The Results of Your Generosity

Arts & Culture

A list of Arts & Culture projects funded by Vancouver Foundation and our donors in 2012 Arts & Culture

About Vancouver Foundation’s Arts & Culture granting programs Advisory Committee Chief Justice Robert Bauman, Chair In 2012, we re-introduced two granting cycles—Spring Vancouver and Fall—and distributed over 300 grants totalling more Jann LM Bailey than $9 million. We received hundreds of proposals for Kamloops many worthwhile projects. Unfortunately, we cannot fund them all. Overwhelming demand limits our funding Tim Carlson to less than 25 per cent of requests. Vancouver

Over 150 volunteer experts from the community — Sal Ferreras scientists, academics, youth, researchers and front-line Vancouver staff — volunteer their time to help us make informed Rob Gloor decisions. They share with us their expertise and intimate Vancouver knowledge of the issues, the needs of the community, and the organizations active in their fields. Thanks Mitchell Krieger to them, our donors can be assured that Vancouver Victoria Foundation is supporting the most worthwhile and effective projects in communities throughout the Nathalie MacFarlane province. Skidegate Lucille Pacey The grants in the following pages have been made Vancouver possible through the generosity of Vancouver Foundation fundholders and donors – many present-day, and many Alvin Erasga Tolentino of whom have long since passed, but who had the Vancouver foresight to establish an endowment that could address priority needs. Also, during each grant cycle, we provide Hal Wake our active fundholders and donors an opportunity to Vancouver preview the project proposals we receive from the community. Through our Book of Opportunities, many donors have chosen to support projects using their Vancouver Foundation fund or by making an additional donation.

On behalf of the community, and all those whose lives have been improved by the myriad of projects, we thank the generous donors who made this possible.

More information on Vancouver Foundation’s projects and initiatives in 2012 can be found in The Results of Your Generosity: www.vancouverfoundation.ca/rog

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Arts and Culture grants support and encourage the growth and sustained presence of excellence in arts and cultural activities among diverse cultural communities throughout . The funded projects in 2012 offer a cross-section of disciplines, including visual arts, museum projects, music, theatre, dance, literature and film. Also included are multimedia projects and projects that span different cultures.

The Advisory Committee developed the following criteria in determining the successful submissions:

• Artistic Intention: Artistic practice that demonstrates depth, potential impact, and/or the courage to explore an individual’s or a group’s artistic vision.

• Creativity and Growth: Innovation and exploring new possibilities, with a willingness to take risks and embrace new ideas.

• Diversity of Conception and Participation: Including inter-disciplinary collaboration and inclusivity of different cultures, peoples, experiences, practices, and world views.

• Community Engagement and Social Connection: Fostering belonging and forming bonds between and within communities, cultivating audiences and social connections.

• Organizational Capacity: Ability to carry out the project as planned.

Demand for funding in this field was highest in the Spring cycle with 146 submissions received (compared to 86 in the fall) — over half of the overall total of 232 for the year. In all, 66 submissions were approved, representing projects from mainly metro Vancouver, but also from Vancouver Island, the Interior, the Fraser region, and Northern BC.

Total dollars granted: $ Total projects 1,063,125 funded: 66 Dollars requested: Submissions $ received: 232 4,677,252

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Project: a heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart Grant Received: $8,531 Location: Fraser Valley a heart… is an exhibition of archival photographs, documents, miniature paintings and videos that examine the aftermath of the destruction of the colossal 5th century Buddhas of the Bamiyan Valley in Central Afghanistan in 2001. Through a multi-faceted cross-cultural installation and interpretive project, artists Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali will inspire local secondary and post- secondary students with the stories of the Afghan Hazara people.

Organization: Abbotsford Cultural Centre (The Reach) is the only Class A gallery museum in the eastern Fraser Valley.

Project: The Great Raymond Grant Received: $5,000 Location: Vancouver A new play by award-winning author Timothy Taylor, The Great Raymond examines the Mulligan Affair, a police corruption scandal that rocked Vancouver in the 1950s and established Jack Webster's career. The Great Raymond is an experiment in investigative theatre, allowing audiences to discover fresh perspectives on the issues of police corruption and media overzealousness, past and present, while enjoying an enriching social experience.

Organization: Ruby Slippers Production creates, produces and presents provocative, text-based theatre from French and English that is relevant, entertaining and accessible.

Project: Kutz & Dawgs BC Regional Tour - Year One Grant Received: $30,000 Location: Province-wide A professional team and performing arts youth group will co-lead theatre, dance and hip-hop music workshops and film screenings for at-risk youth in Surrey, Kelowna and Prince George with facilitated discussion and work with UBC Okanagan Theatre Department to present events with and for students and faculty.

