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$430,000 IN FUNDING FOR 52 B.C. ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Vancouver, B.C. (October 3, 2006): 2010 Legacies Now will invest $430,000 in 52 arts organizations in 23 communities across British Columbia.
“Arts and culture are a vital part of the life and health of a community,” said Lori Baxter, director of Arts Now for 2010 Legacies Now. “This funding will help organizations around the province promote creativity, innovation and community pride through their artistic work.”
2010 Legacies Now encourages and supports creative activities through its Catalyst and Innovations programs. Catalyst helps arts, cultural and heritage organizations enhance their artistic and administrative strengths, while Innovations helps these groups create new opportunities for community members to engage in arts and cultural activities. Today’s funding announcement brings 2010 Legacies Now’s overall investment in the arts to more than $2.5 million.
“Our government supports a vibrant and sustainable arts and cultural sector, and this funding will help arts organizations reach more people in their communities,” said Stan Hagen, Minister of Tourism, Sport and the Arts. “Arts and culture make our communities stronger by providing economic opportunities, helping people make social connections and encouraging all of us to learn more about the world we live in.”
2010 Legacies Now is working to increase community engagement in creative activities, improve the arts and culture sector’s economic base and organizational capacity, and strengthen the sector’s ability to achieve artistic excellence. Assistance is provided through contribution programs and targeted activities developed in consultation with the arts and culture community.
2010 Legacies Now is a not-for-profit society that works in partnership with community organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), the private sector and all levels of government to develop sustainable legacies in sport and recreation, arts, literacy, and volunteerism. 2010 Legacies Now actively helps communities to discover and create unique and inclusive social and economic opportunities leading up to and beyond the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. For more information please visit www.2010LegaciesNow.com.
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FUNDING RECIPIENTS BY COMMUNITY
Courtenay
Lead Organization: Comox Valley Community Arts Council
Initiative Title: Fibre Arts Symposium 2007: Weaving This Island
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: The 2nd Fibre Arts Symposium (FAS) 2007: Weaving This Island will establish the Comox Valley as a meeting place for fibre artists to celebrate the economic, cultural and artistic role they have in rural communities throughout Vancouver Island. Fibre artists, gallery owners, curators, business owners and members of the public will be invited to participate in workshops, exhibits, lectures, a fashion show and a marketplace at the FAS from May 10 to 13, 2007. In addition to establishing an on-going Fibre Arts Symposium, the long term objective of the FAS is to produce collaborative, multi-disciplinary work that will signify the important contribution that fibre artists have made throughout the region.
Lead Organization: Sid Williams Theatre Society
Initiative Title: Star Spirit Series 2007
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $8,000
Initiative Description: TheStar Spirit Series 2007 is a new series of public performance events featuring First Nations performers and artists. The series encourages the participation of organizations and audiences of native ancestry through outreach sessions involving local First Nations organizations and other community organizations, using different art forms to develop cross-cultural awareness and strong collaborative and creative networks. The sessions will conclude with a play called Moonlodge by Margo Kane in January and a film festival and concert in spring 2007. In the long term, the Sid Williams Theatre would like the series to evolve into a festival showcasing artworks, music, dance, theatre, stories and films by, and for, Western Canadian First Nations artists and communities.
Deroche
Lead Organization: In-SHUCK-ch Services Society
Initiative Title: Cedar Bark Workshops
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Initiative Description: In-SHUCK-ch Services Society willoffer a series of cedar bark/root workshops teaching individuals how to harvest and prepare cedar root/bark to create baskets, ropes, fishnets and other artistic and functional objects. The initiative will be open to all community members, and workshops will span from May 2007 (an optimal time of year to harvest cedar) until May the following year, when they will showcase their baskets and cedar objects at a celebratory cultural event called In-SHUCK-ch Nation Days.
Duncan
Lead Organization: Film Cowichan/Cowichan Region Economic Development Commission
Initiative Title: The Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival: participant film makers and audience development
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $13,000
Initiative Description: Film Cowichan will undertake a strategic audience development initiative to expand the scope and reach of the Cowichan Aboriginal Film festival by identifying and accessing professional high profile Aboriginal film makers from different countries, and asking them to enter their films into the Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival. In addition, Film Cowichan will research the target audience markets and identify audience growth strategies and develop a sponsorship strategy to provide ongoing support of key festival activities.
