone. public good. The staff has deep expertise Through the arts we can realize a in running grant investment programs; I believe that Calgary is an arts city. How renewed vision for Calgary.