RESOURCES
UNDERSTANDING AMAAS AND APAC
AMAAS is part of the Alberta Partners for Arts and Culture (APAC) – a coalition of Alberta’s 8 Provincial Arts Service Organizations and 4 Cultural Industry Associations. APAC currently has 7,000 members – individuals and organizations, businesses and schools, amateurs and professionals. APAC organizations collectively represent the needs of all aspects of art and culture in Alberta, including craft, visual arts, media arts, theatre, dance, music, arts touring, writing, francophone arts and culture, as well as book and magazine publishers, film and media art production, and the sound recording industry.
APAC is:
Alberta Craft Council
Alberta Dance Alliance
Alberta Magazine Publishers Association
Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society
Alberta Media Production Industry Association
Alberta Music Industry Association
Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta
Book Publishers Association of Alberta
Regroupement artistique francophone de l’Alberta
Theatre Alberta
Visual Arts Alberta – CARFAC
Writers Guild of Alberta
Important Organizational and Resource Links
- Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference(ARCCC-CCCAA)
- Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO)
- Association of Artist-Run Centres from the Atlantic (AARCA)
- Canadian Arts Coalition
- CARFAC
- Independent Media Arts Alliance IMAA/AAMI
- Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (PAARC)
- National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition
- IMAASource is a searchable collection of resources and tools for media arts organizations and practitioners from related fields developed by the Independent Media Arts Alliance.
- IMAA Resources – (Re)conciliation
- Land Acknowledgment
- First Nation Elder Protocol
- 21 Things you may not have known about the Indian Act
- NFB Collection of Indigenous-made films
- 2017 National Compensation Study – For Managerial and Administrative Positions in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations
- Media Arts Galleries Research Study (Kevin Allen, 2010)
In Conversation with Bonnie Thompson
Bonnie Thompson is a veteran National Film Board of Canada producer, working with media makers and producers on a slate of documentary, interactive, and animation productions, out of the North West Studio. With over 70 credits, Thompson’s productions have been broadcast on national and international television, shown on the web, and screened at festivals in Canada and around the world.
Now retired from the NFB, Bonnie shares insights and advise for filmmakers in conversation with Sharon Stevens, Executive Director AMAAS.
Watch video here.
IMAA Fee Schedule 2024
Recommended fee schedule for single screenings, package fees, and installation fees.
Code of Conduct
The Canadian Creative Industries Code of Conduct to Prevent and Respond to Harassment, Discrimination, Bullying and Violence. The Code represents a commitment by engaged stakeholders to shift the culture, to prevent and respond to harassment including sexual harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence and to ensure every workplace is one where safety, respect and professionalism are the norm. Read more here.
FURTHER READING
Alberta Artists and the Canada Council: Research for AMAAS
By Peter Hemminger
Research paper and presentation of Canada Council for the Arts funding opportunities and challenges for Alberta media artists.
On Sound: Culture of Sound, Sound as Culture
By Lindsay Sorrell
Writing on the 2019 On Sound Media Arts Conference
Prairie Tales: A History
Populated with interviews from Alberta’s media arts communities, Prairie Tales: A History tells the seventeen-year story of sharing short films and videos made by Albertan artists.
Sweet Sixteen: A History of AMAAS
A comprehensive story recounting the origins of AMAAS in the late 1980’s and its formal history from 1991 to 2007. Launched at the 2007 AMAAS Conference in Lethbridge, AB.
Found in Translation: Writing on Prairie Tales 7
The critical reviews in this booklet were generated by a one-day workshop sponsored by Alberta Media Arts. Red Deer College for A Thousand Words Exactly: Writing About Film and Video. May 2005
APAC Arts Advocacy Final Report
By Michele Wozny
APAC Arts Advocacy Initiative arranged meetings between Alberta’s 87 MLAs, which were to take place in their home constituency offices during Home Constituency Week, Nov. 12 – 14, 2013. APAC Volunteers were to be recruited from the member ship of each of the 12 organizations that constitute the APAC Coalition. The APAC Volunteers delivered key messages about the importance of arts and culture in Alberta, carefully established within two documents (the APAC Volunteer Preparation Kit and the MLA Advocacy Handout). A secondary goal for the project was to develop rapport between Alberta’s elected representatives and the cultural sector.
AMAAS Collections Report
By Michele Wozny
The AMAAS Collections Report explores issues of media arts preservation and collecting in Alberta.
Media Arts Galleries Research Study
By Kevin Allen, 2010
A feasibility study of permanent media arts gallery spaces in the province of Alberta
MISSION
AMAAS exists to advocate, educate, and celebrate the media arts in Alberta.
VISION
The media arts in Alberta is advanced through the generation of awareness, strengthening of connections, and continuous advocacy. AMAAS builds a sustainable and vibrant future for media arts in Alberta.
DEFINITION OF MEDIA ART
AMAAS defines media art as independent artist initiated and controlled use of film, video, new media, audio/sound art and related media.
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