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B.C. First Nations and Aboriginal Artists and Arts Organizations Awarded AADA Grants
The First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council (the First Peoples’ Council) today announced that the Aboriginal Arts Development Awards (AADA) program has this year awarded 47 grants totaling $540,000 to Aboriginal and First Nations artists and organizations working in all artistic disciplines across the province. Proposals are accepted annually from First Nations and Aboriginal [...]
Festivals set for 2011
The B.C. government plans to fund arts-centric festivals, dubbed “spirit festivals,” throughout B.C. in February but what’s unclear is what, if any, role professional arts groups will have in the festivals. Kevin Krueger, minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, said the festivals will build on the success of the Cultural Olympiad, associated with the [...]
Amir Ali Alibhai: B.C. government will maximize arts investments with more consultation
We will soon learn what the provincial government has in mind for the $10 Million “new money” for the arts and culture that was announced on budget day last year. According to Spencer Chandra Herbert’s statements in the Georgia Straight, it seems that a significant portion is going to something called “B.C. Spirit Festival Days”. It [...]
Arts minds meet at Arts Summit 2010 conference
The recent Arts Summit 2010 conference provided a forum for debate on a range of pressing issues, says Amir Ali Alibhai, executive director of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. “It’s a healthy gathering because we don’t have everyone just nodding their heads. We’re being challenged on some of our assumptions that we might have,” [...]
Vancouver: Arts Summit takes on urban planning
Part two of the Alliance for Arts’ annual Arts Summit took place Friday (June 25) at Surrey’s swanky new Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre. Front and centre in the minds of Summit participants, who represented various disciplines of Metro Vancouver’s cultural community, was the lack of venues for arts activity. A morning panel discussion, Cultural Assets and [...]
Arts and culture community hears call to work together on government lobbying
Arts and culture groups must balance their individual needs with those of the entire sector to better lobby for B.C. government support, says the manager of a Vancouver drama company. “We need to act and speak together,” said Ivan Habel of Green Thumb Theatre. Habel called for a more co-ordinated approach to advocacy in an address [...]
Panel tackles B.C.’s cultural plan at the Alliance for Arts and Culture’s Arts Summit 2010
Provincial legislation is needed to improve “cultural policy” in B.C., says an SFU professor. “It’s what kind of a sustainable cultural future do we want in B.C.? What are our B.C. residents’ right to culture?” Catherine Murray, codirector of SFU’s Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities, told the Straight. “I think we need [...]
Arts Summit 2010: Register Now!
The Alliance for Arts and Culture, with the support of 2010 Legacies Now and the City of Surrey, is pleased to present Arts Summit 2010, Thursday, June 24 and Friday, June 25 at Surrey’s Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre. This beautiful new facility is 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver by Skytrain, one block south of the Gateway Skytrain [...]
Alliance for Arts and Culture fights back with statement on gaming funding changes
The Alliance for Arts and Culture is lashing back at Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman, who is set to cut arts festivals and others out of gaming funding. Last week, the minister was quoted saying the arts technically should be able make a profit through ticket sales and don’t qualify as true charities. [...]
Theatre BC: Mainstage 2010 Early-Bird Registration
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for Mainstage 2010 Early-Bird Registration is fast approaching! Rates for packages go up June 1st so get your registration in before the end of Monday for the best deal. Links to the registration form and the playbill can be found at http://www.theatrebc.org/M2010/index.php May 31st is also the [...]
Whistler: Niedermayer recognized for dedication to the arts: Head of WAC presented with Arts Champions award
Doti Niedermayer’s face went a little red when she realized she was about to be presented with an Arts Champions award earlier this month. Sitting at the annual gala that’s part of the Assembly of B.C. Arts Councils conference on May 1 in Richmond, Niedermayer was listening to the description of one award recipient when [...]
Industry honours music icons: Vancouver Music Industry recognizes its biggest contributors
If a musician can play “Louie Louie,” then they can probably golf. The Vancouver Music Industry holds its fifth golf tournament on July 27. The flailing will be at the University Golf Club, but the dinner and gala will be later that night at Villa Amato. Receiving an honour for their contributions to Vancouver music [...]
Squamish: Actor lands first place in North Shore theatre competition
Between Shift Theatre continued their commitment of bringing top quality theatre to the corridor while winning prestigious awards against much bigger companies with top honours at the Theatre BC’s North Shore Zone Festival of Plays Friday (May 7). The theatre troupe performed the drama Independence at the regional competition last weekend, and if sales are [...]
Comox Valley: Arts Week coming soon
Denman Island has the only scheduled event listed so far for the 11th annual Arts and Culture Week in British Columbia. Volunteer appreciation night is tentatively set for April 21 at the Denman Island Arts Centre, an evening to celebrate the contributions of volunteers to the arts. For details, call the Denman Island Arts Centre [...]
Joyce Rosario heads to New Works
New Performance Works Society (New Works) has announced the appointment of Joyce Rosario as the organization’s Executive Director, effective May 17, 2010. “Having first encountered Joyce when she was a teen from East Van involved with the Turning Point project – an early project of New Works – I remember her tremendous energy” said the [...]
