Edition: 14th Edition CNMN Bulletin | 7

Thanks to fund­ing from the Creator’s Assis­tance Pro­gramme (SOCAN Foun­da­tion), CNMN will be host­ing 7 region­al meet­ings in the 2012 – 2013 sea­son. The board is cur­rent­ly work­ing on meet­ing details and sched­ules, and we will announce the full sched­ule lat­er. Check back on our web site event page as we con­tin­ue to update and add to the information.

The goals of these meet­ings are:

1. To give CNMN mem­bers access to some pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties that they might not have access to otherwise
2. To give CNMN mem­bers a chance to con­nect and meet oth­er new music artists in their region
3. To do some out­reach to find new mem­bers in a wide diver­si­ty of artis­tic practices

Each meet­ing will be orga­nized by the CNMN region­al board mem­ber, and we are try­ing to make each meet­ing very spe­cif­ic to your region. Cana­da is a big, com­plex coun­try, it is def­i­nite­ly not “one size fits all”. It is a high pri­or­i­ty to make sure that region­al con­cerns and region­al real­i­ties are a big part of these meet­ings. If you would like to help with your region­al meet­ing, or have an idea to present, con­tact your local CNMN board mem­ber. See the sched­ule page for con­tact details.

The region­al meet­ings in our first round in 2011 were very infor­mal­ly struc­tured dis­cus­sions, a great way for us to get things mov­ing. How­ev­er, these meet­ings will be some­what more focused on pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment and net­work­ing, try­ing to lead to some more con­crete, tan­gi­ble actions. What those actions are will vary from region to region, but if we work togeth­er as a com­mu­ni­ty, both region­al­ly and nation­al­ly, we can have a much greater impact.

Direct arti­cle link: Region­al Meet­ings 2012 — 2013
14th edi­tion CNMN Bul­letin — Sep­tem­ber 2012

In May 2012 CNMN Pres­i­dent Tim Brady met with Mr. Pierre Lalonde of the Depart­ment of Cana­di­an Her­itage to dis­cuss the issues around record­ing grants at FACTOR.  M. Lalonde was quite recep­tive to CNMN’s per­spec­tive, and we are cur­rent­ly work­ing with Her­itage Cana­da and FACTOR to try to improve the jury sys­tem and fund­ing struc­ture so that greater diver­si­ty of music, includ­ing new musi­cal prac­tices, are ade­quate­ly rep­re­sent­ed in the FACTOR process.

Direct link: Her­itage Cana­da and FACTOR
14th edi­tion CNMN Bul­letin — Sep­tem­ber 2012 

So far, CNM­N’s mem­ber­ship has grown by fifty-five in 2012, with mem­bers hail­ing from all across Cana­da, and an empha­sis on BC due to our nation­al Forum in Van­cou­ver ear­ly in the new year. More mem­bers in our net­work means stronger rep­re­sen­ta­tion and con­nec­tion for our com­mu­ni­ty. We warm­ly wel­come all our new mem­bers, and we hope this marks the begin­ning of a long-last­ing and fruit­ful collaboration.

The new mem­bers are list­ed below, many of which have web sites for fur­ther infor­ma­tion. We also hope all our mem­bers get a chance to check each oth­er out – you can access a full list of mem­bers on our web site, view­able by cat­e­go­ry, region or name.

Who will be the 56th new member?

New Voting Members

New Supporting Membres

Direct arti­cle link: Wel­come 55 New Members
14th edi­tion CNMN Bul­letin — Sep­tem­ber 2012 

The new CNMN Web Site is now up and run­ning, designed by Christo­pher Willes. If you are read­ing this, you are already here! New fea­tures include a front page with a pho­to album, as well as the new Pay­Pal option when you pay your annu­al dues using the online mem­ber­ship form.

Got a great pho­to we can share in our front-page album? See here for more details.

One of the com­plex­i­ties of the project was mov­ing from the pro­pri­etary Dif­fu­sion I Média site to a more stan­dard­ized Word­Press-based site. In the long run, the use of a stan­dard­ized soft­ware for­mat will give us more flex­i­bil­i­ty. But the tran­si­tion was long and com­plex, with many hours of dis­cus­sion and proof­read­ing (found an error or bug? Let us know!).

We are plan­ning to update the site, a ver­sion 2.0, as funds and time become available.

Direct arti­cle link: New Web Site, Pay­Pal Option
14th edi­tion CNMN Bul­letin — Sep­tem­ber 2012

Along with our new web site, this 14th edi­tion of the e‑Bulletin has gone through a change as well. No longer a PDF, it is now more direct­ly incor­po­rat­ed into our web site. We’re hop­ing this new for­mat will make our sto­ries, com­men­taries and announce­ments more acces­si­ble and eas­i­er to share. We are begin­ning with a very bare-bones approach, with the hope that in the future we can put in place fea­tures and struc­tures that make it even eas­i­er to access archival con­tent. For exam­ple, we still have very worth­while and rel­e­vant mate­r­i­al that deserves to be eas­i­er to find, such as those from Forum 2009 and Forum 2010.

Direct arti­cle link: Bul­letin Changes
14th edi­tion CNMN Bul­letin – Sep­tem­ber 2012