The Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance: Representation: Advocacy & Legal

Representation: Advocacy & Legal

FEDERAL

Actor’s Fund of Canada

Since 1958, the Actors’ Fund of Canada has helped thousands of performers and other entertainment industry professionals to get back on their feet after a major setback. Anyone in the entertainment industry can ask for help: actors, dancers, singers, musicians, writers, composers, directors, choreographers, designers, technical crew, film, television and theatre craftspeople, and supporting staff at performance venues. When artists in need have nowhere else to turn, the Fund can intervene at a critical moment with a rent cheque, grocery money, subsidy for prescription drugs, or other emergency financial assistance.
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The Canadian Conference of the Arts is the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada. It provides research, analysis and consultations on public policies affecting the arts and the Canadian cultural institutions and industries. The CCA fosters informed public debate on policy issues and seeks to advance the cultural rights of Canadians. It is an advocacy group created to impress upon governments and the general public the importance of the arts and cultural industries in Canadian society. The Canadian Conference of the Arts is Canada’s oldest and largest arts advocacy group representing the Canadian cultural community.
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PROVINCIAL

Pro Bono Law Ontario (PBLO)

Pro Bono Law Ontario is a charitable organization that promotes access to justice in Ontario by creating and promoting opportunities for lawyers to provide pro bono (free) legal services to persons of limited means. For more links to relevant representation services and organizations, check out PBLO’s More Help page.
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Volunteer Lawyers Service is a registered project of Pro Bono Law Ontario that offers free legal support to eligible charitable and nonprofit organizations in Ontario that otherwise could not afford the services of a lawyer. VLS matches community agencies with volunteer lawyers who can help with a range of services such as incorporation, charitable registration, board governance, contracts, or trademark registrations. For more links to primarily Ontario based representation service, we encourage you to explore the Links page of VSL’s website.
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ALAS allows artists to obtain summary legal advice from Toronto’s skilled entertainment law community. Issues frequently dealt with include the clarification of contractual provisions, the identification of problem clauses in contracts and the elucidation of an artist’s rights under current copyright legislation.
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Pro Bono Québec’s main mission is to promote and coordinate pro bono legal work to resolve cases that are exceptional, raise issues of public interest or in which citizens or groups of citizens lacking the financial resources to defend their rights could suffer permanent harm.
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Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan is a non-profit corporation that improves access to justice in Saskatchewan by creating, facilitating, and promoting opportunities for lawyers to provide high-quality pro bono (free) legal services to persons of limited means. PBLS provides free legal service to charitable, non-profit, religious, civic, community, governmental and education organizations in matters that are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means or which work for the public good of marginalized or disadvantaged individuals or groups.
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Pro Bono Law Alberta is a charitable organization that promotes access to justice in Alberta by creating and promoting opportunities for lawyers to provide pro bono (free) legal services to persons of limited means. PBLA was formed in 2007 as the legacy project in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Law Society of Alberta. For more links to representation services in Alberta, we encourage you to explore the Links page of PBLA’s website.
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Volunteer Lawyers Service is a pro bono program, initiated by the United Way of Calgary and Area, the Canadian Bar Association Alberta, the Law Society of Alberta, and the Association of General Counsel of Alberta. The VLS assists eligible non-partisan charitable organizations in obtaining pro bono legal services that would otherwise be unavailable to them due to a lack of financial resources.
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To advance access to justice by developing and facilitating opportunities for the effective provision of high-quality pro bono legal services to people and non-profit organizations of limited means throughout British Columbia, and by supporting potential and existing pro bono legal service providers in British Columbia.

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