Funded Projects by Community
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100 Mile House - South Cariboo Movement Arts Alliance (formerly the Co-operative Dance Group)
Project: Arts on the Move
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Since its inception in 2001, the Movement Arts Alliance (formerly the Cooperative Dance Group) has brought dance and movement to the forefront in the South Cariboo, staging workshops and performances by local artists. Arts on the Move is part of the group's commitment to increase the artistic excellence in movement arts available in rural BC. Bringing together a series of touring performances that will bring a diverse range of new forms of artistic practices to the region, this initiative will expand both the organization’s and the community’s cultural capacity.
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Abbotsford - Abbotsford Downtown Business Association
Project: Jammin' in Jubilee
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The ADBA was formed in 1989 to promote the development, revitalization and promotion of businesses in downtown Abbotsford. Working in partnership with these businesses, the ADBA’s initiative will launch a Summer Concerts in the Park series located in Jubilee Park, at the gateway to the historic downtown area. The concerts are part of the ADBA’s ongoing commitment to stimulate activity and raise the profile of the local cultural, musical and artistic talent of Abbotsford. The concerts will profile a range of culturally diverse musicians in an effort to reflect the diversity of the city’s community.
Abbotsford - InsideArt Cooperative
Project: Art Leasing Program
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
InsideArt Cooperative’s mandate is to market the fine crafts and artwork of its members to foster a culture of entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency. The organization is interested in developing a marketing plan for leasing the artwork of its members, in order to generate additional revenue and retain an asset base. This marketing initiative will be based in Abbotsford but will cover the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley.
Agassiz - District of Kent
Project: Kent-Harrison Cultural Mapping
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000
Application Year: 2008
The municipalities of Kent and Harrison Hot Springs will join together to develop a cultural map for the area. The map will serve as a guiding framework for the creation of a 10-year Arts and Culture Plan that will inform arts and culture related projects in the coming years. The work will be completed by a joint project planning committee, a consultant, and with input from the community.
Argenta - Argenta Community Association
Project: Bound Together
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,550.00
Application Year: 2005
Bound Together is an initiative that will engage a cross-section of community members through the phases of making a book about their community. The book will include local stories, anecdotes, illustrations and photographs. In addition to becoming part of the local history, the initiative will engage the larger community in a creative project that is both rare and informative.
Armstrong - Caravan Farm Theatre
Project: Horse Choreography Workshop - MacBeth
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Caravan Farm Theatre’s unique productions incorporate elements of music, mask and physical comedy, as well as horses and trucks. Over the last few years, their productions using horses have become among their most successful. The organization would like to expand their capacity to work with horses and learn to utilise them in a greater variety of ways. To this end, Caravan will undertake a two-week workshop that brings in expert horse-handlers to work with the organization’s staff. Caravan would like to enhance the artistic capacity of the organization and push the boundaries of theatrical staging.
Armstrong - Caravan Farm Theatre (Bill Miner Society for Cultural Advancement)
Project: Every citizen's right to culture: building a cultural community
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $15,025.00
Application Year: 2007
Caravan Farm Theatre proposes three education and outreach strategies to develop audiences in the communities of Armstrong and Spallumcheen. This pilot project will result in increased awareness and attendance at theatre productions, and enhanced opportunities for fundraising, sponsorship and municipal funding support. Activities will take place between November 2007 and September 2008.
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Bella Coola - Bella Coola Valley Museum Society
Project: Bella Coola Museum Education Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Museum Society will begin an education program offered to students throughout the year. This initiative will involve the creation of an educational package used to teach students in grades 1-7 about the cultural history of the Bella Coola Valley. The Museum will use this initiative to develop local audiences to augment its established tourist market.
Bella Coola - Chako Kunamokst Rediscovery - Nuxalk
Project: Rediscovery Nuxalk Heritage Canoe Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $16,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Chako has been asked to be involved with phase 2 of the Canoe Quest, with the Nuxalk participating in the journey from Prince Rupert to Bella Coola. Up to 28 canoes from 16 different Aboriginal Nations will participate, the whole journey taking place over 15 days. The project objective is to construct an ocean-going canoe out of cedar in traditional methods that have not been practiced by any carvers in the community for over 80 years. Through this initiative, experienced carvers will support and assist young adults to increase their knowledge of Nuxalk’s heritage and culture.
Bella Coola - Discovery Coast Music Festival
Project: Discovery Coast Music Festival Kick-Off
Program: Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Discovery Coast Music Festival Kick-Off is a new community outreach project hosted in the week prior to the festival weekend in 2010. A series of mini performances in a variety of spaces will be held to enhance and diversify Discovery Coast’s presence in the community. The Kick-Off will promote and build momentum to the festival, create new partnerships, strengthen existing ones and support tourism development.
Bowen Island - Bowen Island Arts Council
Project: Second annual Voices in the Sound Festival - Celebrating Bowen Island
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Voices in the Sound Festival will be back for its second year on Bowen Island. This outdoor festival integrates art, nature and history to celebrate the abundance of arts and culture on Bowen Island. It will support and feature professional and emerging Island artists and help broaden the role and influence of the arts on the Island.
Britannia Beach - BC Museum of Mining
Project: Copper and Fire
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $1,750.00
Application Year: 2005
In 2005, as part of its annual Copper and Fire event, the B.C. Museum of Mining will increase the participation of local artists and artisans who will demonstrate and display their work as it relates to the themes of copper and fire. Drawing on the importance of mining to the local history, the initiative attempts to build relationships between the local mining and artistic sectors.
Burnaby - Burnaby Art Gallery
Project: BAG in a Box
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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. Students will enjoy an enhanced learning experience and have the opportunity to meet and work with artists featured in the boxes.
Burnaby - Japanese Canadian National Museum
Project: Ohanashi - Japanese Canadian Life Stories
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
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Campbell River - City of Campbell River
Project: Campbell River's Culture and Heritage Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The City of Campbell River will partner with the local museum, art gallery, Tidemark Performing Arts Theatre and the Campbell River Community Arts Council to complete a cultural and heritage plan, based on information from a completed cultural map.
Campbell River - City of Campbell River
Project: Strategic Cultural and Heritage Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The recipient will engage a consultant to draft a Strategic Cultural and Heritage Map that will comprehensively reflect the community’s unique values and needs around culture and heritage. The city is committed to implementing the plan to guide the development of cultural and heritage practices, services and programs.
Campbell River - Campbell River and District Public Art Gallery
Project: Sustainable Operations
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2005
With 10 years of rapid growth in programming and participation, the Gallery will engage a consultant to assist in developing a plan to streamline current operations and garner increased funding to allow sustainable growth for 2007 and beyond.
Campbell River - Campbell River & District Museum & Archives Society
Project: Connecting Kids to Campbell River's History
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Campbell River Museum’s goal with this initiative is to transform the image and accessibility of their programs toward attracting, engaging and educating younger visitors. By designing 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.
Castlegar - City of Castlegar
Project: City of Castlegar Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The City of Castlegar will engage a consultant to create a cultural map as a first step toward developing a cultural plan for the community. The Castlegar Arts Council is an active partner in the project.
Coquitlam - Coquitlam Place des Arts Society
Project: A Cultural Mapping of Coquitlam
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Coquitlam Place des Arts Society, in partnership with the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Place Maillardville, Mackin Heritage Home and Toy Museum and Societé Maillardville-Uni, will conduct market research to assess current levels of participation in the community, and to identify program and audience development opportunities, both individually and as a group. The project will include survey findings from patrons, facility users and residents, and will give the partners a better understanding of the growing and changing demands for cultural services in the community.
Courtenay - Comox Valley Community Arts Council
Project: North Central Island Arts and Culture Association
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $9,150.00
Application Year: 2005
To increase the area’s cultural tourism capacity, the Comox Valley Community Arts Council will form an association of small- to medium-sized arts and culture producers in North Central Vancouver Island to look at establishing agreed-upon standards for cultural products, and to combine resources for marketing and advocacy. The Arts Council will partner with local organizations in investigating the creation of a branding program, and inclusion in existing regional destination marketing programs.
Courtenay - Comox Valley Community Arts Council
Project: Fibre Arts Symposium 2007: "Weaving This Island"
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 play 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 ongoing 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.
Courtenay - Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association
Project: Local Colour Arts and Culture Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $8,800.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Courtenay - Sid Williams Theatre Society
Project: Star Spirit Series 2007
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Star 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 with other community organizations. Different art forms will be showcased to develop cross-cultural awareness, and strong collaborative/creative networks. The sessions will conclude with a play, “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 art works, music, dance, theatre, stories and films by, and for, Western Canadian First Nations artists and communities.
Courtenay - Sid Williams Theatre Society
Project: Star Spirit - Carving a Legacy
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Star Spirit - Carving a Legacy project will invite residents of the Comox Valley to experience history in the making. The Sid Williams Theatre Society will launch its 2008 Star Spirit First Nations Performance Series with a week-long mask-carving residency. Over the course of a week, carver Charlie Johnson will be in residence in one of the theatre lobbies creating a symbolic mask carving that will tell the story of the friendship of the many cultures in the Comox Valley. The resulting work will be incorporated into a podium that will be used at future Star Spirit shows and other theatre and community events. The carving residency will be open to the public during the day. Two evenings of the residency week will be earmarked for community talking circle workshops involving guest elders and artists from Vancouver Island First Nations communities.
Courtenay - Sid Williams Theatre Society
Project: Star Spirit Film Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Star Spirit Film Festival is a First Nations Performance Series consisting of four to eight juried documentary films by First Nations filmmakers. The "kick-off" will feature a presentation by the Kumugwe Dancers from the K'omoks First Nation with introductory talks by filmmakers. During the festival a combined student/professional art exhibit will be hung in the theatre lobby. Events will also include community "talking circle" workshops for youth and adults on the festival theme and a "friendship" dance workshop at the end of the festival.
Courtenay - Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry
Project: Building the Circle
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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. Participants will learn skills including beading, regalia making, drum making and drumming, and engage in activities including Pow-wows and other cultural events.
Courtenay - Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry
Project: Dancing with Spirit
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Dancing with Spirit will build upon the knowledge learned in drum-making workshops held, and drum groups formed, last year. Continuing to build traditional skills and knowledge will enable off-reserve urban Aboriginal and Métis peoples to celebrate their heritage and more fully engage in cultural activities. Workshops will be offered in traditional elder and youth dancing, beading, cedar bark weaving and basketry, and regalia-making with buckskin. Participants will be able to showcase their achievements in a traditional dance festival that will be part of Comox Valley’s July 1 celebrations.
Cranbrook - Cranbrook Archives, Museum and Landmark Foundation (Canadian Museum of Rail Travel)
Project: Steaming Along
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 will incorporate 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.
Cranbrook - Cranbrook and District Arts Council
Project: Cranbrook Arts and Heritage Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Cranbrook and District Arts Council in partnership with the City of Cranbrook, Key City Theatre, Canadian Museum of Rail Travel and the Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce will engage a consultant to carry out cultural mapping in Cranbrook and District. The Cranbrook Cultural Map will create an inventory of cultural activities and develop a profile of Cranbrook's arts and heritage sectors. The mapping process will include the quantification of community cultural assets and successes, development of a needs and opportunities assessment that includes facilities needs, and development of a vision statement, strategies and actions to be incorporated into a comprehensive Cultural Plan.
Cranbrook - Cranbrook and District Arts Council
Project: The Cranbrook Cultural Plan for Arts and Heritage
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Cranbrook and District Arts Council, in partnership with the City of Cranbrook and other local organizations, will undertake a cultural planning process. The Cranbrook Cultural Plan for Arts and heritage, at its outcome will deliver a strategic, viable business plan for the arts, heritage and cultural sector of Cranbrook.
Creston - Community Arts Council of Creston
Project: Sustainable Operations and Strategic Directions Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $650.00
Application Year: 2008
Consultant Liam Brown will work with the Community Arts Council of Creston’s Board of Directors and key stakeholders to develop a strategic plan and governance model. The development of a two-year plan will allow the council to establish an action plan and have the board function on a governance model.
Creston - Creston and District Historical and Museum Society
Project: Audience engagement and expansion
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $2,600.00
Application Year: 2007
The Creston Museum has established strong support among three segments of its audience including museum members, local schools and seniors. Through this project, they will engage in research to gain a clear understanding of the effectiveness of their current programs and develop strategies to better serve each of these audience segments.
Creston - Creston Area Economic Development Society
Project: Creston Valley Community Arts and Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $8,070.00
Application Year: 2006
The Creston Valley Development Authority, in partnership with the Community Arts Council of Creston, will work on creating an inventory of arts and culture in the Creston Valley. The map will help the municipality identify existing assets and strengths, as well as gaps, needs and future opportunities.
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D'Arcy - N'Quatqua Band of the Stl'atl'imx Nation (Education Committee)
Project: Arts and Culture Youth Workshops 2005 in N'Quatqua
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $9,650.00
Application Year: 2005
The Arts for Youth Workshop Series includes three weekend programs in N’Quatqua that will provide youth (12–20 years) from five small reserves with hands-on experience with professional mentorship featuring traditional and contemporary arts and cultural activities. Workshop themes include wood carving, drum painting, basketry and dance. The project seeks to promote self-worth, exploration of identity, and creativity in a nurturing learning environment for youth.
Delta - Young People's Opera Society of BC
Project: The King Who Wouldn't Sing
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 - 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.
Delta - Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Project: Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble (PSWE) will secure the services of David Pay, a professional marketing consultant, to expand its audience base. The consultant will conduct an audit of current PSWE marketing activities, analyze the company's existing and potential audience base, and provide a strategy for future marketing and promotion of PSWE activities.
Denman Island - Arts Denman
Project: The Denman Island Arts Centre Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $4,130.00
Application Year: 2006
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 a 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.
Denman Island - Arts Denman
Project: Celebrating Our Own Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Celebrating Our Own Festival is a new, two-day visual arts event, organized by Arts Denman, that will animate and encourage the arts and support artists working on Denman Island. The festival will include an exhibition, studio tours and hands-on workshops. A special edition portfolio documenting these activities will be made available to artists and offered for sale to the public.
Denman Island - Arts Denman
Project: Website Enhancement
Program: Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Arts Denman will enhance its website to include e-commerce capabilities. This will enable the Denman Island Art Centre to receive online registrations and payments for educational programs and increase the marketing reach of the Arts Centre.
Deroche - Deroche Elementary School
Project: Carved Aboriginal House Post for School Foyer
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $3,800.00
Application Year: 2005
Deroche Elementary School will create a House Post for the school’s foyer that will reflect the designs of the school and its community. The post will become a symbol of the native and non-native communities, blending symbols of both the school and the two First Nation’s reserves located near the school. The raising of the post will be marked by a ceremony in October 2005, when a large feast and celebration, including drumming and dancing, will introduce the students and their families to the rich and diverse history of the region.
Deroche - In-SHUCK-ch Services Society
Project: The Cedar Bark Workshops
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2006
In-SHUCK-ch Services Society will offer a series of cedar bark/root workshops teaching individuals how to harvest and prepare cedar bark/root to create baskets, ropes, fishnets and other artistic and functional objects. The workshops will be open to all community members, and will take place 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 - Cowichan Folk Guild
Project: Chapel Recording Sessions Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,500.00
Application Year: 2007
The Cowichan Folk Guild will coordinate nine recording sessions in the Chapel at Providence Farm in Duncan. The sessions will provide live acoustic recording opportunities for local professional musicians. Artists and audiences will have the opportunity to meet and mingle at a farm-fresh dinner prior to the evenings’ recording sessions.
Duncan - Film Cowichan/Cowichan Region Economic Development Commission
Project: The Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival: participant film makers and audience development
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $13,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Film Cowichan will undertake a strategic audience development project to expand the scope and reach of the Cowichan Aboriginal Film festival. Film Cowichan will identify and access professional, high-profile Aboriginal filmmakers from different countries, and ask them to enter their films into the Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival. In addition, Film Cowichan will research the target audience markets, identify audience growth strategies and develop a sponsorship strategy to provide ongoing support for key festival activities.
Duncan - South Island Musical Theatre Society (SIMC)
Project: Developing an audience and marketing resource strategy for SIMC
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2007
South Island Musical Theatre Society will computerize its sales and marketing functions by creating a database that will be a central repository for information on existing audience members, past members, educational institutions and community groups. The database will become a tool for attracting new audiences and reaching newcomers to the community.
Dunster - Wishbone Productions
Project: "Robson Valley Anthology," a collective theatre creation
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Dunster - Wishbone Productions
Project: The Small Town Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2008
For the second time, Wishbone Theatre’s professional artists will work with an ensemble of local actors and volunteers in the Robson Valley to develop, create and produce a musical theatre production entitled The Small Town Project. Community members from Valemount, Tete Jaune Cache, Dunster and McBride will participate in all aspects of the production. The play will be presented at theatres in Valemount and McBride.
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Enderby - Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society
Project: By the River
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $16,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society creates collaborative theatre projects that bring artists and the public together to promote appreciation and participation in the arts. “By the River” is a cross-cultural community theatrical celebration of water and the river that will take place on the banks of the Shuswap River on August 1, 2005. The project will see the creation of “The Institute of Spectacle,” an innovative mentorship program that will bring artists to work with the local community on the production. Through this mentorship, artistic and organizational knowledge will be shared with the public, increasing the overall artistic capacity of this small, rural town. In addition, the visiting artists will gain valuable experience in community arts practice and become valuable members of The Institute of Spectacle.
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Fort St. John - City of Fort St. John
Project: Fort St. John Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with the Fort St John Community Arts Council, the City will assess, and create an inventory of, existing arts and cultural assets. The map will be a first step following a recent resolution by City Council to proceed with developing a comprehensive cultural plan for the city.
Fort St. John - Fort St. John Association for Community Living
Project: Fort St. John Players 2006: Expanding Audience Demographics in the North Peace
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Fort St. John Players is looking to expand its audience beyond traditional peer audiences to the community at large. To reach this goal, the organization will market its 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.
Fort St. John - Fort St. John Community Arts Council
Project: The development of a working cultural plan document by the City of Fort St. John
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The City of Fort St. John, along with the Fort St. John Community Arts Council, will work with a cultural committee to develop a cultural plan that will be part of the city's official community plan. The city recently completed a map of the arts and cultural assets in the community, and the City Council agreed with the benefits of proceeding with the creation of a cultural plan. The City believes that the plan will lead to a stronger arts and culture infrastructure, and long term sustainability of cultural activity in Fort St. John.
Fort St. John - Northern Dance Theatre Society
Project: Northern Dance Summer School
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Northern Dance Theatre Society will expand their annual two-week summer school to include ballet, tap, jazz and hip hop. The project will bring higher-profile instructors from outside Fort St. John and expose dance students to a level of instruction not usually available in the region. In addition, the project will add musical theatre and acrobatics to the available classes.
Fort Nelson - Northern Rockies Alaska Highway Tourism Association - Alaska Highway Community (NRAHTA-AHC)
Project: Northern Rockies Alaska Highway Cultural Scan
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Application Year: 2010
NRAHTA-AHC will complete a cultural scan of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality (NRRM) and a heritage inventory of the Alaska Highway. NRAHTA-AHC will partner with the NRRM, and conduct multiple stakeholder consultations together with NR Community Arts Council and Fort Nelson Heritage Society.
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Gabriola Island - Gabriola Arts Council
Project: Gabriola Arts Council: Adding Online Sales and Donations
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Gabriola Arts Council's website will be developed to add new features including an online store and shopping cart to manage sales, membership fees and donations. The Arts Council will use the website to facilitate sale of their artists’ work for a percentage fee, which would provide ongoing funding for the website and administration of their not-for-profit organization.
Gabriola Island - Gabriola Arts Council
Project: Gabriola Theatre Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,250.00
Application Year: 2009
Gabriola Theatre Festival will build on the success of its first three-day festival which was a celebration of live theatre, music, poetry and visual arts by presenting its second festival in 2010. The festival garners support from the community at large, business, performers and artists and from festival volunteers. In 2010 the festival will add events such as an outdoor stage, a Lions pancake breakfast and Street Art, the largest gathering of Gabriola’s visual artists where their art is profiled
www.gabriolatheatrefestival.ca
Gabriola Island - Lulu Performing Arts Society
Project: The Elements: A Festival of Nature in Performance
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Elements: A Festival of Nature in Performance on Gabriola Island will be a terrestrial symposium that involves sound art, installation work and digital media with performances, workshops and master-classes for all ages. Audiences can experience the process of creation and performance that integrates and reflects their environment in an inclusive and transformational manner.
Gabriola Island - Poetry Gabriola Society
Project: Poetry Gabriola Audience Interaction Enhancement
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Poetry Gabriola will add functions to their website that will help serve their growing audience. The new functions will include a ticket sales mechanism, online donations, online membership and mailing list sign-up, membership management, poem gallery and blog.
Gabriola Island - Poetry Gabriola Society
Project: Words and Music Concert Series 2010
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $7,600.00
Application Year: 2009
Words and Music Concert Series 2010 is a professional concert series on Gabriola Island featuring performing artists with the intention of drawing new audiences locally and from Vancouver Island to a showcase of culturally diverse Canadian musicians who perform truly inspired, original work and who would not normally be seen in this rural location.
