For every ceremony honouring and rewarding the talents of Canadian artists, Rideau Hall—on His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond’s initiative—organizes a forum called Art Matters. It is a wonderful opportunity to bring laureates, artists, academics and administrators together to discuss and examine the challenges facing culture in our society.

Arts Matters forums take place all over Canada during official visits.

Recent Arts Matters Themes

 

Citizens to the Arts! (Re)Connecting citizens, artists and the arts
What is the power and purpose of using the arts to engage in social issues?
New Media and their Impact on the Film Industry
December 15, 2009    
 

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Art Matter Forum in San José, Costa Rica


Arts, New Media and Cultural Diversity
December 8, 2009    
 

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Art Matters Forum in Mexico City, Mexico


How is your writing 'Canadian'? - Literary Awards 2009
The challenges of the promotion and distribution of films abroad - Greece
October 30, 2009    
 

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Art Matters in Greece
Public Art Matter Forum in Athens, Greece

The role of documentaries in our society - Zagreb Film Festival
How do the arts sustain local communities?
April 29, 2009    
 

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Art Matters no 38
Art Matters Discussion in Norway

How do the Arts sustain our communities?
Igniting an electrifying and unifying atmosphere around the visual and media arts
How does music bring us together?
March 2, 2009    
 

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Play On!
How does music bring us together?

 

How to energize communities through art?
A Passion for Reading
Forums during the State Visit to Europe
How do we sustain buildings? How do buildings sustain us?
Truth or plausibility? How do the media reflect Canadian society?
Staging the Body: New Embodiments, New Dialogues
Made in Canada : Art as an Essential Ressource
Have Canadian Visual and Media Arts Fallen off the Radar?
Art During Boom Time
January 19, 2008    
 

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Imagining Calgary

 

Where do writers and books fit in?
Arts and New Technologies
July 10, 2007    
 

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Art Matters

 

2006 Michener Award for Journalism
June 8, 2007    
 

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Art Matters –Journalism

 

The State of Quebec Culture
2007 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
Literature and Freedom of Speech
Cinema and Television
November 3, 2006    
 

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Art Matters –Cinema and Television

(Re)Connecting citizens, artists and the arts
by Monique Savoie
March 9, 2010

Artist-Creator and the Mediation Process
by Patricia Pérez
March 9, 2010

Art is Extending Democracy to Communities
by Gisèle Rucker
March 9, 2010

Message de remerciement
Last post by therajomas
February 27, 2010

Catharsis
Last post by april
February 19, 2010

pollution
Last post by shelbrock
January 8, 2010