2018

Kema Experiences

$29,000 award

To support Kema: A Good Place, a multi-sensory, interactive, digitally-enhanced mobile art exhibit featuring contemporary artistic expressions of the Dane-zaa culture and showcasing its stories, traditions and wisdom. Together with related cultural programming, the exhibit creates Kema Experiences, a transformative movement rooted in cultural knowledge, preservation and sharing. They are partnering with the Doig River First Nation Community Development and Health and Social Developments departments.

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Lifestreams Theatre Project

$29,000 Award

To support a collaborative and inclusive project involving adults with developmental disabilities and professional artists with Theatre SKAM. The project will explore choral puppetry work as its primary aesthetic – puppets that require two or more puppeteers to operate. This ensemble approach creates an environment of safety and support for performers with developmental disabilities who are to a theatre process.

Garth Homer Society

Theatre SKAM

Raising the Curtain: on the lived experience of dementia

$29,000 Award

To assist with phase two of a three-phase project that combines community-engaged arts practice to engage participants with lived experience of early-stage dementia in the development, creation and productions of an interdisciplinary program that tells their collective story. The organization is partnering with the professional performing arts organization, Deer Crossing the Art Farm Society.

Good Samaritan

Deer Crossing the Art Farm 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