September 20, 2005 Source: Mount Allison University:
http://www.mta.ca/news/index.cgi?id=811 Arts and Economics meet at Conference SACKVILLE, NB — Mount Allison University is lending expertise and financial support to a regional arts conference to be held in Saint John N.B. from September 30 to October 2. The Second Atlantic Cultural Space Conference: The Creative Municipality, hosted by artsnb (The New Brunswick Arts Board) will explore how artists and municipalities can co-operate to enhance municipal identity, develop cultural policy, and nurture the local economy. The conference is the brainchild of a steering committee of leaders in the Saint John and provincial cultural scenes, co-chaired by Mount Allison English professor Mark Blagrave. Keynote speakers include author Antonine Maillet (on the impact of La Sagouine on the Bouctouche area), Canadian UNESCO Chair Max Wyman and former mayor of Winnipeg Glen Murray (on cities and the creative economy), and Caraquet Mayor Antoine Landry (on making Caraquet a cultural capital). They will be joined by panels that include artists, curators, managers, city officials, and academics talking about issues including geography, diversity, programming, and export as they affect the arts and the local economy. Gemey Kelly, director of Mount Allison’s Owens Art Gallery, will sit on a panel on Creative Spaces. A gala dinner will celebrate the vibrant arts sector in the region, highlighted by an address by Nova Scotia poet George Elliott Clarke. The conference will wind up with a keynote address and summation by Mount Allison alumnus and conference co-chair the Honourable Herménégilde Chiasson, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. Mount Allison, long a regional and national leader in post-secondary education in Fine Art, Music, and Drama, has shown its commitment to continued regional growth in the arts by acting as one of the participating sponsors for the conference which is being held at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre. Delegate passes for the conference are still available. Information may be found at www.acs-eca.com or by calling conference organizer Judith Mackin at Punch Productions, 506-693-5839. Passes for the three-day conference are $250 and include meals and admission to all events. —30— For more information, please contact: Mark Blagrave, Mount Allison University, tel: 506-364-2542 (mblagrave@mta.ca).
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