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FIFTY-EIGHT ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS B.C. RECEIVE FUNDING FROM 2010 LEGACIES NOW
Third Round of Investments for BC’s Artistic Community awarded
through Arts Now
Vancouver, B.C. (April 26, 2006): 2010 Legacies Now will invest over $600,000 in funding to 58 arts organizations in 27 B.C. communities through its Arts Now program. “Arts Now creates opportunities for artistic legacies filled with imagination and inspiration for communities across British Columbia,” said Marion Lay, President, 2010 Legacies Now. “From winter festivals, to community planning, Arts Now celebrates and encourages artistic expression in all its forms. Our aim is to enhance and showcase British Columbia’s artistic and cultural community, leading up to 2010 and beyond.”
The funding brings the overall investment so far from Arts Now to over $2 million in 54 communities around the province to help increase capacity in the arts and further engage British Columbians in cultural activities.
“Through Arts Now and other programs, our government is helping communities expand their artistic capacity,” said Tourism, Sport and the Arts Minister Olga Ilich. “Starting with the arts, we can build a culture of innovation and creativity that can permeate every facet of society. This not only builds more liveable, diverse and tolerant communities – it strengthens tourism, attracts investment and helps communities diversify their economic base.”
As a division of 2010 Legacies Now, Arts Now’s mission is to strengthen and enhance the creative capabilities of organizations and communities. Arts Now works with partner organizations to increase British Columbia’s capacity for artistic excellence now and in the future.
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 & recreation, arts, literacy, and volunteerism. 2010 Legacies Now actively assists communities discover and create unique and inclusive social and economic opportunities leading up to, during and beyond the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. For more information please visit www.2010LegaciesNow.com.
Arts Now funding applications can be found on the 2010 Legacies Now website at www.2010LegaciesNow.com, or by calling 604-659-1400. The deadline for the next round of applications is June 15, 2006 (Catalyst) and June 30, 2006 (Innovations).
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FUNDING RECIPIENTS BY COMMUNITY
Bowen Island
Lead Organization: Bowen Island Arts Council
Initiative Title: Second annual Voices in the Sound Festival - Celebrating Bowen Island
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $8,500
Initiative Description: Voices in the Sound Festival will be the second year of an annual outdoor festival on Bowen Island. The Festival integrates art, nature, and history, to celebrate the abundance of arts and culture on Bowen Island. The festival will support and feature professional and emerging island artists and help broaden the role and influence of the arts on the island.
Burnaby
Lead Organization: Burnaby Art Gallery
Initiative Title: BAG in a Box
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: BAG in a Box is a regionally-based contemporary art education program that functions as a catalyst for the development of visual arts literacy in Lower Mainland schools. The program includes the creation of four distinct, themed art/social studies boxes that incorporate original artists’ work and related hands-on activities. In addition to providing increased accessibility and an enhanced learning experience, students will also have an opportunity for artists featured in the boxes to visit their classrooms and work with them.
Lead Organization: Japanese Canadian National Museum
Initiative Title: Ohanashi - Japanese Canadian Life Stories
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Initiative Description: Ohanashi is a digital filmmaking project recording stories of Japanese Canadian community elders, internment survivors, fishermen, miners and shopkeepers. These stories, together with those of younger generations, will be collected to create a library series of videos to share with community centres, museums and schools across British Columbia.
Campbell River
Lead Organization: Campbell River & District Museum & Archives Society
Initiative Title: Connecting Kids to Campbell River's History
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: The Campbell River Museum’s goal with the initiative is to transform the image and accessibility of their programs towards attracting, engaging and educating younger visitors. By designing, programming and marketing new, interactive kid-friendly areas, the Museum hopes to strengthen the community’s assets and attractions, and to increase visitors to the museum in an effort to improve their financial sustainability.
Courtenay
Lead Organization: Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association
Initiative Title: Local Colour Arts and Culture Festival
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $8,800
Initiative Description: The Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association, in partnership with the Comox Valley Art Gallery and the Comox Valley Community Arts Council, will mount a three day arts festival to take place on the streets of Downtown Courtenay. Working with local businesses, the festival will showcase local artists, food producers, performers, and crafts people in several venues throughout the downtown area.
Lead Organization: Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry
Initiative Title: Building the Circle
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $5,500
Initiative Description: Building the Circle focuses on building the artistic and cultural skills and expertise of people of Aboriginal ancestry who no longer live in their traditional territories. Learning skills including beading, regalia making, drum making and drumming, participants will be able to fully engage in activities including Pow-wows and other cultural events.
