Creative Industries Panel at Cultivating and Sustaining Your Creative Economy

Using the Arts and Cultural Industries as Catalysts to Grow Your Economy

Fashion, media, and other cultural industries all have unique characteristics that contribute significantly to your region’s economic success. Take away key strategies to enhance growth in your community.

• Understand how creative industries spark economic development
• Investigate mechanisms that foster success in such industries
• Identify the industry that your city can capitalize on
• Recognize how smaller communities can tap into such opportunities

Understand the dynamics of various creative industries and their role in sparking and rejuvenating your economy.

Be sure to see the CFC Media Lab’s Senior Training Programs Manager, Jacqueline Nuwame, speak about her insights on the creative industries at this amazing conference!

Moderator

Frank Miele, CAO, Town of Gravenhurst

Participants

Norm Bolen, President & CEO, Canadian Media Production Association
Shelley Carroll, City Councillor, City of Toronto; Board of Directors, Toronto Fashion Incubator
David Buchbinder, CEO/Artistic Director, Diasporic Genius
Jacqueline Nuwame, Senior Training Programs Manager, CFC Media Lab