Dunster
Lead Organization: Wishbone Productions
Initiative Title: Robson Valley Anthology: a collective theatre creation
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $5,500
Initiative Description: Wishbone Productions will work with members of the Robson Valley community to write, develop and produce a collective theatre play inspired by characters and events from local Robson Valley history. The play will be performed at the new theatre in Valemount in September 2007.
Grindrod
Lead Organization: Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society
Initiative Title: Food for Thought
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $7,000
Initiative Description: Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society will create a community-based arts project that expands the range of existing activities for the organization. The initiative focuses on issues of food and consumption, with a particular interest in locally available, inexpensive, healthy food. Led by professional artists in different media, attendees from a wide demographic will work together to create artistic projects using food as a theme, while preparing and eating a healthy creation with the guidance of a local artist cook. Eight sessions will be held, each with a different artistic medium and a different basic food. The individual projects will be displayed at an ongoing art show, community feast and harvest celebration. A low-cost catalogue/recipe book, illustrated by the artwork, will also be produced and distributed to participants.
Lions Bay
Lead Organization: Municipality of the Village of Lions Bay
Initiative Title: Winter Light: the Spirit of Lions Bay Lantern Festival
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $2,500
Initiative Description: The Municipality of the Village of Lions Bay will develop and present the first Winter Light Lantern Festival, a new community-wide public art program to be held annually in Lions Bay. Ten weeks of collaborative, creative workshop activity will culminate in a village-wide lantern festival commemorating an important local historical event and symbolizing the hope that new light brings.
McBride
Lead Organization: Whistle Stop Gallery Society
Initiative Title: Whistle Stop community wall mural project
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Initiative Description: The Whistle Stop Gallery Society in cooperation with the Community of McBride is sponsoring a community art mural project. Focussing on the diverse heritage of McBride, this inclusive project will provide a transformative cultural and educational experience for all ages and abilities. Participants will research the history of McBride before designing and painting murals based on the community’s heritage.
Mount Currie
Lead Organization: Mount Currie Band Council
Initiative Title: Mount Currie digital storytelling development project
Program: Catalyst (Artistic/Organizational)
Amount Awarded: $7,000
Initiative Description: Mount Currie Band Council, in partnership with the Lil’wat First Nation, Xit’olawc Community School and the Ts’zil Learning Centre, will undertake a digital film-making program for Lil'wat youth and educators which will build the Lil’wat community’s capacity to tell their stories. The Band Council will send an initial group of teachers and students to the Gulf Islands Film and Television School's (GIFTS) spring Aboriginal filmmaking intensive program. Then, utilising new media technology, the GIFTS graduates will be commissioned to create short films based on community stories.
Nanaimo
Lead Organization: Theatre BC/British Columbia Drama Association
Initiative Title: ACToberfest - One-Act and Monologue Fringe Festival
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, Theatre BC is creating a new provincial theatre festival, featuring one-act plays and monologues presented by community theatre, student and emerging professional actors and directors. The focus will be new works and Canadian scripts. The event will move around the province to a different host community each year, as part of the mandate is to leave a lasting theatre legacy within each location.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Island Arts Festivals Society
Initiative Title: Show on the Road
Program: Catalyst (Artistic/Organizational)
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Initiative Description: From its central Nanaimo base, the Vancouver Island Arts Festivals Society will tour its International Children's Festival to reach more effectively young audiences throughout Vancouver Island. This initiative will tour the Greater Victoria area (South Island) in 2007. If successful, 2008 plans will include a tour extension to the North Island.
Nelson
Lead Organization: Nelson Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society
Initiative Title: Freshly Squeezed: multi-media exhibition
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $3,500
Initiative Description: Design is Everywhere is a multi-media exhibition produced through the collaborative efforts of Freshly Squeezed, a group of seventeen Nelson-based, internationally-practicing designers from various fields. This is the first design exhibition for the museum, and part of the organization’s commitment to introduce new and important contemporary ideas to the local community. The exhibition will focus on demystifying the world and the design process. Through interpretive modules the exhibition will invite viewers to participate in a fun, interactive and innovative environment.
