The Alliance for Arts & Culture's Artists' Legal Outreach program and the Open Education Conference present:

remix, vancouver

a creative copyright conversation CCC

Vancouver's premier tourism and hospitality networking group, Vancouver AM Tourism Association, will hold their next fortnightly breakfast event in conjunction with the Alliance for Arts and Culture's Arts Summit 2011.

Breakfast will be served at 7 a.m. on Friday, June 10 at the newly opened W2 Media Cafe in the Woodward's Atrium, adjacent to the Summit venue SFU Woodward's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

City of Vancouver Cultural Services invites you to learn more about the Cultural Spaces Infrastructure Grant and Regulatory Reviews at an information session on Wednesday, June 8 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Multipurpose Room # 4 in the Creekside Community Centre (1 Athlete’s Way).

City staff will be on hand to answer your questions and discuss the goals of the grant program, your eligibility and how to apply.

Brief updates on the Live Performance and Artist Studio Regulatory Reviews will also be presented.

Artspoints, a Vancovuer-based arts and culture loyalty program, is offering a webinar for arts groups on May 17, "Webinar for Arts Groups - Markeitng Your Empty Seats and Generating Revenue with Artspoints Rewards".

How can Artspoints Rewards play a role in filling your empty seats and generating additional revenue for your arts organization?

Join the next Artspoints webinar on May 17, 2011 at 11 a.m. and find out.

During the Thursday, May 12 performance of Hairspray at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, actor Jay Brazeau experienced a minor stroke and the performance was cancelled.

He is expected to fully recover and return to the run at a later date.

The Arts Club Theatre Company is currently rehearsing Jay's understudy and performances will continue tomorrow evening.

The entire arts community and appreciative audiences join in wishing Jay a speedy recovery and look forward to his return.

Gateway Theatre Artistic & Executive Director Simon Johnston has announced his resignation, effective April 2012. Mr. Johnston has been at the helm of Richmond’s only professional theatre company since January 2000.

Johnston will leave Gateway to pursue other artistic projects.

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve services to the arts and culture sector, we have engaged the United Community Services Co-op to assist us through a strategic planning process.

Here is a link to a short online survey that will help us in our endeavours. We would appreciate your candid feedback.

It has been a very busy year so far for our Alliance and in case you’ve missed anything, or want to know what we are up to, you may find this update useful.  We have seen the appointment of a new Premier of our province, a Federal election called, and some changes and a review of gaming funds underway.  We can also look forward to an HST referendum, a Municipal election and possibly a provincial election.  We also have a by-election in which our Premier is running for a seat.

More than 70 national, provincial and municipal cultural organizations from across Canada have signed a common electoral platform in the context of the 2011 federal election, in which they ask federal parties to make commitments concerning Canadian arts, culture and heritage.

I think dance celebrates what makes us human.

When we dance we use, in a very natural way, the mechanics of our body and all our senses to express joy, sadness, the things we care about.

People have always danced to celebrate the crucial moments of life and our bodies carry the memory of all the possible human experiences.

We can dance alone and we can dance together. We can share what makes us the same, what makes us different from each other.

For the greater part of the history of mankind, dance took place outdoors. People would gather in forest glades, village squares, churchyards, or on threshing floors, to enjoy dancing for hours on end. Nowadays, dance mostly takes place in ballrooms, clubs, theatres, school halls, studios and discotheques.