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

Applications Open for VIFF AMP Talent Accelerator

Applications Open for VIFF AMP Talent Accelerator

Applications are now open for the VIFF AMP Talent Accelerator program, which provides 50 emerging creators from across Canada with exclusive mentorship and learning opportunities. Applications close August 8.

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CHRC Launches Student Work Placement Program

CHRC Launches Student Work Placement Program

The Cultural Human Resources Council’s new SWP Program aims to connect students to Canadian cultural sector employers with wage subsidies for placements that offer students relevant work experience.

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Women: Yoko Ono Wants Your Story

Women: Yoko Ono Wants Your Story

Yoko Ono invites self-identified women to send a testament of harm inflicted on them, along with a photograph of their eyes, to be displayed at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the exhibition GROWING FREEDOM: The instructions of Yoko Ono, which starts in October.

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Applications Open for City of Vancouver 2022-2025 Artist Studio Awards Program

Applications are now open for the City of Vancouver’s Artist Studio Awards Program, which leases seven studios at below-market rates to artists who are Indigenous, Black, or people of colour. Apply by August 4.

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FPCC Opens Applications for Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program Grants

The First Peoples’ Cultural Council Indigenous Cultural Heritage Micro-Grants and Oral Histories Grant Program are now accepting applications for the Fall 2021 intake. Deadlines within.

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Kristin Cheung in as New CACV Executive Director

Community Arts Council of Vancouver has named its new Executive Director, Kristin Cheung, who took over the position from Eric Rhys Miller on July 5.

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Upcoming Free Webinar: Understanding & Leveraging GST/HST for Arts Non-Profits & Charities

Upcoming Free Webinar: Understanding & Leveraging GST/HST for Arts Non-Profits & Charities

GVPTA and Arts BC host a free webinar with Michael Monk, GST/HST Presenter for Canada Revenue Agency, taking place July 22.

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New Partnership Supports GLAM Organizations in Digitizing Their Collections

The BC ELN-BCHDP Support Service is a three-year pilot program that provides small galleries, libraries, archives and museums to help them prepare and apply for BC History Digitization Program grant funding.

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Fire Claims Lytton Chinese History Museum

Fire Claims Lytton Chinese History Museum

A fire that swept through Lytton, destroying the village and killing two, has also claimed a museum with over 1,600 artefacts documenting Chinese history in the area.

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What's New in BC's Restart Step 3

What's New in BC's Restart Step 3

New rules coming into effect July 1 include a relaxed mask mandate, Canada-wide recreational travel, and 50% capacity for indoor and outdoor gatherings.

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Budget 2021 Commits $1.9B to Arts, Culture, Heritage, Sports

Budget 2021 Commits $1.9B to Arts, Culture, Heritage, Sports

In Budget 2021, released June 28, the Government of Canada committed $1.9 billion to help support the arts, culture, heritage and sport sectors, including a $300M Recovery Fund for Arts, Culture, Heritage and Sport Sectors, $200M Reopening Fund, and the $200M Major Festivals and Events Support Initiative.

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City of Vancouver Seeks Nominations for Poet Laureate

City of Vancouver Seeks Nominations for Poet Laureate

The City of Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver Writers Fest are accepting nominations from published and performance poets for Vancouver’s next Poet Laureate. Apply by August 11.

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Apply for the Canada Community Revitalization Fund

Apply for the Canada Community Revitalization Fund

The CCRF aims to help communities across Canada build and improve community infrastructure projects so they can rebound from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Apply by July 23.

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Submit Your Story of Pandemic Resilience to Hill Strategies

Submit Your Story of Pandemic Resilience to Hill Strategies

Hill Strategies is leading the research for the first phase of a new project, Cultural Resilience: Using Innovation to Stabilize in Times of Crisis, and is seeking stories of innovation (whether digital or analog) that are expected to have a lasting impact on the organization or artist.

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Take the Canadian Artists and Content Creators Economic Survey

Take the Canadian Artists and Content Creators Economic Survey

The Canadian Artists and Content Creators Economic Survey is part of the Department of Canadian Heritage’s ongoing research to fill data and knowledge gaps related to the cultural sector and to the economic sustainability of Canadian artists and creators. The survey will be accessible online until July 2, 2021.

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Bidding a Fond Farewell to Joyce Wan

Bidding a Fond Farewell to Joyce Wan

Joyce Wan, our administrative coordinator, is leaving the BC Alliance to take on a new communications position with the Vancouver Writers Fest. Her final day with the Alliance is July 9.

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Touring Artists: Apply for Pacific Contact 2022

Touring Artists: Apply for Pacific Contact 2022

Showcase applications for BC Touring Council’s Pacific Contact 2022, April 7-10, are now available. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, June 30.

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BC Museums Association Seeks Input from IBPOC Museum Professionals

BC Museums Association Seeks Input from IBPOC Museum Professionals

In order to better understand the needs and interests of IBPOC museum professionals in this province, the BC Museums Association is asking your thoughts, comments, suggestions in a survey.

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Actsafe Launches New BSAFE™ Online COVID-19 Safety Course

Actsafe Launches New BSAFE™ Online COVID-19 Safety Course

Actsafe Safety Association’s new course, BSAFE™, aims to provide employees and managers with a strong foundation in COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

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Register for GVPTA's 2021 Making a Scene Forum

Register for GVPTA's 2021 Making a Scene Forum

The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance's annual conference, Making a Scene, has been re-imagined for 2021 as a three-day digital forum, taking place June 22-24.

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