North Vancouver
Lead Organization: North Vancouver Community Arts Council
Initiative Title: Mountain Mardi Gras
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: North Vancouver Arts Council, in partnership with Public Dreams Society, will produce the 2nd annual Mountain Mardi Gras. Mountain Mardi Gras is a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary arts event, in which a month-long series of workshops culminate in a one-day carnival at Cleveland Dam in February 2007. Artists, athletes and the community are invited to unite for art and performance with environmental awareness and physical play in celebration of the North Shore's unique culture.
Port Hardy
Lead Organization: Kwakiutl Band
Initiative Title: Kwakiutl Arts and Cultural Festival
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: The Kwakiutl Band will train members of the Fort Rupert reserve in drumming, singing and making regalia, to perform at Aboriginal Days on June 21st and 22nd, 2007. This festival, celebrating the rich heritage and culture of the Kwakiutl First Nations, will become a regular event in the North Island, and is part of an important commitment to the growth and enhancement of arts and cultural activity for the community.
Prince George
Lead Organization: Central Interior Regional Arts Council
Initiative Title: BC Cultural Alliance North Phase II: Founding the Organization
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: Based on results of the BC Cultural Alliance North Feasibility Study undertaken in 2006, the Central Interior Regional Arts Council is looking to found, in 2007, a new non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of the more than 1,000 cultural assets and workers in the cultural, arts and heritage sector in northern/central B.C. Support from the Catalyst program will be used toward the development of a business plan for the start-up and sustainability of the new organization.
Lead Organization: City of Prince George
Initiative Title: transforming public art
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $9,000
Initiative Description: The City of Prince George will work with the Prince George Arts Council in engaging a consultant to inventory the City’s current public art. Following the inventory, the City will undertake an extensive process to evaluate their existing public art program by engaging the public in examining and exploring new spaces, projects and funding for future public art projects.
Procter
Lead Organization: Procter Community Society
Initiative Title: Kootenay storytelling series
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $3,000
Initiative Description: The Procter Community Society intends to build on the success of its longstanding summer storytelling festival by organising a pilot storytelling series. The expansion will occur through the introduction of a winter storytelling event, held in the regional centre of Nelson. In addition, the Society will undertake an extensive webpage re-design, including on-line ticketing, to attract web-researched cultural tourism. The initiative is part of the society’s audience growth and engagement strategy for 2006/2007.
Quesnel
Lead Organization: Friends of the Quesnel and District Museum and Archives Society
Initiative Title: Chinese heritage recognition project
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Initiative Description: The Friends of the Quesnel and District Museum and Archives Society will undertake an extensive research and documentation project as a way to increase representation and recognition of the contribution of Chinese history and culture in Quesnel. The Society will conduct video interviews on the significance of the Chinese photographer C. S. Wong, as well as interview Chinese residents who are direct descendents of the Gold Rush history. The results of the research and video interviews will take the form of a public community presentation in Quesnel.
Salmon Arm
Lead Organization: Switzmalph Cultural Society
Initiative Title: business plan development for the Shuswap Centre
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: The Switzmalph Cultural Society (SCS) will develop a business plan for the Shuswap Centre. The comprehensive document will describe operational and financial objectives, including detailed plans and budgets showing how those will be realized. The goal of the plan is to provide the SCS with concrete steps for the development of the Centre. It will be used to communicate the importance and viability of the centre to the arts sector, funding agencies, lenders and target markets.
Salt Spring Island
Lead Organization: Salt Spring Jazz & Blues Society
Initiative Title: Salt Spring Jazz Fest 2007
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Initiative Description: Salt Spring Jazz and Blues Society will createa weekend jazz festival on Salt Spring Island featuring international and local artists, and student musicians from the community high school jazz program. The festival is intended to improve the appreciation of jazz and related music by expanding the number of concerts and related workshops locally available in the southern Gulf Islands.
Shawnigan Lake
Lead Organization: O.U.R. Ecovillage – O.U.R. Community Association
Initiative Title: The Art of Community by Design - Earthen Art Mural
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $4,500
Initiative Description: Through a participatory design process and a collaborative creation process, a community-building art project will be undertaken at the focal gathering space of O.U.R. Ecovillage. This earthen art sculpture will be designed and created by the Cowichan Valley community through an extensive participatory process which is the first of its kind for the association.
