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

remix, vancouver

a creative copyright conversation CCC

CHRC has announced the release of “Production Accounting 101” - resources for purchases by trainers who want to offer workshops or in depth courses on production accounting in the film and television industry.

These resources can be directed to accountants wanting to get into the film and television industry and to those already in the industry who want to get to the heart of it through accounting.

One of India’s premier screenwriters, Anjum Rajabali, has begun a residency at Simon Fraser University’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters through to February 23, 2012.

During that period, Rajabali will conduct a five-day intensive scriptwriting workshop on the state of Indian cinema and introduce his own film, Raajneeti.

Recovering at home from a recent heart attack, PuSh Festival executive director Norman Armour has reached out with a message to the community, to be found on the PuSh website.

If you are a Vancouver based, nonprofit organization with an arts and culture mandate, you are eligible to rent for FREE the CBC's community spaces: Studio 700 and the Outdoor Stage - located at 700 Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver. Studio 700 is 2,700 sq. ft. with a 12' X 16' stage and suitable for rehearsals, performances, workshops and fundraisers; capacity is 150 people .

The Outdoor Stage can accommodate audiences up to 200 people.

The Downtown Vancouver Association continues its 2012 Conversations with Council Series, with a morning featuring Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr on Thursday, June 14 at the UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.

Join them in this opportunity to engage with Councillors and to discuss matters that are of importance in the city, including questions around arts, culture and civic heritage.

Artists’ Legal Outreach and Charity Central will present a workshop, "Road To Accountability", examining issues around what the board of a charity is accountable for and to whom.

The workshop will take place March 5 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the board room of the Alliance for Arts and Culture.

Community Gaming Grants officials have confirmed that the first phase of processing Special Intake grants is now completed.  Groups in the Restored Funding Category (which were automatically processed based on their existing 2011 applications) will have their grants deposited within the next week.  

Over 300 groups will receive $3.23 Million in this category.

The City of Vancouver is conducting an online survey to get a sense of what services, including the Cultural Services branch, are most important, or not important at all, to citizens. This is an opportunity to let City management and Council know how important to us both Cultural and all City services are to us as individuals and organizations.

The survey can be found here. 

Registration is now open for the 2012 Celebrate the Arts – Celebrate Volunteerism Conference. The conference takes place Saturday, February 18th and participants will connect with like-minded arts volunteers, listen to local artists share about their craft with the theme of “Passion, Actipon, Impact: The Arts and Social Change.

Quantum Accounting has announced the launch of their new Arts Administration Services, available to Alliance members at a 20 percent discount as part of our Members’ Advantage Program.

Quantum also announced the addition of arts management specialist Cheryl Hurd to their team, bringing over 17 years of experience in special events, arts administration, program management, and human resources to the new Arts Administration Services initiative.

The new services at Quantum include:

Evelyn Lau, the City of Vancouver’s third Poet Laureate, invites emerging poets to apply for a free one-to-one manuscript consultation at VPL’s iconic Central Library.

"I look forward to meeting with poets - aspiring or published - to discuss their submitted work and answer questions about the editing and publishing processes,” said Ms. Lau. “I am happy to offer editorial and publication guidance and provide insights into the writing life.”

This week’s announcement that last year’s top-up of $15 million for gaming grants for social profit community groups will be repeated in the current fiscal year and, in Premier Christy Clark’s words, be “baked in the budget” for the next three fiscal years received some mixed reviews across the social profit sector.

However, the Alliance for Arts and Culture is seeing the announcement as a positive development, opening the door to further progress.

The SFU sponsored Philosophers' Café will tackle the questions “does art matter?” and “if so, how much, and what would our world be like without it?”

The discussion will take place Tuesday, February 7at 7:30 p.m. at Byng Arts Mini-School (3939 West 16^th Avenue.

The conversation moderator will be Pnina Granirer is an artist and co-founder of Artists in our Midst Open Studios. Her work has been documented in print and film. It has also been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.