Video — Video Miniseries: Promoting Canadian culture, values and voices in the digital age — National Culture Summit: The Future of Arts, Culture and Heritage in Canada, Ottawa, May 2-4, 2022
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Video transcript of Video Miniseries: Promoting Canadian culture, values and voices in the digital age — National Culture Summit: The Future of Arts, Culture and Heritage in Canada, Ottawa, May 2-4, 2022
Video length: 03:13
[♪ Music – The National Culture Summit branding and the video theme appear. Text on screen: National Culture Summit: The future of arts, culture and heritage, Promoting Canadian culture, values and voices]
Sophie Prégent – President of Union des artistes: [Translated from French] When we go to the theatre, when we go to the movies, when we read literature, when we go to the opera, it changes our outlook on the world. I like to think that people become more respectful, more attuned to differences, more open minded. We will always have to leave that role to the artists. They have to remain in the foreground. They jostle us, they disturb us, they make us laugh and they make us cry, but they prompt us to grow.
Camila Gonzalez – Senior Producer and Journalist at TLN Media Group: I think the beautiful thing we have in Canada is how many different stories there are to tell. We have to have the same opportunities to tell those stories, the same opportunities to access arts and culture. We have to start eliminating financial barriers, start eliminating so many of those obstacles that are not allowing certain voices to be heard.
Annick Charette – President of Fédération nationale des communications et de la culture: [Translated from French] Everyone is more or less trapped in their own algorithms from the moment they begin surfing the Internet. We will not be exposed to other realities, so it may be time to consider how algorithms work, which bubble we occupy, and how we can expose ourselves to different perspectives other than our personal convictions that simply mirror who we are.
Tammy Lee – Chief Executive Officer of Culture Creates: We have an opportunity to build digital infrastructures that enable and that reflect the integrity of the cultural sector. We want to promote the values of the cultural sector but use platforms that do not have the same values, it is off or not. The art sector is wonderful in building new visions of where society needs to be, but to reach far, we have to cast deep. So, we need to provide the infrastructures, so we can actually reach those, you know, vision goals of the art sector, and the cultural sectors, where they want to go to. Yeah, we need to regulate the commercial platforms, absolutely. But we also need to go behind and build our own infrastructures, so we can build algorithms that reflect our values that we want. So, it is about integrity at a very core level.
Annick Charette – President of Fédération nationale des communications et de la culture: [Translated from French] The Internet also provides us with the possibility of creating with less. I think we should encourage communities, all communities, to have their say and tell their stories. We do not necessarily mean folklore when we say “tell their stories”, we mean “today’s reality”. These people participate as citizens, citizens of both Canada and Quebec in our case, and I think it is important to be exposed to that. We are a whole, not individual components who happen to be seated in the same room at the same time. We come together to create something called society, and everyone should hear the other person’s vision about that society.
Sophie Prégent – President of Union des artistes: [Translated from French] The quality of a society is reflected in the way it treats its minorities. We are one of those minorities.
[♪ Music – The National Culture Summit branding appears. Text on screen: Thank you to the stakeholders from the Canadian arts, culture and heritage sectors who took the time to share their thoughts.]
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