Organization: Miscellaneous Productions Society gives marginalized people training and access to a professional performance creation process.

Project: I Will Survive Grant Received: $8,000 Location: Vancouver Artists at the start of their careers, including First Nations artists, will be commissioned to produce new work in both traditional and new media, resulting in five exhibitions and publications. The hope is that I Will Survive will result in new and unexpected critical perspectives about the future of art, society, culture, and politics and will spur discussion among artists and audiences.

Organization: Unit/Pitt Society for Art and Critical Awareness is a non-profit artist-run centre dedicated to the promotion of experimental contemporary art.

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Project: Write Space - a playwright residency program Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Province-wide B.C. playwrights are the heart and soul of stories on stages across the country. Write Space will offer a community of support to make the best plays possible and reveal how plays are made to more people. Write Space will offer twenty playwrights work and living space across the province, living wages, and creative expertise. The goal of this project is to create a healthier writing ecology with strong community roots. Lasting relationships will be created between writers and their hosts, their experiences will be documented on our website, and this residency model will be shared with other arts groups across the country.

Organization: Playwrights Theatre Centre finds, nurtures, and advances Canadian playwrights.

Project: Production of Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Vancouver Bard on the Beach will produce Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley in 2013. The goal of this production is to present works beyond the Shakespeare canon that contribute to the education and understanding of Shakespeare, animate his spirit and support the timeless themes found in his plays that resonate with contemporary audiences. The play brings together Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare and his acting troupe on the eve of the execution of Robert Deveraux Earl of Essex, the rumoured lover of Queen Elizabeth. The universal themes will appeal to traditional Shakespeare audiences as well as those who may not otherwise be attracted to a Shakespeare play

Organization: Bard on the Beach Theatre Society performs, explores and celebrates the genius of William Shakespeare; to create an enduring contribution to the cultural fabric of the community by being an inspiring centre of education and understanding.

Project: Beneath the Northern Lights Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Vancouver Beneath the Northern Lights project will keep the traditional stories and culture of the Inuit from being lost. A theatre production for young audiences will feature Inuit storyteller and author Michael Kusaguk who will combine Inuit legends, physical theatre, mask, puppetry, video projection, and throat-singing. Telling these stories in this way will give them a long life, while enriching audiences locally and around the world.

Organization: Pangaea Arts Society promotes cultural interaction and exchange of ideas between diverse communities and artists in the creation of new works.

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Project: Carrying on "Irregardless": Humour and Creativity in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Carrying on Irregardless is the first exhibition featuring ironic and satirical artworks by 15 established BC Aboriginal artists. A catalogue and seven public programs will accompany the exhibition. The intent of the exhibition is to advance the gallery’s mandate, extend artistic boundaries, de-colonize people minds, and heal and unify through laughter.

Organization: Bill Reid Gallery increases appreciation of contemporary Northwest Coast Aboriginal art and culture.

Project: Eric Whitacre Conducts Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Choral music suffers from a low profile both in schools and in the community. This project will fund a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Vancouver Chamber Choir and local youth choral singers to work with Grammy award-winning composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre. It will heighten awareness of choral music in the general public but even more importantly, will encourage and inspire young choral singers and their instructors.

Organization: Vancouver Chamber Choir makes music, primarily choral music of fully professional character and quality and fosters the public’s appreciation of choral music.

Project: Joe Laughlin Retrospective Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Greater Victoria Choreographer Joe Laughlin will develop a retrospective show that includes three of his most successful pieces and a new commission. It unites the efforts of four Organization’s to celebrate an award-winning choreographer in his 25th year of making dance and provides Victoria's dance community with access to a seasoned professional.

Organization: Dance Victoria enhances the appreciation of dance in the Capital Region.

Project: Colonial Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Colonial is an original contemporary dance work, based on Filipino history and current Filipino culture within the Canadian multicultural context, to promote cross-cultural awareness. It explores life in a colonized society and its effects on individuals.

Organization: Company Erasga Dance is a contemporary dance company founded on the principles of artistic innovation, integrity and social reflection.

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Project: Creation of 'DVOTE: Lust, Madness and Mayhem' Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver DVOTE: Lust, Madness and Mayhem is a new contemporary dance by award-winning dancer/choreographer Noam Gagnon and Nova Bhattacharya. DVOTE explores notions of devotion, sexuality, and spirituality. It bridges geographical and cultural groups across Canada, particularly practitioners of contemporary and classical Indian dance forms, and artists/audiences in British Columbia with Eastern Canadian communities.

