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

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ARABELLA, the leading Canadian consumer art magazine, as part of a joint venture agreement with Occasions Network Exchange Inc. is launching a major art contest and social media site to examine the emotional power of contemporary landscape art in shaping Canadian identity with a full sense of the past, present and future. 

A new conference aimed to stimulate British Columbia’s creative economy through collaboration between government, business, the creative sector and researchers will be held at Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus May 10-12, 2012.

BCreative 2012 will feature keynote addresses from prominent creative leaders from around the globe, including the co-author of two UN Creative Economy reports Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg, one of the big three Creative Cities thinkers Charles Landry, and Canada Council CEO Robert Sirman.

The City of Vancouver is pleased to announce a partnership with Vantage Point to offer creative learning opportunities for leaders in the non-profit community. The departments of Cultural Services and Social Policy have teamed up to provide full bursaries for existing grant recipients as well as primary tenants of City-owned or controlled spaces.

Alliance Member Advantage Program Spotlight: At Clubcard the mission is to provide you with printing, graphic and web design services at a fair price with friendly advice and support.

Clubcard is a company that was founded by graphic artists in Vancouver 18 years ago and they are trusted by artists and small business owners across North America to print their projects with brilliant colours, true to life photographs and precise, crisp and clean graphics.

Actsafe  still has some available seats for their May 7 Performing Arts Supervisor Safety course, cover such issues as:

Applications are now being accepted by the City of Vancouver for 2012 Cultural Infrastucture Grants, covering financial support for costs related to planning, feasibility assessments, acquisition, renovation and development of cultural spaces.

The deadline for applications is 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 4.

Eligible organizations are encouraged to submit an application to the 2012 Cultural Infrastructure Grant Program. Planning, minor capital and major capital projects are eligible.

When a "ghost sign" from 1922 reappeared at Granville and Robson last week, pointing eager filmgoers round the corner to catch Harold Lloyd’s smash hit comedy Grandma’s Boy, well, the folks at the Vancouver International Film Festival thought thought they'd better pay attention.

After all, silent movies are all the rage again, judging by the Oscar triumphs forThe Artist and Hugo.

100.5 The PEAK and Music BC have announced that applications are now open for The fourth annual PEAK Performance Project.

Nominations may be submitted at peakperformanceproject.com

Over two million dollars has already been invested into the BC music community by the project and, now in their fourth year, another $320,000 will be awarded to British Columbia artists to support the province’s burgeoning music scene.

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012, Vancouver City Council voted to establish a new Arts and Culture Advisory Committee of up to 13 arts and cultural community representatives.  

The council members will be appointed to provide a new voice for Vancouver’s creative community and will advise Council and staff on all civic programs that relate to arts and culture, to identify issues, and support public outreach and awareness.

Read the report to City Council

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.

To commemorate the 30^th Anniversary of the Firehall Arts Centre and to close out Theatre Cares Week 2012, the Firehall and Theatre Cares are hosting Flirty 30! 80s Party, Saturday, February 25^th at the Firehall Arts Centre. 

The Flirty 30! 80s Party: Benefit for Firehall Arts Centre and Theatre Cares Vancouver takes place February 25, 2012, 10 p.m. at the Firehall Arts Centre following that evening's performance of Chelsea Hotel. 

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"The BC government is making a long-term commitment to keep our province dead last in per-capita arts funding" said Alliance for Arts and Culture executive director Rob Gloor in response to today's budget announcement.

"BC trails every other province in per capita funding of the arts," said Mr. Gloor,  "and the current budget, which projects a multi-year freeze in arts funding,  is a promise to remain last in Canada."

Budget details reveal frozen funding for arts and culture over the next three years, in spite of overall budget increases.

This Key Event Calendar, compiled by your Alliance for Arts and Culture, lists upcoming events in Vancouver through 2012. The list is designed to be a helpful guide to event planners, who will find the roster helpful in avoiding scheduling conflicts. 

The list includes major cultural dates, opening nights, festivals, gala fundraisers and significant MetroVancouver community events and activities.