Galiano Island - urban ink production society
Project: From Where We Speak
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2007
From Where We Speak is a collaboration between artists, students and residents of the communities of Galiano and Kuper Islands. This collaboration will involve research and the creation and development of a new performance work. Over the next year, visiting artists, artist mentors, junior mentors and students will work in group clusters to create a multi-disciplinary work that explores themes of nature, culture, space and place. The project builds on urban ink’s successful history of outreach and represents a new scale of community-based project development.
Galiano Island - Access to Media Education Society (AMES)
Project: Youth-MADE (Media Arts Diversity Education and Empowerment)Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Youth-MADE is a media arts mentorship program that will bring together young people from all walks of life to share their stories and work with accomplished filmmakers in the creation of short videos. The works will address issues of identity, bullying and inclusion and will be incorporated into an anti-discrimination resource package for both elementary and high schools students. The final program will be delivered through youth facilitated workshops in schools and to the wider community throughout B.C.
Golden - Golden Area Initiatives
Project: Golden's Cultural Map and Community Consultation Project
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with the Town of Golden and Area ‘A’ of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, Golden Area Initiatives will undertake an inventory of local cultural assets, strengths, challenges and aspirations. This assessment will be the first stage toward developing an action plan for arts and cultural development in Golden.
Grindrod - Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society
Project: Food for Thought
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $7,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society will create a community-based arts project that expands the range of existing activities for the organization. The project focuses on issues of food and consumption, with a particular interest in locally available, inexpensive and 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, cumulative art show, community feast and harvest celebration. A low-cost catalogue/recipe book, illustrated with the artwork, will also be produced and distributed to participants.
Grindrod - Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society
Project: Food for Thought
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2007
Food for Thought is in its second year of a two-year, community-based arts project celebrating the beauty and importance of seasonal, locally-grown food. Project elements include: eight visual art pieces and mini-feasts; four seasonal theatrical spectacles; a catalogue/book filled with artwork, recipes and food lore; and a final exhibition in the Enderby Community Health Centre. The project provides multiple opportunities for professional and amateur artists and citizens to engage in hands-on creation and presentation of community art projects.
Grindrod - Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society
Project: Runaway Moon Website
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Runaway Moon Theatre will design and produce a new website for publicity, archival and communication purposes. Personnel will be trained to make changes and updates to this website.
Grindrod - Runaway Moon Theatre Arts Society
Project: Reflection
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Reflection is a multi-phase community arts project in Enderby and district using workshops in music, dance, ceramics and fabric design inspired by the theme of water, in all its forms. It will lead up to a performance of a community dance drama at the Kingfisher Environment Interpretive Centre on the shore of Shuswap River in July 2010.
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Horsefly - Quesnel River Watershed Alliance
Project: Horsefly River Salmon Festival 2005
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $2,300.00
Application Year: 2005
The Quesnel River Watershed will incorporate a participatory arts and culture component in their Salmon Festival, an event held every four years to correspond with the Horsefly Sockeye run. The Alliance will work with the local school to create a public mural in celebration of the festival.
Hudson's Hope - The Arts and Cultural Society on the Edge (TACSOTE)
Project: Art Attack!
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2007
TACSOTE will offer affordable summer art camps in a workshop setting for children and adults. Workshops will focus on a variety of arts-based activities, including visual arts, creative writing, music and dance. Children will be divided into three age groups for day programs, and adults will have the opportunity to attend workshops while their children are involved in camp activities. The art works created at the summer camps will be displayed at the public library and the annual Hudson’s Hope Fall Fair.
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Invermere - Columbia Valley Arts Council
Project: Arts on the Move
Community: Invermere and communities between Canal Flats and Spillimacheen in the upper Columbia Valley within the Regional District
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $7,900.00
Application Year: 2009
The Columbia Valley Arts Council, in partnership with the Regional District of East Kootenay, will undertake a cultural mapping project of the municipalities and rural communities between Canal Flats and Spillimacheen in the upper Columbia Valley.
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Kamloops - Arnica Artist Run Centre
Project: Arnica Artist Run Centre Website Development
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Arnica Artist Run Centre will strengthen their presence internet through the development of a website by March 2010. This website will Arnica’s membership and the artistic community informed about their programming, activities, workshops and fundraisers.
Kamloops - Centre for Innovation in the Arts and Culture in Canada
Project: Interior Investigations
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $21,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Interior Investigations is an artist-research project that will bring six to nine established artists and cultural critics to the Kamloops region to research and create site-specific works in a variety of disciplines including writing, performance, and installation. In recent years, arts and cultural capacity in Kamloops has seen growth. The Centre for Innovation in the Arts and Culture is part of this. It was created in 2005 by Thompson Rivers University to support the importance of a collaborative, artist-community research model. The project, through community collaborations, will investigate the notion of the interior, both as a geographic region of BC and the interiority of race, class and sexual identity.
Kamloops - Project X Theatre Productions Society
Project: Xfest
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Project X Theatre is a dynamic new organization on the Kamloops theatre scene. Following several successful independent productions, Project X will capitalize on an identified gap in summer programming in the community and create a three-play, three-week theatre festival in 2006 in the heart of Kamloops at Riverside Park. The festival will mix Shakespeare with modern Canadian productions.
Kelowna - City of Kelowna
Project: City of Kelowna Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The City of Kelowna will undertake a cultural map that will be the first phase of a new cultural plan. The map will document various cultural assets and completed research, as well as identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges. The map will incorporate information gathered through consultations, including external consultations with the community at large.
Project: City of Kelowna Cultural Planning
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $19,900.00
Application Year: 2010
The City of Kelowna will develop a three-to-five year cultural plan that will integrate cultural objectives into municipal plans that impact the community, land use and economic development. The cultural plan will build upon information collected through the cultural mapping process completed in 2006.
Kelowna - City of Kelowna (Life and Arts Festival)
Project: Shining a light on illuminArts
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The project will bring Dolly Hopkins of Public Dreams Society (Vancouver) to mentor the Life and Arts Festival team through training workshops, public workshops and staff consultations. Hopkins’ knowledge in the area of community celebrations, both artistic and organizational, will be of benefit for staff who would like to enhance the IlluminArts Lantern Celebration as a core component of the City’s annual festival.
Kelowna - Kelowna Art Gallery Association
Project: We Are Artists
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Kelowna Art Gallery (KAG) will partner with the Cool Arts Society to showcase the works of local artists with developmental disabilities in an exhibition entitled We Are Artists. The exhibition will include a series of workshops, a catalogue, and a panel discussion to foster dialogue and raise awareness about the arts and artists with developmental disabilities in regards to accessibility, diversity and creative practice.
Kelowna - Kelowna Ballet Society (aka Ballet Kelowna)
Project: Ballet Kelowna Website Enhancement - E-commerce and Content
Management
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Ballet Kelowna will enhance their website to enable staff to manage and update content. In addition, the enhancements will enable Ballet Kelowna to send e-communications and incorporate e-commerce features including online special event ticket and merchandise sales, leading to increased earned income.
Kelowna - Kelowna Community Music School Society
Project: Kelowna's Music School for the 21st Century
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $9,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Kelowna’s Community Music School is currently faced with the challenge of enhancing and diversifying their programs while also looking at the viability of building or acquiring an expanded facility. Towards this end, the School will hire a consultant to work with the board and staff to prepare a five-year plan to shape the future of the organization. The plan will define the parameters for a new facility, as well as a schedule for fundraising and goals and timeframes for program development.
www.kelownacommunitymusicschool.ca
Kelowna - Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society
Project: Mentorship - Embracing today, planning for tomorrow
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $19,200.00
Application Year: 2005
KVPAC’s mission is to act as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and appreciation of the arts in Kelowna through the management and operation of the Rotary Centre for the Arts (RCA). As KVPAC moves to increase its organizational skills and capacity, they will embark on a mentorship program for staff by bringing in a series of consultants in the areas of marketing and fundraising. Through this mentorship, KVPAC hopes to increase its organizational strength by implementing new sponsorship and membership programs. KVPAC will share their learned expertise with local theatre companies by offering workshops in a variety of areas, including production planning, marketing and fundraising.
Kimberley - City of Kimberley
Project: Kimberley Cultural Mapping
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000
Application Year: 2008
The City of Kimberley, in partnership with the Kimberley Arts Council, will engage in a comprehensive cultural mapping exercise. The goal will be to develop a clear vision and determine where energies and resources should be placed to enhance the community's arts, cultural and heritage product. The cultural mapping project is an essential first step towards achieving Kimberley's cultural potential.
Kimberley - City of Kimberley
Project: Kimberley Cultural Planning
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $5,000
Application Year: 2008
Having just completed their Cultural Mapping project, the City of Kimberley in partnership with the Kimberley Arts Council, will begin work on a Community Cultural Plan. The cultural plan, which will be incorporated into the City’s Official Community Plan and Economic Development Strategy, will identify ways to attract artists so they can contribute to local business, plan for investments to attract new audiences, and use public art to raise the profile of arts and culture in the city.
Kimberley - Kimberley Arts Council - Centre 64
Project: Kimberley Arts Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $13,750.00
Application Year: 2005
Centre 64 is a hub for the visual and performing arts in Kimberley, and for many professional and emerging artists located in the southeast Kootenay region. The Kimberley Arts Festival is envisioned as a three-day gathering of visual and performing artists and artisans, displaying, demonstrating and performing their arts in public settings and showcasing the region’s artistic talents. In addition, the festival will develop a series of workshops where artists and the public can learn a range of new artistic skills.
Kimberley - Kimberley Arts Council - Centre 64
Project: Arts on the Edge 2006, Kimberley's Festival of the Arts
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Building on the unprecedented success of 2005, Arts on the Edge 2006, the 2nd annual Kimberley 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.
Kitimat - Kitimat Centennial Museum Association
Project: Kitamaat/Kitimat Unity Pole Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Kitimat Centennial Museum Board and G’psgolox Pole committee will bring the two communities of Kitimat and Kitamaat together to create a totem pole of friendship and unity to promote a bond of understanding, friendship and respect. The project will include mentorship by a master carver from Northwest Community College’s new artist-in-residence program. This will be the first collaborative effort between the two communities, and will seek to strengthen and enhance the communication and cultural capacity of the organizations involved and local residents.
Kitimat - Kitimat Concert Association
Project: Kitimat Blues Blast
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Kitimat Concert Association will present a new two-day blues festival in Kitimat on April 7 and 8, 2006, with award winning veteran and emerging artists that will attract north-western BC audiences. The concert will coincide with the established regional draw of Kitimat’s Spring Arts and Crafts Fair and the First Nations Basketball Tournament.
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Langley - City of Langley
Project: City of Langley cultural master plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
With a 2003 Cultural Tourism Economic Impact Study and a 2005 Parks, Recreation and Culture Master Plan, the City of Langley will work on a master cultural plan. The plan will provide the community with a coordinated and purposeful approach to providing arts, culture and heritage to the citizens in the City of Langley and beyond. The plan will help to guide the City of Langley over the next ten years.
Langley - Langley Community Music School (LCMS)
Project: Policy and Governance Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2006
The Langley Community Music School will work with two consultants on human resource policies and redefining organizationally-appropriate relationships between the Board and administration.
Lillooet - Lillooet Friendship Centre Society
Project: Lillooet Rock Mosaic Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $13,300.00
Application Year: 2005
The Rock Mosaic Project is an innovative community-based project that will explore alternative approaches to community development, cultural bridging, economic sustainability and viable beautification. Utilizing local, natural and readily-available materials, the mosaics will be located at more than 60 sites. Drawing on local native and non-native histories and artistic practices, the project will reflect the blending of cultures and art forms in the region.
Lions Bay - Municipality of the Village of Lions Bay
Project: Winter Light: the Spirit of Lions Bay Lantern Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Lytton - Siska Indian Band (Bridging the Canyons)
Project: Heritage Canyon Learning ProgramProgram:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Siska Indian Band will develop a program that will share and preserve traditional knowledge through an innovative project focusing on the arts, language and culture of the people of the Fraser and Thompson Canyons. The Band will create a series of courses designed around local traditional knowledge and culture in the areas of wild foods, dance, arts and crafts, survival, cultural awareness and traditional living. The courses will be available to individuals, schools and adult education programs within and outside of the community.
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Madeira Park - Pender Harbour Music Society
Project: Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Pender Harbour Music Society will establish the first annual Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival in August 2005. This builds on the Society’s previous work running a concert series and an annual Jazz Festival and will introduce new programming to the area.
www.penderharbourmusic.ca/program/chamber-music.php
Madeira Park - Pender Harbour Music Society (for the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival)
Project: A five-year strategic plan for Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $3,748.00
Application Year: 2008
With the assistance of consultant/facilitator Betty Baxter, the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival will develop a five-year strategic plan. The process will include a mission and vision statement for the Festival, clarification of values, definition of organizational objectives and the development of a plan to achieve those objectives over the next five years.
Madeira Park - Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society ("Lagoon Society")
Project: The Natural World - An Artist's Celebration
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 - Tluu Xaada Naay Society
Project: Making Haida History
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Tluu Xaada Naay Society is a non-profit organization in Old Masset, BC that serves to encourage the development of Haida arts and culture in visual, written, vocal, dance, traditional and modern forms. As part of the 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.
Maple Ridge - Maple Ridge Mountain Festival Society
Project: Spirit of Wood Festival (2009)
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Spirit of Wood Festival is a new, multi-day celebration of wood showcasing wood artists and crafters from throughout B.C., Canada and the Pacific Northwest. This community-driven event will include demonstrations, workshops, wood vendor sales, carving competitions, children’s make-and-take projects, and a community carving project through a partnership with School District 42’s Aboriginal Education Department Cultural Mentorship program.
Maple Ridge - Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Arts Council
Project: Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows Arts Council Interactive Website
Enhancement Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,750.00
Application Year: 2009
Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Arts Council will enhance their website to create a user-friendly and interactive experience for patrons, members and donors and add features to increase ticket sales, membership and donor revenues. Additions include online membership and donations, e-newsletter sign up, interactive surveys, artist directory, online submissions and an arts community page.
Maple Ridge - Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows Leisure Services (PLS)
Project: Cultural Mapping Project: Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Katzie First Nations
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Application Year: 2010
The cultural map will strengthen the region, and in particular, the arts, cultural and heritage community, by creating a common understanding of the current strengths, resources, challenges and aspirations. It will provide a comprehensive foundation to prepare a community-based and integrated cultural strategy.
McBride - Whistle Stop Gallery Society
Project: Whistle Stop Community Wall Mural Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Whistle Stop Gallery Society in cooperation with the community of McBride is sponsoring a community art mural project. Focusing 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.
Merritt - City of Merritt
Project: City of Merritt Cultural Mapping
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2010
The City of Merritt will conduct a cultural mapping project in order to develop a more diverse arts and culture policy. The City will work with stakeholders, including the Arts Council, the Valley Visual Artists, the Heritage Commission and the Walk of Stars Society to name a few, to participate in the cultural mapping of existing resources.
Mission - Ecole Mission Central
Project: Aboriginal Artwork Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with the SiwalSi’wes Aboriginal Department, Ecole Mission Central Elementary School will create a large spindle whorl for the school grounds. Representing the Coast Salish, on whose land the school sits, the project will bring the entire school community together through the involvement of students, Aboriginal elders, staff, families and the community. The creation of this artwork will address the sense of pride for the Aboriginal students and their families, but will also provide learning opportunities for the non-Aboriginal students and public about the Coast Salish culture, art forms and values.
Mission - Mission Folk Music Festival Society
Project: People of the River
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2009
People of the River is a new festival program that will feature Aboriginal music, dance and culture of local First Nations and their Aboriginal counterparts across Canada and internationally. The program base will be with the Sto:lo, or People of the River with activities in facilities and venues not commonly used for performance and not commonly visited by the public.
Mission - Sto:lo Heritage Trust Society
Project: Xa:ytem Website Enhancement Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Xa:ytem will upgrade its existing website to improve its function and to attract more visitors to its virtual and physical sites and increase sales. Additional features will include online sales, discussion boards and online booking capabilities. Staff will be able to maintain the website after the upgrade.
Mount Currie - Mount Currie Band Council
Project: The Mount Currie Digital Storytelling Development ProjectProgram:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $7,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 filmmaking 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 participate in the Gulf Islands Film and Television School's (GIFTS) Spring Aboriginal Filmmaking Intensive. Then, utilising new media technology, the GIFTS graduates will be commissioned to create short films based on community stories.
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Nakusp - Arrow Lakes Arts Council
Project: Nakusp Cultural Scan and Mapping Initiative
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000
Application Year: 2008
Arrow Lakes Community Arts Council will carry out a cultural mapping process. This cultural map will encompass the Arrow Lakes region that includes Trout Lake, Galena Bay, Nakusp, Summit Lake, Arrow Park, Burton, Fauquier and Edgewood. Approximately 7,500 people currently live in this region that spans 120 km and is serviced by two ferries. The cultural mapping project will enable the Arrow Lakes communities to: (1) profile and detail the contribution of the arts, cultural and heritage organizations in the area; (2) build greater cultural capacity and reach more people throughout the region; (3) increase the economic base for arts and cultural activity; (4) create opportunities for artists to achieve excellence; (5) enhance opportunities for everyone in the region to engage in arts and cultural activities.
Nanaimo - Assembly of BC Arts Councils
Project: The Interactive Website Enhancement Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,760.00
Application Year: 2009
The interactive website enhancement project will enable the Assembly and its members to collect information and create reporting tools to help with planning and decision making. It will also provide the Assembly with the ability to have image and multimedia galleries which will allow their members to have a web presence to promote themselves and their projects. Many of the Assembly’s members have a need for this service but do not possess the capability to do it themselves. The enhanced Assembly website will act as the hub of a cooperative network celebrating the best of B.C.'s artists.
Nanaimo - City of Nanaimo
Project: Cultural Resources Inventory/Cultural Calendar
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The project will include the development of an online Cultural Resources Inventory which will be a comprehensive searchable guide to Nanaimo’s arts and cultural community. It will include a list of the existing arts and cultural facilities and organizations, and a calendar of arts, cultural and heritage events.
Nanaimo - Crimson Coast Dance Society
Project: Dance on the Crimson Coast: Expanding Dance in Nanaimo
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Crimson Coast Dance is a company dedicated to the development, support and presentation of contemporary dance in Nanaimo. The proposed project involves community-based dance creation workshops that will be integrated into an existing festival of dance. The workshops will help to build the artistic capacity of the local community through participation in movement activities. In particular, the project will be oriented toward teens and young adults in the local community.
Nanaimo - Crimson Coast Dance Society
Project: Body Talk Project 2010
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Body Talk Project 2010 offer youth (13–19) the opportunity to work with arts professionals in administration, production and performance. With a professional guest artist, a facilitator and Society staff, the youth curate, administer and produce a series of free summer classes and a final performance presentation, in which they participate.
Nanaimo - Downtown Nanaimo Partnership
Project: First Annual Spring Break Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Downtown Nanaimo Partnership will coordinate a range of Nanaimo arts, cultural and heritage organizations in the inaugural Spring Break Festival. The Festival will engage youth aged 12-18 in a hands-on experiential festival of various arts disciplines – visual arts, film, writing and theatre. In addition to the community engagement aspects of this project, it will establish a collaborative framework in which local and diverse arts, culture and heritage organizations can work together.
Nanaimo - Nanaimo and District Museum Society
Project: Regional Sport Hall of Fame Development
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In 2003 the Nanaimo and District Museum was included in the development of a new convention centre by the City of Nanaimo. As part of this expansion, the Museum will undertake a process to design, develop and implement a regional Sports Hall of Fame. To facilitate this process, the Museum will hire a consultant to address the issues of resources, sustainability, governance, and marketing in order to produce a business plan to allow the Museum to move forward.
Nanaimo - Nanaimo Festival Heritage Theatre Society (TheatreOne)
Project: Frank Ney Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $8,900.00
Application Year: 2005
TheatreOne will commission and develop a new play script based on the life of Frank Ney, an important personality in Nanaimo’s history. 2010 Legacies Now funds will go toward a community consultation process by the playwright, including outdoor interactions with the public.
Nanaimo - Nanaimo Festival Heritage Theatre Society (TheatreOne)
Project: Emerging Voices
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $3,225.00
Application Year: 2007
TheatreOne's Emerging Voices project will consist of a series of staged readings of new Canadian plays presented in an interactive workshop format. The monthly readings are free to the public and are intended to establish a stronger relationship with existing audiences and the local community, and to attract new audiences.
Nanaimo - Nanaimo Sings!
Project: Nanaimo Sings! A Festival of Choral Music
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
A new partnership of 13 choral groups from the mid-Island region will come together to present a three-day festival of choral music in Nanaimo. Local choirs totaling 300 singers will perform mini-concerts at various venues in the city. The festival will culminate in a Gala Concert at the Port Theatre featuring all of the choirs performing individually and en masse. All concerts will be open to the public.
