In this issue of Hill Strategies' Arts Research Monitor: Four reports on arts sector structures related to artists, arts management, and arts funding, including articles on the “next generation” of arts practice, new organizational models in the arts, and the resilience of the arts sector. While these reports do cite some research sources, they should be considered position papers more than research articles per se (unlike most works included in the Arts Research Monitor).
With Culture Days engagement engrained in over 800 Canadian cities and towns, the Congress presents a rallying point and networking opportunity to share diversity of experiences, trends, best practices and impacts of public engagement in arts and culture in Canada.
The Key Events List (pdf), 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 guide for event planners, who will find the roster helpful in avoiding scheduling conflicts.
A highly effective and engaged board has clarity around roles, responsibilities and aligns its work and performance with organizational values and vision.
This workshop, part of the Survivor 101 series, focuses on board members’ key responsibilities and moves boards out of operations and into the “big picture”. This learning opportunity covers leadership models, modes of governing, board recruitment, meeting management, committee structure and evaluation techniques.
BC Arts and Culture Week, a week-long celebration held across the province each April, will undergo changes in 2014 as delivery of the program passes to the BC Arts Council.
Four Vancouver-based arts organizations have been selected as tenants of city-leased community cultural amenity space in the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre, following approval by city council on February 5, 2014.
Community and cultural groups have an extra week to submit ideas to activate downtown Granville Street as part of VIVA Vancouver’ssummertime pedestrian weekends.
VIVA Vancouver, the public space program which transforms road spaces into people places each summer, is inviting applications from groups interested in presenting one-time or recurring activities as part of this summer's VIVA Granville.
The 2014 Budget, released by the federal Government on February 11, includes good news for the arts, culture and heritage sector regarding renewed and ongoing funding for key Canadian Heritage programs. The Canada Cultural Investment Fund, the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, and Canada Arts Presentation Fund have been renewed, as well as the Canada Book Fund and Canada Music Fund.
The City of Vancouver offers funding to help Vancouver-based non-profit cultural organizations and/or charitable institutions buy, build, renovate, or expand a cultural space. If that describes your organization, you may be eligible for funding.
Now is the time to start planning for this year's submission by scheduling a meeting with a Cultural Planner to discuss your application.
The Cultural Infrastructure Grant can assist with:
Aboriginal Arts & Stories (formerly the Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge) invites First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth (ages 11 to 29), to submit a piece of creative writing or visual art about a moment or theme in Canadian Aboriginal history or culture.
Participants have a chance towin up to $2,000 and have their work published or exhibited.
Vancouver lost a popular jazz singer, recording artist, and arts journalist last Thursday when Renee Doruyter (seen here with close friend and onetime Vancouver Jazz scene celebrity Almeta Speaks) passed away of cancer, age 68, at St. Paul's Hospital surrounded by friends and family.
Does your group hold a parade, festival, or other arts or cultural projects that promote unique Vancouver communities and neighbourhoods through arts and cultural activities? If so, your group may be eligible for grant money for planning, running, or promoting that event or project.
City of Vancouver Cultural Services staff are holding a free information meeting about Community and Neighbourhood Arts Development Grants to share more about this annual grants program. There will be a brief discussion followed by a question and answer period.
West Vancouver'sKay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts has a new management structure that will divide the roles of managing and artistic director to meet the needs of the Centre in a period of expansion and artistic growth.
