Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >
To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>
Hi Josh,
You’ve done a really thorough job with this document. I have held back from highlighting because it would just be me double-highlighting the sections you have highlighted!
So, I’ve going through and made a list of the themes and points in Michelle’s conversation that felt extremely pertinent and worth preserving or expanding on further if Michelle wants to write into the transcription (see below). Of course, there is a lot more here than a 3000-word text could possibly hold, but perhaps it is a matter of picking and choosing what Michelle feels most strongly about articulating. Hopefully my notes can be a bit directing in that process.
I think the strongest goal I can articulate for this text comes when Michelle says, "I feel like with newer generations as they come in, we also have a lack of historical knowledge and transition in these spaces is often quite violent and incomplete and traumatic. So it’s hard with that lack of institutional memory.” If her text can work to redress this lack of institutional memory, it will have and incredibly important position in the book.
xLauren
- Michelle’s history and evolving position/identification in the sector
- How labour is quantified vs. how labour is experienced
- How the perception of the CCA process affects funding raising practices and experiences
- Myth of bureaucracy leading to change
- Distribution of resources and false scarcity
- Shifting waves of funding policy in Quebec
- Project funding / Operational funding
- Administration-turn in the work of “cultural workers” pushing artists out of ARCs
- Results of artist-fee reform on cultural-worker labour conditions and ARC funding strategies (The Employee as a literal illustration of this)
- Cultural workers as public servants
- Necessity of pan-sector reform
- Loss of human relationships with the CCA agents (micro-shifts and erosions)
- Politics of “development" grants
- Lack of institutional memory
- Revisioning of CARFAC fees for performance as an illustration of timeline of institutional change
- Metrics of evaluation
- How funding timelines influence creative thinking and output
- Non-artists making decisions and structures for artists
- Covid, CERB, experience of burnout as emotional
You’ve done a really thorough job with this document. I have held back from highlighting because it would just be me double-highlighting the sections you have highlighted!
So, I’ve going through and made a list of the themes and points in Michelle’s conversation that felt extremely pertinent and worth preserving or expanding on further if Michelle wants to write into the transcription (see below). Of course, there is a lot more here than a 3000-word text could possibly hold, but perhaps it is a matter of picking and choosing what Michelle feels most strongly about articulating. Hopefully my notes can be a bit directing in that process.
I think the strongest goal I can articulate for this text comes when Michelle says, "I feel like with newer generations as they come in, we also have a lack of historical knowledge and transition in these spaces is often quite violent and incomplete and traumatic. So it’s hard with that lack of institutional memory.” If her text can work to redress this lack of institutional memory, it will have and incredibly important position in the book.
xLauren
- Michelle’s history and evolving position/identification in the sector
- How labour is quantified vs. how labour is experienced
- How the perception of the CCA process affects funding raising practices and experiences
- Myth of bureaucracy leading to change
- Distribution of resources and false scarcity
- Shifting waves of funding policy in Quebec
- Project funding / Operational funding
- Administration-turn in the work of “cultural workers” pushing artists out of ARCs
- Results of artist-fee reform on cultural-worker labour conditions and ARC funding strategies (The Employee as a literal illustration of this)
- Cultural workers as public servants
- Necessity of pan-sector reform
- Loss of human relationships with the CCA agents (micro-shifts and erosions)
- Politics of “development" grants
- Lack of institutional memory
- Revisioning of CARFAC fees for performance as an illustration of timeline of institutional change
- Metrics of evaluation
- How funding timelines influence creative thinking and output
- Non-artists making decisions and structures for artists
- Covid, CERB, experience of burnout as emotional