Nanaimo - Theatre BC
Project: Audience Development Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Theatre BC will engage two consultants to provide its 80 member clubs with audience development software, processes and management practices. The project will include piloting two clubs over six months and creating documents and policies related to these audience-development tools. The initiative has the potential to yield a long-term audience development legacy of great value to the theatre arts throughout BC.
Nanaimo - Theatre BC / The British Columbia Drama Association
Project: ACToberfest - Provincial One-Act & Monologue Fringe Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
As part of its 75th Anniversary season celebrations, Theatre BC is creating a new provincial theatre festival featuring one-act plays and monologues, presented by community theatre, and 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, part of the mandate being to leave a lasting theatre legacy within each location.
Nanaimo - Theatre BC / The British Columbia Drama Association
Project: Community Theatre Touring Series
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The first Community Theatre Touring Series will invite theatre productions from around the province to perform at Nanaimo’s newest small scale performing arts venue. Community theatre groups will have the opportunity to workshop their play with a theatre professional who will provide critiques and address areas for improvement. In addition, theatre groups will explore a framework they can use to extend the run of their shows.
Nanaimo - Vancouver Island Arts Festivals Society
Project: Marketing on rural communities
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Vancouver Island Arts Festivals Society will hire consulting services to design their marketing and fundraising strategies. These strategies will reach over 35 communities throughout the Island.
Nanaimo - Vancouver Island Arts Festivals Society
Project: Show on the Road
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2006
From its central Nanaimo base, the Vancouver Island Arts Festivals Society will tour its International Children's Festival to more effectively reach young audiences throughout Vancouver Island. This first stop will be Greater Victoria (South Island) in 2007. If successful, 2008 plans will include a further tour extension to the North Island.
Nanaimo - Vancouver Island Symphony
Project: Soaring with the Vancouver Island Symphony to new places
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2005
The Vancouver Island Symphony, a professional orchestra based in Nanaimo, will present for the first time educational and public performances in Campbell River and Duncan, BC in 2006, as part of a new audience development effort for the VI Symphony. This will be an opportunity for students in these communities to see a live symphony orchestra, something rarely available to them.
Nelson - Association des francophones des Kootenays Ouest
Project: Cinémania, The Francophone space in 24 shots / second
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $14,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Nelson - City of Nelson
Project: Advancing the Arts in Nelson & Area
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Through the project, the recipient will create an Arts Advisory Board to guide planning and policy development. In addition, the City will engage a consultant to develop a comprehensive arts policy that will define the vision for the arts in Nelson and the surrounding area.
Nelson - City of Nelson
Project: Cultural Tourism: A Strategy for the Nelson/Kootenay Lake area
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Tourism Strategy
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2010
The City of Nelson is building upon several initiatives that resulted from its 2006 cultural plan by leading the development of a cultural tourism strategy for the Nelson/Kootenay Lake area. The City will work together with cultural organizations and the tourism sector to raise the level of activity and the profile of local arts and culture, drawing more visitors to the region.
Nelson - Kootenay Cooperative Radio
Project: Volunteer Radio Programmer Training Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Kootenay Cooperative Radio will work with three consultants to help upgrade their training program for their numerous on-air and administrative volunteers.
Nelson - Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College (KSA)
Project: KSA Alumni Exhibition
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 institution's faculty, alumni and students graduating in 2007. The project is seen as a way to increase awareness of the successes of KSA graduates in order to increase enrollment in the institution's programs.
Nelson - Kutenai Art Therapy Institute Association
Project: Innovations in Arts and Health Symposium
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Nelson - Nelson and District Museum Society
Project: Nelson Museum Website Development Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2005
To coincide with the opening of Nelson’s new Museum and Art Gallery in the spring of 2006, the Nelson and District Museum Society will launch a new and sophisticated website. The new website will include information about the Museum’s programs and collection, as well as a comprehensive marketing and branding plan to attract visitors, members and sponsors. In addition, the organization’s staff will be trained in the maintenance and upkeep of the website, ensuring that the Museum can remain the cornerstone of the region’s cultural scene.
Nelson - Nelson Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society
Project: Freshly Squeezed: Multi-media Exhibition
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $3,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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 process of design. Through interpretive modules the exhibition will invite viewers to participate in a fun, interactive and innovative environment.
Nelson - Nelson Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society
Project: Nelson Cultural Sector Awareness and Art in Public Places Program - Phase 3
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $1,950.00
Application Year: 2008
The Nelson Museum, working with other stakeholders in Nelson’s Cultural Development Commission (CDC), will implement Phase 3 of the CDC’s mandate that includes the development of key informational materials. The materials will support efforts to strengthen lines of communication relating to culture in the community, and will serve as marketing tools to further develop Nelson’s position as a prime cultural tourism destination.
Nelson - Nelson and District Museum Society
Project: Writing on Water
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $2,380
Application Year: 2007
The Nelson and District Museum will partner with the Sinixt Nation as host venue for Writing on Water, a four-part project to promote Sinixt culture to regional elementary school students. Activities will include storytelling with Sinixt Elders, singing and an art-making workshop. The project will provide curriculum-linked Aboriginal programming for elementary school students within a museum setting, and will cement a strategic relationship between the museum and the local Sinixt people, establishing a foundation for future collaborations.
Nelson - Nelson Fine Art Centre Society
Project: Boundary Lines: Ancestry, Edge
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 produce 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.
Nelson - Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History
Project: Think of Thursday - increasing attendance on "by donation" night at
Touchstones Nelson
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $2,380.00
Application Year: 2009
Think of Thursday is an audience development project aimed at increasing attendance on Thursday evenings - the Museum's "by donation" night - through a series of programs and activities that will be marketed primarily to low income families.
New Westminster - Centre of Integration for African Immigrants (CIAI)
Project: AfroFest BC
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
AfroFest is a new seven-day project 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.
New Westminster - Corporation of the City of New Westminster
Project: City of New Westminster Arts Strategy
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The City of New Westminster, in partnership with its community arts organizations, will develop an arts strategy that will detail an action plan for addressing the cultural needs of the community, nurture the development of local existing cultural organizations, and administer public cultural development projects.
New Westminster - Massey Theatre Society
Project: Massey Theatre and Primary Partner Groups - Developing Audiences and Markets
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $6,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Massey Theatre will create a marketing and audience development plan, with the assistance of Bridge Communications, to engage a new and larger regional audience for the theatre's artistic user groups and for the Society's own presenting activities. The focus will be on developing youth and family audiences along with regional awareness campaigns. The project encompasses the geographic area extending outward from New Westminster with specific attention to the less served communities of east Vancouver, the Tri-City area and the Fraser Valley.
North Vancouver - Alibi Unplugged Script Reading Series Society, The (First Weekend Club)
Project: Talk Cinema Series
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $16,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Talk Cinema is a monthly screening series that will feature some of Canada’s finest feature films of the past and present. The project looks to address the gap that currently exists in the presentation of Canadian film among mainstream audiences. To deepen the audience’s engagement with the films, each screening will be followed by an open forum discussion with a variety of guests including filmmakers, critics, academics and more.
North Vancouver - The Arts Office
Project: North Vancouver Cultural Plan, 2011-2025
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $15,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
The Cultural Plan will be a renewed cultural vision, focussing on targeted policy objectives, goals and actions important to North Vancouver. The development of the Cultural Plan coincides with the Official Community Planning (OCP) processes currently underway at both the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver, ensuring that arts and cultural policy will be fully integrated with larger municipal planning initiatives.
North Vancouver - Artists for Kids Trust
Project: Fundraising & Organizational Assessment Consultancy
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Artist for Kids Trust will engage a consultant to define a strategy for diversifying the organization’s public and foundation funding base. As the organization readies itself for future expansion, the consultant will work to identify capacity building needs as well as an action plan to manage and support this future growth.
North Vancouver - Centennial Theatre Society
Project: Capacity building and business plan development
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Consultant Gavin Perryman will work with the society’s board and staff to develop a business plan and governance model. The development of a three-year business plan will allow the society to establish a broader vision for the Centennial Theatre and for performance arts presenting on the North Shore.
North Vancouver - Chibi Taiko Association
Project: Hip-Hop Taiko
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $6,105.00
Application Year: 2005
Chibi Taiko is the first children’s Japanese drumming ensemble formed in Canada, with a mission to pass knowledge of this unique and dynamic performing art form to the next generation of Canadian youth. Chibi Taiko’s project will provide them with an opportunity to explore a mentorship and work with Bryan Yamami, one of North America’s up-and-coming taiko artists. The mentorship will expand the artistic range of Chibi Taiko by focusing on the blending of the traditional processes of drumming with contemporary hip-hop music.
North Vancouver - Dancers of Damelahamid Society
Project: Gilo Hyte: "Sharing the Spirit"
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $25,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 storytelling techniques and technology to bridge traditions with innovation. There will be presentations in Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Hazelton and Gitsegulka.
North Vancouver - ITSAZOO Productions
Project: Managerial Mentorship
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorships
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Chelsea Haberlin, the General Manager of ITSAZOO Productions, will be mentored by Nathan Medd, the Managing Producer of Electric Company Theatre. Over the course of one year, the mentorship will focus on a number of areas including: operations, financial management, community relationship building, fundraising and managing artistic teams.
North Vancouver - Lower Lonsdale Dancers in Company Society (Dancers in Company
Society)
Project: Dancers in Company website
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,250.00
Application Year: 2009
The Lower Lonsdale Dancers in Company Society will produce a first time website for this new youth dance society. Dancers in Company Society is currently operating without an online identity and needs an online presence to communicate effectively with young dancers and the broader community.
North Vancouver - North Vancouver Community Arts Council
Project: Arts Alive on the North Shore
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $16,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Eight arts and cultural organizations on the North Shore have joined together in an initial two-year common branding and marketing initiative to raise awareness of their collective and individual programming. Key compenents of the project will be a comprehensive marketing plan and a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign at key points.
North Vancouver - North Vancouver Community Arts Council
Project: Mountain Mardi Gras - The Trickster's Carnival!
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $17,500.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with Public Dreams Society, the North Vancouver Arts Council will create a new multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural arts carnival at Cleveland Dam in February 2006. The carnival will invite professional and recreational artists, athletes and community members to participate in a site-specific event involving cutting edge performances.
North Vancouver - North Vancouver Community Arts Council
Project: Mountain Mardi Gras
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 art and performance with environmental awareness and physical play in a celebration of the North Shore's unique culture.
North Vancouver - North Vancouver Community Arts Council
Project: Enhancing the Online Experience at nvartscouncil.ca
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
North Vancouver Community Arts Council will enhance their website with a new content management system that will enable the Council staff to update the website themselves. They will enrich the site with an interactive calendar, online applications for memberships, workshop registrations and ticket reservations and provide the ability to create events, exhibitions and programs.
North Vancouver - Presentation House Cultural Society
Project: Third Street Theatre Series
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Third Street Theatre Series will help Presentation House Theatre transform from a roadhouse to a self-producing theatre company, thereby enabling the organization to take artistic control of its own programming. The funds will help to support two of the three plays in the first subscription series and help them begin the transition to become the only professional theatre company in North Vancouver.
North Vancouver - Presentation House Cultural Society (Theatre)
Project:Building Financial and Administrative Capacity at Presentation House Theatre
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorships
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Presentation House Cultural Society (Theatre) will engage Mary Ann Anderson as a mentor to the Theatre’s general manager and the artistic director. The mentorship will focus on the need to strengthen the Theatre’s financial selfsufficiency, to keep pace with its current growth and infrastructure needs, and to plan for the long-term vision of the company.
North Vancouver - Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Project: Tsleil-Waututh Nation Cultural Arts Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Cultural Arts Festival will be a celebration 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.
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Parksville - Oceanside Community Arts Council
Project: Soundwaves Community Music Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
The Soundwaves Project transfers an award-winning, community-based world music youth program from Vancouver to Oceanside as five young musicians come together as a band to blend musical styles, develop original repertoire, perform at community events and teach marimba and hand drumming to children and youth at a summer youth camp in August 2010.
Pemberton - Village of Pemberton
Project: Pemberton Valley Cultural and Historical Mapping Project
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Village of Pemberton, in partnership with the Pemberton Arts Council, the Pemberton Museum and Archives Society, the Chamber of Commerce/Tourism Pemberton and the Pemberton Library, will develop a cultural and historical inventory of the Pemberton Valley that will be made into an interactive GIS map. This living document will then be shared by community stakeholders and will inform future planning processes related to cultural development and tourism in the Pemberton Valley.
Pender Island - Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society
Project: Island Mosaic, A Children's History of the Outer Gulf Islands
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Island Mosaic project is a collaborative arts project involving artists from the Gulf Islands, community arts and cultural groups, children from the Pender, Mayne, Saturna and Galiano Island schools, and home school students. Year one of this arts program will include storytelling, songwriting, dance, music, drama, film and the visual arts, and it will culminate in a multi-media performance based on narratives that form a picture of life on the Gulf Islands. The program is intended to give all of the participants a greater sense of their history and identity.
Pender Island - Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society
Project: Island Mosaic, Year Two
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Now embarking on its second year, Island Mosaic is an arts outreach program that engages local artists, community groups and schools on Pender, Mayne, Galiano and Saturna islands. Through activities such as storytelling, song writing, dance, music, drama, film and the visual arts, the program integrates the history of the Gulf Islands into its activities with a view to providing participants with a greater sense of identity and connection to the region.
Pender Island - Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society
Project: Organizational Assessment and Three Year Strategic Business Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society will engage arts consultant Sandra Thomson to undertake an organizational assessment, and to work with the board and staff in the development of their first strategic business plan.
Penticton - Corporation of the City of Penticton
Project: Penticton Cultural Mapping Program
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Corporation of the City of Penticton will strengthen its arts and culture community by auditing and assessing its resources, strengths, challenges and aspirations. Beginning in August 2007, an independent consultant will facilitate a process that engages stakeholders, staff and the general public in a cultural mapping exercise. This important groundwork will establish a base for the creation of a long term cultural plan for the community.
Penticton - Okanagan School of the Arts
Project: Urban Renaissance
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,770.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with the City of Penticton, the Downtown Penticton Association, the Penticton Academy of Music, and numerous local arts organizations, the OSA will undertake a summer-long celebration of creativity in downtown Penticton. From public art panels and collective art pieces to workshops and classes, the celebration’s focus is on community involvement at all levels as a way to educate and engage audiences in a variety of artistic practices – music, dance, theatre and visual arts.
Penticton - Okanagan School of the Arts
Project: A Collaborative Management, Marketing, Programming and Fundraising Plan for an Innovative Arts, Music and Creativity Centre in Penticton
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Okanagan School of the Arts in partnership with the Penticton Academy of Music Society will engage consultant John Bowyer to lead them through the development of a collaborative model of management, programming, marketing and fundraising in preparation for their move to a larger facility.
Penticton - Outma Sqilx'w Cultural School
Project: From Deer to Drum
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2007
From Deer to Drum is a project that will engage Penticton Indian Band members and other Okanagan Nation members in working collaboratively toward cultural revitalization. Community members of all ages will have the opportunity to participate in drum-making workshops, classes about traditional and contemporary hand-drum songs, and traditional dance workshops. The project will culminate in a spring festival that will celebrate cultural revitalization activities happening throughout the Okanagan Territory.
Port Coquitlam - City of Port Coquitlam
Project: Cultural Policy and Plan Update
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $8,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
The City of Port Coquitlam will review and update their cultural policy and plan that was developed in 2001 to reflect new policies, programs and needs of the cultural community. It will address current gaps, and explore opportunities and strategies for the next 10 years.
Port Hardy - Kwakiutl Band
Project: The Kwakiutl Arts and Cultural Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Port Moody - City of Port Moody
Project: Cultural Facilities Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The project will engage two consultants to develop a cultural facilities plan. This will be done in consultation with a number of existing arts and cultural organizations including the Port Moody Arts Centre, the Port Moody Station Museum, the Inlet Theatre and Outlet Stage and the Rocky Point Warehouse Artists’ Studios and Gallery. As one of the fastest growing cities in BC, Port Moody is looking to nurture and support the city’s arts and cultural assets, and identify priorities for future development.
Port Moody - Port Moody Arts Centre Society
Project: Strategic Planning and Wearable Art Feasability
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $3,500.00
Application Year: 2005
The Port Moody Arts Centre will undertake research on the feasibility of creating a large scale Wearable Art Exhibition featuring 80 international artists (one from each participating country in the Olympics). To achieve this, the organization has identified two particular focuses: the creation of a workable strategic plan towards achieving this artistic goal, and methods of Board Development. This project looks at the connections between the organization’s artistic and administrative goals.
Powell River - Friends of Film Society Powell River
Project: Powell River Film Festival Youth Program
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Powell River Film Festival Youth Program consists of the School Film Fest which is two days of films for school-age children, the Five-Minute Film Contest that highlights the achievements of young B.C. filmmakers and the Adventures in Film Camp that promotes skills development and encourages youth to consider film as a career.
Powell River - Malaspina Arts Society
Project: Bringing artists together in Powell River
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $3,500.00
Application Year: 2006
The Malaspina Arts Society will work with a consultant to faciltate a one-day meeting that will 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.
Powell River - Powell River Regional Economic Development Society
Project: Expanding Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The PRREDS, in partnership with the Powell River Academy of Music, proposes to develop the Powell River Summer Academy of the Arts. In particular for 2005, PRREDS hopes to develop the Opera Academy of the Pacific. The Summer Academy of the Arts will expand upon and create programs that foster the development of visual and performing arts for the region. The project will contribute to the increased cultural and artistic capacity of Powell River, and in particular allow the region to develop a truly unique school within the province.
Prince George - Central BC Railway and Forest Industry Museum Society
Project: All Aboard - a Marketing Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 George - Central Interior Regional Arts Council (CIRAC)
Project: BCCAN Phase I: Assessing the Need for a Cultural Alliance in the North
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $14,800.00
Application Year: 2005
Starting in late 2005, CIRAC will assess the feasibility of creating the BC Cultural Alliance North (BCCAN), which would bring together the region’s cultural events, individuals and institutions. The project will focus on looking at the feasibility of creating a service orgzation for the region that would develop and coordinate cultural assets to enhance both the arts themselves and their contribution to tourism and the region’s economic health. The project is part of CIRAC’s commitment to long-term planning for arts and cultural activity.
Prince George - Central Interior Regional Arts Council
Project: BC Cultural Alliance North Phase II: Founding the Organization
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Based on results of the BC Cultural Alliance North Feasibility Study undertaken in 2006, the Central Interior Regional Arts Council is looking to create a new non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of northern/central BC's 1,000-plus cultural assets and workers in the cultural, arts, heritage sector. 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.
Prince George - City of Prince George
Project: Transforming Public Art
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $9,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 exisiting public art program by engaging the public in examining and exploring new spaces, projects and funding for future public art projects.
Prince George - Huble Homestead/Giscome Portage Heritage Society
Project: First Nations Living History Interpretation and Recognition Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $14,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Huble Homestead is responsible for the preservation and maintenance of the buildings of the Giscome Portage Regional Park. At present there is a gap in the overall presentation of the local Aboriginal history of the area. This project will see the building of a traditional First Nations fish camp as a living history interpretive site on the location of an original 1920s fishing camp. In collaboration with the Lheidli T’Enneh Band, Huble Homestead will provide information to the public on the history and culture of the First Nations in the area.
Prince George - Prince George Potter's Guild
Project: Northern BC Clayfest
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Prince George Potter’s Guild will host its first biennial Northern BC Clayfest in August 2006 to offer isolated northern BC clay artists an affordable opportunity to participate in advanced clay technique workshops featuring international clay artists. The project is an opportunity for clay artists from across northern BC to access training workshops, and to work with artists of a caliber not often available in their region.
Prince George - Prince George Regional Art Gallery Association (Two Rivers Gallery)
Project: Young at Art
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Young at Art is a series of four interactive art-making events to engage Prince George teenagers in creative activities. Black Light Night, Print Factory, Ink Ignition and the Canned Film Festival will provide them with a stimulating creative outlet while building young people’s participation at Two Rivers Gallery.
Prince George - Prince George Regional Art Gallery Association (Two Rivers Gallery)
Project: Make Art Make Sense
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Two Rivers Gallery “Make Art Make Sense” project aims to demystify the art-making process and enhance the creative thinking skills of visitors of all ages. Equipped with a variety of art materials, the program will take place in a highly visible area of the gallery where visitors can engage in self-directed hands-on creative activities. The materials and creative processes will bear a critical relationship to the works on display in the gallery.
Prince George - Prince George Symphony Orchestra
Project: Family Series
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Prince George Symphony Orchestra will launch a new musical series designed for children and families. Presented in collaboration with Exploration Place and the College of New Caledonia, the three concert series will be presented free of charge at creative venues in the city. The purpose of the series is to develop an early appreciation for live classical music with a view to building audiences for the future.
Prince George - Theatre North West Society
Project: Design Mentorship Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Theatre North West is one of the largest performing arts organizations in northern BC. The 14-week Design Mentorship Project will increase TNW’s staff involvement in the entire process of set design – from creative concept to production. The knowledge gained will stay with the organization as it expands its future options in exploring new materials and practices in set design.
