The goal of the Reimagine CBC project is to spark a brainstorm on the future of public media in Canada.
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Reimagine CBC Celebration: Past, Present, and Future
May 7 2012 - 7:00pm
May 7 2012 - 10:00pm
Location
The Vogue Theatre
918 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 1L2Canada
49° 16' 48.4176" N, 123° 7' 18.0264" W
See map: Google Maps
Reimagine CBC - Celebrating CBC: Past, Present, and Future
WHAT: An interactive event bringing together seasoned professionals, up-and-coming CBC talent, outside experts, media innovators, musicians and citizens in a celebratory atmosphere that will add new energy to the CBC and help to articulate a fresh vision for public media in Canada.
Contact name:
Tara Mahoney
Contact email:
Public broadcasting, public media and the CBC
Last weekend, Peter Mansbridge opened the lid on Kony 2012, the viral video about child soldiers in Uganda, and quickly closed it. CBC news' voice of authority asked his guest, another iconic Canadian, Stephen Lewis, authoritative voice of our humanity you might say: "What's the take-away on this?" As if: Enough chit-chat, Stephen. Let's nail down its significance and move on.
Mansbridge lives in a world of take-aways: definitive judgments that acknowledged authorities like he and Stephen Lewis get to make, leaving others to humbly accept or grind their teeth while spitting some lonely demurs.
Reimagine CBC: Canadians come together to think big in troubled times
In late January, a small team gleaned from the ranks of Vancouver-based citizens' organizations OpenMedia.ca and Leadnow.ca took the wraps off an exciting new project called Reimagine CBC. The goal was simple, but ambitious: to spark a massive brainstorm on the future of public media in Canada by asking Canadians how the CBC, as a public broadcaster, could be reimagined as a leader in participatory, innovative and engaging media production.
