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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.
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 - 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.
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.
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.
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 creationProgram: 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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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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.
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 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 - 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.
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.
Mission - Ecole Mission Central
Project: Aboriginal Artwork Project
Program: Innovations
Program sub-category: Community Initiatives
Awarded: $3,250.00
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.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
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.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.