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It’s been a busy year for PACT, and there’s even more programming on the way for 2020. Here’s what your donations support: CTA Negotiations: As you may know, CTA negotiations…
Easy Steps to Zero Waste Your Concessions, Your Festival – Lessons from Theatre SKAM
By: Kate Wallace, Operations Manager, Theatre SKAM with the help of Sadie Fox of The Sustainable Fox and Emma Leck, Communications Coordinator, SKAM. As a personal New Year’s resolution in January…
CHRC Workshops on Maintaining Respectful Workplaces
Free workshops for the cultural sector At this year’s PACTcon in Saskatoon, I gave a short overview of an initiative called Respectful Workplaces in the Arts, a national campaign in…
Announcing Boomer Stacey as PACT’s New Executive Director
The Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Boomer Stacey as its new Executive Director. An accomplished artist, arts manager, and internationally respected cultural…
Meet Gina Puntil – PACT’s Caucus Advisory Director
Gina is a proud Filipino-Canadian living on Treaty 6 land of Amiskwaciy (Cree), colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta. She has been involved with social active theatre in this province for…
PACTcon2019 Plenary : Work in Progress
PACTcon2019 Plenary: Work in Progress… Saturday, May 25, 2019 Keri Mitchell (Theatre Alberta), Melissa Tsang (Arts Club Theatre Company), & Colin Wolf Transcribed by Melissa Tsang Transcription is of Colin…
Salary Information Becoming Mandatory on Artsboard
Starting Monday, July 22nd, all new job postings on PACT's Artsboard will need to have numerical information about remuneration in the "Salary Range" field in order to be approved and…
An Update on Week 7 of the CTA Negotiations
We have recently concluded our 7th week (about 27 days) of face-to-face negotiations with our partners at Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. We completed a good number of administrative changes to…
Meet Ivan White, Mi’kmaw filmmaker, writer, musician and Chair of the Cultural Diversity Committee
As a filmmaker, writer and musician I seek to combine my formal marketing education with my passion and dedication for the Mi'kmaq community. I make art to act as a…
A Work in Progress – PACTcon2019 Keynote Address by Marcus Youssef
Morning. 9:15 am, best time for a keynote. Good thing everybody was in bed by 10. Sorry, just before I start, are there some kind of negotiations going on? My…
