professional development
Actsafe Fills Gap with New ‘Live Performance Electrical Certificate’
January 31, 2011 For immediate release Vancouver, BC – Actsafe today announced the implementation of the “Live Performance Electrical Certificate (LPEC)’. The LPEC will cover electrical work performed during the setup, run and strike of live events, to cable and maintain a lighting rig or set up audio visual or public address systems for live [...]
Fort St. John City to sponsor Face the Music Workshops
Fort St. John City Council agreed on Monday’s meeting to grant $20,000 in sponsorship funding to ‘Face the Music’, a Music Capital of Northern B.C. initiative, that aims to offer music workshops in the City. The goal of Face the Music is to hold up to ten workshops with touring artists, who, along with coming [...]
North Central Arts Summit comes to Prince George
Effective networking and the use of social media will be some of the topics covered at the upcoming North Central Arts Summit Conference in Prince George. The free conference takes place this Friday and Saturday at the Civic Centre and is being sponsored by the Prince George and District Community Arts Council and the 2010 [...]
Register Now for BC Museum Association’s Conference 2010!
We are excited to bring you a diverse, timely & thoroughly engaging program for this year’s annual provincial Conference 2010: “I, Museum - Community, Technology, Opportunity“, hosted by Nanaimo Museum & the Vancouver Island Convention Centre (VICC) in downtown Nanaimo, BC, and running October 27-30, 2010. Why wait? Visit our online “living program” at: http://www.museumsassn.bc.ca/Content/Conference/Welcome.asp Download your Registration Form, register today and [...]
Vancouver Announcing the 2010 Making a Scene conference: Devoted and Disgruntled: The 11th Conference for the BC Theatre Community
What are we going to do about theatre? Facilitated by Phelim McDermott & Matilda Leyser of Improbable (London, UK) WHAT: Two days in which YOU design the programme and set the discussion topics which matter to you. WHERE: W2, 151 W. Cordova St, Vancouver BC (the old Storyeum space) WHEN: Friday November 26 & Saturday November [...]
OUR SPACES, OUR PLACES! Buying, leasing and sharing spaces for mission-driven organizations: The Inaugural Social Purpose Real Estate Conference
November 8-9, 2010 at the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown Cost: $249/registration or $199/early bird registration - Bursaries available! (see below) On your own? Moving in together? What do you need to know about buying buildings and sharing spaces? Join a diverse gathering of not-for-profits, funders, investors, government and real estate professionals working together to find solutions that provide quality, secure, [...]
Vancouver: Screenwriting guru shares his wisdom, Syd Field offers advice culled from over four decades in Hollywood
The Screenwriters Summit Where: Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Hotel, 655 Burrard St. When: Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $395, call 1-800-814-0544 Info: www.ScreenwritersSummit.com Everybody seems to have written a screenplay. And odds are they’ve picked up Syd Field’s book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, to find out just exactly how it’s done. [...]
Pixar Artists Masterclass Coming to Vancouver: Unique workshop teaches insider tips & tricks
Artists from Pixar Animation Studios will be presenting a unique Masterclass in Animation & Story Development on September 24/25th in Vancouver, Canada. This exceptional 2-day event takes place at the Simon Fraser University, with instructors Animator Andrew Gordon and Story Artist Matthew Luhn, both of Pixar. This masterclass has toured the world, this being one [...]
Victoria: Design course returns to roots, Classes emphasize hand-drawn renditions
Computer assisted designs have their place in the world of architecture and interior design, but the pendulum is swinging back to hand-drawn renderings, for a more creative and personalized look. And Vancouver Island School of Art director Wendy Welch is collaborating with Pacific Design Academy director Oliver Drew to launch a new program to take [...]
Courtenay: Music and business blend well at conference
The third annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference (VIMBC) was bigger and better than ever. With about 200 people in attendance, including over 40 panelists, there were four days of workshops, and live music each night. Workshops about radio, songwriting, producing, touring, music laws, and everything in between, were filled with aspiring artists, young and [...]
Denman Island: Songwriting aid offered
Arts Denman presents Veda Hille in concert and in a songwriting workshop. Take a ride through Hille’s eccentric and beautiful world. Drawing on a range of musical projects accomplished over the past few years, indie songwriter Hille’s solo show, Modern, takes on 100-year-old hymns, an opera about pine trees, a musical based on Craigslist ads, [...]
Courtenay: In the business of making music
So where will Dan Hill, Sue Medley and Chilliwack’s Bill Henderson be humming and strumming this weekend? Why, the Comox Valley, where the annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference is taking place. Featuring a host of high-powered panels boasting such heavyweights as Shania Twain and Ozzy Osbourne producer Kevin Churko and Music B.C.’s Bob D’Eith [...]
Salmon Arm: Workshops weave new sounds
As the final notes drift off into the night, Roots and Blues Festival executive director Hugo Rampen is already contemplating who might appear onstage the following year. Once he has completed his roster of performers, Rampen indulges himself in one of his favourite aspects of the job – selecting performers for specific workshops. Ultimately, it [...]
A Free 12-Part Marketing and SEO Guide for Artists Launches Today To Help Creatives Beat the Odds
Artist, marketer and publisher Jason Thibault begins offering up a free 3-month long online marketing bootcamp for artists and creatives who find themselves stuck when it comes to building their online persona and brand. The most frustrating aspect for a creator is spending days and weeks on a painting, story or film and then launch [...]
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 [...]