Cranbrook
Lead Organization: Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
Initiative Title: Steaming Along
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: Cranbrook currently lacks any summer festival or live entertainment. To address this, the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel will oversee the commissioning of a play by a local playwright that incorporates elements of local history. The play will be presented at the Royal Alexandra Hall at the Museum, targeting both local and tourist audiences during the summer.
Dawson Creek
Lead Organization: Writing on the Ridge
Initiative Title: Muskwa-Kechika Artist Exploration Camp 2006
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $6,250
Initiative Description: The initiative will take the form of an artist camp in the remote region of Muskwa-Kechika to raise awareness of one of the great wilderness areas of the planet and to provide 10 artists working in a variety of disciplines to create a collaborative work from their experiences in the camp. The results will be exhibited at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery in Spring 2007.
Denman Island
Lead Organization: Arts Denman
Initiative Title: The Denman Island Arts Centre Project
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $4,130
Initiative Description: Coinciding with the opening of the new Denman Island Arts Centre in a restored heritage building in the heart of Denman Island, Arts Denman will launch an inaugural program of visual arts workshops. These workshops are intended to expand the range of arts and cultural activities and skills available to residents of Denman Island.
Fort St. John
Lead Organization: Fort St. John Association for Community Living
Initiative Title: Fort St. John Players 2006: Expanding Audience Demographics in the North Peace
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: The Fort St. John Players is looking to expand its audience beyond traditional peer audiences to the community at large. Towards this, the organization will market their activities to service groups and city representatives, as well as undertake a three-show run at the North Peace Cultural Centre as part of Community Living Month in October 2006.
Lead Organization: Northern Dance Theatre Society
Initiative Title: Northern Dance Summer School
Program: Catalyst Artistic/Organisational
Amount Awarded: $8,500
Initiative Description: Northern Dance Theatre Society will expand their annual 2 week summer school to include ballet, tap, jazz, and hip hop. The initiative will bring higher profile instructors from outside Fort St. John and expose their dance students to a level of instruction not usually available in the region. In addition, the initiative will add musical theatre and acrobatics to the available classes.
Kimberley
Lead Organization: Kimberley Arts Council - Centre 64
Initiative Title: Arts on the Edge 2006, Kimberley's Festival of the Arts
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: Building on the unprecedented success of 2005, Arts on the Edge 2006, the 2nd annual Kimberley’s Festival of the Arts, will bring together visual, performing, and literary artists to exhibit, demonstrate, and perform in public settings in Kimberley from August 10th to 13th 2006. Residents and cultural tourists will view exhibits and performances and participate in workshops.
Langley
Lead Organization: Langley Community Music School (LCMS)
Initiative Title: Policy and Governance Initiative
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $2,500
Initiative Description: The Langley Community Music School will work with two consultants on human resource policies and redefining organizationally-appropriate relationships between the Board and administration.
Madeira Park
Lead Organization: Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society ("Lagoon Society")
Initiative Title: The Natural World - An Artist's Celebration
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: In partnership with the Sunshine Coast Arts Council, the Lagoon Society will host an Art Meets Nature Celebration from April to September 2007 at the Iris Griffith Interpretative Centre. To deepen understanding of artistic expression related to the natural environment, artists-in-residence working onsite will provide arts workshops for centre visitors.
Masset
Lead Organization: Tluu Xaada Naay Society
Initiative Title: Making Haida History
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $20,000
Initiative Description: Tluu Xaada Naay Society is a non-profit organization in Old Masset, BC that serves to encourage the development of the Haida Arts and Culture in visual, written, vocal, dance, traditional and modern forms. As part of its inaugural programming for its new longhouse, the organization will create an audio and visual presentation that will act as an introduction to their dance, story and song performances that focus on the cultural history of Haida Gwaii.
Nelson
Lead Organization: Association des francophones des Kootenays Ouest
Initiative Title: Cinémania, The Francophone space in 24 shots / second
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $14,000
Initiative Description: Cinémania will promote and disseminate French film by developing French 7eme art resources accessible to community members throughout the Kootenays. In addition, the Association will educate youth about French film and culture, and improve French language skills by developing Art Movie workshops throughout French Immersion secondary schools in the Kootenays.
Lead Organization: Kootenay Cooperative Radio
Initiative Title: Volunteer Radio Programmer Training Project
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: Kootenay Cooperative Radio will work with three consultants to help upgrade their training program for their numerous on-air and administrative volunteers.
