BC’s Coalition for Arts, Culture and Heritage is a collective of 30+ organizations that represent thousands of arts, culture, and heritage organizations in every region and more than 188 communities in BC. Below, the Coalition shares some statistics about the impact of the sector on BC’s economy and wellbeing. BC’s Cultural Economy is a National Growth Leader: Did you know that between 2010 and 2021 the average province in Canada saw its arts, culture, and heritage GDP shrink by 12% and BC’s cultural economy broke the trends and grew by 7%? (Source: Hill Strategies, 2023) Greater Investment ..read more

The Alliance invites you to join CultureBrew.Art and Visceral Visions for the March edition of their Monthly BIPOC Chat and Chew series: Working with Sound, Video and Media Artists.  The online event is an invitation for BIPOC artists to chat about the potential of using sound and video in creative endeavours.  Led by industry experts Chris Gatchalian and Anju Singh, this free interactive session can also provide valuable insights into collaborating with media artists, and securing funding for media arts elements. Save the date: Mar. 18 ..read more

The 2024 State of the Sector Survey is currently circulating throughout British Columbia! This survey is a check in on organizations in the non-profit sector, to capture trends and to distinguish those trends between non-profits of different geographies, demographics served, sizes, etc., and also probes deeper into the underlying challenges brought up most in the last report. The survey is open until March 1 and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. We encourage everyone in the non-profit sector to fill out the survey and to circulate it to all non-profits across BC to ensure organi ..read more

Since 2020, the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture has convened bi-weekly meetings with over 30 BC-based arts service organizations (ASOs) to address sector needs. Together, we have collaborated on advocating for a brighter future for all arts, culture, and heritage entities, professionals, and volunteers. In 2023, a working group of ASOs engaged Earnscliffe, a professional government relations firm, to collaboratively develop a shared government relations and advocacy action plan for our sector. The goal of the Coalition is to bring together many voices to speak with a shared messag ..read more

VIBFF 2023 amplifies Black Voices with Innovative, Diverse and Bold programming. A true celebration of Diverse Black Cinema! After two successful editions, The Vancouver Intl Black Film Festival is back once again with a hybrid version to amplify the voices of Afro-descendants in British Columbia and to foster accessibility across the country. The third annual Vancouver Intl Black Film Festival #VIBFF23, created by the Fabienne Colas Foundation and co-presented by Global BC, is thrilled to announce its official hybrid program and events lineup, running December 1 – 4, 2023. The In-Person ..read more

The Cultural Human Resource Council (CHRC) is pleased to announce that a new Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA) tool is now available to the cultural sector.  Created with the help of Ontario Arts Council funding through the Cross-Sectoral Recovery Roundtable (CSRR) project, this new HR Management Toolkit responds to the need and requests for readily accessible resources on the subject of IDEA. Through HR Management Toolkit Belonging, CHRC and CSRR project participants aim to: Enhance knowledge on IDEA; Strengthen board and management commitment to IDEA; Share ..read more

Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance GVPTA encourages arts, culture, and heritage workers, artists, and organizations from all disciplines across British Columbia to complete the B.C. Arts, Culture, & Heritage Sector Insights Survey to help them better understand, advocate, and inform government, funders, and stakeholders on the current state of the sector. This survey is led by GVPTA, on behalf of and in collaboration with a coalition of B.C.-based arts, culture, and heritage service organizations that represent thousands of arts, culture, and heritage organizations across BC ..read more

The team at Vines Art Society is excited to introduce the ecosystems Symposium: Strengthening Artist Relations. This four-day symposium is an opportunity for arts and culture workers to come together to nurture relationships to each other and sow seeds for growth in the sector. The ecosystems symposium is an introduction to a multi-pronged approach to strengthening artist relations. Each day of the symposium will focus on one of the three pillars of ecosystems: Artist Care, Advocacy and Repair, and Wise Practices. For three days participants will join in learning and listening from knowledge ..read more

Many documentarians create a film to increase awareness and understanding of a pressing issue or story by spotlighting, investigating, or humanizing what is happening, in hopes that their films will make a difference. At the core of impact work is a collection of best practices that take into account how a film will be used as a tool for social change once it is complete.  Story Money Impact (SMI) would like to offer impact coaching hours to three Canadian documentary films (20–90 mins in length) by underrepresented creators that are in the beginning development phases of their projects ..read more

The following is excerpted from a press release issued by the City of Vancouver. The City of Vancouver is collecting feedback on the 889 Drake St. (formerly 1290 Hornby St.) development application. This development proposal includes a ~13,000 sq. ft. cultural amenity space. The proposed cultural amenity will be delivered to the City and includes 2 floors of dedicated arts and culture presentation (visual or media arts) and shared artist production space. At a later date, the City will seek to select a non-profit arts and culture operator for the facility. Wall Financial Corporation has appli ..read more