Canadian Heritage Announces New Committee for Green Shift in Arts, Culture and Heritage
/The following is excerpted from a release issued by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
On August 13, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced the creation of two ministerial consulting committees to help support a green shift in the arts, culture, heritage and sport sectors. One committee will be dedicated to the arts, culture and heritage sectors while the other will be dedicated to the sport sector.
Canadian Heritage recognizes that a green shift in these sectors can encourage further change and engage society as a whole in efforts to address climate change issues.
These committees will help guide Canadian Heritage in supporting the arts, culture, heritage and sport sectors as they develop, adopt or enhance their environmental practices as well as continue their important work as leaders of environmental change in our society.
With the help of key stakeholders, the Department of Canadian Heritage aims to strengthen its role in ensuring that it can be a leader in contributing to Canada's goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
The members of the arts, culture and heritage sectors committee are:
Valerie Creighton, President and CEO, Canada Media Fund;
Marcia Douglas, Senior Director, Business Affairs, Canadian Media Producers Association;
Jérôme Dupras, Professor of Ecological Economics at the Université du Québec en Outaouais and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Ecological Economics at the Institute of Temperate Forests Science (ISFORT);
Ian Garrett, Associate Professor of Ecological Design for Performance, York University in Toronto. Co-founder and director of the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA), and Producer at ToasterLab;
Clara George, Chair of Green Committee, Directors Guild of Canada;
David Hardy, Vice President, Sustainability & Stakeholder Affairs, William F. White International Inc.;
Zena Harris, President and Founder, Green Spark Group;
David Maggs, Artistic Director, Gros Morne Summer Music, Sustainability Expert, Author, Metcalfe Foundation Innovation Fellow; Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainability;
Benoit Mathieu, Advisor – Strategy & Circular Economy, Écoscéno;
Caroline Voyer, Executive Director, Conseil québécois des événements écoresponsables;
Keith Woods, President-Elect of International Alliance of Theatrical Stages Employees (IATSE) and chair of the IA national green committee.
You can learn more about the committees, including the members of the sports committee, as well as the Department’s other green initiatives, here.
[Cut image: Ice Watch, an installation by Olafur Eliasson. Henry Nicholls/Reuters.]
