Award Winners

Pacific Cinematheque

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.

Pacific Cinematheque

PLEA Community Services Society

from To My Easiest Hello And My Hardest Goodbye

Pacific Peoples’ Partnership Association

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.

The Longhouse Project

Urban Ink Productions Society

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.

Urban Ink Production Society

The Aboriginal Front Door Society