Surrey
Lead Organization: Young People's Opera Society of BC
Initiative Title: The King Who Wouldn't Sing
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: The Young People's Opera Society of BC will premier the children's opera The King Who Wouldn't Sing at the Surrey Arts Centre in 2007. Forty professional and amateur performers, both adults and kids, as well as numerous volunteers will introduce opera to new audiences in Surrey, and foster innovative new collaborations within the community and beyond.
Vancouver
Lead Organization: City of Vancouver Public Art Program
Initiative Title: INTERSECTION: public art project for the windows at Hastings and Carrall
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: In partnership with Centre A and Interurban/Portland Hotel Society,the City of Vancouver Public Art Program will work on a new public art project entitled Intersection. Intersection will develop a framework for ongoing opportunities for artists to create light and media works in the windows in the buildings at Hastings and Carrall in Vancouver. The collaborative initiative is an expansion of the city’s current public art activities, and will provide access for local artists to participate. It will also include mentoring opportunities. Funding from the Innovations program will be used toward the development and launch of this new program, while the city is committed to having this become an ongoing project.
Lead Organization: Contemporary Art Gallery
Initiative Title: guided visits fostering critically engaged dialogues with art
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Initiative Description: Over the last two years, the Contemporary Art Gallery has launched extensive new education and public programs. Now the gallery is looking to implement a new volunteer training program in order to meet the increase in demand for guided gallery visits. Training will cover thematic issues such as representation, identity, authorship/authority, autonomy and community. These themes will be used across curriculum areas and in conjunction with a number of different exhibitions.
Lead Organization: Creating Employment Through Art (CETA Co-op)
Initiative Title: Enterprising Arts project
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Initiative Description: Creating Employment Through Art (CETA) will work with a consultant to go through an evaluation of social enterprise models that may be applicable to their existing programs. Policies, procedures, guidelines and tools will be developed with the consultant to help CETA create a social enterprise model for arts programs. This project will help CETA build its capacity to continue providing employment in the arts to marginalized individuals, creative and economic opportunities for professional artists, and excellence in visual arts activity.
Lead Organization: Green Thumb Theatre for Young People
Initiative Title: Kihada Works Design Inc.
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: Green Thumb Theatre will engage a consultant for a re-branding initiative, which will provide the organization with a set of new marketing tools, including a new logo and an e-marketing strategy for its school tours, main stage and Schools in the Theatre program.
Lead Organization: Jabulani World Music Society
Initiative Title: world music outreach program for schools and communities
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: Jabulani World Music Society will launch a touraround B.C. schools and communities for Kutapira, an acclaimed youth marimba percussion ensemble that blends African and Caribbean music. Kutapira will perform concerts and give workshops intended to inspire the creation of programs and ensembles for young people to learn music through the oral tradition.
Lead Organization: Kokoro Dance Theatre Society
Initiative Title: Kokoro Dance - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra collaboration
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $7,000
Initiative Description: Kokoro Dance, in partnership with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, will develop and produce an innovative, collaborative event that will apply current video technology in a new way to address the space restrictions encountered when combining an orchestral ensemble with a group of dancers. The initiative is a way for Kokoro to explore new ways of combining live music and dance in a setting outside of a theatre.
Lead Organization: Moving Pictures: Travelling Film Festival Society
Initiative Title: developing alternate sources of revenue to keep new programs “moving”
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Initiative Description: Moving Pictures wants to expand revenue sources to ensure the success of newly developed programs. To accomplish this, Moving Pictures will work with a consultant to identify new sources of revenues, develop a fundraising plan and train staff and board members on how to successfully implement these new fundraising strategies.
Lead Organization: Music on Main
Initiative Title: Music on Main/music on Vancouver's Main Street corridor
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Initiative Description: Music on Main will createan inaugural season of concerts at Heritage Hall on Vancouver's Main Street, leading to an ongoing series up and down the Main Street corridor. The new program components include innovative concert formats and Emerge on Main, a programme designed for emerging musicians on the brink of a professional career.
Lead Organization: Musqueam First Nation
Initiative Title: Musqueam Nation cultural protection plan
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $14,000
Initiative Description: Musqueam First Nation will develop a cultural protection plan based on legal expertise related to cultural property. The plan will include extensive community consultations to determine culturally accepted parameters, as well as capacity building workshops in the area of policy governance. The plan will ensure the protection of cultural assets, a key component for the new Musqueam Cultural Centre that is being developed.
