BC Heritage Awards Now Open for Nominations

“Hot+Noisy” Chinatown Mahjong Social won the 2020 BC Heritage Award for Education, Awareness and Communication. Image: Jonathan Desmond Photography.

The BC Heritage Awards celebrates outstanding achievements and best practices that have impacted and strengthened all forms of heritage as valued cultural resources in communities throughout British Columbia. The BC Heritage Awards recognizes the achievements of individuals, organizations, groups, businesses, and local and regional governments in communities across BC.

The award categories are:

• Heritage Conservation: recognizing the best practices of built heritage rehabilitation, rejuvenation, re-use, and environmental resilience.

• Education, Communications, and Awareness: recognizing excellence in programming that advances the appreciation, understanding, and practice of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

• Heritage Professional: this award is presented in two categories

  • Planning and Management: recognizing individuals or organizations that have produced reports, studies and other efforts that demonstrate best practices of innovations and traditions, community consultation, long-term sustainability, building resilience, and accessibility, and who advance the diversity and inclusivity of heritage.

  • Lifetime Achievement: recognizing those individuals who have made a career-long, cumulative impact and contribution to the practice and understanding of heritage.

• Distinguished Service: recognizing long-time volunteers for their significant contributions and leadership in their communities.

Information about the program and the nominations form (along with a downloadable template) are available here.