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Max Wyman is one of Canada’s leading cultural commentators. He is the author of a number of books on the arts, the latest of which, The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters, is a passionate manifesto asserting the central importance of the arts and culture to modern society. He has taught critical writing and dance history extensively in Canada and Europe, and lectures and consults on public arts policy across North America. He was for six years a member of the board of the Canada Council for the Arts, and in 2006 completed four years as President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCU). For his services to the arts, he was in 2001 made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour, and in 2003 Simon Fraser University made him an honorary Doctor of Letters. He recently completed a three-year term as Mayor of Lions Bay, during which time he chaired the inaugural Metro Vancouver Regional Culture Committee. He is deeply involved in issues around the integration of the arts, culture and creative activity into education. A founding member of the steering committee of the multi-agency Canadian arts and learning action coalition, he chaired a series of CCU cross-Canada consultations on the topic, led the Canadian delegation to the world conference on arts and education in Portugal in the spring of 2006, and was a keynote speaker at the World Creativity Summits in Hong Kong in 2007 and Taipei in 2008. Max's Presentation at Symposium: Levelling the Playing Field: The Role of Recreation and Parks in a Creative Economy Have recreation and parks been given short shrift in the ongoing debates around the increasingly important role of culture in modern Canada? This presentation will redress the balance, putting the grass into grassroots culture and linking parks and recreation to sustainability, creativity and social cohesion - central factors in the construction of the new imagination society. |