Lead Organization: New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW)
Initiative Title: website re-development and audience development plan
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: New Orchestra Workshop (NOW) will undertake an extensive website re-design in order to create a professional-looking website that can be updated by staff in-house. The new website will promote West Coast original music, musicians and composers through the implementation of a comprehensive marketing, branding and audience development plan.
Lead Organization: Norman Rothstein Theatre (Vancouver West Side Theatre Society)
Initiative Title: building a more effective web presence and enhancing marketing potential
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Initiative Description: Both the Norman Rothstein Theatre and the Chutzpah! Festival will revamp and re-design their websites, with improvements in ticketing, marketing and overall communications strategies, allowing for a more sophisticated and effective execution of these key strategies.
Lead Organization: Only Animal Theatre Society
Initiative Title: NIX: theatre of ice experiments
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: The Only Animal Theatre Society will create a new play,NIX, that takes place in a theatre built of ice and snow. NIX expands the Only Animal’s experimental practice by combining a snow/ice environment, fire, glass instrument/props, and original music. Funding from the Innovations program will go to the first phase of NIX development for a series of collaborative, cross-disciplinary experiments that will take place in Williams Lake.
Lead Organization: Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Initiative Title: new look for the PBO
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: The Pacific Baroque Orchestra will work with a professional design and marketing firm to create a new public image and brand identity. This will be developed throughout the 2006-2007 season and will apply to future seasons for marketing and sponsorship development.
Lead Organization: Playhouse Theatre Company
Initiative Title: Tessitura: Phase II
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Initiative Description: The Playhouse Theatre Company will hire a consultant, Blair Cresswell of ArtsThink Consulting, to implement phase two of the Tessitura Arts Enterprise Software project. Funding from Catalyst will be used to provide playhouse staff with the specialized expertise necessary to use Tessitura software, which provides arts organizations with tools for ticketing, marketing and fundraising. In addition, the funding will help with the creation of legacy documents to ensure that this information resides within the company.
Lead Organization: Proximity Lab Society
Initiative Title: creation and development of Antic, a site-specific performance installation
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Initiative Description: Between November 2006 and December 2007, Proximity Lab will develop an innovative and experimental audience interaction interface. In collaboration with researcher Greg Corness, the Society will create Antic, a site-specific performance project that will use experimental technology and music to share stories with the public in an antique store environment. The focus is on a collaborative development combining a composition process with interactive performance.
Lead Organization: Playwrights Theatre Centre Society (PTC)
Initiative Title: creation-to-production strategic plan initiative
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: The Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) will hire a skilled consultant to conduct a strategic planning process. The goal of the project will be to develop strategies and tools to maximize production of new Canadian works in the national and international theatre community.
Lead Organization: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Society
Initiative Title: private sector fund development consultancy
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: A consultant will be hired by PuSh to assist in the development of a private sector fundraising strategy and action plan for the organization. With staff and the board of directors, the consultant will go through an in-depth planning process and provide expertise and tools to improve the PuSh Festival Society's financial sustainability. In addition, the project allows for mentoring of staff in the creation of various fundraising templates and administrative systems.
Lead Organization: Realwheels Theatre Society
Initiative Title: artistic producer training program
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: James Sanders will be trained to fully assume the role of artistic producer of the Realwheels Society through a partnership with Cynthia Reid of Electric Company Theatre, and in consultation with Katrina Dunn of Touchstone Theatre and Norman Armour of the PuSh Festival. The partnership and consultancy will coincide with the presentation of Realwheels' inaugural project Skydive as part of the PuSh Festival in 2007.
Lead Organization: Realwheels Theatre Society
Initiative Title: Realwheels theatre project: Skydive
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Initiative Description: Realwheels Theatre will rehearse and present, at the 2007 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, a new cross-disciplinary live theatrical presentation that brings together the innovative, gravity-defying ES Dance Instruments with the transformational text of Electric Company's Kevin Kerr, acting as a catalyst for change in the public's perception of people with disabilities.
Lead Organization: See Seven Performing Arts Society
Initiative Title: See Seven strategic and business plans
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $7,250
Initiative Description: See Seven Performing Arts Society will engage a consultant to assess staffing needs as well as potential touring and service organization opportunities. The assessment will be used to write strategic and business plans to expand the scope of the successful See Seven model.
