Love Your City: Transforming Communities through Culture

The 2014 Creative City Summit will be

held at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel from

June 11th to 13th, 2014!

The 2014 Summit will ignite participants’

passion for cities and provide an opportunity

for leading thinkers and experts across

Canada to share knowledge, big ideas and

expertise with local government practitioners.

10 Reasons for You to Attend!

1 Only national conference of its kind that focuses on municipalities and culture!

2 Fresh and innovative ideas from Canadian and International Keynote Speakers: Rob Bliss, Rita Davies, Sans façon: Tristan Surtees and Charles Blanc, and Kelly Hill.

3 Public Art programming features diverse topics and engaging discussions beginning with a dynamic, pre-conference round table.

4 P2P Peer-to-Peer sessions, choose from topical and interactive sessions on Transforming Cultural Planning, Communities, Economies and Place.

5 Profi le your municipality by sharing your best practices and innovative initiatives with other delegates.

6 Study Tours – explore the city and experience Hamilton’s art, culture, heritage and creative industries.

7 Discover Hamilton’s vibrant music and art galleries on the Friday night Art Crawl.

8 Meet the Creative City Network Board and Staff and learn about the services and resources we offer.

9 Network with more than 150 delegates from across the country. Come away feeling energized, engaged and connected with peers from across Canada.

10 Collect ideas, resources and tools to implement in your community. “It’s a WIN-WIN for you and your community!”

Creative City Network would like to thank the following for their generous support of the 2014 Creative City Summit in Hamilton:

The Lister Block Building, City of Hamilton

Host Municipality Host Venues Sponsors

Summit Program Highlights

Transforming Cultural PlanningRita Davies – Keynote Speaker Culture Capital, Toronto, ON

Transforming Communities Through Culture Creativity is the key to any really successful cultural planning process. To be able to stimulate a transformation, to be an agent or even a harbinger of change, the process needs to be creative and flexible because you never know what will turn up and you must be open to all ideas and possibilities.

Transforming CommunitiesRob Bliss – Keynote Speaker Rob Bliss Creative, Chicago, IL

The Art of Community Engagement - Rob Bliss will walk audience members through a successful case study of how one community and one citizen teamed up to change the course of a city forever.

Transforming Place Sans façon (Tristan Surtees and Charles Blanc) Keynote Speakers, Calgary, AB

What’s art got to do with it? Sans façon will share how they translate ambitious visions into realisable projects, and their take on the ingredients that need to come together for successful site specific, and contextual projects.

Feature Presentation with Kelly Hill Kelly Hill – PresenterHill Strategies Research, Hamilton, ON

Artists and cultural workers in our communities Kelly Hill’s presentation will delve into key information about the situation of artists and cultural workers, based on the 2011 National Household Survey.

Creative Placemaking PanelPru Robey – Moderator and PanelistArtscape, Toronto, ON

Public Art Round Table Building Connections: Artists, the Public and the Collection

A panel discussion engaging Hamilton-based artists on ideas around building connections between the public and public art works – and relationships between artists, public art and the cities to which they contribute.

The panel features: Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator at University of Waterloo Art

Gallery and member of the TH&B artist collective; Simon Frank, artist and member of TH&B artist collective; Svava Thordis Juliusson, artist, Board Chair, Hamilton Artists Inc.* Public art programming will be featured throughout the 2014 Summit,

beginning with the Public Art Round Table.

Local Arts and Culture Study ToursGet out and about to discover why we love our city! Choose from an eclectic mix of experiences ranging from: a tour of the Art Gallery of Hamilton vaults, McMaster University Music Lab, Creative Dundas, Hamilton’s Heritage Architecture and more.

Optional Evening EventsThursday night, Harbour Sunset Cruise Join the crew of the Hamilton Harbour Queen, for a sunset tour of Hamilton’s waterfront.

Friday night Art Crawl, James Street NorthA grassroots initiative that is open to the public and encourages people to visit the art galleries, shops and restaurants on James Street North.

Rita Davies Rob Bliss Tristan Surtees & Charles Blanc

Kelly Hill

Art Crawl, City of Hamilton

Rafaga – Unleashed, Photo Credit, City of Hamilton

Discuss. Learn. Connect.Join cultural planning practitioners from across

the country for an informative and engaging

professional development experience.

Through interactive sessions, case studies and

keynote addresses, experts will share real

world projects that are transforming cities

across Canada. Delegates will gain insight into

integrating culture within other local planning

initiatives; encouraging and stimulating

“eventful” cities; planning community wide

participatory events; initiating creative

placemaking projects; and creating cultural

hubs in their community.

Make the P2P ConnectionThrough Peer-to-Peer presentations, the Summit will take a behind the scenes look at how people work with and within local governments, and explore how to cultivate creativity within their communities.

