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Kamloops Arts Council

Connectivity and Healing with the Arts

$25,000 Award

Through arts workshops, program participants build capacity by increasing self-confidence, engaging in self-expression and developing coping mechanisms through creative expression. Participants are provided with opportunities to increase self-esteem through participation in community-wide events such as the Crossing Bridges Exhibition, the Children’s Arts Festival, Art Exposed and Art in the Park. This project builds/strengthens networks of collaboration among artists and social service agencies in the community.

Partnering with social service agencies helps to support the work they are doing to contribute to the health and well-being of their clients. And, engaging clients in arts workshops at social service agencies helps to keep them in regular contact with the agency, builds additional relationships with peers and artist facilitators, increases connectedness, fosters self-expression and discovery and encourages creativity and productivity through art-making.

Website: kamloopsarts.ca

Vines Art Festival

Resilient Roots Project

$25,000 Award

Opportunities will be provided for artists to develop their work in Indigenous communities. The project will travel to four communities that Vines has existing relationships with and, in collaboration with a Community Curator, will spend a week doing workshops, culminating in a community feast and evening of performances by both visiting and resident artists.

Website: vinesartfestival.com

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House

The Make It Program

$44,465 Award

The program provides young artists with an opportunity to participate in a collective project while overcoming some of their own challenges in mental health, isolation, substance use, low self esteem, grief, and trauma. Over the course of each year, a mural team is established from the regular participants at the weekly sessions. The mural will be painted at a long term care home or seniors’ home in East Vancouver. The project is a collaboration among youth artists, peer mentors, youth workers, professional arts, Indigenous leaders and community members.

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House

SQx Danza

Active Tolerance Program

$25,000 Award

Creation and development of a new program called Active Tolerance Program, based on the success of their Dance Awareness Program, and created to disrupt systemic discrimination and racism in youth populations across BC. Versions of the program will be delivered to students from K-12.

SQx Danza

Good Samaritan Canada

Raising the Curtain

$25,000 Award

Phase three of a community-engaged arts project that explores the lived experience of dementia through visual arts, photography, story-telling, music, dance and theatre. The organization is partnering with professional performing arts organization, Deer Crossing the Art Farm Society.

Deer Crossing the Art Farm Society

Good Samaritan Canada

Comox Valley Art Gallery

Arts-Based Cultural Mapping of the Opioid Crisis – Courtenay and Kamloops, BC

$25,000 Award

Funds to assist with an artist-led, community-centred cultural mapping process examining the opioid crisis in both Courtenay and Kamloops, BC. The project includes extensive working groups in each community, including social service agencies, health authorities and First Nations communities.

Comox Valley Art Gallery