Art and Politics
A Two Launch Evening
Celebrating the arrival of a new book is always a happy affair. When you are working on a book inside a publishing house you spend a great deal of time crafting the message, getting the look right and preparing the book for the market. For a publisher, or anyone working on that book, the book [...]
Art and Politics: Interviews with Peter Herrndorf
Peter Herrndorf – today’s President and CEO of the National Arts Centre (title changed from Director General used in Southam’s day) comments on the importance of good contacts in government to get things done at federal cultural agencies and the connections he developed, especially with former Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, the [...]
Art and Politics: Interviews on the National Arts Centre
Yesterday, in celebration of the launch of Art and Politics, we brought you an interview with G. Hamilton Southam.
Today we’ll continue this series with conversations with Marcel Masse, Marti Maraden, and Robert Lepage.
On political patronage – The Hon. Marcel Masse was the minister responsible for culture on the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. [...]
Art and Politics: Interviews with G. Hamilton Southam
We’re very excited that today is the release of a Dundurn book on the history of the National Arts Centre, Art and Politics.
The author, Sarah Jennings, is a political/cultural journalist who served for nearly a decade as the CBC’s national arts reporter from Ottawa. She’s provided us with some of the MP3’s of her interviews [...]
A Day in the Life of a Publicist
Oh what an exciting day! Not only did today see the launch of Bookarmy, but it is also Canada Book Day and Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. In light of it being Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day we here at Dundurn thought why not tweak the name a bit [...]
