King Arthur’s Night$25,000 Award
To assist with the development and production of a play, King Arthur’s Night, by the Neworld Theatre Society in collaboration with the Down Syndrome Research Foundation. The production features an equally integrated cast of actors whose lives include Down Syndrome and actors whose lives do not.
Hope, Strength and Resilience: Filmmaking for Youth in Recovery$30,676 Award
To support an inspirational project that uses filmmaking to encourage social change. This project partners professional arts educators with PLEA Community Services Society, treatment counsellors and Surrey School disrict teachers to provide mentorship and training to youth in treatment. The social benefit is to encourage youth in treatment to use art, filmmaking and story telling to contextualize their stories into their broader communities.
PLEA Community Services Society
The Longhouse Project$25,000 Award
To construct four temporary traditional West Coast and Big Houses made by local Indigenous youth, in the Victoria Inner Harbour near the site of the historic Songhees village.
Installing the Text$25,000 Award
Installing the Text will position the original play, SRO: Single Room Occupancy by Michael Kennedy, into a site-specific set specifically designed by residents of single room occupancy dwellings in Vancouver’s downtown eastside and professional theatre designers. This is a different model of making theatre that produces a sense of belonging by co-creating art that is spiritually, intellectually and artistically relevant to those making it and to the wider community. This is a collaborative project with The Aboriginal Front Door Society.