Lead Organization: Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College (KSA
Initiative Title: KSA Alumni Exhibition
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $8,000
Initiative Description: Kootenay School of the Arts, in partnership with the Nelson Museum, Archives and Art Gallery (MAAG), will host three exhibitions at the new facility between March 16 and April 29, 2007. These exhibitions will feature the work of the institutions faculty, alumni and students graduating in 2007. The initiative is seen as a way to increase awareness of the successes of KSA graduate towards increasing enrollment in the institutions programs.
Lead Organization: Kutenai Art Therapy Institute Association
Initiative Title: Innovations in Arts and Health Symposium
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Initiative Description: The Innovations in Arts and Health Symposium, to be held in Nelson from June 8-10, 2006, will bring in presenters and participants to explore relationships between arts and health. Opportunities for partnerships, mentorships and collaborations will be encouraged between the health-care and arts community, laying the foundations for increased economic opportunities between the arts and health sectors in Nelson.
Lead Organization: Nelson Fine Art Centre Society
Initiative Title: Boundary Lines: Ancestry, Edge
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: Boundary Lines: Ancestry, Edge is an artistic residency program in Nelson that will bring together three professional artists in the creation of a multi-disciplinary performance piece. The project will coincide with the Our Way Home Reunion in Nelson in July 2006, and will play 21 shows in Nelson and 9 shows in the West Kootenay region. This will be the first multi-disciplinary project for the Nelson Fine Art Centre Society and its members.
New Westminster
Lead Organization: Centre of Integration for African Immigrants (CIAI)
Initiative Title: AfroFest BC
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: AfroFest is a new 7 day initiative for immigrant African/Black artists to celebrate their talents, and to assist them in understanding the steps necessary to continue their artistic practices in a Canadian context. Locally established professionals in a variety of artistic fields will assist artists with organizational management and marketing of their talents through a series of skills-building workshops.
North Vancouver
Lead Organization: Dancers of Damelahamid Society
Initiative Title: Gilo Hyte: "Sharing the Spirit"
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $25,000
Initiative Description: Gilo Hyte – “Sharing the Spirit” is an exploration of traditional Gitksan performance arts complemented with multi-media technology. It will involve the development of a production of Gitksan dance works belonging to the Dakhumhast House, and will combine Gitksan artistic story telling techniques and technology to bridge traditions with innovation. In addition to presentations in Vancouver, presentations in Prince Rupert, Hazelton and Gitsegulka will take place.
Lead Organization: Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Initiative Title: Tsleil-Waututh Nation Cultural Arts Festival
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Initiative Description: The Cultural Arts Festival will be a celebration of the heritage of Coast Salish culture. The one-day festival will be held at Cates Park/Whey-ah-Whichen, a traditional village site, and looks to educate the public on the artistic contributions of Coast Salish people. The festival will include cultural dance and drum groups, a traditional food fair, a visual arts display, as well as a showcase of regional arts and crafts vendors.
Powell River
Lead Organization: Malaspina Arts Society
Initiative Title: Bringing artists together in Powell River
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $3,500
Initiative Description: The Malaspina Arts Society will work with a consultant to faciltate a one-day meeting that will access and identify the assets of the existing visual arts community in Powell River. This is the first step in identifying opportunities for collaboration and partnership in the region.
Prince George
Lead Organization: Central BC Railway and Forest Industry Museum Society
Initiative Title: All Aboard - a Marketing Plan
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $8,000
Initiative Description: The Central BC Railway will work with a consultant to identify a marketing program to capture identified target audiences including young families and senior couples outside the Prince George region.
Prince Rupert
Lead Organization: Prince Rupert Community Arts Council
Initiative Title: Fraser Street Public Art Project
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Initiative Description: The Fraser Street Public Art Project is a community-based mural project that will commemorate the rich history and diversity of the Fraser Street neighbourhood in Prince Rupert. The project will take place on a 6,084 square foot back wall of Overwaitea Foods, and involves an extensive community process of participation in the design and creation.
Qualicum Beach
Lead Organization: Old School House Arts Centre, The
Initiative Title: Qualicum Beach Harvest of Music
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $8,500
Initiative Description: The Old School House Arts Centre Society will organize, direct and deliver the Qualicum Beach Harvest of Music, a 5-day multi-genre, eclectic event scheduled for the Fall of 2006. The event will bring together the Oceanside Tourist Association, the Town of Qualicum Beach, artisans, residents and visitors in an effort to increase the range and scale of arts festivals in the region.
