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

Registration Open For 2015 Celebrate the Arts – Celebrate Volunteerism Conference

Registration is now open for the 2015 Celebrate the Arts – Celebrate Volunteerism Conference, taking place Saturday, January 31 at the Michael and Inna O’Brian Centre for Vancouver Opera. 

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Culture Days Webinar Series 2015

Culture Days offers valuable resources for artists throughout the year. This new webinar series will help participants develop new skills, broaden their knowledge and strengthen their public engagement practices overall.

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ArtStarts Showcase & Conference Registration Now Open

Educators, administrators and community presenters interested in booking performances for young audiences can register now to attend the 2015 ArtStarts Showcase and Conference

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Legal Pitfalls Series: Privacy 101 Workshop

Privacy 101 is part of the Legal Pitfalls Series, a workshop series for non-profits by the Non Profit Charities Legal Outreach

The Workshop: Are you the privacy officer at your organization? You've heard about anti-spam – now let's look at whether your privacy policy and practices are PIPA compliant.

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Survivor 101 - Not-for-Profit Lifecycles 101

Metro Vancouver’s popular professional development program, Survivor 101, will launch its 2014-15 season in Richmond with Vantage Point’s Not-for-Profit Lifecycles 101 workshop.

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Registration Open for UBC Centre for Cultural Planning and Development Winter Workshops

The international UBC Centre for Cultural Planning and Development has launched a new series of professional development workshops delivered 100% online. Workshops are taught by international leaders in their fields and are designed to meet the education and training needs of administrators, designers, consultants, planners and economic and community development professionals.

Upcoming workshops on offer in Winter 2015 include: 

Cultural Planning – An International Perspective (Jan. 22-Feb. 5)
Instructor: Dr. Lidia Varbanova, Montreal, QC

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Registration Opens for Pacific Contact 2015

Now in its 39th year, Pacific Contact is the BC Touring Council’s annual tradeshow and booking conference for the performing arts. It includes artist showcases, a contact room (tradeshow booths of artists and agent/managers) workshops, networking and a hospitality suite for late night fun.

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Call for Session & Speaker Proposals: Vancouver Social Purpose Real Estate Conference

The Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative and the Non Profit Centres Network invite you to submit session ideas to the 2015 Building Opportunities - Connecting Possibilities conference, taking place in Vancouver on June 1-3, 2015. 

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Hard Facts vs Proverbial Truths: A CultureShock Debate

On Thursday, November 20 at 2:45 p.m.

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Grant Writing Workshop for Visual Artists

CARFAC BC is partnering with Ministry of Casual Living, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, and the Victoria College of Art to present an intensive grant writing workshop to artists in Victoria.

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Free Muffins at Alliance Marketing Council!

"Free muffins!" said Liesl when we asked her what would be a snappy headline to get the attention of Metro Vancouver's arts publicists and marketing gurus.

So yes, there will be free muffins and coffee on Thursday, October 16 when the Alliance Marketing Council meets in the Alliance board room for a morning of networking, discussions with Metro Vancouver's Judy Robertson on the various marketing support programs available through Metro, and free coffee and muffins!

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MP Breakfast: Can Public Broadcasting Survive in Canada?

On Friday, September 26, the monthly breakfast speaker series MP Breakfast Connections presents MP Joyce Murray with guest speaker president & CEO of Knowledge Network, Rudy Buttignol, on the topic “Can public broadcasting survive in Canada?”

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SPARC Network Summit: Call for Participants

SPARC (Supporting Performing Arts in Rural Communities) invites individuals involved in the performing arts in rural and remote communities across the country to participate in a 2-day Network Summit, November 14-16, 2014, in Ontario's Haliburton Highlands.

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CARFAC National Offers Artists For Artists Conference Bursaries

From September 18 to 21, 2014, CARFAC National hosts the annual Artists for Artists conference in Toronto. Want to attend but can't afford the airfare? Eight travel bursaries of up to $500 are available for artists in financial need to cover travel and registration costs. There are also 10 bursaries available to cover registration costs only.

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Registration Open for Healthy Dancer Canada Conference

Registration is now open for Healthy Dancer Canada's 7th annual conference focusing on Prevention and Wellness in Dance.

Participate in a day of learning for dancers, dance educators, and health professionals. Lectures, movement workshops, performances and panels will examine theories and practices that focus on preventing health problems and promoting health and wellness in dance. 

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Board Basics for the Arts

Have you wanted to serve on an arts board but are not sure what to expect? Business for the Arts is hosting the webinar Board Basics for New Board Members for the Arts, providing an overview of the basics of board governance and roles and responsibilities when serving on an arts board.

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Self-Producing and Touring 101 Workshop

This by-donation workshop, presented as part of the 2014 Queer Arts Festival, includes step-by-step considerations for self-producing and touring independent performance, including being presented by venues, festivals or community groups, hiring venues and/or Do-It-Yourself style (e.g. warehouses, youth centres, livingrooms).

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StepUp BC Hosts Free HR Workshop for Non-Profits

StepUp BC is offering a free one-day workshop to help you solve your human resources challenges in Vancouver on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

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UBC Centre for Cultural Planning & Development Launches New Workshop Series

The international UBC Centre for Cultural Planning and Development has launched a new series of professional development workshops delivered 100% online. These online workshops are taught by international leaders in their fields and are designed to meet the education and training needs of administrators, designers, consultants, planners and economic and community development professionals.

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Alliance Spring Workshop: Requirements of the new Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act

The Alliance, in partnership with Artists Legal Outreach (ALO), presents a workshop to help federally registered non-profit organizations understand the steps they must take to transition to the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act by the October 17, 2014 deadline.  

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