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Welcome to the Spring 2019 edition of ACTRA Magazine… Catch up on the latest ACTRA news, stories, accolades and advice from around your union!
Catch up on what’s new with YOUR union in 1,000 words... David welcomes our new National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Marie Kelly, explains our new cancon opportunities for the upcoming federal election, shares an update on our new national ACTRA-DGC helpline and the new ACTRAonlinecommercials.ca.
Labour, bargaining, and relationship building. Keith’s candid interview with our new NED Marie Kelly as she hits the ground running in her new role at ACTRA.
ACTRA’s commitment to making our workplaces safer means our work will continue on many fronts, one step at a time.
Spoiler alert! These diversity and inclusion East-Asian, Middle-Eastern/North-African roundtable videos dig deep, educate, inspire and speak to all of us as artists.
In her 30 years as founding director and chair of the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, Noreen Golfman says the landscape for gender equality has only recently started shifting but not quite fast enough.
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ACTRA Magazine Spring 2019 issue
ACTRA magazine is the official online publication of ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists), a Canadian union of performers affiliated to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the International Federation of Actors (FIA).
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Lisa Blanchette,Francine Deschepper, Ferne Downey, Marie Kelly, Keith Martin Gordey, Daniel Libman, Carol Taverner, David Sparrow, Theresa Tova, Stephen Waddell
CONTRIBUTORS
Lisa Blanchette, Max Bygraves, Francine Deschepper, Randy Duniz, Rhonda Fisekci, Noreen Golfman, Keith Martin Gordey, Richard Hadley, Bobby Hannah, Marie Kelly, Daniel Libman, Rob Macklin, Jennifer McGibbon, Gerry Mendicino, Angela Moore, Eleanor Noble, Victoria Shen, Alison Stewart, Oleg Tishchenkov, Theresa Tova, Stephen Waddell, Tony Walsh, Marshall Williams, Karen Woolridge.
All contents are copyright © 2019 ACTRA. All rights are reserved and contents, in whole or in part may be reprinted without permission. The points of view expressed do not necessarily represent those of ACTRA.