Richmond
Lead Organization: Gateway Theatre
Initiative Title: Sea of Stories
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $11,500
Initiative Description: Sea of Stories is an initiative that invites residents of Richmond’s culturally-diverse community to tell their stories of change, immigration, family and culture. These stories will then be developed into 10 minute plays and presented in a reading series for the contributors, their families, friends and the general public at the theatre in 2007.
Lead Organization: Richmond Museum Society
Initiative Title: Musqueam First Nations School Resource Kit
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Initiative Description: The Richmond Museum, in partnership with the Musqueam Band and the Richmond School District, will develop an interactive resource kit for elementary schools on Musqueam history in Richmond. The resource will include a variety of primary source materials (books, pamphlets, audio-visual material etc.) as well as a teacher’s manual connecting the kit to school curriculum. The content will encourage critical thinking as well as hands-on exploration and multi-disciplinary learning.
Rossland
Lead Organization: Heritage Federation of South-Eastern BC
Initiative Title: Heritatge Profile Pages - Kootenay Rockies Heritage and Culture Guide
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Initiative Description: The initiative, in partnership with Kootenay Rockies Tourism, will create a heritage-resource publication to increase public awareness of the diversity of heritage resources and attractions in the south-eastern region of British Columbia. Organizations of all sizes will have a profile page that will include information and images specific to each. The guide will be distributed through the extensive network of Kootenay Rockies Tourism, BC Tourist Information Centres, and in locations in Alberta and the Pacific Northwest.
Salmon Arm
Lead Organization: Shuswap Theatre Society
Initiative Title: Shuswap Summer Theatre
Program: Catalyst Artistic/Organisational
Amount Awarded: $19,000
Initiative Description: Shuswap Summer Theatre is a semi-professional summer pilot production that will launch the establishment of a regular, self sustaining, professional or semi-professional summer stage at Shuswap Theatre featuring the celebration of Canadian Plays.
Tumbler Ridge
Lead Organization: Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation
Initiative Title: Archiving
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $20,000
Initiative Description: Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation will acquire the knowledge of an archivist to properly prepare and store collected documents, articles, photographs, etc. and to teach Foundation volunteers correct archival procedures so that they may continue the process into the future.
Vancouver
Lead Organization: Charles H. Scott Gallery
Initiative Title: Vancouver Special Artists Book Project
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $20,000
Initiative Description: The Vancouver Special Artists Books Project is an audience development and marketing initiative for the Gallery that will consist of a series of books by local artists, a collection of music by Vancouver artists/musicians, an outdoor concert and a one-day symposium on artists’ books. This will be the first opportunity for the Gallery to become a self-publisher of international-quality publications by artists.
Lead Organization: Co. ERASGA Dance Society
Initiative Title: Mentorship: Business and Financial Practices using Computer Programs
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $3,240
Initiative Description: Co.ERASGA will work with a mentor to develop business and financial planning practices, using the latest computer applications and software.
Lead Organization: Electric Company
Initiative Title: HIVE: Intimate Performances and Explosive Events
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $22,000
Initiative Description: Inspired by the success of SWARM in the visual arts community, HIVE is a uniqueand ambitious event which will celebrate and showcase the work of up to fifteen creation-based theatre companies in Vancouver. Taking place in November 2006 at the Great Northern Way Campus of BCIT, UBC and Emily Carr, HIVE addresses the independent theatre community’s needs to share resources, cross-fertilize creative ideas and engage diverse audiences in a format that is accessible and exciting.
Lead Organization: Firehall Theatre Society
Initiative Title: Website Re-Design and Capacity Upgrade
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $8,000
Initiative Description: The Firehall Theatre Society will undertake an extensive redesign of its website to include an in-house box office service supplemented by web based sales. The Firehall needs to increase its online sales capacity in order to more efficiently operate its in-house box office with its existing small staff to better serve its growing audiences. In addition, the Firehall will launch its new logo and branding and signage as part of the redesign of the website.
Lead Organization: Karen Jamieson Dance Society
Initiative Title: The Karen Jamieson Dance Company - Legacy Project - Phase #1
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $14,200
Initiative Description: By conserving an important part of Canadian Dance History, the initiative will preserve and make available documentation of the seminal work of Karen Jamieson, a senior Canadian dance artist. The initiative will digitize and edit the vast and significant body of work of Karen Jamieson from deteriorating videotapes, and make it available through the company’s website, as well as being used as an educational and marketing tool for the company.
