The highly anticipated 4th Annual Vancouver International Black Film Festival (VIBFF) is set to make a bold return this December! From December 13 to 17, 2024, the festival celebrates Black voices with innovative, diverse, and bold programming ..read more

The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is undertaking a multi-year community engaged research project in collaboration with partners across the province. The project explores the benefits of prescribing arts and culture experiences to enhance people’s health and wellness. This idea is also known as “social prescribing”.   ..read more

A new website will provide British Columbians with opportunities to share their vision for a new museum to highlight the history, culture and contributions to B.C. from Canadians of diverse South Asian heritages. The public engagement process will provide multiple and different opportunities for participation informed by Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the ministerial advisory committee. The committee is made up of appointed members who identify as South Asian selected for their experience in community engagement, lived experience and cultural knowled ..read more

CARFAC is excited to announce the release of INDIGENOUS PROTOCOLS dot ART – an essential resource for navigating Indigenous Protocols for visual artists and the artistic community. It is part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen respect for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis visual art and artists, and legal and moral rights in the lands commonly known as Canada ..read more

We are thrilled to announce that Ashi (Ashrafsadat) Sakhaeifar has been awarded the 2024 Volunteerism in the Arts Award! This recognition celebrates Ashi's remarkable dedication and impactful volunteer work in the arts community at Gordon Neighbourhood House ..read more

The Alliance is currently welcoming expressions of interest from individuals interested in joining our Board of Directors ..read more

Do you know an outstanding volunteer who’s making a big impact in BC’s arts and culture community? Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Volunteerism in the Arts Award ..read more

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