arts councils
MAC takes over project
By Carol Aun, Mission City Record, December 1, 2010 The Mission Arts Council (MAC) has revived the photo mural project proposed for the Leisure Centre. MAC executive director Nancy Arcand picked up the phone to offer help as soon as she heard early last week the donations were to be returned and the project cancelled. [...]
New Westminster: Arts council in the business of art
For many, the arts are beautiful voices, graceful dancers and inspirational paintings. Yet, deep within the fabric of the arts world there are people focused on the “business of art” rather than its creation. One such group of people is the New Westminster Arts Council board of directors. One role they perform is to secure [...]
Saanich: Art show funds school program
There is a very positive feeling within the arts community on the Peninsula. Despite the current economic uncertainty, the Sidney Fine Art Show was an outstanding success, financially and artistically. This success, in these times of reduced and unstable funding for the arts in BC, will ensure that local programs such as the arts council’s [...]
Invermere: A new floor to stand on at DTSS theatre
The Columbia Valley Arts Council along with a large group of contributors have worked together to start upgrades to the theatre in David Thompson Secondary School (DTSS). The facility is used both by the school and other types of shows brought forward by various groups in the Columbia Valley. The “Enhancing Performing Arts in the [...]
Duncan: Arts council scores free use of former community-centre cafe as gallery HQ
Arts leaders are applauding Thursday’s nod by Island Savings Centre bosses allowing the Cowichan Valley Arts Council five years of free use of the old cafe space adjacent to the lobby box office. “I’m thrilled,” Kirsten Schrader, regional arts-and-culture manager, said of the ISC Commission’s ruling. Its decision allowed the arts council a small meeting [...]
Duncan: Struggling arts groups urged to get political
If you love the arts, speak out together against provincial cultural-grant cuts. Make local support for the arts an issue in B.C.’s 2011 civic election too. Provincial NDP arts-and-culture critic, Spencer Chandra Herbert, gave that advice to Cowichan Valley Arts Council members Monday. “Arts groups in B.C. don’t speak in a unified voice. B.C.’s last [...]
North Vancouver: Expose your art with NV art rental program
Visual artists in the community are encouraged to contribute to the North Vancouver Community Arts Council’s art rental program. The program allows individuals and businesses to rent paintings, photography and mixed media works by local artists for an affordable price. Meanwhile, artists gain exposure and revenue — royalties are paid semi-annually. New works will be [...]
Williams Lake: Arts council back in the black thanks to community
The Community Arts Council of Williams Lake Society is out of debt and now has $8,000 in its bank account. This is quite a positive picture compared to the bleak circumstances the arts council found itself in June 2009, says treasurer Susan O’Sullivan, who was elected president at the society’s annual meeting Oct. 18. President [...]
Funding cuts hurt communities: arts group
Cowichan Valley Arts Council president Judy Brayden is inviting the arts community to meet with New Democrat arts and culture critic Spencer Chandra Herbert and Cowichan Valley MLA Bill Routley to tell the pair about the effects of government funding cuts to the arts community. “It’s only an hour,” Brayden said of the Oct. 25 [...]
Hop on board the Hope Art Bus
The world of arts in Hope can get a lot bigger if you jump onboard the Art Bus, sponsored by the Hope Arts Council. “These bus trips were started last year so that getting to out of town events such as theatre productions could be attended in a more convenient manner – no parking woes, [...]
Williams Lake: Arts council to discuss amalgamation
The annual meeting of the Community Arts Council of Williams Lake will be held in the new Central Cariboo Art Centre on Monday evening starting at 7 p.m. The new centre, located in the old Williams Lake fire hall on Fourth Avenue was officially opened Tuesday evening with a ribbon cutting and tour of the [...]
Courtenay: Local arts group has serious issues to discuss
A meeting Thursday will set the focus for the coming year for the Comox Valley Community Arts Council. But with a lineup of live music headlined by Helen Austin, a photo show by Sarah Kerr, and an exhibition by sculptor Pat Acton, this annual general meeting should prove more fun than most. The group has [...]
Williams Lake: Council accepts piano to settle debt
The City of Williams Lake will accept a piano to settle an outstanding debt from the Community Arts Council. Council voted 5-1 to accept a staff recommendation to accept the piano, valued at $14,000 for insurance purposes as $37,000 as a replacement value, housed in the Gibraltar Room for at least the past nine years, [...]
Provincial budget hearing held in Fort St. John
The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services visited Fort St. John to address local concerns and requests concerning the next provincial Budget. The committee, chaired by Chilliwack MLA John Les is required to release its report by Nov. 15th. Representing the Fort St. John Community Arts Council, Tara O’Donnell noted that the province [...]
Fort St. John Community Arts Council to speak out on arts cuts
The Fort St. John Community Arts Council will be presenting to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services regarding how the Provincial arts cuts have affected our Arts Council and other arts and culture organizations. We will ask the Committee to recommend that funding levels to the arts be restored to 2008 levels. [...]