Prince Rupert - Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Society
Project: Youth Learning Traditional skills through Culture
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $16,625.00
Application Year: 2005
The project will enable the society to offer three traditional workshops for youth of the Nisga’a Nation. Elders will teach youth traditional practices of regalia, drum making, and cedar paddle carving. Youth make up nearly 25 per cent of the overall Nisga’a Nation population, but due to low economic standards they often cannot afford to participate in arts and cultural activities. The project will not only train these youth, but will also raise awareness regarding the customs and traditions of the Nation, and provide them with the ability to share their culture with the larger community of Prince Rupert.
Prince Rupert - Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Prince Rupert/Port Edward Society
Project: Youth and Young Adults Working Together on Traditional Values
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $11,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Carvers, artists and designers will come together to mentor youth by offering cultural workshops on wood carving, painting, regalia sewing, creation of 18-inch rawhide drums and loom beading techniques. In addition, Elder mentors will be invited to share in conversational Nisga'a language through storytelling on a bus tour to the Nass Valley, the homelands of all urban Nisga'a residing in the Prince Rupert and Port Edward region.
Prince Rupert - Lester Centre for the Arts
Project: Twelve Moments in Time
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Twelve Moments in Time is a theatrical production that depicts the 100-year history of Prince Rupert, incorporating First Nations drumming and featuring Raven as the storyteller throughout. The production will include an audio recording that will become a resource for future projects and new community development activities.
Prince Rupert - Prince Rupert Community Arts Council
Project: Fraser Street Public Art Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Fraser Street Public Art Project is a community-based mural project that will pay tribute to 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.
Princeton - Princeton Arts Council
Project: Community Mosaic Mural Project
Program: Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Community Mosaic Mural Project will be installed at Riverside Community Centre in commemoration of the town’s 150th anniversary. The new work of art will be the flagship project for Princeton’s Arts in Public Places program and will provide an intergenerational opportunity for community members to share in the creative process with "tile creation workshops."
Princeton - Princeton Community Arts Council
Project: Arts Council Website Design
Program: Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,427.00
Application Year: 2009
The creation of a website for the Princeton Community Arts Council will increase public awareness of a variety of arts, culture and heritage activities, events and performances within the rural community of Princeton and surrounding district. This website will provide an important marketing piece for the Princeton Community Arts Council.
Project: Princeton Culture – The Future 2011-2020
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $4,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
Princeton Community Arts Council, in partnership with the Town of Princeton, will carry out a community cultural plan that will feed into the town’s new strategic plan. They will develop a long-term strategy for arts and culture for Princeton and the surrounding area to be in effect over the next 10 years.
Princeton - Town of Princeton
Project: Celebrating 150 Years of BC Spirit
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $4,245.00
Application Year: 2005
The Town of Princeton, in partnership with the local First Nations band, the regional Association of Arts Organizations and the regional government, will identify, inventory and assess the cultural assets of Princeton (visual arts, music, dance, heritage and others). Through this project, the Town of Princeton will be able to increase the community’s awareness of the existing arts and cultural resources, and promote and strengthen partnerships in the arts community.
Procter - Procter Community Society
Project: Kootenay Storytelling SeriesProgram:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Procter Community Society intends to build on the success of its longstanding summer storytelling festival by organizing 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 online ticketing, to attract web-researched cultural tourism. The project is part of the Society’s audience growth and engagement strategy for 2006/2007.
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Qualicum Beach - Old School House Arts Centre, The
Project: Qualicum Beach Harvest of Music
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2006
The Old School House Arts Centre Society will organize, direct and deliver the Qualicum Beach Harvest of Music, a five-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.
Queen Charlotte City - Queen Charlotte Islands Arts Council
Project: Art Route
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $2,665.00
Application Year: 2005
Art Route will provide information on the more than 40 artists and artisans, both native and non-native, on Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands. By connecting visitors and Islanders with the diversity of local artists, Arts Route will simultaneously create networks, stimulate the visibility of the local arts, and connect the artistic sector with the successful tourism sector on the Islands.
Quesnel - Friends of the Quesnel and District Museum and Archives Society
Project: Chinese Heritage Recognition Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Quesnel - Quesnel and District Arts and Recreation Centre
Project: Art in the Park - Trails of Quesnel Community Arts Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Art in the Park is a family festival to be held in Quesnel’s LeBourdais Park on August 13, 2005. Regional and local artists will engage with the public, showcasing their artwork and providing demonstrations of their artistic process. Trails of Quesnel is a project that will see local artisans collaborate with the public will create stepping stones that celebrate the histories of Quesnel – fishing, the Gold Rush, the railways, agriculture and more.
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Revelstoke - BC Interior Forestry Museum
Project: Detailed Program Development Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
As the BC Interior Forestry Museum embarks on an expansion, they will undertake the development of a detailed program plan that will identify their needs as they move forward. The project will include the hiring of a research consultant who will prepare a thematic program development plan, and enable the Museum to better identify their audience, and improve fundraising, marketing and collections plans.
Revelstoke - City of Revelstoke
Project: Revelstoke Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with various arts and cultural groups, the City of Revelstoke will develop a comprehensive cultural map to assess and inventory the local artistic activities and groups. This will enable the City to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the cultural and artistic sectors and identify community priorities for the future.
Project: Revelstoke Cultural Strategy
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with various arts and cultural groups, the City of Revelstoke will develop a comprehensive cultural plan to provide direction for the development of cultural resources over the next 10 to 20 years. The development of a cultural plan has been identified as an important priority in the Revelstoke Community Development Action Plan.
Project: Inclusion of arts and cultural activities and facilities in the Master Plan and an update to the Revelstoke Cultural Strategic Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2010
The City of Revelstoke will develop a community Parks, Recreation and Culture Master Plan and ensure that the cultural strategy, compiled in 2006, is updated and included in the Master Plan. The funds will be used to update the previous cultural strategy and assist with the inclusion of arts and culture in the master plan.
Richmond - City of Richmond, Culture and Heritage Services
Project: City of Richmond Community Arts and Culture Map Project
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The City of Richmond will engage a professional consultant to undertake a cultural mapping project. This project will include an economic impact study of the arts and cultural community of the City of Richmond.
Project: City of Richmond Arts Strategy (and Cultural Facilities Plan)
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
The City of Richmond will move through the cultural planning process to ensure it continues to grow as a culturally vibrant city. The cultural plan will help the City understand the current state of the arts in Richmond, test objectives developed in the previous Arts Strategy, conduct an environmental scan of existing cultural facilities and develop appropriate strategies.
Richmond - Gateway Theatre
Project: Sea of Stories
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $11,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Sea of Stories is a project 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.
Richmond - Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
Project: EarthArts: Salmon Return
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5000.00
Application Year: 2008
EarthArts, a Vancouver based arts collective, will coordinate the multi-media exhibit Salmon Return at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site scheduled for May 2009. The installation will move beyond historical facts and speak to our lost relationship with salmon, as sacred creatures whose bodies have fed both land and people. Through video projection, sculpture, and performance, Salmon Return will introduce emotional, ecological and artistic content into the industrial and heritage environment of the Cannery Museum.
Richmond - Richmond Art Gallery Association
Project: Organizational development plan and document
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $4,500.00
Application Year: 2007
The Richmond Art Gallery Association will hire and work with a consultant in November/December 2007. The intended outcome will be a three-year organizational development plan articulating staff, volunteer, board and municipal relationships, roles and procedures as they relate to the redefinition of the senior director/curator staff positions and resulting organizational growth.
Richmond - Richmond Museum Society
Project: Musqueam First Nations School Resource Kit
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Roberts Creek - Halloran Ice Painting Project Society
Project: Art Marketing Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Halloran Ice Painting Project Society will expand the audiences for the Paintings Below Zero ice image artwork to include public art institutions worldwide. With the assistance of a qualified professional, the Society will examine its operations and goals, create awareness of Paintings Below Zero and create a strategy to make the society more independent of seasonal efforts to conduct its activity.
Rolla - Writing on the Ridge
Project: Muskwa-Kechika Artist Exploration Camp 2006
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $6,250.00
Application Year: 2006
The project 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 on 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.
Rossland - Heritage Federation of South-Eastern BC
Project: Heritage Profile Pages - Kootenay Rockies Heritage and Culture Guide
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The project, 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 southeastern 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.
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Salmon Arm - Shuswap Theatre Society
Project: Shuswap Summer Theatre
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $19,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Salmon Arm - Switzmalph Cultural Society (SCS)
Project: Business Plan Development for the Shuswap Centre
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 objectives will be realized. The goal of the plan is to provide the SCS with concrete steps to develop the Centre, and 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 - Island Arts Centre Society
Project: Marketing and Human Resources Consultancy
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $3,087.00
Application Year: 2005
The Society will work with two consultants to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the organization’s human resources and marketing capacity. The consultancies will involve all key personnel, and provide opportunities for community input and involvement. The Society will develop the organization’s efficiencies and capacities, and enhance their productivity and communication with the community.
Salt Spring Island - Salt Spring Jazz & Blues Society
Project: Salt Spring Jazz Fest 2007
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Salt Spring Jazz and Blues Society will expand their weekend jazz festival, featuring international and local artists, including 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.
Sechelt - Caravan World Rhythms Society
Project: Sunshine Coast Dance Performance and Outreach Series
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Caravan, in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Dance Society, will launch an annual Dance Performance and Outreach Series on the Sunshine Coast, a community presently underserved by dance performance. The series will showcase a range of dance expression, as well as cultural and artistic diversity. It will include a strong outreach and educational component.
Sechelt - Sunshine Coast Regional District
Project: Sunshine Coast Regional Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $13,100.00
Application Year: 2005
The Sunshine Coast Regional District will engage a consultant to develop a cultural map as a first step toward developing a cultural plan for the community. The Coast Cultural Alliance is an active partner in the project.
Sechelt - Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD)
Project: Sunshine Coast Regional Cultural Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2006
The Sunshine Coast Regional District will bring together local governments, the education sector, business and numerous local arts and cultural organizations to participate in a cultural planning process with consultants who are experts in the field. The resulting cultural development plan will provide a firm foundation for future collaboration on the Sunshine Coast.
Shawnigan Lake - OUR Ecovillage - OUR Community Association
Project: The Art of Community by Design - Earthen Art Mural
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $4,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Through a participatory design process and a collaborative creation process, a community-building art project will be undertaken at the gathering space of OUR Ecovillage. An 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.
Sicamous - Sicamous Visual and Performing Arts Society
Project: Shakespeare in the Park
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,652.00
Application Year: 2005
The Society will produce A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Centennial Park from July 14-17, 2005. The local community will be engaged in all aspects of the production and a particular effort will be made to include youth.
Skidegate - Haida Gwaii Museum Society
Project: Haida Gwaii Museum Visual Arts Program
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $10,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Haida Gwaii Museum Visual Arts Program is a regional visual arts program that supports emerging and established artists though an annual series of exhibitions, artist-led workshops, lectures, cultural exchanges, art commissioning and marketing. The program responds to the creative economic shift occurring on Haida Gwaii, from resource extraction, to the arts, culture, landscape and tourism.
Smithers - Bulkley Valley Classical Strings Society
Project: Bulkley Valley Classical Strings Mentoring Program
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $9,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Society will create a mentorship program for local classical string students and teachers, in partnership with six established Canadian music educators. This program will provide a continuing process of improved musical education, currently limited by geographic isolation and the scarcity of classically trained instructors in the Bulkley Valley.
Smithers - Bulkley Valley Classical Strings Society
Project: Northwest String Orchestra Workshop
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Bulkley Valley Classical Strings Society will undertake a three-day string orchestra workshop uniting amateur classical string players from Northern communities. The workshop will provide an opportunity for players to learn orchestral skills from three prominent Canadian music educators. Limited by its geographical isolation, the goal of the activity is to establish a new partnership of string players in northwest B.C.
Smithers - Bulkley Valley Community Arts Council
Project: Bulkley Valley Community Arts Network
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The recipient, in partnership with the Town of Smithers, the school district and the Office of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, will engage a consultant to draft a strategic cultural and heritage plan that will comprehensively reflect the community’s unique values and needs around culture and heritage. The town is committed to implementing the plan to guide the development of cultural and heritage practices, services and programs.
Smithers - Bulkley Valley Community Arts Council
Project: Highway 16 Visual Arts Exhibition
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,774.00
Application Year: 2005
This juried exhibition will bring together artists from communities between Haida Gwaii and Prince George, whose works look at the issue of the missing women along Highway 16. The exhibition will be mounted in Smithers and include readings, discussions and other community engagement components. In addition to the importance of the issues, the exhibition is also an opportunity for artists who often work in isolation to come together in a collective fashion.
Smithers - Smithers Gallery Association
Project: Past, Present, Future: Artistic Renditions of the Bulkley Valley
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $7,150.00
Application Year: 2008
The Smithers Art Gallery will engage five local artists to share their skills and talent with community members of all ages in the creation of 30-50 original art works. Using a variety of mediums, the works will use historic photographs of the Bulkley Valley as a starting point for the creation of a new body of contemporary artwork. The newly created works will be exhibited adjacent to their historic counterparts in public venues throughout the community in the spring of 2009.
Sooke - Sooke Fine Arts Society
Project: Curator Mentorship Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorships
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Sooke Fine Arts Society will engage the services of Alan Graves Design to provide training and mentorship in the field of art exhibition design and installation. Six community volunteers will participate in the two week mentorship program to develop professional level curatorial skills and expertise in preparation for the annual Sooke Fine Arts Show.
Project: Sooke Region Cultural Mapping Project
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Sooke Fine Arts Society in partnership with the District of Sooke, Sooke Community Arts Council and Sooke Regional Tourism Association will carry out a cultural mapping process. This cultural map will encompass Sooke to Port Renfrew (including East Sooke).The project aims to consolidate data on arts, cultural and heritage organizations in the region to serve as an information base and to identify strengths and gaps in arts and cultural services; to integrate the arts into regional planning initiatives; to support economic development and tourism; and, to expand access and participation with a focus on First Nations and youth engagement.
Project: Sooke Region Cultural Planning Project
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
Sooke Fine Arts Society will engage in an inclusive process of community consultation and decision-making that will be used to develop a cultural plan. The cultural plan will create enriching arts and cultural experiences that contribute to quality of life, economic sustainability and vibrancy of the region.
Surrey - City of Surrey
Project: City of Surrey Cultural Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $20,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
By engaging the community, Surrey will create a comprehensive cultural plan that reflects an innovative city characterized by rapid growth, diversity and youth. As Surrey’s six distinctive town centres embrace modern urban development, the plan will ensure a vibrant arts community while preserving the city’s rich cultural, natural and built heritage.
Surrey - City of Surrey, Parks, Recreation and Culture
Project: Whalley Lantern Procession Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $21,500.00
Application Year: 2005
The Whalley Lantern Procession is part of the Whalley Revitalization Strategy adopted by City Council in July 2003. A series of community arts workshops will precede the Lantern Procession, which will take place in Holland Park. This art and community building project will be an expression of community pride, and it's hoped it will improve social cohesion in the area.
Surrey - Kla-how-eya Aboriginal Centre of Surrey Aboriginal Cultural Society
Project: First Nations Artist in Residence Carving Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Society will bring in First Nations carvers to work with youth participants at the Surrey Art Gallery for an artist-in-residency and mentorship project. These artists will teach youth how to carve a traditional canoe, which will then be included in the Pulling Together Canoe Journey along the Fraser River, culminating in a Surrey landing and community festival.
Surrey - Surrey Art Gallery/Surrey Arts Centre
Project: Youth New Media Gallery and Digital Photography Exhibition Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $13,500.00
Application Year: 2005
This project involves the development of a youth new media gallery for the purposes of presenting new ideas, new artists and new media for new audiences. The gallery will be launched with an animated digital photography exhibit including work by 1,000 children, produced by a collaborative team of youth artists mentored by professional new media artists in residence. Partners include Kwantlen College, Surrey Art Teachers Association, the Surrey School Board, the Canadian Heritage Information Network and numerous local new media artists.
Surrey - Surrey Arts Centre
Project: Move It! Community Dance Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $5,500.00
Application Year: 2007
In partnership with the Joe Ink Performance Society, the Surrey Arts Centre will present three weeks of Move It!, a community dance workshop free of the barriers of age, gender, ability or admission fees. Each week, 35 participants will learn, move and create an original dance piece with the help of experienced dance educators. Each group of participants will showcase their new work in the Studio Theatre to an audience of family and friends.
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Trail - Regional District of Kootenay Boundary
Project: Cultural Map for Greater Trail
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, in partnership with the cities of Trail and Rossland, will engage a consultant to develop a cultural map for Trail and the surrounding area. The map will be developed through a consultative public process, and will help the district move toward creating an arts and culture master plan as an integral part of enhancing the cultural aspects of the region.
Trail - Regional District of Kootenay Boundary - Boundary Region
Project: Cultural Map for the Boundary Region
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, in partnership with the Boundary District Arts Council, the Boundary Economic Development Commission, the City of Grand Forks, the City of Greenwood and the Village of Midway, will engage a consultant to assess and document the cultural assets and gaps in the region of Grand Forks and Kootenay Boundary (Electoral Areas C, D & E). This work will provide a background for preparation of a regional cultural plan, local government cultural policies, and the potential development of a cultural centre.
Trail - Trail and District Community Arts Council
Project: Greater Trail Arts Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2009
A five year Arts Plan for Greater Trail will be developed, supported by local government, arts, culture, heritage organizations and businesses. It will better integrate arts and culture in the community, contribute to community and economic development and result in an improved cultural life for regional residents and tourist.
Tumbler Ridge - District of Tumbler Ridge
Project: Street Spirit Banner Program
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Part of its current project focusing on the beautification of Tumbler Ridge’s downtown, the Street Spirit Banner Program will help showcase the area’s local culture and artists. Local artists will not only create banners, but will lead workshops with residents interested in creating banners that reflect themes of identity for the community, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Tumbler Ridge - Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation
Project: Archiving
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 they may continue the process into the future.
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Ucluelet - Pacific Rim Arts Society (PRAS)
Project: Launch of a West Coast Carving Festival - "Carving on the Edge"
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,200.00
Application Year: 2009
Carving on the Edge is a new West Coast carving festival that will celebrate both the traditional and contemporary West Coast carving arts and will explore canoe-building, architecture, chainsaw arts, traditional tools, retrospectives of renowned local artists, demonstrations, lectures, film, artistic exhibits, and studio tours. Each community of the region will be encouraged to celebrate its artisans, showcase the rich cultural history and acknowledge the importance and stature of B.C.’s traditional coastal arts in the world cultural community.
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Vancouver - Aboriginal Art & Culture Celebration Society
Project: Aboriginal Youth Theatre Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $22,200.00
Application Year: 2005
The AACCS, in partnership with the Aboriginal Youth Theatre Project, will implement a year-long training arts program for youth with community support through an Aboriginal youth advisory committee. Through this program, youth will be trained in various theatrical genres leading to three community productions. In addition to teaching Aboriginal youth the value and richness of their artistic heritage, the project will also expand career options for participating youth.
Vancouver - Access Artist Run Centre
Project: Lost and Found
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Lost and Found is a collaboration between the Access Artist Run Centre and the Powell Street Festival Society. This cross-disciplinary collaboration will involve a series of artist residencies, exhibitions, presentations, and an online archive looking at Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as a place of overlapping social and cultural histories. Three distinct histories will be investigated - those of First Nations, African Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities.
Vancouver - Access Gallery
Project: Exhibitions and Parallel Guidebook and Presentations
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $9,000.00
Application Year: 2009
This project provides meaningful and critical conversations about contemporary art via exhibitions and a guidebook as well as presentations. It allows for important educational and professional development opportunities for volunteer and co-op/practicum students that involve emerging artists and cultural professionals.
Vancouver - Arts Umbrella
Project: Re-Assessment & Implementation Plan for Arts Umbrella's Early Childhood Education Program
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $6,572.00
Application Year: 2005
To better meet the community’s demand for its Early Childhood Education (ECE) Program, Arts Umbrella will engage outside consultants to develop a re-assessment and implementation plan. The plan will include a market analysis of the current ECE art program; a review of the relevancy and currency of the program; and strategies that focus specifically on curriculum and curriculum development.
Vancouver - ArtStarts in Schools
Project: R&D for a Virtual ArtStarts Education Centre
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $17,900.00
Application Year: 2005
ArtStarts in Schools will undertake the research and development of a Virtual ArtStarts Education Centre that will encourage higher levels of interactivity between the arts and education communities, house a repository of young people’s art and deliver professional development for artists and teachers across BC.
Vancouver - Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop
Project: ACWW Children's Literature Legacy Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,900.00
Application Year: 2005
ACWW will develop new audiences by launching a nation-wide Children’s Literature Promotion. This project will include the publication of selected story submissions written for children that focus on Asian-Canadian experiences. There is a significant lack of literature for children that promotes Asian narratives within the Canadian cultural context. Through this project, ACWW aims to create a legacy of identity, belonging and cultural pride for generations of Asian Canadians to come.
www.asiancanadianwritersworkshop.com
Vancouver - Association of Book Publishers of BC
Project: Tyee Books Web site
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with tyee.ca, the Association will develop a strong website focusing on BC books to review and discuss books and to connect readers, writers, publishers, booksellers and book lenders. This comprehensive, provincial resource will be a critical internet marketing lab for BC publishers, provide instruction and internships for SFU students, and create a template for regional online cultural journalism.
