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

remix, vancouver

a creative copyright conversation CCC

Canada's Business for the Arts is pleased to invite you to a very special local Vancouver occasion to celebrate and honour Mo Dhaliwal, our own recipient of the very prestigious national Arnold Edinborough Prize.  The Arnold Edinborough Prize recognizes outstanding volunteerism in the arts by a Canadian business professional.  Mo was nominated by the Museum of Vancouver for his collaboration (with the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Society) on its groundbreaking exhibition, Bhangra.me, which won the Canadian Museum Association's 2012 Award of Excellence.

Are you an artist working in film/video? Are you or your collaborators working with samples, video clips, and/or making parody works or mash-ups?  If you are, you should ask yourself whether what you are doing is legal. 

Changes to the Copyright Act have finally arrived in Canada. Come to this lunchtime session where we will demystify copyright and copyright changes that could affect your work and artistic practice.

The Alliance for Arts and Culture is pleased to welcome fellow arts organization Music BC, the newest co-tenant at #100-938 Howe Street. 

Moving is a hectic time, so please note that Music BC's communications will be limited until Monday, September 10, when they are fully installed in their new office.

If you wish to mail or drop off MITAP Applications during the closure, please do so at the new address.

http://www.musicbc.org/

There are only three weeks left until Culture Days 2012, and momentum is building! The Culture Days movement has been steadily growing in British Columbia, with over 250 activities registered in 46 municipalities to date, and more are being added every day.

You and a guest are invited to join Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver City Council in honouring the recipients of the 2012 Mayor’s Arts Awards.

Thursday, September 20 at 6 p.m
Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie and Pacific)     

Thanks to the generous support of Founding Visionary Partner, Sun Life Financial, free Bright Spots Venue IDs, Culture Days buttons and postcards will be available to all Culture Days activity organizers starting September 10th!

An event is being held to honour Rae Ackerman upon his retirement after 22 years at Vancouver Civic Theatres for his dedication and service to the arts community. 

Friday, September 21 at 5 p.m.
Orpheum Annex - 823 Seymour Street 
An informal cocktail reception filled with fun, laughter, stories and music.
$30 per person 
(includes a contribution to Rae's gift, a welcoming beverage and delicious hors d'oeuvres from the Lazy Gourmet) 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 15, 2012, Vancouver, BC. The extensive collection of props belonging to the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, which have been locked away since the company ceased operations earlier this year, will once again see the light of day on local stages.

The Renegade Arts Society is very pleased to announce that it has been granted custodianship of the large and invaluable collection that had been amassed over the Playhouse’s 49 years and includes props from literally thousands of plays and musicals.

This month PAL Vancouver and PAL Studio Theatre welcomed new Theatre Manager, Melanie Wickes. Melanie worked most recently with the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company and the Vancouver International Wine Festival. She looks forward to working with local companies, artists and PAL residents and supporters at such a unique and versatile space.

With less than 5 weeks until the third annual Culture Days event, now is a great time to start planning your weekend.

If you are like many who have registered their Culture Days activities and are now planning your promotional strategies, consider working collaboratively with others in your immediate vicinity (block, neighbourhood, building, etc.) and create a Culture Days hub.

The City of Vancouver is seeking Proposals from Proponents interested in leasing City-owned industrial spaces that Proponents would convert and operate as multiple, affordable, accessible artist studios and production spaces.

The City's preference is to support Proposals led by Vancouver-based non-profit arts and cultural organizations. For-profit organizations, artist collectives, or individuals interested in submitting a proposal are strongly encouraged to partner with a Vancouver-based arts and cultural non-profit organization.

The University of British Columbia’s new international Centre for Cultural Planning and Development is pleased to announce the launch of the UBC Certificate in Cultural Planning – a 100% online learning program authored and taught by senior practitioners from around the globe. Courses are 8-10 weeks in length and can be taken individually for professional development purposes. Beginning in 2013, 6 courses can also  be combined to earn the Certificate.

Three online courses are offered in the fall of 2012:

The Vancouver Sun is introducing a new series of op-eds with cultural themes starting in September, and is issuing an invitation for submissions from the community.

This comes as part of a larger restructuring of the Arts and Life sections in the Vancouver Sun, which will bring some valuable new perspectives to our pages.

In this issue of Arts Research Monitor: Four reports that examine the nature of Aboriginal arts and equity issues within the arts in Canada.

For full details on any of these reports, visit Arts Research Monitor Volume 11, Issue No. 3

Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada Today

Based on interviews and other research information (both oral and written), this report has the goal of expanding understanding of Aboriginal art in “the mainstream art world”.

Britannia Community Services Centre is interested in collaborating with 2-5 registered non-profit Vancouver based cultural or recreation organizations who may be interested in a short term sub-lease of space in the East Vancouver Commercial Drive area. The Lease period will begin October 2012 and run for approximately 18 - 24 months. The space consists of an approximately 3,000 square foot banquet and dance hall with a commercial kitchen and is suitable for program, performance or rehearsal space.