Interesting facts from the British Columbia Coalition for Arts, Culture and Heritage
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BC’s Coalition for Arts, Culture and Heritage shares some statistics about the impact of the sector on BC’s economy and wellbeing.
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The latest news on BC's arts, culture and heritage sector.
Announcing Arts on Prescription Pilot Project
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The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is undertaking a multi-year community engaged research project in collaboration with partners across the province. The project explores the benefits of prescribing arts and culture experiences to enhance people’s health and wellness. This idea is also known as “social prescribing”.
Read MoreFill out the B.C. Arts, Culture, & Heritage Sector Insights Survey
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Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance GVPTA encourages arts, culture, and heritage workers, artists, and organizations from all disciplines across British Columbia to complete the B.C. Arts, Culture, & Heritage Sector Insights Survey to help them better understand, advocate, and inform government, funders, and stakeholders on the current state of the sector.
Read MoreNew Report on Understanding the Needs of Performance Creation Spaces
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Determined to draw long-term solutions out of ongoing adversity, C-Space recently released a report titled BACKSTAGE SPACES: Progress Lab 1422 and the Future of Performance Creation Spaces.
Read MoreReporting Back: Community Feedback on BC Arts Council 2022 Operating Assistance Application
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Based on anecdotal input from members of B.C.’s arts and culture community, GVPTA, in collaboration with a group of B.C. arts service organizations (Arts BC, BC Alliance for Arts + Culture, BC Museums Association, BC Touring Council, CADA/West, Craft Council of BC, Le Conseil culturel et artistique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, and Heritage BC), developed and disseminated a survey in October 2022 to better understand and identify common experiences with the BC Arts Council’s Operating Assistance grant program with the September 15, 2022 application deadline.
Read MoreStatistics Canada releases data on volunteer recruitment and retention challenges
/New data shows that the majority of organizations in the nonprofit sector are facing challenges related to volunteerism.
Read MoreCanada Art Council: Annual Report
/The report illustrates the impact of the Council’s investments and leadership in helping to rebuild the arts sector.
Read MoreTake the CMC BC Survey for a Chance to Win
/The Canadian Music Centre BC is asking people to fill out their survey in order to gain insights into the community and in an effort to seek better engagement in the future.
Read MoreCall for community feedback: Survey on BC Arts Council 2022 Operating Assistance Application
/A survey is being conducted to understand the experiences of B.C.’s arts community with the recent BC Arts Council Operating Assistance grand program and its September 15 application deadline.
Read MoreContribute to artist-in-residence Lucie Chan’s research during the month of August
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Oxygen Art Centre is thrilled to announce visual artist, Lucie Chan as artist-in-residence for the month of August. Chan was born in Guyana, and currently resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations otherwise known as Vancouver, BC where she maintains a multi-disciplinary visual art practice and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Read MoreGovernment of Canada publishes findings from the Canadian Artists and Content Creators Economic Survey (CACCES)
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The Government of Canada has published the findings from the Canadian Artists and Content Creators Economic Survey (CACCES).
Read MoreInvitation to Artists to participate in a survey about the Concentration of Artists in Urban Centres
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The City of Vancouver/Cultural Services is collaborating with municipal funders in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal in an effort to understand better the factors that impact where artists live and work.
Read MoreLast chance to register for Speaker Series: Strategies for re-engaging and reconnecting in the arts
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Join the Business/Arts Speaker Series, as they turn their attention to those who remain reluctant to return to the arts, and consider meaningful strategies for engaging these audiences.
Read MoreDiversity On Screen Audit Report of Canadian Broadcasters 2022
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The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF), Racial Equity Screen Office (RESO) and Elimin8Hate jointly released its Diversity On Screen Audit Report of Canadian Broadcasters 2022, which specifically reviews Asian representation on four national broadcasters – CBC, Citytv, CTV, Global TV–and one provincial broadcaster, Knowledge Network.
Read MoreGranting programs available in BC for projects at the intersection of arts and technology
/The deadline is approaching for the Interactive Fund, one of the only granting programs available in BC for projects at the intersection of arts and technology.
Read MoreHill Strategies Arts Research Monitor Highlights Pandemic Recovery
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Hill Strategies’ Arts Research Monitor gathers four recent articles that offer interesting perspectives and visions of the role of artists and the arts in a post-pandemic future where the goal is to “build back better”.
Read MoreHill Strategies on Precarity of Women in Arts
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Hill Strategies Research has released a new blog highlighting reports that women who work as artists and cultural workers encounter specific forms of precarity in the Canadian cultural sector.
Read MoreGVPTA Releases Fall 2021 COVID-19 B.C. Arts & Culture Sector Impact Report
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GVPTA has released its Fall 2021 COVID-19 B.C. Arts & Culture Sector Impact Report, based on survey responses collected from artists, arts workers, and arts, culture, and heritage organizations across British Columbia in November.
Read MoreHill Strategies Releases New Report on Public Engagement in the Arts
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With the goal of enhancing the arts sector’s understanding of engagement behaviours and trends, this SIA Brief analyzes several Canadian information sources related to public engagement and spending in the arts.
Read MoreHill Strategies Releases Research on Anti-Black Racism in the Arts
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The latest issue of Hill Strategies’ Arts Research Monitor tackles equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization — specifically, the signs and effects of anti-Black racism in the arts.
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