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.
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.