Organization: Compagnie Vision Selective Arts Society actively reaches out to diverse audiences to broaden the reach and scope of the performing arts in Canada.

Project: Elephant Mountain Literary Festival Grant Received: $7,000 Location: Kootenay Elephant Mountain Literary Festival is a small festival that will bring featured authors, publishers, and agents to Nelson and provide expanded cultural opportunities to residents and visitors. Kootenay Literary Society's aim is to further develop the area’s audiences for Canadian authors and books and to enhance the understanding of audience members and local writers about the writing and publishing process. Kootenay Literary Society is working in partnership with Nelson Fine Arts Centre

Organization: Kootenay Literary Society augments Nelson and area writers’ and readers’ access to Canadian authors and publishers and enhances the understanding about the writing and publishing process.

Project: KISSM Band Expansion Project Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Thompson / Shuswap Enhancing the Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music will give music students the chance to study at a higher level, to experience new types of music ensembles like Chamber Music and Symphony Orchestra, and to take part in valuable Master classes.

Organization: Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music Society creates an inclusive learning environment where students of all levels are encouraged to develop their love of music.

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Project: Extraction Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Extraction is a bilingual documentary theatre show (in Mandarin and English) that explores Canada/China relations, tar sands development, and China’s rise as an economic power through the biographies of four people whose lives have been transformed by these realities. The play aims to add a human dimension to the public conversation about topical, controversial subjects affecting us all—adding new perspectives to illustrate unique experiences.

Organization: Theatre Conspiracy is a non-profit theatre company that taps the crosscurrents of international culture, society and politics to create, interpret and translate theatre works that speak beyond borders.

Project: Fall Away Home Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Fall Away Home is an outdoor, all-ages theatre performance on the theme of human trafficking. This all-ages piece will explore the world of children who are not entirely in control of their own lives and destiny. In collaboration with the Vancouver Port Authority, this piece will be performed at the port or near to it on the water's edge. The setting will be constructed out of shipping containers stacked three and four stories high alongside cranes and other industrial machinery.

Organization: Boca del Lupo Theatre Society aims to create and present extra ordinary experiences for intergenerational audiences in unconventional spaces.

Project: FICTION(S) Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Vancouver FICTION(S) is a three-part series: Do You See What I Mean? (a 2.5 hour, blindfolded tour of Vancouver’s Downtown), Human Library (visitors check out a ‘human book’), and Sometimes I Think, I Can See You (writers muse, reflect and devise narratives of what they observe in pubic spaces and project their writing live for public viewing). The project furthers the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival’s interests in situating the performing arts within the public realm, encouraging new and innovative engagement with local communities and fostering groundbreaking partnerships.

Organization: The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. PuSh expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original.

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Project: Flee Grant Received: $12,000 Location: Vancouver Flee is a new work by composer Peggy Lee and playwright David Hudgins with lighting designer Itai Erdal. It is co-produced by Barking Sphinx and The Elbow, and sponsored by The Roundhouse. Flee examines the interplay between composition and improvisation, and the dramatic potential of music, bringing the audience closer to the life and nature of musicians and in particular, improvisers – vulnerable, rebellious, risky and curious.

Organization: Barking Sphinx Performance Society supports the creation, production and presentation of contemporary music for small ensembles.

Project: Germaine Koh: Weather Systems Grant Received: $27,100 Location: Thompson / Shuswap Germaine Koh: Weather Systems will be a major solo exhibition and will produce a publication on the work of Germaine Koh. The exhibition and publication will support the artistic excellence of one of British Columbia's foremost contemporary artists, expose Kamloops audiences to a comprehensive grouping of Koh's work and broaden the scope of its engagement with audiences.

Organization: Kamloops Art Gallery is the principal gallery in the Southern Interior of B.C.

Project: Beethoven, Bob and Borealis in BC Grant Received: $30,000 Location: Province-wide Health Arts Society will present 200 45-minute concerts by renowned pianist Robert Silverman and the Borealis String Quartet to elders and others isolated in long-term facilities in the Interior of BC. The purpose of this touring project is to enrich the lives of elders and others isolated by health care through the presentation of good music, well played by professional performers. It addresses a chronic social issue: the lack of high-quality music making available to people in long- term care, particularly frail elders.

Organization: Health Arts Society presents high-quality music concerts for audiences isolated by health care across B.C.

Project: High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese Grant Received: $8,000 Location: Kootenay High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese is a multi-disciplinary project juxtaposing narratives of historical Chinese immigration to Canada with narratives exploring the emergent power of contemporary China.

