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New director for Canada Council
Robert Sirman has been appointed Director of the Canada Council for the Arts. Sirman is a former speechwriter and policy advisor for the Ontario Government. He was heavily involved in establishing Ontario's first ever Ministry of Culture in 1975. He served as Director of Operations and Director of Research and Policy Planning at the Ontario Arts Council from 1980 to 1990, during which time he travelled to England and Wales to study the funding practices of the Arts Council of Great Britain and worked as an intern in the French Ministry of Culture and Communications in Paris. Other previous positions include Administrative Director of the National Ballet School (a 15 year tenure); founding member and vice-chair of the Cultural Human Resources Council; Chaire of the Advisory Council of the University of Toronto’s Co-Op Arts Management Program at Scarborough; President of Peggy Baker Dance Projects; Chair of the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation; and Board member of the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation. In 2004 he was dubbed by the Toronto Star as one of the city’s top 10 “leading lights” in arts and culture, and in June 2006 he was honoured with an Urban Leadership Award by the Canadian Urban Institute. For more information, CLICK HERE.
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