by Jenny Farkas | Mar 18, 2024 | online directory
We are thrilled to announce the addition of an Advisory Circle to our new Creative Tourism project described in our December 2023 blog post. The five people introduced below are working with us this spring to explore what a Vancouver Island definition of creative...
by Jenny Farkas | Feb 20, 2024 | online directory, regional coordination
Before we can begin to take advantage of Vancouver Island/Gulf Islands incredible potential in the Creative Economy, we have to understand what resources currently exist to support artists, artisans, creative entrepreneurs and arts organizations. The best place to...
by Jenny Farkas | Dec 22, 2023 | online directory
Updated: April 24, 2025 Click here for final report from this Creative Tourism exploratory project. In January 2024 Creative Coast launches a new project thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts Seed Fund. The project will explore partnership opportunities between...
by Jenny Farkas | Oct 4, 2023 | online directory
Measuring Vancouver Island’s creative assets is a key component of our proposed Creative Economic Development Strategy. See this blog post for strategy details. And yet the work of measuring creativity feels like trying to weigh air with a feather. The...
by Jenny Farkas | Sep 29, 2023 | online directory
This summer we wanted to see what we could learn by spatially representing arts funding data. The result is a handful of visualizations that are already sparking interesting dialogues. The short video below offers a quick tour. You can play around with the vizzes...
by Jenny Farkas | Sep 19, 2023 | online directory
Arts organizations and artists across the country have a menu of options to choose from to take advantage of Mass Culture’s exciting new Data Narratives for the Arts (DNA) project. DNA’s goal is to support the arts sector to understand our own data, and...
