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

remix, vancouver

a creative copyright conversation CCC

Same-sex couples gaining the right to marry in Canada is one of many topics that will be included in the inaugural exhibits of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, being built in Winnipeg. 

To present the topic of same-sex marriage to future museum visitors, the museum is inviting same-sex couples from across Canada to share their photos and stories.

Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture recently welcomed a new artistic director, Emma Kivisild, and operations director, Nisse Gustafson, to their staff. 

Approaching its 5th year, Canada’s most exciting artist development program, the PEAK Performance Project, is preparing to accept applications. Don’t miss this opportunity to earn development funding, experience an amazing week long bootcamp, and take your career to the next level by being chosen as a top 20 artist.

Applications will open online at peakperformanceproject.com on Monday, March 18.

Here’s a sneak peek at what you will need to prepare for your application:

Emily Carr University of Art + Design will get a big boost to its campus expansion plan, thanks to a $5-million donation from philanthropist Michael Audain and his family foundation, the Audain Foundation for Visual Arts. 

The City of Richmond’s Public Art Program has announced an opportunity for an artist in residence at the Lansdowne Shopping Centre. This residency is an open call for emerging artists or artist teams to consider the notion of the shopping experience as a site for a series of installations, socially engaged interventions and site-specific artwork. The selected artist / artist team will receive a budget of $6,000. This budget is inclusive of all: artist fees, materials, fabrication, installation, and taxes. Travel and accommodation is at the artist’s expense.

The Canadian Artists' Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) is inviting visual artists from across Canada to attend its annual conference in Vancouver at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD), May 31 to June 2, 2013. 

Full conference details are available on the CARFAC website. 

The Key Events List (pdf version), compiled by your Alliance for Arts and Culture, lists upcoming events in and around Metro Vancouver through the next 12 months. 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 community events and activities.

Help celebrate PTC's 40th Anniversary with host Jenn Griffin at a fundraising event on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 to support the second cohort of the PTC Associates.

PTC at 40: The Anniversary Suite presents intimate encounters with plays and playwrights PTC has been championing since 1973. 

The Status of the Artist Act (SAA) was enacted in 1992 and the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal (CAPPRT) came into full operation in 1995. The SAA gives legal recognition and protection to collective bargaining by independent self-employed artists and federally regulated producers. The ability to bargain collectively is critical to artists and producers in the face of a continuously changing and challenging marketplace.

Register now for the 34th Annual ArtsBC Conference & AGM from May 3 to 4 at the Vernon Community Arts Centre in Vernon, BC. The conference, hosted by the Arts Council of the North Okanagan is the place to get connected and find ideas and solutions to ensure the vitality of your organization and the arts in your community.

The City of Richmond and the Board of Directors for the Richmond Art Gallery Association welcomed Rachel Rosenfield Lafo as the new director of the Richmond Art Gallery, effective February 12, 2013. 

Lafo's many years of experience as a museum administrator and curator include a position as director of curatorial affairs at the DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and as associate curator at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon.

PuSh Festival co-founder Norman Armour has been tapped to direct “Pauline”, the first opera to feature a libretto by Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood, City Opera Vancouver president Nora Kelly announced today.

“Pauline” is a first foray into opera by Armour as well as Atwood, while the score is by Tobin Stokes, whose operatic credits include “Rattenbury”, “Fallujah” and “The Vinedressers”.