by Jenny Farkas | Apr 18, 2023 | online directory
Nancy Duxbury is a global leader in building out the potential of Cultural and Creative Industries.(CCIs). Based out of Portugal, she is a member of the European Expert Network on Culture, and is almost a year into a 4-year, 13 country, $6 million project to advance...
by Jenny Farkas | Apr 16, 2023 | online directory
The big idea behind creative economic development is that when artists thrive, we all thrive. A ‘art-first’ approach puts us on the right path to diversify and decolonize economic development. “[We have the] opportunity to discover what is possible when...
by Jenny Farkas | Apr 15, 2023 | online directory
Fogo Island off the coast of Newfoundland is rewriting its own economic story, turning despair into hope by leveraging their unique cultural and artistic talents, and systematically ‘putting another leg’ on their island economy. Their recovery is a leading...
by Jenny Farkas | Mar 23, 2023 | online directory
I just finished 2-month deep dive into the modern Creative Economy in order to develop this 2-year creative economic development pilot project. Triggered in the early 1990s by the emerging digital age, the Creative Economy is now in a fascinating and vital transition...
by Jenny Farkas | Mar 22, 2023 | online directory
There’s a new creativity hub in Port Alberni that raises the bar for the kind of spaces artists, artisans, and creative entrepreneurs need access to in order to acquire the ‘skills of tomorrow’. Open only a few weeks, the Alberni Valley Makerspace is...
