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Grey Bruce Cultural Network serves arts, culture and heritage

July 9, 2008

The newly elected Board of Directors of the Grey Bruce Cultural Network is pleased to announce that its process of registration as a not-for-profit corporation is complete and the following officers have been appointed to two-year terms:

President: Paul Conway, Voyageur Storytelling, Northern Bruce Peninsula

Vice-President: John Harrison, Tempo Foundation, Georgian Bluffs

Treasurer: Anne Frost, arts management specialist, Georgian Bluffs

Secretary: Joan Chandler, Sheatre, Kemble

Director: Judith Glover, Owen Sound Little Theatre, residing in Meaford

The Grey Bruce Cultural Network is a regional service organization dedicated to encouraging and supporting arts, culture and heritage in all their diversity throughout the region.

Since 2005 the Network has been guided by a Steering Committee of volunteers who have launched the Network, directed the construction of its web site (www.gbcn.ca), and organized the first Annual Gathering held in Hanover in November 2007.

In May this year the Network carried out its first Annual General Process, a pioneering use of e-mail to achieve the purposes of an annual general meeting, which approved the by-laws and the program, and elected the Board of Directors.

Grey Bruce covers a large area, and arts-culture-heritage encompasses a huge diversity. The Network grows out of the idea that not only the cultural sector but the region as a whole can benefit from the kinds of support and developmental energy found in arts councils and similar service organizations in other regions.

“Arts, culture and heritage are exceptionally vibrant in Grey Bruce,” says Conway, “but costs are high, and so are barriers to growth, both artistic and financial. Isolation, poverty, and the daily hard grind to make a living, are not kind to creativity and the free play of the imagination, which are so important to a healthy society.”

The principal activities and services of the Network in the next two years will be:

www.GBCN.ca. To develop and promote the Network’s web site as a tool both for the cultural sector and for those who want to find out about events and activities in Grey Bruce. Growing numbers of individuals and organizations in arts, culture and heritage are on the List and using the web site to promote their activities and share information. The website manager is Emma Hogbin, of xtrinsic, Owen Sound.

Communications and Awareness. To get the word out; to stimulate interaction and the pursuit of mutual interests throughout arts, culture and heritage in Grey Bruce; to encourage general awareness of cultural energy and creativity in all forms.

Cultural Mapping. To describe, understand and display the characteristics and dynamics of the arts-culture-heritage phenomenon in Grey Bruce.

Funding and Resources. To raise money and recruit volunteers for the work that needs to be done.

Arts, Culture and Heritage Support. To respond to particular requests for service and support from arts, culture and heritage individuals and groups.

The second annual Fall Gathering will be held on November 9th, and will focus on the Cultural Map. Details will be announced when confirmed.

The Grey Bruce Cultural Network invites and encourages those concerned with arts, culture and heritage to add their names to the List and get involved. Sign up through www.gbcn.ca.

For further information, contact Paul Conway, 519-795-7477, mail@voyageurstorytelling.ca

Directors and officers of the Grey Bruce Cultural Network, from left, Anne Frost, John Harrison, Paul Conway and Joan Chandler, with committee member Meri-Diane Carroll of Meaford. Absent: Judith Glover and Emma Hogbin.

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