2012 Lecture - Arts Everywhere

The 10th annual Guelph Lecture—On Being Canadian was held on November 9, 2012. The keynote speaker, Dr. Henry Mintzberg, proposes “communityship” as a way to move beyond the unequal distribution of power and economics (what he calls the “unholy alliance of economic dogma and corporate entitlement”) to collective action. His complete lecture is available to watch in our highlights section, as is Eleanor Wachtel‘s literary presentation. Our musical performance for 2012 was multiple award winning composer and musician Sarah Neufeld.

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Essays

A Decade of Ideas

Originally published November 2012

by Joy Roberts

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Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University, Dr. Henry Mintzberg has been teaching since 1968. The author of more than 15 books on the subject of management, he is regularly hailed as the world’s premier management thinker, being named as one of four Canadians on the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the world for 2012. Mintzberg is also the recipient of a number of honours, including an Officer of the Order of Canada, l’Ordre National du Quebec, and two McKinsey prizes for articles in the Harvard Business Review. Just as importantly, Henry Mintzberg is a public intellectual with the ability to observe, analyze and communicate in a variety of fields, effectively linking his perceptive analysis to larger social issues. He advocates for the elimination of CEO bonuses and the corporate culture of heroic leadership—speculating that their interference with management is at the heart of the global financial crisis.

Originally from Vancouver Island, BC, Sarah Neufeld is best known as a member of the indie rock phenomenon, Arcade Fire, and the instrumental post-rock ensemble, Bell Orchestre. Beginning with the violin at the age of three, her musical pursuits have led to the receipt of five Juno awards, two Brit awards, Canada’s Polaris Prize, and a Grammy Award for Album of the Year through her collaborations. More recently, Sarah has collaborated with Montreal bands The Luyas, Snailhouse, Esmerine and Colin Stetson (a fellow Polaris Prize nominee), and featured player at the 2012 Guelph Jazz Festival. In 2011, she created a body of music for solo violin, which was featured in a short film titled Scalpel/Stradivarius by Jason Last for Italian Vogue.

Our emcee for 2012 was Guelph-based producer, composer, remixer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew McPherson. McPherson has worked with a plethora of artists over his decades-long career, including Vieux Farka Touré, Real World artists Dub Colossus and Syriana, Kiran Ahluwalia, Philosopher Kings, Delhi 2 Dublin, Stephen Fearing, Kate Schutt, Transglobal Underground, Jane Siberry and The Rankins. He is also the brains behind world fusion project Eccodek (2009 Juno nominees and two-time Canadian Music Award winner). Andrew has released three solo albums, with 2010’s Lefty Singer being voted a top-10 release by CBC’s Fresh Air. His original soundtrack collaboration with Eccodek’s Deliveryboy for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (Metropolis Re:Scored) continues to be showcased at film festivals across Canada. Eccodek released their first live recording, Living for Live, in 2012, followed by a studio release called Singing in Tongues. Andrew also maintains a busy life as a professional voice actor, having been the network announcer for Discovery Channel and voicing countless ad campaigns throughout Canada and the U.S.

Essays

A Decade of Ideas

Originally published November 2012

Highlights