Organization: Nelson Fine Arts Centre stimulates the creation, dissemination and discussion of contemporary visual art, writing, film and performance.

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Project: U.S. West Coast Tour Grant Received: $75,000 Location: US West Coast History proves when an orchestra prepares for and undertakes a major tour, it significantly increases its administrative and artistic capacity, reputation, and recruitment/retention capabilities. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will tour the U.S. West Coast in January 2013 with concerts in Seattle, Las Vegas, Santa Barbara, Northridge, Alisa Viejo, Palm Desert, Scottsdale and Tucson. This project will continue to build on the high performance level of the orchestra and to bring it, Vancouver, BC and Canada international recognition in the performing arts.

Organization: Vancouver Symphony enriches the quality of life in, and brings prestige to our city, province and country through the presentation of high-quality performances of classical and popular music and the delivery of excellent education and community programs.

Project: Colas & Colinette, A Comedie Melee d'Ariettes Grant Received: $5,000 Location: Cariboo / Chilcotin In collaboration with le Cercle des Canadiens Français, the Symphony will present its first Canadian operatic work, a live performance filled with traditional song and dance. It will promote the , culture and heritage and community awareness to the approximately 4,000 French-speaking residents in the Prince George area. Performance evaluation will be determined by the overall reaction of the audience and participants to the project, audience comments and an independent review.

Organization: Prince George Symphony Orchestra enriches the cultural life of the people who live and work in northern BC.

Project: UPCYCLED URBANISM: An Everyday Design Assemblage Grant Received: $6,990 Location: Vancouver In this participatory art project, Vancouverites will design and build their own public art and amenities using large blocks of polystyrene salvaged from the demolition of the Port Mann Bridge. A series of workshops will culminate in an outdoor design/build event where the wider community will be invited to critique and encourage the builders. Artists, designers, makers and laypeople will be invited to reimagine Vancouver's public art and amenities, and become part of Vancouver's evolving design culture.

Organization: Vancouver Museum Society holds a mirror up to the city and leads provocative conversations about its past, present and future.

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Project: Just Imagine Grant Received: $18,069 Location: Okanagan Just Imagine is a project about art and vision impairment. It contains an exhibition of art by four vision-impaired artists, and programs for adults and youth that explore the various ways that people see, and respond to the world around them.

Organization: Kelowna Art Gallery aims to engage, inspire, and enrich the community through the exhibition, collection and interpretation of visual art.

Project: Know Your Treasures Grant Received: $20,000 Location: North Vancouver Know Your Treasures exhibition introduces the Metro Vancouver community to a new public art collection in the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Canada's first museum for young audiences. It will help the community understand the richness of content contained in the Artists for Kids collection of Canadian art. (500 works created by 48 of the country's leading artists have been acquired as a teaching/ learning resource for the public.) The exhibit will include interactive school programs, an artists’ symposium, website for visitors, and the exhibition catalogue.

Organization: Gordon & Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists supports art education in the metro Vancouver community.

Project: Life Project Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Life is a new creative collaboration between Kokoro Dance, composer Lee Pui Ming, and visual artist Kai Chan, artists in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, about the preciousness of life. It will express thoughts about what it means to be alive.

Organization: Kokoro Dance Theatre evolves an original dance language inspired by Japanese butoh and western ballet based modes of expression.

Project: Premiere Production of Sally Stubb's play KID GLOVES Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Little is known about how women became active members of Canada's police forces. The play, KID GLOVES shares the story of Vancouver's first policewomen (in 1912) in the style that references silent movies. The production will involve film/video as well as period costumes, a period setting and soundscape.

Organization: The Firehall Theatre produces, presents and promotes the performing and visual arts.

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Project: Lured Grant Received: $10,000 Location: Vancouver Lured will be an exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum interpreting and enhancing the work of three contemporary artists (Allan Sekula, Stan Douglas and Uriel Orlow) with museum objects and archival material. The exhibit will look at the evolution of container shipping and its profound social and economic impact on the city of Vancouver. The underlying themes of the exhibit include: globalization and economics — who works on the cargo ships in Vancouver's harbour and who provides seafarer's social safety net?

Organization: Vancouver Maritime Museum Society engages the community through innovative exhibitions, and educational and public programs to provide a range of learning experiences.

Project: The End of the World as We Know It Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Okanagan Over six weeks, the gallery will be transformed by six teams of artists blending music, visual arts and dance in an exploration of contemporary electronic culture exemplified by the rave community. The teams will explore the “end of the Mayan calendar” theories and the deaths from tainted ecstasy. The exhibit and workshops will provide an open public forum bringing together a wide range of experts, health professionals, artists and participants to answer questions to celebrate and demystify contemporary rave culture.

