We Live Here$25,000 Award
The video will feature a sequence of short time-lapse recordings of each artwork as it was created, from blank canvas to completed image, in one to two minutes. The exhibition will take place on 3 nights in early November 2020 during the annual Heart of the City Festival, created in partnership with the Portland Hotel Society.
Website radixtheatre.org
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
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
Carving on the Edge Festival 2016$25,000 Award
To support the 2016 Carving on the Edge Festival featuring First Nations carvers from BC’s west coast in collaboration with the Raincoast Education Society. This unique festival brings together the teachings and experiences of career master carvers who wish to pass on a lifetime of knowledge, study and skill.
Crossing Bridges Outreach$25,000 Award
To continue arts outreach programs for marginalized, vulnerable, or at-risk members of the Kamloops community. The program is an interactive multi-disciplinary collaboration among the arts community and social service agencies and delivers high quality arts workshops at no cost for all ages.
Media Arts Program$25,000 Award
To build the capacity of multi-barrier youth through media arts training that will transform their lives and their communities. It is a free after-school program for youth between the ages of 13 and 18.
