The latest news on BC's arts, culture and heritage sector.

BIPOC Chat n Chew: Working With Sound, Video and Media Artists

BIPOC Chat n Chew: Working With Sound, Video and Media Artists

The Alliance invites you to join CultureBrew.Art and Visceral Visions for the March edition of their Monthly BIPOC Chat and Chew series: Working with Sound, Video and Media Artists

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CARFAC National: Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts Workshop Series 2023

CARFAC National: Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts Workshop Series 2023

CARFAC is excited to announce the release of INDIGENOUS PROTOCOLS dot ART – an essential resource for navigating Indigenous Protocols for visual artists and the artistic community. It is part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen respect for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis visual art and artists, and legal and moral rights in the lands commonly known as Canada.

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Vines Art Society Introduces a Symposium on Strengthening Artist Relations

Vines Art Society Introduces a Symposium on Strengthening Artist Relations


The ecosystems Symposium is an introduction to a multi-pronged approach to strengthening artist relations. Each day of the symposium will focus on one of the three pillars of ecosystems: Artist Care, Advocacy and Repair, and Wise Practices. For three days we’ll join in learning and listening from knowledge holders with living and professional experience; we'll share meals, participate in ceremony, and witness art. On the fourth day we will be hosting a community market and show.

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Announcing Our Collaboration With The Bandish Network

This week, we'd like to announce a new collaboration between the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture and The Bandish Network. The Bandish Network provides industry support, engagement, representation and advocacy for the pan-Indus Valley community of presenters, artists, cultural workers and organizations.

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Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing is Unveiled in Vancouver

Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing is Unveiled in Vancouver

The City of Vancouver Public Art Program is unveiling four Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing projects this month. The first two to be presented are Coming Home To by Robin Roberts and Eagle Woman by Shain Niniwem Selapem Jackson.

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BC Culture Days Registration Is Open!

BC Culture Days Registration Is Open!

The 14th annual Culture Days will run for three weeks this year from September 22 to October 15, 2023! 

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BC Culture Days Announces its 2023 Ambassadors

BC Culture Days Announces its 2023 Ambassadors

BC Culture Days is pleased to announce the ten emerging artists selected as spokespeople for this year's BC Culture Days. 

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Spring Arts Gathering for Artists and Arts Administrators

Spring Arts Gathering for Artists and Arts Administrators

Who is this gathering for: Artists, arts administrators, arts supporters and anyone else who wants to join in on the discussion!

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GVPTA Introduces New Platform for Theatre Performers, Designers, and Production Professionals

GVPTA Introduces New Platform for Theatre Performers, Designers, and Production Professionals

This week, the GVPTA has introduced Hello, a program that offers a platform for theatre performers, designers, and production professionals to get on the radar of local theatre hiring personnel. Applications are now open.

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The Vancouver Art Gallery Launches 'Free First Friday Nights'

 The Vancouver Art Gallery Launches 'Free First Friday Nights'

This Spring, through a new partnership with BMO, the Vancouver Art Gallery will be offering free admission to the public on the first Friday of every month, from 4pm to 8pm. These Free First Friday Nights, will provide visitors with increased access to the Gallery, opening and expanding the world of art to a broader audience, including those who may otherwise not be able to afford the cost of admission.

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Open Call for the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival

Open Call for the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival

Applications for the 2023 Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival are now open.

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Self Care and Zine Workshops Available for Youths

Self Care and Zine Workshops Available for Youths

What is self-care? While this term is sometimes thrown around, the Kamloops Art Gallery wants to delve a little deeper to add some nuance to how we care for ourselves, as well as each other.

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The Louise Bentall Award for Emerging British Columbia Choreographers

The Louise Bentall Award for Emerging British Columbia Choreographers

The Hawthorne Foundation and DanceHouse are pleased to announce the Louise Bentall Award for Emerging British Columbia Choreographers. The $10,000 biennial Award will financially support an emerging choreographer to research, develop, or produce new work.

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Paid Residency Opportunity with Dance Collection Danse

Paid Residency Opportunity with Dance Collection Danse

Have you ever considered using history and archival sources as part of your choreographic process?

Dance Collection Danse's Artist Researcher-in-Residence opportunity will provide the artist with research support from DCD staff.

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Woodhaven Artist in Residence Program

Woodhaven Artist in Residence Program

The FCCS Woodhaven Artist in Residence Program provides a paid residency opportunity for a diverse variety of visiting artists including writers, visual artists, digital media artists and performance artists. Artists will stay between 4 – 8 weeks at our Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre in the summer months.

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Culture Days Call for Ambassadors

Culture Days Call for Ambassadors

BC Culture Days is seeking applications from emerging artists of all mediums.

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Nominations are open for the Salt Spring National Art Prize

Nominations are open for the Salt Spring National Art Prize

Since 2015, the Salt Spring National Art Prize has recognized and elevated contemporary

Canadian visual artists. The 5th biennial prize offers $50,000 in total awards, including a separate

$6,000 residency on Salt Spring Island, BC. 

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Opening: The Willful Plot at Belkin Art Gallery

Opening: The Willful Plot at Belkin Art Gallery

The exhibition brings together artists' practices to expand the notion of the garden as a site of tension between wild and cultivated, temporal and perpetual, public and private, sovereign and colonized.

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Toque Craft Fair and Fundraiser by Western Front!

Are you looking for an arty Christmas gift?

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Griffin Art Projects North Shore Studio Art Residency Award

Griffin Art Projects is committed to recognizing the achievements of the local arts community by supporting the work of artists living on the North Shore.

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