The latest news on BC's arts, culture and heritage sector.

Opening: The Willful Plot at Belkin Art Gallery

Opening: The Willful Plot at Belkin Art Gallery

The exhibition brings together artists' practices to expand the notion of the garden as a site of tension between wild and cultivated, temporal and perpetual, public and private, sovereign and colonized.

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Reporting Back: Community Feedback on BC Arts Council 2022 Operating Assistance Application

 Reporting Back: Community Feedback on BC Arts Council 2022 Operating Assistance Application

Based on anecdotal input from members of B.C.’s arts and culture community, GVPTA, in collaboration with a group of B.C. arts service organizations (Arts BCBC Alliance for Arts + CultureBC Museums AssociationBC Touring CouncilCADA/WestCraft Council of BCLe Conseil culturel et artistique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, and Heritage BC), developed and disseminated a survey in October 2022 to better understand and identify common experiences with the BC Arts Council’s Operating Assistance grant program with the September 15, 2022 application deadline.

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Happy Latin American Heritage Month!

Happy Latin American Heritage Month!

Latin American Heritage Month is a festival organized by Latincouver to celebrate Latin American roots,

ancestors, and culture for 20 days with a series of workshops, webinars, concerts, markets, video

mapping and more.

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Check Out Our All-Candidates Meetings Map in BC

Check Out Our All-Candidates Meetings Map in BC

One of the best ways to advocate for arts and culture is attending All-Candidates meetings.

Check out the Alliance's ArtsVote BC All-Candidates Meetings Map to find a forum in your area.

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Interested in Cultural Accessibility in the Arts? Attend Free Taking Care Webinar

Interested in Cultural Accessibility in the Arts? Attend Free Taking Care Webinar

In this panel and open discussion, the Museum of Vancouver will address what it is about the arts in cultural organizations that is inherently institutional and inaccessible.

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Volunteers Needed for Public Art Committee

Volunteers Needed for Public Art Committee

The City of Vancouver is seeking volunteers for positions on the Public Art Committee. The committee provides advice and guidance to City Council, staff, civic agencies, developers and citizens on public art matters.

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Dialogues: Encounters around Riopelle's Oeuvre from Sea to sea Program

 Dialogues: Encounters around Riopelle's Oeuvre from Sea to sea Program

A pan-Canadian call for projects that is addressed to artists, cultural workers, organizations and local communities, this program aims to support artistic and cultural initiatives that bring communities across Canada into dialogue with artist Jean Paul Riopelle's work.

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Attend Diálogo: A conversation about Latin American Art in North America

Attend Diálogo: A conversation about Latin American Art in North America

For this conversation, Latin Expressions brings together artists and curators from two distinct and exciting exhibitions.

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Apply for the Public Policy Institute Capacity Building Program

Apply for the Public Policy Institute Capacity Building Program

Between January and June 2023, the United Way Public Policy Institute will bring together another group of 25 leaders from the BC non-profit sector whose organizations want to better understand and influence the public policy process. Enrollment is open to not-for-profit organizations from all regions of the province.

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Culture Days Is In Full Swing, Bringing Art To Folks Around The Province

Culture Days Is In Full Swing, Bringing Art To Folks Around The Province

Culture Days is here! It is time to celebrate arts, culture, and heritage in your community through hundreds of free and family-friendly events across the province.

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Volunteerism in the Arts Award Goes to Maya Preshyon, Founder Of Vancouver Black Library

Volunteerism in the Arts Award Goes to Maya Preshyon, Founder Of Vancouver Black Library

We are very happy to announce the 2022 return of BC Culture Days, which debuted in Vernon, on the traditional territory of the Syilx people of the Okanagan Nation.

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Indigenous Music Grants Open for Application

Indigenous Music Grants Open for Application

The First Peoples' Cultural Council is now accepting applications from Indigenous artists and organizations in B.C.

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Applications Open for 2023 Kwi Am Choi Exhibition Scholarship

Applications Open for 2023 Kwi Am Choi Exhibition Scholarship

PoMoArts is now accepting applications for the 2023 Kwi Am Choi Exhibition Scholarship.
Recognizing two emerging BC artists between the ages of 18 and 32, the scholarship awards $2000 to fund the costs of producing a 4-week solo exhibition between May and August 2023 at PoMoArts.
Applications are open to recent graduates and students currently enrolled in Fine Arts programs at recognized post-secondary institutions across Canada.

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Webinar with visual artist Ed Pien for Historic Joy Kogawa House

 Webinar with visual artist Ed Pien for Historic Joy Kogawa House

How do perception, memory, imagination, and preconceptions fold into the act of drawing? Visual artist Ed Pien will present a workshop that combines drawing and writing as process to disrupt the conventions of observational drawing. All drawing materials will be provided.

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Request for Proposal for Two Rivers Gallery

Request for Proposal for Two Rivers Gallery

Two Rivers Gallery, a centre for contemporary Canadian art and creativity in Prince George and the central interior, are launching a Request for Proposals (RFP) to design and develop a new website, as well as a re-brand of their logo and style-guide.

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Sign Up For Heritage BC and BCMA Joint Conference 2022

Sign Up For Heritage BC and BCMA Joint Conference 2022

After two years of pandemic-related disruptions to both the BCMA and Heritage BC annual conferences, the two organizations are looking forward to working with their collective members in 2022 to explore how to blend the best of the virtual conference format with the best of in-person conferences.

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Join Arts BC for Their Annual Conference 2022!

Join Arts BC for Their Annual Conference 2022!

Arts BC invites you to join them as they respectfully gather on the ancestral, unceded territory of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam First Nation, also known as Richmond, for their annual conference from October 13 to 15.

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Check Out the Upcoming 2022 Culture Days: September 23 – October 16

Check Out the Upcoming 2022 Culture Days: September 23 – October 16

Culture Days arrives September 23 – October 16 across Canada. Culture Days is an opportunity to celebrate arts, culture, and heritage in your community through free interactive events.

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Apply to the Emerging Artist Contest and Win an Artist Booth at Christmas Market

Apply to the Emerging Artist Contest and Win an Artist Booth at Christmas Market

Signatures and Circle Craft are pleased to invite all emerging artists to submit for a chance to win a budding artist booth (a $590+ value) at their upcoming Circle Craft Christmas Market held at the Vancouver Convention Centre November 9-13, 2022.

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We want to hear from you!

The 2022 Municipal Elections are just around the corner and the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture wants to hear your opinions about the current state of your local arts and culture community!

The 2022 Civic Election Advocacy Survey has been created in partnership with 221A, ArtsBC, BC Museums Association, Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, Le Conseil culturel et artistique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, and Vancouver International Film Festival. The survey aims to identify key priorities of the BC Arts and Culture sector leading up to the municipal election. 

Your Participation in the Civic Election Advocacy survey will help shape the Candidate Survey, which the Alliance will conduct leading up to the first day of the campaign period of the Municipal Elections.

The survey will close on September 12. The results of the survey will be released on September 19.

Click here to fill out the survey.

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