Vancouver - Ballet British Columbia
Project: Income development audit and financial review
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Ballet BC will secure the services of arts management consultant Dory Vanderhoof to carry out an income development audit and financial review to determine how better to maximize income streams from marketing and development programs. A thorough cash flow analysis will identify issues and challenges and determine what more can be done to stabilize company finances.
Vancouver - Battery Opera Performing Arts Society
Project: Financial management restructuring
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Battery Opera Performing Arts Society will hire accountant Carolyn Chan to provide financial consulting services over a period of 18 months between November 2007 and May 2009. The consultancy will help Battery Opera build capacity to make the transition from using out-of-house accounting/financial management services to having these managed by current staff in-house.
Vancouver - Battery Opera Performing Arts Society
Project: Evidence
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Evidence is a social-media, online photographic response to an audience’s memory of a specific performance. The performance for the project is Battery Opera’s roving theatre work entitled Lives Were Around Me. After each performance, photographer Amy Pelletier will ask the audience a series of questions relating to their experience and their memory of certain objects that they encountered during the show. Pelletier will search out these objects, photograph, and create an interpretation of them that will serve as “evidence” of the performance experience. Pelletier will post the “evidence” on the Battery Opera website and invite the audience to share their reactions to her interpretation of their experience and engage in further dialogue.
Vancouver - Bill Reid Foundation/Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Project: Contemporary Textiles of the Northwest Coast
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Bill Reid Gallery will present its first ever exhibition on the contemporary practice of textiles by artists of the Northwest Coast. Nineteen emerging and mid-career artists from Aboriginal communities in B.C., Alaska and Washington State will contribute to the exhibition. The exhibition will be mounted in February 2010 and will be complemented by artist talks, artist residencies and an exhibition catalogue.
Vancouver - CABINET Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Project: Projections I
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $25,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Turning Point Ensemble and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Projections I will be a contemporary, interdisciplinary event bringing together the work of visual, performing and video artists. This event will be presented at the Roundhouse Community Centre in 2007. It is part of the organization’s mandate to work with artists from diverse practices and backgrounds in an effort to introduce new and innovative work to Vancouver audiences.
Vancouver - Canada Ice Dance Theatre
Project: Manager Mentorship Program
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Canada Ice Dance will establish a professional management structure in which the successful candidate for a newly established administrative position will undertake a six-month mentorship with a senior arts producer. The mentorship will cover key organizational components, including planning and visioning, financial management and grant writing, and human resource issues.
Vancouver - Carnegie Community Centre Association
Project: Carnegie Opera Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $20,700.00
Application Year: 2005
The Carnegie Community Centre, with the support of the Downtown Eastside community, Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and the Vancouver Opera, will work with residents and artists of the Downtown Eastside to learn about, and create, community opera. The purpose of the project is not to train residents in traditional opera styles, but rather to provide opportunities to explore words and music in a way that illuminates the nature of community and introduces diverse practices to audiences that may not otherwise have access to them. 2010 Legacies Now’s investment will help cover the costs of the first year of development.
Vancouver - Carnegie Community Centre Association
Project: First Nations and Chinese Opera
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Carnegie Centre will commission professional artists to work with the Firehall Arts Centre, First Nations and Chinese cultural consultants, and the Downtown Eastside community to create an opera that fuses Chinese and Aboriginal music and storytelling forms to tell the rich history of relationships between these two cultural groups in Vancouver.
Vancouver - Centre A
Project: Centre A Strategic Plan 2008
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Centre A will embark on a strategic planning exercise that will include the development of a mission statement that properly reflects the organization’s identity and purpose, and that will guide its future development. The Strategic Plan will identify a set of objectives and actions relating to facilities, finance and succession planning.
Vancouver - Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver
Project: Capacity Building in Fundraising
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver is poised to undertake a long-term strategic planning process as it strives to meet a number of organizational challenges. The consultancy will focus on planning in three specific areas – fundraising, human resources and governance policies. Each area will also include coaching of staff, board and volunteers to ensure that long-term skills and knowledge remain with the organization.
Vancouver - Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Project: Roots and Shoots Music Series
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $16,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with Britannia World Music Society, the Chan Centre’s Roots and Shoots is a series of six musical performances featuring various forms of world music – from Japanese Taiko drumming to Zimbabwean marimba and First Nations’ music. The audience will be made up of music students from six participating schools in east Vancouver. The project is part of the Chan Centre’s ongoing commitment to develop and expand new audiences, as well as diversify the range of programs currently available.
Vancouver - Charles H. Scott Gallery
Project: Vancouver Special Artists Book Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Vancouver Special Artists Books Project will help the Gallery with audience development and marketing. It 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.
Vancouver - Chief Dan George Centre for Advanced Education
Project: Story Scapes Gastown
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $17,510.00
Application Year: 2005
Four Aboriginal youth, under the guidance of an Elder, will research, interview, gather and record Aboriginal stories related to the Gastown area of Vancouver. This project will continue the tradition of stories being passed from one generation to another. The research phase will prepare the initiative for the second phase, which will involve re-inscribing Aboriginal stories in public places in Gastown.
Vancouver - Chor Leoni Men's Choir
Project: New database management system
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2007
Chor Leoni Men's Choir will hire Blair Cresswell Consultants to help them create a new database management system. The new system will enable the organization to consolidate information and make it easily accessible for future programming and administrative activities.
Vancouver - Cinevolution Media Arts Society
Project: Dream Project - Youth Film Outreach Program
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $7,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Dream Project—Youth Film Outreach Program will bring together professional filmmakers and the children of new immigrants, giving Richmond youth handson experience and training in filmmaking, animation and multi-media art installation techniques. The students’ work will be exhibited at the New Asia Film Festival in May 2010 and displayed in public locations throughout Richmond.
Vancouver - CircusWest Performing Arts Society
Project: CircusWest Website Enhancement
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
This project will improve CircusWest’s marketing and communications by adding functions to their website that better serve their audience and membership. A content management system will be added that will increase interactivity with their audience, membership and the general public. Additionally, ecommerce capabilities will be added with online registration for programs, workshops and tickets sales enabling bookings to shift from a paper-based program to online registration.
Vancouver - City of Vancouver
Project: Creative City Culture Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Under the direction of the Creative City Task Force, the City of Vancouver has launched a strategic planning process to build on the strengths of its arts and cultural sector, and to maximize the opportunities that will arise before and after the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The planning process will result in a new cultural plan for Vancouver.
Vancouver - City of Vancouver Public Art Program
Project: INTERSECTION: Public Art Project for the windows at Hastings and Carrall
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 buildings at Hastings and Carrall in Vancouver. This project is an expansion of the City’s current public art activities, and will enable local artists to participate. It will also include mentoring opportunities. Funding from the Innovations program will go toward developing and launching this new program, while the City is committed to having this become an ongoing project.
Vancouver - Co. ERASGA Dance Society
Project: Mentorship: Business and Financial Practices using Computer Programs
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $3,240.00
Application Year: 2006
Co.ERASGA will work with a mentor to develop business and financial planning practices, using the latest computer applications and software.
Vancouver - Coastal Jazz and Blues Society
Project: Vancouver Jazz Heritage Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Since its founding in 1985 the CJBS has played an instrumental role in introducing and increasing the visibility of jazz throughout Vancouver venues and festivals. To coincide with its 20th anniversary, the CJBS is embarking on an archival project to document the diverse heritage of jazz and improvised music in Vancouver. Through this archive, CJBS will create a school curriculum for grades 8-12, involving students in research, development and implementation.
Vancouver - Coastal Jazz and Blues Society
Project: Consultancy for Strategic Planning
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $6,745.00
Application Year: 2008
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society (CJBS) will engage consultant Jim Phills, Director of the Centre for Social Innovation at Stanford University, to lead the organization through a strategic planning methodology known as "The Funnel Framework." Developed specifically for non-profits, this integrated approach to mission, strategy and execution will help CJBS develop a three-year plan that can be implemented by its staff, board and key stakeholders.
Vancouver - Compaigni V'ni Dansi Society
Project: B.C. Métis Dance Workshop Tour
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2007
Compaigni V'ni Dansi will travel to eight B.C. communities as part of a B.C. Métis Dance outreach and training tour. National jigging champion Yvonne Chartrand will teach a four-day weekend dance intensive culminating in a performance in each community. The tour serves the dual purpose of building relationships for V’ni Dansi and training local dancers in traditional Métis dance practice.
Vancouver - Company ERASGA Dance Society
Project: Management practices consultancy
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $4,475.00
Application Year: 2007
Company ERASGA Dance Society will work with arts management consultant Adina Herling to improve the management practices of the organization and provide mentoring to Company ERASGA’s administrator.
Vancouver - Conseil Culturel et Artistique Francophone de la Colombie-Britannique
Project: Strategic Planning for the 2010 Olympic Games
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $8,681.00
Application Year: 2005
Conseil Culturel will undertake a five year strategic planning process for its 15 member organizations, looking at providing opportunities for BC’s francophone community to maximize its visibility and capacity. The process will examine the francophone arts and culture sector, taking stock of its current gaps, obstacles and opportunities towards creating realistic and sustainable objectives for the next five years.
Vancouver - Contemporary Art Gallery
Project: Art Reach: Web-based Classroom Resources in Contemporary Art
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $13,600.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with the BC Art Teachers Association (BCATA), the CAG will develop and implement a web-based outreach program that addresses the realm of Canadian contemporary art. The website will explore areas ranging from perception and communication to materials, context and design in an effort to deal with the current lack of resources available to visual arts teachers and their students in these areas. The project will also allow the CAG to foster strong links with the BCATA and develop new student audiences for the gallery.
Vancouver - Contemporary Art Gallery
Project: Guided Visits fostering Critically Engaged Dialogues with Art
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $6,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Over the last two years, the Contemporary Art Gallery has launched extensive new education and public programs. This project will involve implementing a new volunteer training program that can 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.
Vancouver - Contemporary Art Gallery Society of British Columbia (CAG)
Project: You Can Lead a Horse to Water: CAG Online GPS Education Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
The CAG will commission four artists to incorporate locationsensitive text, image, sound or video works into interactive online educational software. Once downloaded from the CAG's website, each work will be displayed on the visitor's mobile GPS device through the software when triggered by the visitor's arrival at a predetermined site near the CAG. The enhanced website will help the CAG build its audience base by encouraging visitors to use the web as a catalyst for learning about new ways to experience contemporary art.
Vancouver - Creating Employment Through Art (CETA Coop)
Project: Enterprising Arts Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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. The consultant will assist in developing policies, procedures, guidelines and tools. The 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.
Vancouver - Dance Centre Society, The
Project: BC Dances! Communities Discovering Dance
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The program will spearhead networks among dance creators, presenters, programmers and the community, enabling the whole of BC to experience the excitement and diversity of dance through a series of events in communities across BC. These events will culminate in International Dance Day 2006. This project aims to create sustainable partnerships among communities, presenters and dance artists, while contributing to the legacy and visibility of dance arts across the Lower Mainland and BC.
Vancouver - Dancers Dancing Dance Society
Project: Made in BC - Dance on Tour, spring tour to Nelson and Saltspring Island
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2007
As part of their inaugural tour to Nelson and Saltspring Island with Made in BC - Dance on Tour, Dancers Dancing will interact with these communities through a variety of outreach and audience development projects. In addition to performing evening concerts, they will do residencies and work with dance students in the schools and with adult contemporary dancers.
Vancouver - Documentary Media Society, The
Project: DOXA Networking Intensive
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $16,828.00
Application Year: 2005
The Documentary Media Society will bring together aspiring documentary filmmakers from around BC to participate in a unique vision-building experience. Youth from around the province, aged 18-25 years, will apply to attend a forum to be held in conjunction with DOXA, Vancouver’s only annual film festival dedicated exclusively to examining the art of documentary film. Mentored by experienced documentary filmmakers, participants will gain invaluable access to the vibrant British Columbia filmmaking community. They will carry the benefits of this experience back to their own communities, where they will have the renewed knowledge and drive to pursue their own documentary endeavours.
Vancouver - Documentary Media Society (DOXA Documentary Film Festival)
Project: Rated Y for Youth
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Rated Y for Youth is a student outreach program that will create a forum for the critical discussion of works presented at the annual DOXA festival. The program will include facilitated discussions on the media and the role that it plays in analyzing and understanding the world. The creation of related print and web resource materials will help to shape critical media literacy skills for a new generation of documentary film audiences.
Vancouver - Eastside Culture Crawl Society
Project: Collector's Night
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $3,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Society will develop a contemporary art collectors seminar to provide information for a new collector, dispelling myths and mystiques surrounding the purchasing of art. Through this, the Society will develop stronger audiences and markets for the successful annual Culture Crawl.
Vancouver - Electric Company
Project: HIVE: Intimate Performances and Explosive Events
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $22,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Inspired by the success of SWARM in the visual arts community, HIVE is a unique and 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.
www.electriccompanytheatre.com
Vancouver - Electric Company Theatre Society
Project: Electric Company Video Online: a Market and Audience Development Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Electric Company (EC) will create video productions of its original shows as part of a web-based strategy to expand its touring market and broaden the local audience for theatre. The videos will become marketing tools, distributed free online, and will bring EC's highly visual theatre experience to today's image-savvy public.
www.electriccompanytheatre.com
Vancouver - Electric Company Theatre Society
Project: Collaborative operations management plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $4,100.00
Application Year: 2007
Theatre companies Electric Company, neworld, Boca del Lupo and Rumble Productions will engage arts consultant Ivan Habel to create an operations management plan for a new shared space that will house the partner organizations' administration offices, production and rehearsal spaces.
Vancouver - Electric Company Theatre Society
Project: Electric Company Video Online: a Market and Audience Development Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Electric Company (EC) will create video productions of its original shows as part of a web-based strategy to expand its touring market and broaden the local audience for theatre. The videos will become marketing tools, distributed free online, and will bring EC's highly visual theatre experience to today's image-savvy public.
www.electriccompanytheatre.com
Vancouver - Elektra Women's Choir
Project: Website Enhancement for Elektra Women's Choir
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Elektra will enhance its website with three new projects. Firstly, Elektra will post online significant, flexible new repertoire resources for other choirs including a discussion forum. Secondly, adding e-commerce capabilities to increase the choir's organizational capacity when selling tickets, subscriptions, workshops and merchandise. Thirdly by providing concert programs online to reduce paper used in onsite concert programs.
Vancouver - Eponymous Productions and Arts Society
Project: Contemporary Dance at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $4,400.00
Application Year: 2005
Eponymous Productions, in partnership with New Performance Works, will hire two consultants to undertake an environmental scan/needs assessment and feasibility study to evaluate the possibility of introducing a contemporary dance series at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre. The project is intended to address the lack of a large-scale contemporary dance presenter in Vancouver.
Vancouver - Eponymous Productions and Arts Society
Project: Start-up year for a Contemporary Dance Series at the Playhouse
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $30,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Eponymous, in partnership with New Works, will re-establish a high-quality, international contemporary dance subscription series at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre to begin in the 2008-2009 season. Activities will include: the development of a definitive marketing approach for the series; building strong working relationships with local, national and international dance presenters; curating and contracting artists; and developing fundraising and outreach strategies and materials.
Vancouver - exit.left productions
Project: Mud Island
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Using a wide variety of theatrical mediums, exit.left productions will present Mud Island, a site-specific show set in one of the old parking garages on Granville Island. The work will highlight the gritty history and untold stories of the industrial heart of Vancouver in the 1930s. Eight-day camps, focusing on a variety of theatrical workshops, will be offered to at-risk youth and children in under-served neighbourhoods.
Vancouver - Felix Culpa (Grinning Dragon Theatre Co. Society)
Project: News of the World
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2008
News of the World is an experiment in creating a new kind of political theatre. The creative team will mix current events with performance, realtime video art, audience interactions and live internet to create a fast, furious, up-tothe minute theatrical event. The artists will use live streaming internet to explore their own and the audience's ability to understand the world through media. The project will advance the field of mixed media as applied to theatre through new technologies and open doors to a new form of theatrical design.
Vancouver - Firehall Theatre Society
Project: Website Re-Design and Capacity Upgrade
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Firehall Theatre Society will undertake an extensive re-design of its website to include an integrated content management system. The Firehall needs to increase its sales capacity and operate its in-house box office more efficiently to better serve its growing audience. In addition, the Firehall will launch its new logo, branding and signage as part of the re-design of the website.
Vancouver - Firehall Theatre Society
Project: V6ABsee pass and discount card
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Firehall Theatre Society will undertake an audience development and marketing project that uses online ticketing, website, and other electronic networking techniques to promote its productions and presentations along with events, activities and restaurants within the V6A and V6B postal code zones.
Vancouver - Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House
Project: Stories of Compassion (working title)
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, the Vancouver School Board and the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education are embarking on a new book project entitled Stories of Compassion. The project will consist of a series of written and visual anecdotes on the theme of compassion, written by students in B.C.'s public and independent schools with the support of educators and the partner groups. The book and a corresponding interactive website will provide young people with the opportunity to tell their stories about witnessing compassion, benefiting from compassionate acts, and performing acts of kindness. The project interconnects with newly-developed curricula on social responsibility.
Vancouver - Full Circle: First Nations Performance Society
Project: "nchu7mut" Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $13,600.00
Application Year: 2005
Full Circle brings together Aboriginal artists, writers and performers to create interdisciplinary performances that express the reality of Aboriginal experiences. “Nchu7mut” will bring together Elders and leaders in Aboriginal culturally-based knowledge to present, share and exchange teachings and protocols. Through this project, Full Circle will create a new organizational model based on a clan structure that will carry this communal wisdom into its programming and organizational structures.
Vancouver - Full Circle: First Nations Performance
Project: Creation Stories: Two Sisters
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Creation Stories: Two Sisters is a multidisciplinary theatrical collaboration of Margo Kane, Floyd Favel, Leela Gilday and Bob Baker of Mohawk Poetess E. Pauline Johnson’s adaptation of the ancient Squamish legend about the mountain called The Two Sisters. The work (presented in both Squamish and English), will be delivered in a manner resonant with young audiences and created with the intent to tour.
Vancouver - Gallery Gachet Society
Project: Art & Healing Capacity Building Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Art & Healing Capacity Building Initiative will support artists informed by mental health issues to develop and implement a peer-based training program. Workshops will be developed following a peer-training model, requiring participants to be involved in researching and developing curriculum, training modules and resource materials. Eight themes will be covered, including financial management, arts marketing, curatorial practice, membership and human resources. The project will not only advance the programming capacity of Gallery Gachet in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but also expand its role as a professional artist-run centre.
Vancouver - Geist Foundation
Project: Theatre Outreach and Audience Development Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $11,100.00
Application Year: 2008
The Theatre Outreach project is a cross-marketing initiative aimed at developing Geist’s readership among theatre audiences and promoting Canadian theatre activities to Geist readers. This innovative outreach program will target five theatre festivals across Canada and include cross-promotional activities that combine magazine subscription sales and theatre ticket sales.
Vancouver - Great Northern Way Scene Shop
Project: Great Northern Way Scene Shop
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
In partnership with the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, the Great Northern Way Scene Shop will hire a consultant to research and determine the best business model for the Shop so that it may continue to exist outside of UBC funding. The consultant will help outline specific long-term goals and a plan of action to reach those goals in the short term. In addition, the consultant will identify specific funding opportunities that can be applied for in a second, later phase.
Vancouver - Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society
Project: Blueprint Fundraising and Communications - Andrea Seale
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $9,250.00
Application Year: 2009
The Vancouver International Film Festival will engage consultant Andrea Seale of Blueprint Fundraising and Communications to guide them through the process of establishing a donations program. This new revenue stream will allow the Society to increase capacity and flexibility and fulfil their future commitments to deliver compelling, socially relevant independent programming.
Vancouver - Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA)
Project: GVPTA Website Upgrade
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The GVPTA seeks to upgrade the functionality and usability of its existing website by implementing three new elements: a content management system; a fully searchable database calendar of theatre events; and adding online event registration capability for their “Making a Scene” conference.
Vancouver - Green Thumb Theatre for Young People
Project: Kihada Works Design Inc.
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Green Thumb Theatre will engage a consultant for a re-branding initiative, providing the organization with a set of new marketing tools, including a new logo and an e-marketing strategy for school tours, main stage and a Schools in the Theatre program.
Vancouver - Green Thumb Theatre
Project: The Edge: Borderless Youth Theatre
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Edge: Borderless Youth Theatre is a multi-community outreach project unlike any other. It is part play, part installation, part proof that creation has no borders. In the fall of 2010 Green Thumb Theatre will mentor the collective creation and present an entirely original play written, performed and designed by exciting creative youth from four different Lower Mainland Secondary schools at The Roundhouse Community Centre.
