Tell Your Candidates That Arts Matter

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Right now, we need to tell candiates to make arts, culture and heritage an election priority. Here's why:

Economy

• Investing in the creative economy is an investment in jobs. The province’s main economic drivers are now based around innovation, creativity and the knowledge economy.
• The culture and technology industry combined earns more than manufacturing, mining and the agriculture/fishing/forestry industries.
• A robust cultural sector raises BC’s profile nationally and internationally.

Education

• Students with an education rich in the arts have better grade point averages and are three times more likely to get a degree.

Health and ...

Right now, we need to tell candiates to make arts, culture and heritage an election priority. Here's why:

Economy

• Investing in the creative economy is an investment in jobs. The province’s main economic drivers are now based around innovation, creativity and the knowledge economy.
• The culture and technology industry combined earns more than manufacturing, mining and the agriculture/fishing/forestry industries.
• A robust cultural sector raises BC’s profile nationally and internationally.

Education

• Students with an education rich in the arts have better grade point averages and are three times more likely to get a degree.

Health and Wellbeing

• Regardless of income level or education, participation in culture is strongly associated with good health and high life satisfaction.

Society

• Experiencing creativity that deals with poverty, sexuality, racism, and other issues helps us understand humanity and break down boundaries.

Click on artsvotebc.ca for more information about arts advocacy and the 2018 BC muicipal elections, which take place October 20.

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Email your local candidates

Be part of BC Alliance for Arts + Culture's municiplal elections advocacy campaign for arts, culture and heritage. Tell your candidates that you want them to make arts and culture a platform priority.

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Dear Candidate,

As a constituent voting in your jurisdiction, I am writing to impress upon you the importance of arts, culture and heritage as an economic engine and a source of community wellbeing, and to ask you to make arts and culture a definitive part of your electoral platform.

Mounting research indicates that a robust investment in the arts contributes significantly to the economy, to education, to healthcare, to social services and more. Creativity helps us to understand ourselves and the world around us, and is essential to an innovative, prosperous and inclusive community.

I believe it is the responsibility of government to ensure that the arts are sufficiently funded, and furthermore, to understand and promote the true value of arts, culture and heritage in our lives.

I’m asking you to commit to making arts and culture a key priority in your campaign, and if elected, in your government. It's time to decolonize the systems that have ignored our creative potential and move towards the future with hope.

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