Lead Organization: Theatre for Living Society (Headlines Theatre)
Initiative Title: METH - a province-wide addiction prevention project
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: Theatre for Living Society will partner with grassroots organizations across the province to bring its new community-based interactive forum and theatre play, Meth, to 25 to 30 BC communities. The project includes a live, interactive tele-webcast and DVD. Meth will explore the root causes of addiction and feature a mixed Native/non-Native cast who have struggled with Meth addiction.
Lead Organization: UBC Museum of Anthropology
Initiative Title: feasibility study for new Asian wing at the UBC Museum of Anthropology
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: The Museum of Anthropology will hire a museum consultant to undertake a feasibility study for a new Asian wing to better display, store and study the museum's extensive collection of Asian material. This wing would be a valuable resource for British Columbia's many Asian communities.
Lead Organization: Vancouver International Writers Festival
Initiative Title: Vancouver Writes
Program: Catalyst (Audience/Markets)
Amount Awarded: $2,500
Initiative Description: Vancouver Writes is a brand new initiative for the organization, and will be an interactive evening of wordplay and music, bringing aspiring writers and readers together to produce instant literature. Aspiring writers will have the opportunity to work closely with professional writers. The evening will also feature readings by some of the writers in residence. This project will be one of the highlights of the new winter festival on Granville Island, Winterruption.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Moving Theatre
Initiative Title: The Shadows Project: Addiction and Recovery
Program: Catalyst (Artistic/Organizational)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: The Shadows Project is an initiative to develop Vancouver Moving Theatre's artistic and organizational capacity to create an arts-based cultural development methodology, one that responds to the community's need for a theatrical platform addressing community issues. The initiative will provide training and employment opportunities for the downtown eastside community's emerging theatre practitioners, and will culminate in a professional production.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Recital Society
Initiative Title: inaugural five-year strategic plan
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $6,750
Initiative Description: The Vancouver Recital Society will work with a consultant to develop a long-range strategic plan for the organization. The plan will include strong staff and board participation, and will focus on all aspects of governance and programming including priorities, funding and growth strategies, and development. The plan will also include an evaluation of board and staff roles and responsibilities, as well as a leadership succession plan.
Vernon
Lead Organization: Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre Society
Initiative Title: strategic plan initiative
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: The Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre Society will create a strategic plan and policy manual with consultant Lydia Marston-Blaauw. The plan will look at the growth of the society, and the steps needed to make it successful and sustainable.
Victoria
Lead Organization: Belfry Theatre
Initiative Title: Ninstints, Phase III
Program: Innovations (Creative Explorations)
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: Ninstints is a new play that blends ancient Northwest coast culture with traditional orchestral compositions. Inspired by the 1957 expedition of Bill Reid to the Haida Gwaii, the play marks a significant development in the Belfry’s programming of First Nation’s themes. In particular, Aboriginal communities will be involved in both the development of the story as well as the final production itself. This phase will see professional actors, traditional Haida performers and students of the Canadian College of Performing Arts working collaboratively with a team of leading directors and designers.
Lead Organization: Victoria Conservatory of Music
Initiative Title: school formation feasibility study - Julliard of the West
Program: Catalyst (Mentorship/Consultancy)
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: The Victoria Conservatory of Music will hire a consultant to determine the feasibility of launching an independent school. This will include looking at the benefits to students, the community and the organization's sustainability. In addition, there will be an assessment of needs, industry trend analysis, economic impact analysis, identification of political/community issues, competition/opportunity analysis, project risk assessment and a review of organizational capacity readiness.
Lead Organization: Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival
Initiative Title: JumpCuts: A Festival for Young Filmmakers
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $8,000
Initiative Description: The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival will present their second festival for young filmmakers – JumpCuts. JumpCuts is a two-day event for youth to expand their understanding of, and participation in, media arts. This festival will build on the success of their first, held in 2005.
West Vancouver
Lead Organization: Spo7ez Cultural Centre and Community Society
Initiative Title: Squamish and Lil'wat Nation traditional weaving exchange program
Program: Innovations (Community Initiatives)
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Initiative Description: The Squamish and Lil'wat Nations will develop an intercommunity exchange of weavers to revitalize traditional weaving styles. A team of artisans from the Squamish Nation will travel to Mount Currie to learn the traditional weaving style of the Lil'wat Nation and to create weavings which will be showcased at the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre.