Vancouver - grunt gallery (Visible Arts Society)
Project: New methods of interpretation professional development/training
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Learning connections
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2007
This new interpretive and education program is specifically intended to train community cultural workers to be able to act as an extended educational instructor team for the grunt gallery. Working in partnership with local school districts, the Urban Native Youth Association and the Broadway Youth Resource Society, the program aims to engage First Nations youth and youth at risk to be trained as part of the educational team.
Vancouver - grunt gallery (Visible Arts Society)
Project: grunt gallery (Visible Arts Society)
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Following recommendations outlined in their 2008 strategic plan, grunt gallery will contract a professional consultant, Mike Costello, to further develop policies and procedures for the gallery in the areas of human resources, governance and succession planning. A number of policies, templates and manuals will be created for future reference.
Vancouver - HR MacMillan Space Centre
Project: Sky Tales: Aboriginal Views of the Night Sky
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Perspectives on astronomy have been dominated by a western point of view. Sky Tales: Aboriginal Views of the Night Sky is an innovative, new planetarium show that will present astronomy from the beliefs of BC’s First Peoples. The Space Centre will focus on collaborative, creative development to ensure the show is respectful and inclusive of the peoples represented.
www.hrmacmillanspacecentre.com
Vancouver - Health Arts Society
Project: Tickle Trunk Touring Circus
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Under the auspices of the Health Arts Society, the Tickle Trunk Touring Circus will launch its first production entitled Chuckles Finds His Laughter. This troupe of professional circus artists will incorporate aerial work, acrobatics and juggling in the flavour of Cirque du Soleil, to tell the story of a clown who has lost his laughter but regains it through interaction with the circus troupe. The circus will be presented to audiences of all ages in open air locations at 20 health care sites in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island in the summer of 2009.
Vancouver - Health Arts Society
Project: Tickle Trunk Circus 2010
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $13,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Tickle Trunk Circus 2010 is a new production based on the successful 2009 circus Chuckles. Twenty one shows are planned in August and September 2010 featuring eight professional artists, performed in the open air at B.C. health care sites for an audience of people in care, caregivers and families.
Vancouver - Helen Pitt Gallery ARC, The
Project: The Arts Visibility Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $12,200.00
Application Year: 2005
Funds awarded through Catalyst will enable the Helen Pitt Gallery to hire a consultant to examine the gallery’s overall publications and marketing plan. The goal of the project is to increase the public visibility of the organization. This will be achieved through educating the gallery staff and board on audience development planning. As part of a long-term plan, the gallery would like to enhance its publication capabilities in order to produce a series of documentation materials and a year-end publication that will raise the profile of the Pitt Gallery and support audience outreach.
Vancouver - Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre
Project: Exhibition Programming and Events
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Exhibition space and programming for the current season are at risk for the Helen Pitt Gallery. The Innovations investment will help secure new gallery space, reinstate the director/curator position and follow through with the exhibitions and projects planned for the upcoming year.
Vancouver - Heritage Vancouver Society, The
Project: Developing Heritage Vancouver's Audiences and Markets
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Heritage Vancouver Society will hire a contractor to examine the organization’s current audience and market plans. In an effort to examine better means of serving existing audiences, as well as identify future growth opportunities, the contractor will also develop a comprehensive plan for future programs. The plan will identify future partnership opportunities with other heritage organizations, community groups, educational institutions and cultural tourism organizations.
Vancouver - Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Theatre Society
Project: Organizational Assessment and Three-Year Strategic Business Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Theatre Society will hire arts consultant Linda Gorrie to conduct an organizational assessment. The consultant will work with the company's board and staff in the development of their first strategic business plan. Refining the mission statement, company values and board development are all goals of the plan.
www.horseshoesandhandgrenades.ca
Vancouver - I.E. Artspeak Gallery Society
Project: Vancouver Art and Economies
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with Arsenal Pulp Press, Artspeak Gallery will produce Vancouver Art and Economies, a book that investigates Vancouver’s visual art and cultural history over the last decade and a half. An open forum will be held in October 2005, at which the writers will present their papers and engage in a dialogue with the audience. The project will disseminate histories and debates on Vancouver art to local, national and international audiences, and facilitate an increased depth and breadth of understanding of Vancouver’s diverse art practices, visual cultures and art systems.
Vancouver - Jabulani World Music Society
Project: World Music Outreach Program for Schools and Communities
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Jabulani World Music Society will tour Kutapira, an acclaimed youth marimba percussion ensemble that blends African and Caribbean music, around BC school districts and communities. 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.
Vancouver - Joe Ink Performance Society
Project: (in)HabiTaT
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
(in)HabiTaT is a new dance that will explore how we define our sense of place in the world and the importance of home as a sanctuary. The work will be built around three performance narratives along with an accompanying gallery installation. Community dialogues relating to the concept of shelter, housing shortages and homelessness will occur in conjunction with project partners from Gallery Gachet and the Pivot Legal Society. In addition, exploration into the notion of the body as a first layer of shelter will be informed by partners from the Looking Glass Foundation, an organization dedicated to physical well being for adolescents suffering from eating disorders. The (in)HabiTaT performance and exhibition will take place February 2010.
Vancouver - Judith Marcuse Projects
Project: Youth Performing Group
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Judith Marcuse Projects will establish an apprentice program for new and emerging artists and administrators interested in working in community art practice. During the development and production of EARTH, a youth-directed performing group will have access to advice/mentorship, administrative resources, sharing of artistic practice, and creation, rehearsal and production space.
Vancouver - Karen Jamieson Dance Society
Project: The Karen Jamieson Dance Company - Legacy Project - Phase #1
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $14,200.00
Application Year: 2006
In an effort to preserve an important part of Canadian dance history, this project will make available documentation on the seminal work of Karen Jamieson, a senior Canadian dance artist. Working from deteriorating video tapes, project participants will digitize and edit the vast and significant body of work of Karen Jamieson. The digitized material will be available through the company’s website as an educational and marketing tool.
Vancouver - Kids Around the World Children's Museum Society
Project: Fundraising Plan & Support for the KAWCM
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $1,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Kids Around the World’s volunteer board and staff will work with a consultant to analyze their current business plan and to establish strategic priorities for the organization. Staff will receive training in key areas of fundraising and overall organizational governance.
Vancouver - Kokoro Dance Theatre Society
Project: Kokoro Dance - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Collaboration
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $7,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 project is a way for Kokoro to explore new ways of combining live music and dance in a setting outside of a theatre.
Vancouver - Kootenay School of Writing
Project: Archives Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Kootenay School of Writing will undertake a project to stabilize the format of its substantial archives of BC poetry and make them available to the public through web-based technology.
Vancouver - Leaky Heaven Performance Society
Project: Leaky Heaven's Satellite Circus
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,900.00
Application Year: 2006
Leaky Heaven will provide a mentorship opportunity for young theatre artists to gain practical experience in socially-engaged arts practices. By connecting emerging performers with mature theatre professionals, Leaky Heaven is looking to build 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.
Vancouver - Leaky Heaven Performance Society
Project: Dog Days
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2008
Leaky Heaven Circus, in partnership with the Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre and the Russian Hall will create the Dog Days carnival, a series of children-envisioned events that will take place in the Strathcona neighbourhood over the long weekend, August 1 - 3, 2009. Facilitated by a group of professional actors, designers and musicians, 30 children aged 8 - 12 will participate in workshops, share ideas and lay plans for the Dog Days community event.
Vancouver - Live Biennale of Performance Art Society
Project: LIVE DVD Archive & Outreach Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $8,880.00
Application Year: 2005
The Society will create a new archival DVD, compiling and presenting documentation from past and pending LIVE Biennial Festivals through audio commentary and video documentation. The project is intended as a primary audience creation tool, to be widely distributed to the public. The DVD will document the unique role that Vancouver’s art community has had in producing, presenting and nurturing performance art.
Vancouver - Made in BC
Project: Made in BC - Dance on Tour
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $16,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Made in BC will develop a province-wide network of regional presenters for dance who are committed to increasing dance activity in their communities. Made in BC will work with regional presenters to increase exposure for diverse dance performance across British Columbia through dance presentation and outreach activities.
Vancouver - Malaspina Printmakers Society
Project: Human Resources Development
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $3,160.00
Application Year: 2009
Malaspina Printmakers will hire human resources consultant Gayle Hadfield to develop and implement a solid foundation of personnel practices for employees, volunteers and consultants. A staff handbook, volunteer handbook, performance review process, salary review process, and template documents for employment agreements and letters of offer will be created by the end of the consultancy.
Vancouver - Mandala Arts and Culture Society
Project: Effective governance and best practices for long term stability and sustainability
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Mandala Arts and Culture will engage arts consultant Ursula Wohlfarth to work with staff and the board to develop a working plan that will establish a solid foundation for effective governance and best practices. This is part of a broader strategy to build organizational stability and sustainability over the long term. The consultant will work with the incoming general manager to plan the implementation of the best practices plan.
Vancouver - Mascall Dance Society
Project: JOSHUA: multimedia body project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 – and create an interactive, multimedia display that will reache a diverse audience in various Lower Mainland galleries.
Vancouver - Mascall Dance Society
Project: Homewerk Graphic Comic Book
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2008
The Homewerk Graphic Comic Book is an interactive publication for young readers inspired by the dance piece Homewerk that is performed in schools throughout B.C. by Mascall Dance. Designed to complement the dance work, the comic book will be based on stories about homes and the idea of homes around the world. The comic book will include blank strips where students will be able to incorporate their own ideas about the project themes and the performance they have seen. The comic book will be launched at the Vancouver International Children's Festival in spring 2009 and distributed to schools where Mascall Dance will perform Homewerk.
Vancouver - Mascall Dance Society
Project: Audience Development: The White Spider
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $9,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Mascall Dance will work with the three presenters hosting The White Spider (the Chan Centre, Shadbolt Centre and the Massey Theatre) to develop an audience for contemporary dance. This project will develop unconventional outreach activities such as demonstrations in climbing gyms, and an interactive presentation by the creative team called “Making Dance: Creation of The White Spider.”
Vancouver - Media Undefined Society
Project: Intersections
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Intersections is a living history project that will engage youth, seniors and artists from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds in Vancouver’s Strathcona and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods. A team of professional artists will guide participants through an exploration of the neighbourhood’s geography, and social and cultural history. Through a process of collective creation, the project will result in multi-media works that will be projected through storefront windows and onto building facades, casting their imagery onto the streets. In addition, the works will be presented in community venues in a month-long series of screenings.
Vancouver - Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Project: Discovering BC's Studio Pottery Movement
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Morris and 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.
Vancouver - Movement Enterprises (MovEnt)
Project: MovEnt Industrial Works/SURGE
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $17,000.00
Application Year: 2005
MovEnt will expand its programming with the creation of SURGE, a full-length choreography inspired by the industrial environment of the Black Box Studio Labs. The new work is in collaboration with Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.
Vancouver - Moving Pictures: Travelling Film Festival Society
Project: Developing Alternate Sources of Revenue to Keep New Programs "Moving"
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Moving Pictures wants to expand revenue sources to ensure the success of newly developed programs. To help them reach their goal, Moving Pictures will work with a consultant to identify new sources of revenue, develop a fundraising plan and train staff and board members on how to successfully implement these new fundraising strategies.
Vancouver - Music BC (Pacific Music Industry Association)
Project: Get Outta Town!
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $14,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Music BC will feature a touring concert series with performing artists from the Okanagan, Vancouver Island, Northern BC and the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley. Many performing artists have a hard time breaking out of their own town club/venue circuits. This project will introduce new artists to new areas in BC and will promote greater awareness of Music BC’s role as a facilitator, marketer and promoter.
Vancouver - Music in the Morning Concert Society (MITM)
Project: Music in the Morning podcasts
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
MITM will expand its public outreach by launching an ongoing series of educational podcasts for concerts and special events. These podcasts will offer listeners the chance to go behind the scenes with the artists and the artistic director. MITM’s podcasts will be a useful educational tool for schools, providing resources for music teachers and helping to develop younger audiences.
Vancouver - Music on Main
Project: Music on Main / Music on Vancouver's Main Street Corridor
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Music on Main will create an 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.
Vancouver - Music on Main
Project: A Month of Tuesdays
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Currently in its second season, A Month of Tuesdays features classical, new and genre-bending music in an unconventional setting: the Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club. With innovative concert formats and expanded performance opportunities for B.C. musicians, the series will develop affordable concert experiences for new audiences in a casual and stimulating environment.
Vancouver - Music on Main (on behalf of Sonic Presence)
Project: Sonic Presence Strategic Planning and Implementation Document
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Sonic Presence, a forum of nine regional contemporary music organizations, will hire consultant Stephen Flach to create a proposal for achieving the organization's short, medium and long-term strategic plans. This will help the group create an infrastructure and to expand from a city-specific reach to a B.C.-wide one.
Vancouver - Music on Main
Project: Emerge on Main
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $13,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Emerge on Main will provide new performance and mentorship opportunities for emerging classical, new music and genre-bending musicians from across British Columbia who are on the brink of a professional career. Each Emerge on Main artist will perform three free community concerts at various venues and a Main Stage debut at Heritage Hall in Vancouver. Artists will receive professional development guidance.
Vancouver - musica intima
Project: Confluence/Mamawapi Sipiy
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Confluence/Mamawapi Sipiy ("rivers meet" in Cree language) is a new collaborative project involving the Iskwew traditional Aboriginal music ensemble led by award-winning composer and musician Sandy Scofield and Vancouver-based vocal ensemble, musica intima. The project will explore the two distinct musical traditions and showcase the fusion between the two performing ensembles. Confluence will include workshops and seminars on both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal singing practices as well as Aboriginal dance and storytelling.
Vancouver - Musqueam First Nation
Project: Musqueam Nation Cultural Protection Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $14,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Musqueam First Nation will develop a cultural protection plan based on legal expertise related to cultural property. The development of 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 being developed.
Vancouver - Musqueam First Nation
Project: Cultural Map
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The recipient will engage a consultant to create a strategic cultural map as the first step toward planning for the Band. The project will include focus groups to engage the community in the planning process, the mapping of cultural assets and the establishment of a community vision, principles and values. The map will also take into account the development of the Musquem First Nation Cultural Centre.
Vancouver - Musqueam Indian Band
Project: Musqueam and Four Host Nations Cultural Protection Policy of Traditional Knowledge Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $11,500.00
Application Year: 2008
The Musqueam Indian Band will hire a consultant to develop the final components of the Musqueam Indian Band Cultural Protection Policy. Upon completion, the policy will strengthen governing capacity and provide effective legislation and protections for indigenous traditional knowledge not yet developed or adopted. The resulting policy will be shared with the Four Hosts Nations and other project partners.
Vancouver - New Forms Media Society
Project: Designing A Development, Fundraising and Business Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
New Forms would like to create a comprehensive, medium- to long-range business plan that focuses on developing organizational capacity. The plan will look at the marketing, financial, human resources, operations and artistic structures of the organization, in an effort to create long-term sustainable plans.
Vancouver - New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW)
Project: Website Redevelopment and Audience Development Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Vancouver - New Performance Works
Project: Arts Administration Mentoring and Coaching Project (Pilot)
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $13,000.00
Application Year: 2005
New Performance Works, in partnership with the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists and the Dance Centre, will undertake a training project whereby junior arts administrators will provide advice and support to dance artists around grant writing, contracting and budgeting. The junior administrators will have access to senior arts administrators for mentoring or coaching as required.
Vancouver - Neworld Theatre
Project: PodPlays
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Neworld Theatre in partnership with Playwrights Theatre Centre will commission writers and sound designers to collaborate on the creation of five, 15- minute PodPlays. Designed for an outdoor theatre, PodPlays are an evolution of the traditional radio play. Audience members load a PodPlay onto portable media players and step outside to walk an assigned route where they have a singular story experience that includes narrative, music and interactions with performers along the route.
Vancouver - Norman Rothstein Theatre (Vancouver West Side Theatre Society)
Project: Building a More Effective Web Presence and Enhancing Marketing Potential
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $6,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Both the Norman Rothstein Theatre and the Chutzpah! Festival will revamp and re-design their websites. The two new websites will be harmonized with concurrent improvements in the ticketing, marketing and overall communications strategies of the two entities, allowing for more sophisticated and effective execution of these key strategies.
www.normanrothsteintheatre.com
Vancouver - Only Animal Theatre Society, The
Project: NIX: 'Theatre of Ice' Experiments
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 instruments/props, and original music. Funds 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.
www.otherfreds.com/Only%20Animal%20Text.htm
Vancouver - Or Gallery Society
Project: Out of Office Reply
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Out of Office Reply is a satellite project that engages emerging artists in experimental art activities. Participating artists will bring contemporary art directly to the public by installing work on billboards, creating public sculptures, or producing walking tours. The project introduces new and experimental artistic practices to the Or Gallery Society, in particular making use of space outside the confines of the gallery.
Vancouver - Orchid Ensemble
Project: Della's Different Trains
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $18,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Della's Different Trains will include collaborative presentations with the Orchid Ensemble, composer Ya-wen Wang and Lorita Leung Dance Association. The presentations will explore 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.
Vancouver - Orchid Ensemble
Project: Ghost Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Inspired by a shared curiosity about the afterlife, artists will explore the rituals and customs in different cultures through music, masks, dance, media arts, shadow puppets and scenographic installations. This collaboration between the Orchid Ensemble, musicians, actors, puppeteers, dancers and media artists, Vancouver Community College Choir and Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society will culminate in workshops, demonstrations and performances at the Roundhouse Community Centre in late October 2008.
Vancouver - Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres
Project: ARCpost Pilot
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
PAARC will develop and produce a pilot web-based publication entitled ARCpost. This publication will distribute documentation from the organization's InFest event that took place in Vancouver in October 2004. It will be developed by a contract ARCpost editor, in consultation with a steering committee and a research group.
Vancouver - Pacific Ballet British Columbia Society
Project: Creation Documentary and Audience Engagement Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $18,400.00
Application Year: 2005
Ballet BC will undertake an audience engagement project to document the creation of their newest ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire. They will also invite current and potential audience members and supporters to experience this creation through an online documentary on their website and in-theatre displays and educational activities throughout the 2005-06 season.
Vancouver - Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Project: A new look for the PBO
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
www.pacificbaroqueorchestra.com
Vancouver - Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Project: PBO East Side Community Concerts
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with St. James Anglican Church, PBO will create a concert series of baroque, classical and contemporary music, free of charge, for members of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside community. The project will allow the Downtown Eastside community to benefit from access to high-quality live music, while the PBO musicians will gain the opportunity to perform to diverse audiences, thereby increasing the technical and artistic quality of the orchestra.
www.pacificbaroqueorchestra.com
Vancouver - Pacific Cinematheque
Project: open i: A Digital Filmmaking Project by Youth with Disabilities
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $25,000.00
Application Year: 2005
“open i” is an innovative digital filmmaking and media literacy program for youth with disabilities between the ages of 14 and 24. In partnership with the National Film Board, the project will help youth develop skills needed to realize their creative visions and tell their own stories in their own voices through the medium of digital video.
Vancouver - Pacific Cinémathèque Pacifique
Project: Landscapes for Every Screen
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Landscapes for Every Screen will empower British Columbians of all ages and from diverse backgrounds to collaborate to discover and frame digital video interpretations of their landscapes and their worlds. Pacific Cinémathèque and its project partners will launch integrated media literacy and production workshops in urban and rural communities around the province. Participants will create video interpretations of their landscapes, which will be showcased at public screenings to encourage further dialogue on visual media and technology in communities and in educational and artistic forums in B.C. and beyond.
Vancouver - Pacific Cinémathèque Pacifique
Project: Cinémathèque Website - Phase II
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,125.00
Application Year: 2009
Pacific Cinémathèque will enhance its website to increase interaction with their existing audience. The enhancements will include three new elements - an online still photo gallery to highlight special events, a video gallery for film trailers and venue tours and an organizational blog.
Vancouver - Pangaea Arts Society
Project: The Gull: The Steveston Noh Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Gull will be an original Canadian Noh play integrating traditional Japanese Noh Theatre into a modern theatrical experience. Exploring the experience of Japanese immigrants in Steveston, the project will provide Pangaea with international mentorship opportunities, allowing theatre musicians to travel from Japan to work and collaborate with Canadian artists.
Vancouver - Pangaea Arts Society
Project: The Life of Paper
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Life of Paper is a collaboration between performing artists from Western and Eastern traditions and origami master Joseph Wu. This innovative work will fuse the ancient art of folding paper with live theatrical performance including sets, props, costumes, masks and puppets made entirely out of paper. A free interactive origami exhibition will increase the visibility and credibility of origami as an art form, while school workshops will inspire teachers and students to use origami as a learning resource in subjects such as math, science and geometry.
Vancouver - Pink Ink Theatre Productions (AKA PI Theatre)
Project: Strategic Resource Development Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $6,100.00
Application Year: 2006
PI Theatre will focus on fundraising and sponsorship development, and implement a newly-developed two-phase resource-building strategy that will assist in realizing the company’s financial needs and artistic and administrative objectives over the next four seasons.
