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

Recovery Fund for Heritage Organizations — Museums Assistance Program

Recovery Fund for Heritage Organizations — Museums Assistance Program

Applications for the Museums Assistance Program (MAP) are due August 2, 2022, at 5 pm (ET).

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Pride in Chinatown presents Don Kwan: Beyond Exclusion

Pride in Chinatown presents Don Kwan: Beyond Exclusion

Beyond Exclusion is Don Kwan’s first solo exhibition in Vancouver.

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Call for Applications: The PACT Green Award

Call for Applications: The PACT Green Award

The PACT Green Award, a new initiative of the Environmental Stewardship Committee, honours programming from companies and/or artists that inspires theatre workers and theatregoers to engage with the climate crisis and environmental stewardship in creative and exciting ways.

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Contribute to artist-in-residence Lucie Chan’s research during the month of August

Contribute to artist-in-residence Lucie Chan’s research during the month of August

Oxygen Art Centre is thrilled to announce visual artist, Lucie Chan as artist-in-residence for the month of August. Chan was born in Guyana, and currently resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations otherwise known as Vancouver, BC where she maintains a multi-disciplinary visual art practice and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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Indigenous Disability & Wellness Gathering

Indigenous Disability & Wellness Gathering

The Indigenous Disability & Wellness Gathering is seeking support from local friends for their National three-day gathering in November.

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DYKE NEWS presents DYKE NEWS/DYKE FILM

DYKE NEWS presents DYKE NEWS/DYKE FILM

DYKE NEWS is excited to present DYKE NEWS/DYKE FILM, a program of 7 experimental short lesbian films from the 1990s! The films have been selected from works created across the country with a goal of connecting dykes & queers to a lineage of lesbian and queer film making.

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Open Call for Performing Artists at Pacific Contact 2023

Open Call for Performing Artists at Pacific Contact 2023

The BC Touring Council (BCTC) invites artists interested in touring in BC in 2023-2024 or 2024-2025 to apply to showcase at Pacific Contact 2023.

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Gachet 2023 call for submissions

Gachet 2023 call for submissions

Gallery Gachet is currently welcoming proposals for exhibitions and projects that engage their mandate in interesting and challenging ways.

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CADAC Replacement Initiative Information Session

CADAC Replacement Initiative Information Session

On July 14, CADAC hosted an information session about the exciting changes coming to the CADAC system.

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Take the District of West Vancouver's Arts Planning Visioning Survey

Take the District of West Vancouver's Arts Planning Visioning Survey

The DIstrict of West Vancouver is seeking participants to complete a survey in support of their Arts Planning: Visioning engagement initiative.

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Pride in Chinatown Dim Sum Brunch

Pride in Chinatown Dim Sum Brunch

Celebrate Pride with an all-age friendly arts and culinary event in Chinatown!

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Artist Salon with Edward Fu-Chen Juan

Artist Salon with Edward Fu-Chen Juan

Artist Edward Fu-Chen Juan will share his artistic journey from working as a successful commercial illustrator and paper and textile designer, into the realm of fine art printmaking at artist residencies, community art projects, gallery exhibitions, and public artworks.

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Farquhar set to amplify Indigenous voices

Farquhar set to amplify Indigenous voices

The University of Victoria and the Farquhar at UVic have launched Voices in Circle: Amplifying Indigenous Cultural Voices, a presenting and engagement series featuring established and emerging Indigenous artists.

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Artists In Prison Share Art, Exhibit Opens in DTES

Artists In Prison Share Art, Exhibit Opens in DTES

This month, the impact of a project that distributed 756 “art and reciprocity kits” to several prisons across B.C. and the Yukon will be showcased as an art exhibit in the Downtown Eastside.

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RICECAKE presents Ricecake Pride, a Queer Asian Dance Party supported by Creative BC and the Province of BC

RICECAKE presents Ricecake Pride, a Queer Asian Dance Party supported by Creative BC and the Province of BC

In the open air, under the moonlight, and surrounded by stars, Ricecake Pride: After Sunset will present a line up of 25+ queer, trans, Asian and BIPOC performers for Pride weekend. Spoiler alert: they (including YOU) are the stars ✨

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Integrate Art Society presents Wayward Weaving

Integrate Art Society presents Wayward Weaving

In this workshop, participants will use basketry techniques to weave with invasive plant species and other natural materials.

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Embark Sustainability presents Indigenous Led Land Stewardship

Embark Sustainability presents Indigenous Led Land Stewardship

Get popcorn and a pen ready! Let’s learn, reflect, and advocate for Indigenous-led land stewardship together.

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Calling all poets! Submit your poem to Reshaping Ruins project by August 1

Calling all poets! Submit your poem to Reshaping Ruins project by August 1

It’s time for the community to play their part in the City’s annual Artist in Residence program. You’re invited to share your original poetry by August 1 to be used in the Reshaping Ruins art installation at Goldie Mill during Culture Days in September.

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Okpik: Little Village in the Arctic will appear on CBC Gem in Inuvialuktun

Okpik: Little Village in the Arctic will appear on CBC Gem in Inuvialuktun

Copper Quartz Media has announced that their latest film Okpik: Little Village in the Arctic will premiere on CBC Gem in Inuvialuktun on August 5th, 2022 and in English on CBC Manitoba on August 6th, 2022.

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Students in B.C. will now have new possibilities to earn credits for First Nations language

Students in B.C. will now have new possibilities to earn credits for First Nations language

Students in B.C. will now have new possibilities to earn credits for First Nations language and culture programs through the expansion of the External Credentials Program (ECP).

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