17 Peer-to-Peer PresentationsTransforming Cultural PlanningJeff Erbach and Liberty Brears, Regina, SK Inclusion and Prosperity: Integrated Cultural Planning at the City of Regina

Debra Soule, Kawartha Lakes, ON Mapping Intangible Culture

Teri Souter, Huntsville, ON Small Town Cultural Planning on a Shoestring

Michael Tunney and John Ariyo, Mississauga, ON Using Cultural Research Framework as a key strategic tool for local cultural planning

Jeff Evenson, Toronto, ON Culture-led growth plan in Humboldt, SK

Transforming EconomiesDeborah Dee and Robyn Spencer, Powell River, BC Taking on Change: Culture of a City, Culture in a City

Greg Baeker, Toronto, ON, Tools for Urban Transformation: Cultural Mapping in Detroit, MI

Victoria Angel, E.R.A. Architects and Sonia Mrva, City of Hamilton, ON, In with the Old: Repositioning Heritage for Urban Growth and Regeneration

Lucille Bish, Region of Waterloo, ON, Creative Enterprise Initiative: Supporting the Creative Sector

Transforming PlaceSans façon, Heather Aitken and Paul Fesko, Calgary, AB Integrating Connectivity: The Public Art Opportunity Watershed+

Eileen Gillette, Nanaimo, BC Unlocking Creativity in Libraries: Creative Placemaking, partnerships and communities

Jude Ortiz and Dr. Gayle Broad, Sault Ste. Marie, ON Animating Place: A Community-Municipal Partnership

Alejandro Romero, Saskatoon, SK; Joe Sellors and Jenn Goodwin, Toronto, ON, The transformational opportunity of durational public art

Lilie Zendel, StreetARToronto, Toronto, ON Street as Canvas: How StART is painting a different picture on neighbourhoods one wall at a time

Transforming CommunitiesMargo Charlton, Toronto Arts Foundation, Toronto, ON Building a Creative City: Block by Block

David Ridley, Edmonton Heritage Council The Edmonton City as Museum Project

Clayton Windatt, North Bay, ON, with Kristian Clarke and Fynn Leitch, Artist-Run Centre Culture

P2P Ottawa, 2013, Helena Grdadolnik, Photo by: Doris Lamontagne

P2P Ottawa, 2013, Christopher Moreno, Photo by: Doris Lamontagne

Schedule at a GlanceWEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 CREATIVE CITY SUMMIT PRE-CONFERENCE Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, 116 King Street West1:00 - 2:30pm Public Art Round Table

1:30 - 2:30pm Research Round Table: Cultural Statistics Strategy

2:30pm Networking Break

3:00 - 5:00pm Public Art Round Table Continued

CREATIVE CITY SUMMIT EVENING EVENTWelcome Reception Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West

6:30 - 7:00pm Registration and New Delegate Orientation

7:00 - 9:00pm Welcome Reception

S C H E D U L E AT A G L A N C E THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014

Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, 116 King Street West7:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45am Welcome

9:00am Keynote: The Art of Community Engagement, ROB BLISS, Chicago

9:45am Networking Break

10:15am P2P Presentation Breakouts: Transforming Cultural Planning; Transforming Place; Transforming Economies

11:00am Creative Placemaking Panel: Perspectives on Creative Placemaking

Noon Lunch

1:00pm P2P Presentation Breakouts: Transforming Cultural Planning; Transforming Place; Transforming Economies

1:45pm Keynote: Transforming Communities Through Cultural Planning, RITA DAVIES, Toronto

2:30pm Networking Break

3:00 - 5:30pm Local Arts and Culture Study Tours

8:00-9:30pm Optional Evening Event – Sunset Harbour Cruise

S C H E D U L E AT A G L A N C E FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014

Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, 116 King Street West8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am Creative City Network of Canada Annual General Meeting

9:15am Keynote: What’s art got to do with it?, SANS FAÇON (TRISTAN SURTEES AND CHARLES BLANC); Calgary

10:00am Networking Break

10:30am P2P Presentation Breakouts: Transforming Cultural Planning; Transforming Place; Transforming Economies; Transforming Communities

11:15am P2P Presentation Breakouts: Transforming Cultural Planning; Transforming Place; Transforming Economies; Transforming Communities

Noon Lunch

1:00pm P2P Presentation Breakouts: Transforming Cultural Planning; Transforming Place; Transforming Communities

1:45pm Feature Presentation: Artists and Cultural Workers in Our Communities, KELLY HILL, Hamilton

2:45pm 2015 Creative City Summit Preview and Closing Remarks

3:00 - 5:30pm Local Arts and Culture Study Tours

6:00-7:30pm Optional Evening Event - Salute to Tourism

CREATIVE CITY SUMMIT EVENING EVENT7:00pm - late Friday Night Art Crawl

*Schedule is subject to change