Vancouver - Pivot Legal
Project: Hope Shadows Artistic Initiative
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
In partnership with Geist magazine, Pivot Legal will create a publication featuring the work of 80 photographers and 80 writers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The publication will document life in that community. In addition to the publication, the project will include cross-disciplinary aspects such as gallery exhibits and magazine and newsprint layouts. The goal is to give a voice to a community that has had little access to mainstream artistic endeavours.
Vancouver - Playhouse Theatre Centre of British Columbia
Project: Governance in Transition
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Playhouse Theatre board and senior staff will undergo a facilitated process to develop and focus its mission and vision statements. The planning exercise will result in the creation of a governance model and board committee structure that will best support the company in achieving its organizational goals given its recent move to combine the roles of Artistic Director and General Manager.
Vancouver - Playhouse Theatre Company
Project: Playhouse Envoy Programme
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Playhouse plans to establish the Playhouse Envoy Programme, an audience development project designed to increase community engagement in the theatre’s creative activities. The goal is to strengthen their connection with their audiences and, in turn, develop new ones. The project will train high school drama students in the Playhouse productions, allowing them to deepen the relationship with audiences, improve visitor experience and engage patron loyalty.
Vancouver - Playhouse Theatre Company
Project: Tessitura: Phase Two
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2006
The Playhouse Theatre Company will hire a consultant, Blair Cresswell of ArtsThink Consulting, to implement phase two of the Tessitura Arts Enterprise Software System Project. Funding from Catalyst will be used to provide the Playhouse staff with specialized expertise necessary to utilize Tessitura, software that can assist with ticketing, marketing, development and fundraising. The project will also focus on the creation of legacy documents to ensure that all knowledge gained resides within the company.
Vancouver - Playwrights Theatre Centre Society (PTC)
Project: The Creation-to-Production Strategic Plan Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) will contract a skilled consultant to guide them through a strategic planning process. The goal of the project will be to develop strategies and tools to more effectively deliver PTC's mission to maximize production of new Canadian works in the national and international theatre community.
Vancouver - Playwrights Theatre Centre Society (PTC)
Project: PTC Revenue Diversification Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $11,500.00
Application Year: 2008
PTC will engage a skilled consultant or team of consultants to lead them through a planning process that will result in the development of a revenue diversification strategy for the organization. In addition, the process will identify the tools and skills needed to implement the plan.
Vancouver - Proximity Arts Society
Project: Creation and development of Antic, a site-specific performance installation
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 collaborative development, combining a composition process with interactive performance.
Vancouver - Public Dreams Society
Project: Revisioning the Business Plan for Imaginate, an Enterprising Non-Profit
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Public Dreams' Enterprising Non Profit division, Imaginate, will undertake a planning project that will include comprehensive market research and analysis with a view to creating a new business plan. With an updated plan, Imaginate will be better able to generate the necessary support for the community events and activities that Public Dreams is renowned for.
Vancouver - Purple Thistle Community Society
Project: Purple Thistle Exhibits and Workshops at the Interurban
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Purple Thistle is a youth-driven organization that focuses on innovative arts, cultural and educational projects. The project will draw together three of the organization’s working groups – writing, art and photography – for two separate exhibitions at the Interurban Gallery. This is the first collaborative project between the working groups, and will provide an opportunity for the youth to work together to create a magazine that blends the three disciplines into one publication.
Vancouver - PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Society
Project: PuSh Festival Targeted Expansion Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $16,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The PuSh Festival Targeted Expansion Project seeks to grow the capacity of the existing festival in two distinct ways. The first tier of the proposal will allow the organization to expand its artistic capacity by presenting music, making the festival truly multidisciplinary. The second tier will establish an annual three-day arts marketplace and networking event featuring panels and discussions to support BC’s touring capacity.
Vancouver - PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Society
Project: Private Sector Fund Development Consultancy
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
A consultant will be contracted 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 the 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.
Vancouver - PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Society
Project: Club PuSh
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $13,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Club PuSh was launched in 2009 as a dynamic multi-disciplinary platform for cutting-edge artists. The “Club” features work that would not find its true audience in a more traditional venue. Programming is focused on trend-setting experimentation with ideas, text, narrative, projections and music. The work is salon-style—compact, portable and highly performative.
Vancouver - Realwheels Society
Project: Realwheels Theatre Project: Skydive
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Realwheels Society looks to cast persons with disabilities in plays that have no textual reference to physicality. Realwheels is interested in challenging the audience’s perception of disabilities. Skydive is a new play that explores uncharted territory in theatre by incorporating aerial choreography for performers with physical disabilities, allowing the performers to float above the playing space as if gravity were not a constraint.
Vancouver - Realwheels Society
Project: Classical Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Engaging Communities
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Realwheels, in partnership with Pound of Flesh Theatre, will engage the broad community of people with disabilities (professional actors, apprentices and community participants) in workshops that will focus on an adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. Through a pairing of speaking and signing, the work will be delivered by deaf actors and sign language interpreters. In addition, there will be experimentation with light and sound manipulation to support the text with a view to creating a light-scape and sound-scape that will satisfy a universal audience. The workshops will culminate in a public presentation and will be video documented for reference purposes.
Vancouver - Realwheels Society
Project: Marketing and Audience Development Strategy and Tools
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Realwheels will engage a team of consultants over a nine-month period to assist with the creation and implementation of a comprehensive marketing and audience development strategy. Through this project Realwheels aims to increase the visibility of the organization, learn more about their audience base, and assess the impact of their work on audiences.
Vancouver - Realwheels Theatre Society
Project: Artistic Producer Training Program
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Vancouver - Realwheels Theatre Society
Project: The Realwheels Theatre Project: Skydive
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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. The project will act as catalyst for change in the public's perception of people with disabilities.
Vancouver - Reel to Real: A Celebration of Moving Images for Youth Society
Project: Our World
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Our World is a project 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). It's 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.
Vancouver - Ripple Effect Arts and Literature Society (REAL)
Project: Wordscapes re-branding project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $7,500.00
Application Year: 2007
REAL will transform its current annual anthology into a new literary magazine entitled Wordscapes Youth Arts Journal, which will include fiction, poetry and essays by professional B.C. authors alongside teen writers. The new journal will target a youth audience, and is intended to strengthen existing relationships with educators and literary artists.
Vancouver - Roedde House Preservation Society
Project: French Language Website
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Roedde House will develop a French version of its website, having received a recommendation from a partnership plan that Roedde House become a bilingual Museum. Roedde House will provide both public and educational programs to Francophone residents and visitors and a website in French is critical to this endeavour.
Vancouver - Rumble Production Society
Project: Integrated Capacity Building Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $20,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Rumble Production Society will undertake a capacity building project to address opportunities for the next phase of the organization’s growth. In particular, the project will focus on marketing and fund development by contracting someone with expertise in these areas. Goals and outcomes for the project were developed through in-depth planning and the recommendations of a recently completed three-year business plan.
Vancouver - Screaming Weenie Productions Society
Project: Fresh Sheets
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Fresh Sheets is a new annual festival of original, queer-themed plays by emerging and established Canadian playwrights. In its first season, Fresh Sheets will select up to four plays from a nation-wide call for submissions. The works will be professionally work shopped and will receive a staged reading at the Pride in Art Festival in Vancouver during Pride Week 2009.
Vancouver - See Seven Performing Arts Society
Project: See Seven Strategic & Business Plans
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $7,250.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Vancouver - Seismic Shift Arts Society (DanceHouse)
Project: Speaking of Dance
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded:$5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
For its inaugural DanceHouse season, Seismic Shift will present a series of free events designed to enrich and deepen the public's engagement with contemporary dance. These events will take the form of public lectures and discussion groups presented by diverse dance specialists with differing perspectives. A forum for exchanging ideas and debating issues, the series will encourage people to listen, learn and speak about dance.
Vancouver - Seniors' Research Group of Chinese Opera and Music
Project: Stage Presence, Singing and Instrumentation Workshops
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $3,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Seniors' Research Group will hire professionally trained performers to train members of the organization and members of the community in three elements of the Beijing Opera. The organization is experiencing the effects of an aging membership, and is looking toward long-term audience development planning. The project seeks to improve the artistic range of the existing members, attract new members and preserve the legacy of the Beijing Opera in the local community.
Vancouver - Shameless Hussy Society Productions
Project: Developing Audiences and Markets for SpinGirl
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Shameless Hussy will take an existing theatre production and develop it into a production suitable for high school audiences. It is part of the organization’s commitment to expand their audiences and develop new markets.
Vancouver - Society for Disability Arts and Culture
Project: Capacity Building Towards 2010 and Beyond
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $11,535.00
Application Year: 2005
S4DAC will undertake the design and delivery of a needs assessment and organizational model analysis, as well as a five-year strategic planning process. These activities will help S4DAC to enhance their capacity to respond to the needs of their constituency. The project will also enable them to create sustainable organizational and artistic plans that will ultimately lead to a more cohesive disability culture network in BC.
Vancouver - Solo Collective Theatre
Project: Strategic Planning & Managed Growth Mentorship
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $3,500.00
Application Year: 2005
The Strategic Planning and Managed Growth Mentorship is a 12-month mentorship for staff of Solo Collective, who will have weekly meetings with Pi Theatre General Manager Tammy Isaacson to build capacity in administration and financial management and plan for the company’s growth over the next three seasons.
Vancouver - subTerrain magazine
Project: Post-secondary Student Outreach Program
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2008
subTerrain will undertake a Canada-wide post-secondary student outreach program whereby targeted course packs will be designed and mailed to faculty and instructors of creative writing departments and other relevant courses of study. The outreach program aims to increase student readership of subTerrain magazine and to encourage students to submit their own work to the magazine for consideration.
Vancouver - Theatre for Living Society (Headlines Theatre)
Project: METH - a province-wide addiction prevention project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Theatre for Living Society will partner with grassroots organizations across the province to bring its new community-based interactive forum theatre play, Meth, to 25 to 30 BC communities. The project includes a live interactive webcast and DVD. Meth will explore the root causes of addiction and feature a mixed native/non-native cast who has struggled with Meth addition.
Vancouver - Theatre For Living Society (Headlines Theatre)
Project: The Indo-Canadian Theatre Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Working in partnership with the South Asian Family Association and other members of the Indo-Canadian community, Headlines Theatre will create a forum theatre production exploring the issue of violence in the Indo-Canadian community. The project will incorporate cross-disciplinary aspects by integrating a community television and web broadcast, including live interventions from the audience. Headlines Theatre hopes the production will act as a catalyst for exchange, dialogue and reconciliation within the community.
Vancouver - Theatre Replacement Society
Project: Website Redevelopment
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Theatre Replacement will improve the functionality of their existing website to allow better access and interaction with their audience. Enhancements to the existing website include creating RSS feeds, newsletter sign-up forms, the ability to add slideshows and video components, flash animation upgrades and online donation capabilities. The site will also be coded to ensure content is accessible to those with disabilities.
Vancouver - Theatre Terrific Society (TTS)
Project: Disabled Artist Theatrical Troupe
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Theatre Terrific will create a professional troupe of actors, which will include people with disabilities. The troupe will be selected in October, begining twice weekly rehearsals in November, and will create an original work to be performed in Vancouver in March. The goal is the formation of an integrated professional troupe dedicated to the art of theatre, and the expansion of the disability theatre genre.
Vancouver - Theatre Terrific Society (TTS)
Project: The Bread Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $9,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Bread Project is a community-building theatre project bringing together five diverse, distinct communities with developmental, physical, mental health, immigrant, native and gender issues. They will collaborate with a team of professional theatre artists in creating a theatre event celebrating the nurturing elements of the shared common “staff of life”... bread. The project will involve 20 diverse participants working for six weeks as a collaborative theatre ensemble.
Vancouver - Touchstone Theatre
Project: Marketing & Audience Development Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $7,450.00
Application Year: 2005
The marketing and audience development plan is a two-phase research and strategic planning project. The first phase will involve mapping and analyzing the organization’s current audiences. Following this, a consultant will work with the general manager to develop new marketing and audience development strategies in an effort to combat declining sales and strengthen the company’s ratio of earned revenue.
Vancouver - Touchstone Theatre Society
Project: Touchstone Theatre Website Upgrade
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Touchstone’s website will be more interactive with online ticketing, blogs, searchable databases and the addition of audience feedback and reviews. The website will be changed to enable staff to update information as it becomes available, by adding videos, pictures and newsletters.
Vancouver - Turning Point Ensemble
Project: From self-management to professional administration: a blueprint for long-term success
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $4,500.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Vancouver - UBC Museum of Anthropology
Project: Feasibility Study for New Asian Wing at the UBC Museum of Anthropology
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Museum of Anthropology will hire a 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.
Vancouver - Upintheair Theatre
Project: Walking Fish Festival: Evolution
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Walking Fish Festival: Evolution is Vancouver’s emerging artist theatre festival. Now entering its eighth year Upintheair is making a bold move to transform the festival to attract a broader funding base and is expanding the short-form theatre festival to include a series of professional one-act productions.
Vancouver - urban ink production society
Project: Squaw Hall (Williams Lake Community-Based Theatre Project)
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Squaw Hall is a community-based initiative between urban ink productions of Vancouver and Twin Fish Productions from Nelson to research the legacy of colonization in Williams Lake and the surrounding First Nations. The initiative will focus on stories of Squaw Hall, a dance hall during stampede days with a tragic history for Aboriginal women. The project will result in an installation, performance and a filmed documentary.
Vancouver - Vancouver Adapted Music Society
Project: VAMS on WHEELS
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $12,500.00
Application Year: 2005
The VAMS on WHEELS CD is a community-based project involving 10 of Canada’s most talented musicians with disabilities. They will be involved in the production of the VAMS compilation CD, recording one or two songs each in a professional recording environment. VAMS’ musicians will create networks, have a professional recording of their music and demonstrate to the community how integral their art is to mainstream culture.
www.disabilityfoundation.org/vams/
Vancouver - Vancouver Art Gallery
Project: Urbanization and the Politics of Space
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $6,800.00
Application Year: 2006
Urbanization and the Politics of Space is a collaboration between the Vancouver Art Gallery, King George Secondary School and the Pacific Cinematheque. It 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.
Vancouver - Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
Project: Maintaining Diversity in Theatre: Visible Communities & Audiences Underserved
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $7,000.00
Application Year: 2005
VACT will undergo an extensive organizational assessment to help it develop from an emerging arts/cultural/heritage organization (existing from project to project) to an established organization with planned seasons of productions and operations. VACT will partner with established local theatre companies to acquire skills and knowledge that will hlep them in producing Asian Canadian productions for a growing and diverse target audience.
Vancouver - Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT)
Project: Breaking the Language Barrier for Communities and Audiences Underserved
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
VACT will reach out to new audiences by including Mandarin subtitles with their English language production of the musical Flower Drum Song in 2009. The use of subtitles will enhance the theatre experience for audience members of Chinese heritage by breaking down language barriers.
Vancouver - Vancouver East Cultural Centre (VECC)
Project: Renewing the VECC brand
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2007
The Vancouver East Cultural Centre will review and re-design their brand in collaboration with communications and web design consultants. A new organizational brand identity will be implemented for all marketing materials. With their impending capital expansion, VECC’s new and improved brand will reflect their expanded presence in Vancouver’s cultural community.
Vancouver - Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society
Project: 33rd Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The 33rd Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival will take place in mid-July 2010 at Jericho Beach Park. On eight stages, the programming will celebrate and explore “folk” from many cultures with over 60 diverse artists from the city, across Canada and around the world.
Vancouver - Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Project: Preserving the Past by Building for the Future - A Strategic Plan for the Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Following the recommendations made in an internal organizational assessment, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation's (VHF) board of directors and staff will undertake a strategic planning project during the spring and summer of 2006 that will guide VHF activities and fundraising over the next three years.
www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org
Vancouver - Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Project: The Emperor of Atlantis
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) will partner with City Opera Vancouver to present the British Columbia premiere of The Emperor of Atlantis, a chamber opera by composer Viktor Ullman and librettist Petr Kien written during World War II at Theresienstadt, a Nazi transit camp. The opera will represent City Opera’s first fully staged professional production. Performances will take place at the Norman Rothstein Theatre in Vancouver’s Jewish Cultural Centre. In connection with the performances, the VHEC will deliver a series of presentations to schools, community and church groups on the historical and contemporary significance of the opera.
Vancouver - Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra
Project: Music of the Whole World
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $4,100.00
Application Year: 2006
The Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra will present a six-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 through guided listening, live performances and study materials, all free of charge.
Vancouver - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Project: Financial Sustainability Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $7,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Centre A will work with a consultant to teach fundraising skills to staff and board members. The project will deliver four outcomes: a fundraising plan, a board/staff fundraising workshop, a capital campaign feasibility study and a case for support.
Vancouver - Vancouver International Writers Festival
Project: Vancouver Writes
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2006
Vancouver Writes is a brand new project for the organization. It will be an interactive evening of wordplay and music, bringing aspiring writers and readers together to produce instant literature. Aspiring writers will have the rare 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.
Vancouver - Vancouver International Writers Festival
Project: Website Audio and Video Enhancement
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Vancouver International Writers Festival will enhance its website by adding audio and video files from past festival events. This will act as an audience development tool, a teacher and student resource and a way of exposing the Festival's activities to people around the world.
Vancouver - Vancouver Moving Theatre
Project: The Shadows Project: Addiction and Recovery
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Shadows Project will develop Vancouver Moving Theatre's artistic and organizational capacity by creating an arts-based cultural development methodology that responds to the community's need for a theatrical platform to address community issues. The project will provide training and employment opportunities for the Downtown Eastside community's emerging theatre practitioners, and will culminate in a professional production.
www.vancouvermovingtheatre.com
Vancouver - Vancouver Moving Theatre Society
Project: Downtown Eastside Community Development Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $13,100.00
Application Year: 2005
Vancouver Moving Theatre Society and the Carnegie Community Centre are partnering on a new and innovative arts-based community development project that focuses on themes of addiction and recovery. Funds from 2010 Legacies Now will support the research and development phase, including partnership-building, community outreach, training workshops and story research.
www.vancouvermovingtheatre.com
Vancouver - Vancouver Multicultural Society
Project: Vancouver Diversity Festival
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Following the success of 2005’s Vancouver Diversity Festival, the Society will expand this innovative event that aims to incorporate Vancouver’s mono-ethnic festivals into 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.
Vancouver - Vancouver Museum
Project: Strategic planning
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Recognizing it is currently at a crossroads, the Vancouver Museum will develop a five-year strategic plan. The plan is intended to establish a renewed identity and focus for the organization, and will include the development of a new vision and brand that will lead the Vancouver Museum through the next decade.
Vancouver - Vancouver Museum
Project: Training Needs Assessment and Delivery
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2008
In response to the priorities identified in their recently completed Vision and Strategy Plan, the Vancouver Museum will engage a consultant to undertake a comprehensive training needs assessment. Based on the results of the assessment, training will be delivered to areas identified as high priority.
Vancouver - Vancouver Opera
Project: First Nations-infused touring production of Mozart's The Magic Flute
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
Vancouver - Vancouver Out on Screen Film & Video Society
Project: Audience Development Assessment Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Vancouver Out on Screen Film and Video Society will work with a consultant on an audience development assessment toward developing a long-term audience development plan. The goal is to increase their capacity and transform into a year-round presenter of queer cultural programs.
Vancouver - Vancouver Recital Society
Project: Inaugural 5 - Year Strategic Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $6,750.00
Application Year: 2006
The Vancouver Recital Society will work with a consultant to develop a long-range strategic plan for the organization. The plan will be developed with 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.
Vancouver - Vancouver Symphony Society
Project: Implementing Innovation - Training for Tessitura
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Vancouver Symphony Society will engage the services of a Vancouver-based IT consultant to train and mentor staff on Tessitura, an integrated software system for fundraising, marketing and ticketing.
Vancouver - Vancouver Society for Early Music
Project: Audience Development: Dynamic Planning for Long-Term Audience Growth
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Society will engage a consultant to survey and engage in comprehensive analysis of Early Music Vancouver’s existing audience. With this information, the consultant will develop a plan that includes the conceptual and practical tools needed to expand the Society’s audience.
Vancouver - Vancouver Symphony Society
Project: VSO Connects
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,200.00
Application Year: 2005
VSO Connects is a pilot program created to deepen the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s relationship with students, and the students' relationship with the performaing arts, in each of the six major school districts in the Lower Mainland. The VSO’s Education Advisory Committee has developed this new in-school program in consultation with public school educators from the Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam and West Vancouver districts.
Vancouver - Vancouver West Side Theatre Society
Project: NRT Music Subscription Series with Workshops for Youth
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Vancouver West Side Theatre Society will offer free workshops to high school students in conjunction with a new, world music series at the Norman Rothstein Theatre (NRT). Delivered by the featured artists, the educational workshops will help develop an interest in world music, expose youth to live performance and enhance the NRT’s reputation as a meeting place for cultural exchange and sharing.
Vancouver - Virtual Stage Arts Society, The
Project: Spank!
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $10,800.00
Application Year: 2006
Virtual Stage Arts Society will research and develop a new play entitled Spank!, in which computer-generated, three-dimensional moving scenography will be integrated with a choreographed aerial performance. The play will make use of an innovative new harness rigging design.
