City of Vancouver Cultural Services
Vancouver: Noise bylaws threaten Main Street’s Little Mountain Gallery
Main Street’s Little Mountain Gallery has found itself in financial dire straits after running afoul of the city’s zoning bylaws, which prevent it from hosting live music events. Ehren Salazar, one of the principals of the gallery, located at 195 East 26th Avenue, said the space had been hosting, on average, two concerts a week [...]
Vancouver mural program will help combat graffiti, City seeks mural proposals
As many as 10 new murals are scheduled to be splashed across Vancouver next year, with the city contributing as much as $50,000 for work that reflects the culture and history of the city. The call for submissions for the city’s Celebrate 125 Vancouver Mural Program opened this week, but for Kristina Copeland, the mural [...]
B.C. art book wins Vancouver Book Award
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, a book that gathers work by dozens of B.C. visual and literary artists, has won the City of Vancouver Book Award. Mayor Gregor Robertson presented the $2,000 prize to editor Scott Steedman at a city council meeting Wednesday. Steedman, a freelance editor and author, shares the award with [...]
City of Vancouver: 125th Anniversary Grants Program: Small-scale and Large-Scale
First Deadline: October 1, 2010 Cultural Services is pleased to announce the 125th Anniversary Grants Program which has been established to support the growing excitement, pride and enthusiasm for Vancouver’s upcoming 125th anniversary in 2011. This program will support professional and community-focused activities that enrich our society through civic engagement and celebration through art, culture and heritage. Not-for-profit groups can propose [...]
City of Vancouver, Cultural Services: New Cultural Infrastructure Grant Program
Deadline: September 24, 2010 The Cultural Infrastructure Grant program, launched in 2009, provides support to Vancouver-based non-profit, cultural organizations to assist with projects related to cultural facility planning, purchase, construction, renovation, or expansion. Established as part of the 2008 Cultural Facilities Priorities Plan, the Cultural Infrastructure Program enables arts and cultural groups to advance their space planning [...]
Council approves plans to celebrate Vancouver’s 125th anniversary: Scale of the party won’t be known until budget is set later this year
Vancouver City Council has approved plans for celebrations marking the city’s 125th anniversary next year, but they will vary widely depending on how much money it can secure. So officials are crafting a “scalable” event, which can be beefed up or scaled back as the funding situation becomes clear – something that isn’t likely to [...]
Vancouver: Community and Neighbourhood Arts Development Program – Pilot
Deadline: September 10, 2010 Cultural Services is pleased to announce a new pilot program which provides grants to community groups to support projects that celebrate and promote Vancouver’s communities and neighbourhoods through arts and cultural activities ranging from amateur to professional practices. Non-profit organizations, artists, community leaders, businesses and residents alike who are interested [...]
City of Vancouver Announces New Managing Director of Cultural Services
Richard Newirth has just been announced as the Managing Director of Cultural Services for the City of Vancouver. Newirth has been acting in this capacity since May 1, 2009 and prior to this appointment, he was Director of Public Art, Planning and Facilities Development for the City from 2007. He previously served for twelve years [...]
Vancouver introduces partial arm’s length funding for cultural infrastructure grants
The City of Vancouver has introduced a blended staff- and peer-reviewed approach to funding cultural infrastructure grants. The first 14 recommendations under this new system go to the city services and budgets committee on Thursday (April 8). Before the 2008 election, Vision Vancouver promised to create an independent arts council to offer arm’s length peer-reviewed funding [...]
Vancouver: ‘No-fun city’ no more?
As part of seemingly never-ending efforts to put Vancouver’s “no-fun city” reputation to rest, city council unanimously approved a regulatory review that aims to dramatically reduce the jungle of red tape surrounding the creation and operation of spaces that host live music, performance art, and other cultural events. The recommendations contained in the review, which [...]
It could be curtains for Vancouver’s heritage theatre: Pantages Theatre Arts Society drops fight after city rejects restoration plan
For three years, a group of Vancouver arts and heritage enthusiasts has worked tirelessly to save an old vaudeville theatre in the city’s Downtown Eastside, arguing that the Pantages represents an important part of the city’s history. But now their efforts are exactly that: history. The Pantages Theatre Arts Society (PTAS) has officially pulled the [...]
Sharing inspirations, ideas, challenges and possibilities
CULTURAL CAPITAL NETWORK Won’t you join us? Jane Cox, Cause + Affect Design, Ltd. David Duprey, Junebug Enterprises Inc. Julie McIntyre, CARFAC BC Nathan Medd, Electric Company Theatre Lianne Payne, W2 Community Media Arts SocietyVanessa Richards, Independent & SFU Derek Simons, Innovative Housing Consultants Inc. Annabel Vaughan, Artspeak Artist Run Centre January Wolodarsky, Collingwood Neighbourhood [...]
New Cultural Infrastructure Grant Program launch
As part of the 2008 – 2023 Cultural Facilities Priorities Plan, a new Cultural Infrastructure Grant Program has been created with increased levels of support and greater breadth in the type of projects that are eligible including: pre-planning and feasibility studies as well as acquisition, renovation and development of cultural spaces. Equipment that is integral [...]
Public art planned for Clark-Knight corridor
The City of Vancouver is planning on installing a series of public artworks along the Clark-Knight Street corridor between 13th and 57th Avenues. A Statement of Work on the city’s bidding opportunities page is calling for a consultant to develop the plan for a fee of $25,000. It states that the public art sites are [...]
Vancouver to hire two new cultural planners
The closing date for two cultural planner positions posted with the City of Vancouver is expected to be extended past tomorrow, according to senior cultural planner Jacquie Gijssen.“Staff anticipate the closing date to be July 17,” she told the Straight. The two positions, posted as Cultural Planner II and Cultural Planner I, are listed at [...]
