Industry Partners
The Alberta Partners for Arts and Culture is a coalition comprised of Alberta’s eight Provincial Arts Service Organizations and four Cultural Industry Associations, including the Alberta Craft Council, Alberta Dance Alliance, Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society, Alberta Media Production Industries Association, Alberta Music, Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta, Book Publishers Association of Alberta, Regroupment artistique francophone de l’Alberta, Theatre Alberta, Visual Arts Alberta – CARFAC and Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
L’Association québécoise des éditeurs de magazines regroupe une quarantaine d’éditeurs et plus de 100 magazines à travers le Québec. Nous couvrons de nombreux segments de l’industrie, allant de la petite maison d’édition aux plus grands éditeurs de la province.
L’industrie du magazine québécois représente un milieu d’une grande vitalité, qui reflète l’immense diversité culturelle du Québec d’aujourd’hui. Nos liens d’affaires sont multiples et nos publications rayonnent partout à travers le Québec.
Nous nous sommes donné comme mission de favoriser la poursuite de l’excellence dans le domaine de l’édition de magazines, de contribuer au développement de l’industrie du magazine – papier et numérique – et de défendre les intérêts de nos membres.
Burke is your skilled guide through clear communication. We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of art, technology, and commerce to be your complete communication source. Burke walks with you through print, signage, design, mail, packaging, promotional and digital media to connect you and your audience. From concept to creation and delivery, we’re here to help you transform your needs and goals into solutions. Burke is your media: simply redefined.
CBN Commercial Solutions, a division of Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited (CBN), is a Calgary based commercial print management solutions provider that has served the Canadian market for more than a century. CBN is a highly regarded international security print and solutions provider with operations in Canada and throughout the world.
Collectively, our organization has considerable experience with providing our customers high quality products and innovative service solutions.
CBN Commercial Solutions has a broad set of capabilities including comprehensive design services, direct marketing services, offset and digital printing, display graphics, warehouse and fulfillment services, online services, as well as complete bindery and finishing.
CentralWeb is a commercial web printer with our primary production facility located in Calgary Alberta. With state of the art prepress, heat set and cold set press lines, multiple bindery lines, and mail services, we are able to offer a wide range of complete print services. Since our inception in 1967, we have been committed to the success of our customers by providing high quality products and service.
As a division of Black Press Media, CentralWeb has expertise in both publishing and print enabling us to uniquely understand the needs of our customers from both perspectives. We are the only commercial heat set web printer located in Alberta and are very proud of our association with AMPA.
Hemlock Connect is a rapidly growing industry leader specializing in mail processing, digital print production, E-Commerce order fulfillment and third-party distribution solutions to a diverse range of clients throughout North America. We proudly operate from two specialized facilities encompassing over 56,000 square feet in Richmond, BC. Our experienced team maintains a dedication to accuracy, reliability and continuous innovation. For more information, please visit hemlockconnect.com
The Magazine Association of BC (MagsBC) was founded in 1993 to represent, connect and promote the British Columbia magazine industry.
Our membership and affiliate base consists of publishers, editors, writers, designers, salespeople, printers and developers who work for magazine titles that range from literary and lifestyle to business and news, and are in both online and in print formats.
Magazines Canada is the national trade association representing Canadian-owned, Canadian- content consumer, cultural, specialty, professional and business media magazines. French and English member titles o er a wide range of topics including business, professional, news, politics, sports, arts and culture, leisure, lifestyle, women and youth, made available on multiple platforms. The association focuses on government a airs, services to the advertising trade, circulation marketing and the development of career skills for and the recognition of excellence among the people who work in Canada’s magazine media.
Since the beginning, our approach and the growth of our business has been shaped by our people and our relationships. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology while also adhering to sound environmental practices has ensured we’ve always delivered optimum results.
We strive to be reliable, accountable, and consistent, yet remain curious. We believe in providing our partners with the right advice to help achieve their business and creative objectives – from how to get the most value for their budget to how to create the most spectacular showpiece.
Visit us at www.mitchellpress.com @mitchell.printers
Mount Royal University’s four-year Bachelor of Communication – Journalism degree aims to develop entrepreneurial multi-media communications skills grounded in critical thinking and ethical and professional practices. Students contribute to The Calgary Journal, an award- winning community news organization that produces a multi-media website, documentaries, and six print news magazines per year. Classes blend practice and theory for a broad-based education of value for many career choices.
Our faculty members blend extensive professional experience with current media research expertise. We focus on nurturing student journalists’ abilities in a supportive environment geared toward student success. Among other program requirements, journalism students complete one paid, full-time, supervised professional work experience (12 week, 450 hour minimum), from either May – August, September – December, or January – April.
TC Transcontinental is Canada’s largest printer with approximately 3,500 employees, a network of 12 coast-to-coast printing plants, and, an integrated service offering for publishers, retailers, and advertisers, including printing, finishing and biding, in-store marketing (ISM), full service premedia and distribution services
For over 45 years, we have been helping our customers maximize their results by effectively integrating innovative printing solutions, helping publishers and marketers deliver their content. We are constantly improving our print offering with the goal of helping our customers better attract, reach and retain their target readers and consumers through our unique customer-oriented service offering which combines mass and personalized solutions.
Trevor Battye Advertising Sales provides client-driven advertising and monetization strategies for print and digital publications, festivals, and events for over 15 years. Clients include The Alberta Teachers Association, The Vancouver Writers Festival, and The Tyee among others. For more information, or to schedule an initial consultation visit tbasales.
Here at Venue, we help culture-obsessed companies transform recurring rituals – like All Hands, Town Halls, Exec AMAs, and more – into beautiful and interactive livestreams. You can still use Zoom or Teams or Meet for meetings – but Venue is for your special events that need to inspire and engage.
We’re already working with creative enterprises like Shopify, Wealthsimple, Loblaw Digital and more to engage their teams, reflect their culture, and build authentic community.
Vividata is Canada’s authoritative source for consumer and cross-media insights, and the leading provider of cross platform audience measurement. Used by over 500 agencies, advertisers and media companies, the SCC | Study of the Canadian Consumer is the largest syndicated study in the country, surveying over 40,000 Canadians and reporting on 40 markets, over 4,000 brands and 60,000 variables in each release.
Wordfest™ beams out from Calgary, Canada in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, Treaty 7 territory. We are an entrepreneurial arts non-profit founded in 1996 as one of Canada’s leading literary festivals. Our small team’s mission (which is to connect the world’s best audiences with the world’s best authors) has evolved to include producing lively, accessible shows year-round, in addition to the fall Imaginairium Festival. Our unique (and free) Wordfest Youth program focuses on Grades 5 to 12 to fuel teen literacy, providing interactive experiences and class sets of books to thousands of students every year. We also produce Imagine On Air Audio, as well as online programming.