Vancouver - Wen Wei Dance Society
Project: Workshop in Chinese Opera with William Lau
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $3,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Wen Wei Dance will work with Toronto-based dancer and Chinese opera singer William Lau. This project will enable Wen Wei to expand its artistic range to include Chinese operatic voice and movement techniques. It will also allow Wen Wei to develop strong connections with artists from across Canada whose creative work reflects aspects of their Chinese heritage.
Vancouver - Western Front Society
Project: Sonic Playground at the 2008 Vancouver Children's Festival (VICF)
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Western Front New Music, in partnership with VICF, Vancouver New Music, NOW Orchestra and Vancouver Pro Musica, will produce SONIC PLAYGROUND, an open house event where children and their families can come together with professional artists to celebrate, experiment with, and create music. The event will be part of the 2008 VICF and will allow Vancouver's key contemporary music organizations to reach out to a new, under-served family audience.
Vancouver - Western Front Society
Project: Western Front Communications Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $7,250.00
Application Year: 2005
Western Front Society will develop a strategy, programming structure and interface design for a stronger web presence, as well as online publishing capabilities. The organization will work with expert consultants in the fields of infrastructure and communications development. The goals of the project include improving the organization’s ability to communicate its mandate and activities by creating a user-friendly system to access information about events, artists and curated projects. Another goal is strengthening the role of the publications program and creating an online research site/archive of catalogues, performances and documents.
Vancouver - Western Theatre Conspiracy Arts Society
Project: Theatre Conspiracy touring consultancy
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/consultancy
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Western Theatre Conspiracy will engage arts consultant Duncan Low to bring his expertise to the creation and implementation of an in-depth touring strategy for the company. Through the consultancy, the society's board and staff will develop tools that will benefit organizational viability and stability.
Vancouver - Western Theatre Conspiracy Arts Society
Project: Club PuSh
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Western Theatre Conspiracy, in collaboration with the PuSh Festival, will curate and coordinate Club PuSh: nightly presentations of dynamic cross-disciplinary works at Performance Works during the 2009 PuSh Festival. Cabaret in style, the presentations will showcase a diverse range of artists engaging in experimental, raw, genre-bending programming that will draw both seasoned festival-goers and new audiences to this eclectic and energized social hub of the PuSh Festival.
Vanderhoof - College of New Caledonia (CNC), Nechako Campus
Project: Red and Blue Beetle Art Tour
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $8,500.00
Application Year: 2007
CNC Nechako will coordinate a tour of Red and Blue Beetle Art, an exhibition of artwork, poetry and music relating to the impact of the mountain pine beetle. Developed by a 33-member artist collective, the exhibition will travel to eight locations in B.C.’s central interior.
http://www.cnc.bc.ca/tools/events/pdfs/071114_Beetle_Art1.pdf
Vanderhoof - District of Vanderhoof
Project: Arts & Cultural Scan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The recipient will engage a consultant to draft an arts and cultural plan that will comprehensively reflect the community’s unique values and needs around culture and heritage. The city is committed to implementing the plan in guiding development of cultural and heritage practices, services and programs.
Vernon - First Nations Friendship Centre
Project: First Nations Youth Arts Foundation
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The First Nations Youth Arts Foundation project will provide local aboriginal youth aged 13 to 29 with hands-on experience and training in multi-media arts. Facilitated by artists in the Enowkin Centre’s National Aboriginal Professional Artist Training Program, the young people will participate in a 12-week program that will incorporate a combination of traditional, literary, visual and media arts. In fall 2009 the art works will be featured in a Youth Exhibition at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna.
Vernon - Regional District of North Okanagan
Project: Greater Vernon Arts & Culture Master Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Regional District of North Okanagan, in partnership with the District of Coldstream, the City of Vernon and other arts and culture organizations, will engage a consultant to develop an arts and culture master plan for the City of Vernon and the surrounding area. The plan will be developed through a consultative public process, and will help the regional district make arts and culture a more integral part of local community life.
Vernon - Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre Society
Project: Strategic Plan Initiative
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre Society will undertake a strategic plan and create a 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.
Vernon - Vernon Public Art Gallery
Project: Rumours of a House
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $9,300.00
Application Year: 2005
Rumours of a House will be an outdoor multi-media, multi-disciplinary theatrical event about the history, stories and folklore surrounding the Caetani House – a well known local heritage site. Audiences will encounter 1½ acres of sets, illustrating stories taken from the Vernon Museum and Public Art Gallery records. By engaging the community through theatre, the gallery hopes to broaden understanding and appreciation of local history.
Vernon - Vernon Public Art Gallery
Project: Riot on the Roof
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $4,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Riot on the Roof is an alternative art-focused event taking place on the top floors and roof of the Parkade located in downtown Vernon. This public event showcases musicians, video projections, spoken word artists, performance/installation art and visual art with an aim to expand the audience of the Vernon Public Art Gallery while providing a venue for emerging and alternative art forms
www.vernonpublicartgallery.com
Victoria - Belfry Theatre Society, The
Project: Ninstints
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2005
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 project involves the workshop phase of the development of Ninstints. Should Ninstints move to full production, it will require a significant increase in production requirements and will likely be presented in a larger venue than the Belfry's existing facility.
Victoria - Belfry Theatre, The
Project: Beyond Eden (formerly Ninstints, phase 3)
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 to devise and integrate the cross-cultural elements and design concepts required to rehearse and facilitate showings of the new musical.
Victoria - Belfry Theatre, The
Project: The Mini Plays
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Mini Plays are 10-minute-long site-specific plays commissioned from local independent theatre companies, featuring both emerging and established theatre artists to be presented in unconventional spaces throughout the Belfry Theatre. Mini Plays were first presented at the Belfry Theatre's 2008-09 SPARK Festival and will return for a second year in an expanded format.
Victoria - CineVic: Society of Independent Filmmakers
Project: Developing the Artist Series
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Developing the Artist is a series of workshops, screenings and hands-on seminars for Vancouver Island filmmakers. The series will enhance the aesthetic choices and technical abilities of emerging and mid-career filmmakers and media artists. By focusing on artistic capacity building, CineVic hopes to develop a more highly skilled membership and community base, and assist filmmakers from Vancouver Island to attain a greater fluency in the business of filmmaking.
Victoria - CineVic: Society of Independent Filmmakers
Project: CineVic Website Enhancement and Customization
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
Cinevic will integrate its membership management system with its new Drupal-powered website. By moving to an online membership management system Cinevic will create efficiencies by allowing artists to reserve and rent equipment online, as well as update their membership information directly.
Victoria - City of Victoria
Project: Arts and Cultural Mapping for the City of Victoria
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application year: 2009
The City of Victoria will partner with the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, with support of ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria (Victoria's professional arts umbrella group) to undertake a cultural mapping project that assesses and inventories the activities of their cultural and artistic organizations and groups. This will enable the City to determine strengths and gaps in these sectors and identify City priorities for the future.
Project: 2012-2022 City of Victoria Arts and Cultural Plan
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
Building on the information gathered during the Victoria Arts Scan Cultural Mapping Project, the City of Victoria will embark on a two-year engagement and strategic planning project which will guide the direction of the City's Parks, Recreation and Culture Department over the next 10 years. The plan will include goals, objectives, priorities, implementation strategies, action plans and budgets tied to specific priorities for the arts and culture sector in the City of Victoria.
Victoria - Dance Victoria Society (formerly Victoria Dance Series Society)
Project: Community Dance Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $15,200.00
Application Year: 2005
The DVS will undertake a large scale community dance project for presentation in Victoria's Inner Harbour over the July long weekend in 2007. The event will bring together a range of arts groups, organizations and associations, and will include live music, spectacles, performances and workshops. Leading up to this event, DVS will conduct a series of workshops and small public performances to engage audiences and build the necessary partnerships for the larger scale event.
Victoria - Dance Victoria Society
Project: Mystic Butoh
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Ventures
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Mystic Butoh is an intensive training workshop and presentation led by Vancouver-based Kokoro Dance. Dance Victoria is partnering with Kokoro Dance to invite members of Victoria's pre-professional and professional dance community to participate in a two-week intensive training program that will culminate in a performance on Mystic Beach near Jordan River on Vancouver Island. The presentation will offer audiences a new experience - seeing dance performed in an outdoor venue. The project is also an important component of Dance Victoria's plan to develop a choreographic centre in Victoria.
Victoria - Dance Victoria Society
Project: Dance Days
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: New Activity
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Dance Days is a 15-day community-wide event in Victoria that features main stage and second stage performances, open rehearsals, free classes, workshops, a forum with visiting dance presenters, a lecture demonstration and more. This project involves community engagement activities that will move the audience into the studio where they will witness dance in development or participate directly in dance activity.
Victoria - First People's Cultural Foundation
Project: Ist Annual Indigenous Arts Summerfest
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $9,450.00
Application Year: 2005
FPCF proposes a new Aboriginal interdisciplinary festival that: features culturally diverse practices; promotes awareness of the interconnectedness of Aboriginal art, culture and language; and provides new opportunities for Aboriginal artists to showcase their work. To be held in June 2005, the festival will feature indigenous art works from across BC, with visiting artists from across North America and other indigenous peoples.
Victoria - Intrepid Theatre Company Society
Project: Metro Studio Audience and Market Development Strategy
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $18,750.00
Application Year: 2005
Intrepid Theatre has worked with the Victoria Conservatory of Music to create and launch a much-needed venue for independent live performance in downtown Victoria. The Metro Studio will open officially in 2006. Intrepid Theatre will develop a strategic marketing and communications plan in support of the venue's launch and ongoing programming. The implementation of the plan will lead to increased awareness and use of the facility by audiences and potential renters, and will ensure that the venue maintains a high profile throughout their forthcoming capital campaign.
Victoria - Intrepid Theatre Company Society
Project: Intrepid Theatre Signature Fundraising Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $2,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Consultants from Shine*ola Communications will work with the Intrepid Theatre Company Society to develop a plan for an annual, signature fundraising event. The comprehensive plan will articulate the roles of board, staff and volunteers, and outline sponsorship needs and overall event requirements. A communications plan for the event will also be developed to include promotional activities, donor and sponsor materials.
Victoria - Intrepid Theatre Company Society
Project: Uno Fest: Canada's Singular Live Theatre Event (13th Annual)
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Uno Fest: Canada's Singular Live Theatre Event is an annual, international theatre festival in Victoria, B.C. Uno is an event with national profile that has been an important professional launching pad for many emerging artists and for premieres of new work by established artists. It is also a rare opportunity for Victoria audiences and young local artists to see professional alternative theatre and dance from across Canada and around the world.
Victoria - Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions Society
Project: Koffee Haus - Youth On Stage
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $3,750.00
Application Year: 2005
Koffee Haus will feature performance works created, rehearsed and produced by youth (ages 13-18), to be showcased at a monthly cabaret-style coffee house. Youth will also be involved in the planning and organization of the monthly event, providing opportunities for growth and education.
Victoria - Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions Society
Project: E-Communications
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $1,000.00
Application Year: 2009
Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions will enhance their existing website in order to reach out to their young constituency. The reconstruction of the site will involve implementing a content management system to make updating and future expansion easy for staff to carry out. Kaleidoscope will interact with their constituency using blogs and will set up online registration, online donations and fundraising opportunities.
Victoria - Puente Theatre Society
Project: Storytelling Our Lives on Four
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Puente Theatre Society is committed to creating theatrical experiences as a way to bridge cultural understanding. Storytelling Our Lives is a community-based play that gives shape to the real experiences of immigrant women. Puente will offer the play to seven cities in BC whose populations are served by immigrant service organizations, allowing the voices of women from diverse regions to become part of the play.
Victoria - Royal & McPherson Theatres Society (RMTS), The
Project: The Victoria International Arts Symposium
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2006
The Society, 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. It is intended to inspire, educate, increase public awareness and stimulate dialogue. The symposium will be held at the McPherson Playhouse and Royal Theatre, Victoria Conference Centre and other locations, from October 27–30, 2006. It be the first of its kind for Victoria, and is expected to lay the groundwork for future large-scale, collaborative projects.
Victoria - Story Theatre Company, The
Project: CD Rom Resource Guide
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $5,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 bullying.
Victoria - Theatre SKAM Association
Project: My Memory's Not So Good
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Activity at Risk
Awarded: $2,600.00
Application Year: 2009
My Memory's Not So Good will see Theatre SKAM artists build relationships with the residents of two seniors care facilities to create a resource library of audio and video files. Archived content will form core source material and the live media components will be subsequently integrated into the finished play.
Victoria - Vancouver Island Consortium of Indigenous Arts Society (VICIA)
Project: Kwak'wala Tales
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Creative Explorations
Awarded: $25,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Kwak'wala Tales is a partnership project between three Aboriginal arts/culture organizations and ten artists. The intent of the project is to create a multi-disciplinary collaboration among Kwakwaka'wakw artists and fluent speakers of the Kwakwaka'wakw language to create new artistic works based on the traditional tales and legends of the Kwakwaka'wakw.
Victoria - Victoria Conservatory of Music
Project: (Independent) School Formation Feasibility Study - Julliard of the West
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 to 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 and readiness.
Victoria - Victoria Conservatory of Music
Project: Data Analysis and Market Research Survey
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Victoria Conservatory of Music (VCM) will hire consultants Malatest and Associates to analyze and interpret current customer data and conduct a market research survey amongst their customer base. This will help the VCM attain a clearer understanding of their customer base in order to refine a strategy for marketing and business development with a goal to being more sustainable.
Victoria - Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
Project: Flash Frame Festival
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $10,500.00
Application Year: 2005
Flash Frame is a three-day festival for youth aged 7-16 that will expand their understanding of media arts. The purpose of the festival is to expand young people's access to, and understanding of, films that project and strengthen the Canadian identity by reinforcing multicultural and diverse perspectives. The project will allow the festival to expand to new markets and audiences.
Victoria - Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival
Project: JumpCuts: A Festival for Young Filmmakers
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $8,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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. The second festival builds on the success of the first, held in 2005.
Victoria - Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival
Project: Audience Innovation and Outreach Project
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2009
The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival will increase its outreach by making the festival more relevant and accessible to a wider audience by using innovative technologies. As a marketing tool, and in order to circulate content, the Festival will implement the targeted distribution of USB flash drives for the program launch. The flash drives will contain the festival program, film trailers and specially commissioned films.
Victoria - Victoria Symphony
Project: Arts Legacies Guide
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/markets
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2007
Victoria Symphony, in partnership with the Art Gallery of Victoria, Belfry Theatre, Pacific Opera Victoria and Victoria Conservatory of Music, will create the Arts Legacies Guide. The guide and companion website will be part of an awareness and capacity-building campaign specifically targeted to an audience of key decision makers. The comprehensive guide will be distributed to wills and estates lawyers, financial advisors and other planned giving professionals to use as a resource for advising their clients on gifts for arts organizations on Vancouver Island.
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West Vancouver - Blackbird Theatrical Society
Project: The Peer Gynt Project
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $11,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Blackbird Theatrical Society, a new Vancouver-based organization, was created to address the current gap in the presentation of classic drama on 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.
West Vancouver - Corporation of the District of West Vancouver Cultural Services
Project: The WinterSong Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $15,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The WinterSong Festival is a new annual vocal music festival in West Vancouver that will include singing of choral music, musical theatre, jazz, opera, pop and ethnic repertoires. The festival will engage professional and emerging artists at various locations throughout the community. This is the first of what is intended to be an annual festival, and is part of the municipality's commitment to enhance the availability of arts and cultural opportunities for the local community.
West Vancouver - Spo7ez Cultural Centre and Community Society
Project: Squamish and Lil'wat Nation Traditional Weaving Exchange Program
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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.
West Vancouver - West Vancouver Museum and Archives
Project: Destination Sea Walk
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $13,400.00
Application Year: 2005
The WVMA, in partnership with the West Vancouver Parks Department, will sponsor Destination Sea Walk, a series of six panels located in historic/environmental sites that will both educate and entertain community members and visitors to the area. The project is part of the museum’s desire to create a "museum without walls" – showing the relationships between the museum, citizens of West Vancouver, local histories and the environment.
Whistler - Vancouver Summer Festival Society
Project: Festival Vancouver at Whistler
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Festival Vancouver at Whistler is a new, public music festival featuring concerts of classical music, world music and jazz by professional artists in Whistler. In collaboration with the Whistler Arts Council, the festival will extend the programming scope of Festival Vancouver, while introducing a new and unique summer festival to Whistler.
Whistler - Vicious Circle (Whistler Writers Group), The
Project: Writers' Studio and Retreat
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $7,458.00
Application Year: 2005
The Vicious Circle, in partnership with Simon Fraser University, Tourism Whistler, the Whistler Arts Council and the Municipality of Whistler, will run a week-long pilot Writer’s Residency Program that will match 18 emerging writers with four professional writers/instructors.
Whistler - Vicious Circle (Whistler's Writers Collective), The
Project: Whistler Writers Festival and Retreat 2006
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Audience/Markets
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
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 second annual four-day Writers Residency Program in Whistler. This program matches 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.
Whistler - Whistler Arts Council
Project: Partnership and Communications Plan
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Mentorship/Consultancy
Awarded: $12,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Whistler Arts Council will engage a mentor to develop a comprehensive partnership and communications plan incorporating a performance series, two annual festivals, four special events and several programs for the community. The plan will also connect to other events/festivals, produced by Tourism Whistler, the municipal government and third-party producers, that use WAC’s services to include local/regional artists in programming.
Whistler - Whistler Arts Council
Project: Regional Economic Impact Study of Arts, Culture and Heritage in the Sea-to-Sky Corridor
Program:Creative Communities
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Awarded: $20,000.00
Application Year: 2008
Whistler Arts Council in partnership with the Resort Municipality of Whistler will undertake a Regional Economic Impact Study of Arts, Culture and Heritage in the Sea-to-Sky Corridor. The study will identify the economic benefits of arts, culture and heritage activities in the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, from Lions Bay to Mt. Currie, and recommend strategies for enhancing these benefits. The study will include surveys, interviews, analysis, workshops and input from a regional steering committee comprised of representatives from participating communities.
Whistler - Whistler Arts Council
Project: Synergies for Success: A Functional Review of Whistler Arts Organizations and Facilities
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Consultancies
Awarded: $10,000.00
Application Year: 2008
The Whistler Arts Council and Maurice Young Millennium Place Society will engage Professional Environmental Recreation Consultants (P.E.R.C.) to undertake a functional review of their respective organizations to determine how they might co-exist within a shared community facility. The resulting strategy will enable the two organizations to move forward with shared organizational efficiencies to better serve the community's cultural sector.
Whistler - Whistler Film Festival Society
Project: Whistler Stories
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $6,000.00
Application Year: 2006
Whistler Stories is the second year of a project 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.
Whistler - Whistler Museum and Archives
Project: Heritage Needs Assessment
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Artistic/Organisational
Awarded: $22,000.00
Application Year: 2005
The Whistler Museum and Archives is the only heritage organization located in the resort municipality that is dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of local histories. The museum is currently working with the Resort Municipality of Whistler to review the heritage preservation needs of the region and to develop a plan for the expansion and implementation of a sustainable museum operation. The project will allow the museum to review its current operations and programs in order to assess needs and gaps, as a way to develop a cohesive operational plan that contributes to its long-term viability.
Whistler - Whistler Theatre Project
Project: Whistler Theatre Project Summer Arts Festival
Program:Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $25,000.00
Application Year: 2005
Whistler Theatre Project will establish an annual Summer Theatre Festival in the Resort Municipality of Whislter. The inaugural, five-week production commences in August 2006, and will be presented under the canopy of an open-backed tent on Blackcomb Mountain. The festival is also designed to provide a theatre training program for youth and emerging artists.
www.whistlertheatreproject.com
Whistler - Whistler Writers Group (Vicious Circle)
Project: The Vicious Circle Adds New Media Layer
Program:Catalyst
Program sub-category: Website Development
Awarded: $2,500.00
Application Year: 2009
The Vicious Circle will add a new media layer, including webcasts, to their existing website. This visual calling card will help expand their reach outside the Sea-to-Sky Corridor and add an innovative marketing tool to increase their audience capacity.
White Rock - City of White Rock
Project: Cultural Mapping Project for the City of White Rock
Program:Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Mapping
Application Year: 2010
In partnership with the Community Arts Council of White Rock and District, the City of White Rock will develop a cultural map as the first step towards creating a cultural plan. The cultural map will include mapping and documenting cultural assets, assessing strengths and weaknesses of the arts community and identifying priorities.
Williams Lake, Cariboo Regional District Areas D, E, F - Cariboo Regional District
Project: Central Cariboo Cultural Planning and Implementation Strategy
Program: Creative Communities
Awarded: $10,000
Program sub-category: Cultural Planning
Application Year: 2010
This detailed planning project is the second stage of the central Cariboo arts and culture development initiative. It draws on previous work in cultural mapping and operational design. The planning project will lay the groundwork for direct support and growth of the sector in this large, urban and rural region.
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