Canadians will be voting in a general election on Monday, May 2. As a founding member of the Canadian Arts Coalition, Orchestras Canada will be supporting the Coalition’s efforts to ensure that the arts stay on the election agenda, and we’ll be working through the Coalition and its network to provide access to a range of resources that orchestra-loving Canadians can use to inform themselves and engage with the candidates.

While the development of these resources is ongoing, some things are already in place.

Social media strategies
1. The Coalition hosts a lively page on Facebook, and we invite you and the people you know to publish your updates, links and reports there. You can find the CAC at facebook.com/artscoalition.

2. If you are on Twitter, and you are tweeting about federal election arts issues, we ask that you consider using the hashtag #artsvotecan — and tell everyone you know to do the same!

Election Toolkit
3. A team of volunteers is assembling an election toolkit for the Canadian Arts Coalition website at canadianartscoalition.com. We’ll be able to tell you more about it next week, but it will ultimately include a messaging piece, some door-step questions, compelling arts facts, a Twitter primer, links to relevant local, provincial and national resources, analyses of the party platforms, and guidelines for registered charities during elections.