We invented the National Music Centre charitable organization, and we've been doing work here in Calgary for well over 20 years. We invented the brand of the National Music Centre.

What we've done to fulfill this national mandate is we have about half a dozen partners who we work with across the country, both in the non-profit and the for-profit space. In the non-profit space, we work with several other presenters. We have some emerging partnerships with other venues in Toronto. It's not public yet, because we're still working on the details of what those are.

Once our programming gets up to a certain place, we would like to be able to present some of our programming in Toronto and Montreal. We have relationships in Quebec, as well, that we're working with, because we're a bilingual organization.

Also, on the for-profit side, we're the home of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Those are music industry associations that are all headquartered in Toronto. Their physical halls of fame live here in our building at the National Music Centre at Studio Bell.

Those partnerships took years to develop. When an industry association recognizes artists, they get inducted at particular ceremonies. Those artists are recognized through an exhibit here at the National Music Centre, and the artists themselves actually come to visit the space, spend time at the space [Technical difficulty—Editor] through this region here in Canada.

It's a great national partnership. There's also a live streaming component that we've created for all of our international audiences, which we're starting to develop slowly. Partnerships are how National Music Centre is national.

The second way is that through music industry and non-profit artist development, we bring artists from across Canada to work in our studios. We have very unique recording studio environments here that encompass 450 years' worth of working music technologies. We had an artist, Émile Bilodeau, who was here last week from Quebec. Safia Nolin, another well-known Quebec artist, is coming here to record an album in about two weeks. We've had artists from [Technical difficulty—Editor] as well.

That's another way in which we fulfill our national mandate.

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