Lead Organization: Leaky Heaven Performance Society
Initiative Title: Leaky Heaven's Satellite Circus
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $6,900
Initiative Description: Leaky Heaven will provide a mentorship opportunity for young theatre artists to gain practical experience in socially-engaged arts practices. Through connecting emerging performers with mature theatre professionals, Leaky Heaven is looking to provide a bridge between education and practical arts experience. Over 35 young individuals will be included in the program, working on a collaboration that will debut at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, and other public gatherings throughout 2006.
Lead Organization: Mascall Dance Society
Initiative Title: JOSHUA: multimedia body project
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: Mascall Dance Society will partner with Computational Poetics Research Group on an exciting project called JOSHUA: the multimedia body. The project will document dancers and moving body parts – the face, head, hands, legs and torso – which will be used to create an interactive multimedia display that reaches a diverse audience in various Lower Mainland galleries.
Lead Organization: Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Initiative Title: Discovering BC's Studio Pottery Movement
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: The Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery will undertake the publication of the first book to highlight the legacy of BC’s Studio Pottery movement from the 1960s and 1970s. The project will bring together artists, historians, critics and curators in this important field of BC’s craft history. The book will be released in October 2007.
Lead Organization: Made in BC
Initiative Title: Made in BC
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $16,000
Initiative Description: Made in BC will develop a network of regional presenters for dance, throughout British Columbia, who are committed to increasing dance activity in their communities. Made in BC will work with regional presenters to create increased exposure of diverse dance performance across British Columbia through dance presentation and outreach activities.
Lead Organization: Orchid Ensemble
Initiative Title: Della's Different Trains
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $18,000
Initiative Description: Della's Different Trains will include collaborative presentations between the Orchid Ensemble, composer Ya-wen Wang, and Lorita Leung Dance Association exploring the lives of Chinese Canadians from early settlement to modern times. Stories collected from interviews and archives will explore themes of diaspora and cultural conflict through a program of music, dance, spoken word, theatre and media arts.
Lead Organization: Pink Ink Theatre Productions (AKA PI Theatre)
Initiative Title: Strategic Resource Development Initiative
Program: Catalyst Artistic/Organisational
Amount Awarded: $6,100
Initiative Description: PI Theatre will focus on fundraising and sponsorship development, and implement a newly developed 2-phase resource building strategy that will assist in realizing the financial needs of the company’s artistic and administrative objectives over the next four seasons.
Lead Organization: Reel to Real: A Celebration of Moving Images for Youth Society
Initiative Title: Our World
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Initiative Description: Our World is an initiative that looks to empower Aboriginal youth in three communities across British Columbia – Canim Lake Band (100 Mile House), Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (Prince George) and Cowichan (Duncan). The initiative is a partnership with the National Film Board, and will help Aboriginal youth conceive, plan, shoot, edit, and screen short animated films that speak about their world, their life, and their vision. In the process of learning a new craft, youth will channel their creativity into greater self-confidence, positive work ethics, and marketable skills.
Lead Organization: Turning Point Ensemble
Initiative Title: From self-management to professional administration: a blueprint for long-term success
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $4,500
Initiative Description: Turning Point Ensemble will engage an arts consultant to create a legacy document that will serve as a blueprint for the transition from self-managed administration to professional administration. The consultant will then mirror the transition to ensure the effective transformation of the organization’s structure.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Art Gallery
Initiative Title: Urbanization and the Politics of Space
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $6,800
Initiative Description: Urbanization and the Politics of Space is a collaboration between the Vancouver Art Gallery, King George Secondary School and the Pacific Cinematheque that will give teens the powerful tools of poetry, film and sculpture to respond to issues of homelessness and the politics of space in their own West End community. The project will see youth design and create functional shelters for homeless people, and to document the process using video and still photography.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Initiative Title: Preserving the Past by Building for the Future - A Strategic Plan for the Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Program: Catalyst Artistic/Organisational
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: Following the recommendations of an Internal Organizational Assessment, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation (VHF) Board of Directors and staff will undertake a strategic planning initiative during the spring and summer of 2006 that will guide VHF activities and fundraising over the next 3 years.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra
Initiative Title: Music of the Whole World
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $4,100
Initiative Description: The Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra will present a 6 part educational series on intercultural music at the Vancouver Public Library. The aim of the series is to develop a dedicated audience for intercultural music and to educate people about intercultural music by guided music listening, live performances, and study materials, all free of charge.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Multicultural Society
Initiative Title: Vancouver Diversity Festival
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: Following the success of 2005’s Vancouver Diversity Festival, the Society will expand this innovative event that looks to incorporate Vancouver’s mono-ethnic festivals in one setting. The 2nd Annual Vancouver Diversity Festival will be a weekend of activities featuring the best in cultural shows; business exhibitions; food-tasting from restaurants and ethnic outlets; and world entertainment.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Opera
Initiative Title: First Nations-infused touring production of Mozart's The Magic Flute
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: Vancouver Opera is creating a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, designed by a team of First Nations artists and professional theatre designers. To complement this, the Vancouver Opera will create a touring production and curriculum study guide that will reach schools throughout the province, including members of the Association of First Nations Schools, which have not previously had access to touring productions of this kind.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Out on Screen Film & Video Society\Initiative
Title: Audience Development Assessment Project
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: Vancouver Out on Screen Film & Video Society will work with a consultant on an Audience Development Assessment towards developing a long-term Audience Development Plan. The goal is to increase their capacity and enable a transition to a year-round presenter of queer cultural programs.
