We Live Here$25,000 Award
The video will feature a sequence of short time-lapse recordings of each artwork as it was created, from blank canvas to completed image, in one to two minutes. The exhibition will take place on 3 nights in early November 2020 during the annual Heart of the City Festival, created in partnership with the Portland Hotel Society.
Website radixtheatre.org
Connectivity and Healing with the Arts$25,000 Award
Through arts workshops, program participants build capacity by increasing self-confidence, engaging in self-expression and developing coping mechanisms through creative expression. Participants are provided with opportunities to increase self-esteem through participation in community-wide events such as the Crossing Bridges Exhibition, the Children’s Arts Festival, Art Exposed and Art in the Park. This project builds/strengthens networks of collaboration among artists and social service agencies in the community.
Partnering with social service agencies helps to support the work they are doing to contribute to the health and well-being of their clients. And, engaging clients in arts workshops at social service agencies helps to keep them in regular contact with the agency, builds additional relationships with peers and artist facilitators, increases connectedness, fosters self-expression and discovery and encourages creativity and productivity through art-making.
Website: kamloopsarts.ca
Resilient Roots Project$25,000 Award
Opportunities will be provided for artists to develop their work in Indigenous communities. The project will travel to four communities that Vines has existing relationships with and, in collaboration with a Community Curator, will spend a week doing workshops, culminating in a community feast and evening of performances by both visiting and resident artists.
Website: vinesartfestival.com
The Make It Program$44,465 Award
The program provides young artists with an opportunity to participate in a collective project while overcoming some of their own challenges in mental health, isolation, substance use, low self esteem, grief, and trauma. Over the course of each year, a mural team is established from the regular participants at the weekly sessions. The mural will be painted at a long term care home or seniors’ home in East Vancouver. The project is a collaboration among youth artists, peer mentors, youth workers, professional arts, Indigenous leaders and community members.
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House
