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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe $60,000 Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award for Music will go to Western Front New Music to fund its new work Music from the New Wilderness. The work will premiere at The Cultch in February 2014. The announcement was made last night at the opening performance of the play Extraction, last year's winner.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNow in its 14th year, BC Arts and Culture Week highlights the vital contribution that arts and culture make in learning and in life. Art, in one form or another—music, film, books, visual and media arts, theatre—is part of our daily lives. It helps bring communities together and makes them more vibrant, creative, and economically diverse.
Read MoreHelp 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
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