Lead Organization: Vancouver Symphony Society
Initiative Title: Implementing Innovation - Training for Tessitura
Program: Catalyst Mentorship/Consultancy
Amount Awarded: $20,000
Initiative Description: The Vancouver Symphony Society will engage the services of a Vancouver-based IT consultant to train and mentor staff and select volunteers on Tessitura, an integrated fundraising, marketing, financial, and ticketing system software.
Lead Organization: Virtual Stage Arts Society, The
Initiative Title: Spank!
Program: Innovations Creative Explorations
Amount Awarded: $10,800
Initiative Description: Virtual Stage Arts Society will research and develop a new play entitled Spank! where computer-generated 3D moving scenography is integrated with choreographed aerial performance and supported by an innovative new harness rigging design. This will be a ground-breaking exploration into the integration of computer generated 3D environments with live aerial choreography in theatre.
Victoria
Lead Organization: Royal & McPherson Theatres Society (RMTS), The
Initiative Title: The Victoria International Arts Symposium
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Initiative Description: The recipient, in partnership with the City of Victoria, will host the Victoria International Arts symposium, which will bring together artists in a range of disciplines. The symposium will provide a forum for discussion on key issues related to the arts, as well as to inspire, educate, increase public awareness and stimulate dialogue. To be held at the McPherson Playhouse and Royal Theatre, Victoria Conference Centre and other locations, from October 27–30, 2006, the symposium will be the first of its kind for Victoria, and looks to lay the groundwork for future large-scale, collaborative projects.
Lead Organization: Story Theatre Company, The
Initiative Title: CD Rom Resource Guide
Program: Catalyst Artistic/Organisational
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Initiative Description: The Story Theatre Company will create an interactive CD Rom Resource Guide on the topic of bullying to enhance their production of “Hey Bully, Bully” for elementary schools in British Columbia. The Guide is intended to act either as a complement to their production, or as a stand-alone resource for teachers dealing with the ongoing problem of coping with bullying.
West Vancouver
Lead Organization: Blackbird Theatrical Society
Initiative Title: The Peer Gynt Project
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $11,000
Initiative Description: Blackbird Theatrical Society, a new Vancouver-based organization, was created to address the current gap in the presentation of classic drama in the Lower Mainland. As part of its second season, Blackbird will present The Peer Gynt Project at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in September 2006.
Whistler
Lead Organization: Vicious Circle (Whistler's Writers Collective), The
Initiative Title: Whistler Writers Festival and Retreat 2006
Program: Catalyst Audience/Markets
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: The Vicious Circle (Whistler’s Writers Collective) in partnership with Tourism Whistler, the Whistler Arts Council, the Whistler Public Library and the Municipality of Whistler will run the 2nd Annual four-day Writers Residency Program in Whistler matching 18 emerging writers with three professional writers/instructors. In addition, the organization will develop a reading series, open to the public, featuring both local and established professional writers.
Lead Organization: Whistler Film Festival Society
Initiative Title: Whistler Stories
Program: Innovations Community Initiatives
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Initiative Description: Whistler Stories is the 2nd year of an annual initiative supporting the creation of short-films based on stories from Whistler and the surrounding areas. Building on the success of 2005, the project will continue through 2010. Filmmakers will work with the Festival’s Director of Programming, and the films will be premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in 2007.
