Active Tolerance Program$25,000 Award
Creation and development of a new program called Active Tolerance Program, based on the success of their Dance Awareness Program, and created to disrupt systemic discrimination and racism in youth populations across BC. Versions of the program will be delivered to students from K-12.
Raising the Curtain$25,000 Award
Phase three of a community-engaged arts project that explores the lived experience of dementia through visual arts, photography, story-telling, music, dance and theatre. The organization is partnering with professional performing arts organization, Deer Crossing the Art Farm Society.
Arts-Based Cultural Mapping of the Opioid Crisis – Courtenay and Kamloops, BC$25,000 Award
Funds to assist with an artist-led, community-centred cultural mapping process examining the opioid crisis in both Courtenay and Kamloops, BC. The project includes extensive working groups in each community, including social service agencies, health authorities and First Nations communities.
EastVan Hip Hop Drop$25,000 Award
Funds to assist with the delivery of a weekly program for marginalized youth led by young Indigenous artists. This project will help support individuals but also provide a model for institutional change in community centres across BC.
