Excerpt from The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.” Currently, in Canada and elsewhere, this is not the case. For many reasons, cultural participation remains the

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