Organization: Penticton Art Gallery’s mandate is to educate, exhibit, interpret, preserve and promote the visual artistic heritage of the region, the province and the nation.

Project: Sisters Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Richmond Richmond and Lower Mainland audiences are diverse, and are struggling with issues of identity and history. Inspired by Chekhov's Three Sisters, Gateway Theatre will produce a world premiere titled 'Sisters' to explore the clash of two cultures (Russian and Chinese).

Organization: Richmond Gateway Theatre Society is Richmond's premiere professional arts organization.

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Project: Slowpoke Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Slowpoke is a new live performance inspired by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The show explores humanity's relationship with nuclear power now and for future generations. Slowpoke is designed to poetically express issues of nuclear power, to generate thought and discussion around the subject, and create a deeper understanding of the implications of its use. Slowpoke creators are bringing a first-hand experience of Chernobyl to their audience. They will attempt to bring a sense of beauty and meaning to a subject that can be incomprehensible for many.

Organization: Radix Theatre specializes in adventurous event-theatre that defies convention.

Project: Spatial Poetics XI: Some Monster Grant Received: $5,500 Location: Vancouver Spatial Poetics is an interdisciplinary project that celebrates collaboration and innovation in the use of text, visuals, music and performance by diverse Asian Canadian artists. It will provide Asian Canadian artists exposure, leadership opportunities, and creative opportunities to create interdisciplinary collaborative works. Vanessa Kwan curates artists Peggy Lee, Yota Kobayashi, Andrew Lee, and others. New collaborative works by Peggy Lee, Yota Kobayashi and Andrew Lee and their artistic partners will be presented in an evening of eclectic presentations.

Organization: Powell Street Festival celebrates the arts and culture of Japanese and Asian Canadians.

Project: TRIPTYCH - Artistic Development for large-scale theatrical production Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Vancouver The Electric Company is partnered with the 25th International Writers Festival to produce an immersive fusion of theatre, poetry, and visual art, based on work by three Vancouver female writers: Jennica Harper, Elizabeth Bachinsky, and Marita Daschel. It will be an immersive fusion of theatre, poetry and visual art, appearing in three parts across three venues during the festival.

Organization: Electric Company Theatre Society is dedicated to the creation of original works of theatre and the adaptation of existing texts with an emphasis on physical and visual imagery.

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Project: Side-drape replacement project Grant Received: $5,500 Location: Vancouver The existing drapes and tracks in the Jericho Arts Centre were acquired second-hand before 2000. The fire retardant on the drapes has deteriorated so that they no longer meet the BC Fire Code. They are also shabby looking. This project would install new drapes and tracks along the side walls of the Jericho Arts Centre, to comply with the BC Fire Code and improve the appearance of the theatre.

Organization: United Players of Vancouver produces five challenging plays per year.

Project: The Ginger Goodwin Project Grant Received: $10,000 Location: South Vancouver Island The Ginger Goodwin Project is a new play about “Ginger” Goodwin, which supports the playwriting process with a workshop using professional actors to stage a top notch production in April 2013. Goodwin was a well-loved champion of workers’ rights in BC killed in 1918 as he fled from conscription. The play will offer an evocative and dramatic retelling of his life and will touch many who care about the kind of Canada we are making for our children.

Organization: Nanaimo Festival Heritage Theatre Society provides challenging and dynamic professional live theatre emphasizing contemporary Canadian work.

Project: The Kelowna Summer Theatre Festival Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Okanagan The new Kelowna Summer Theatre Festival will offer a light summer fare of repertory theatre in an outdoor venue and will engage emerging artists as actors, technicians and designers. It will provide career opportunities to young theatre artists and provide a lively outdoor theatre experience for our audiences.

Organization: Viva Musica produces work of a high artistic standard and employs young professional artists, as well as local amateur performers.

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Project: When the Sun Comes Out: A New Opera by Composer Leslie Uyeda & Poet Rachel Rose Grant Received: $35,000 Location: Vancouver The Pride in Art Society will produce Canada's first lesbian opera, When the Sun Comes Out, by Leslie Uyeda and Rachel Rose, a moving exploration of love and loss in the shadow of a homophobic regime. This project makes history, as Canada's first opera created by lesbian artists on a lesbian subject. Harnessing this uniquely powerful medium to speak out about homophobic violence, the opera educates and builds empathy through artistic expression.

Organization: Pride In Art Society celebrates the unique creative expressions of artists who identify as LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, two-spirited, and intersex).

Project: R.I.P. Grant Received: $5,000 Location: Vancouver The R.I.P. project will develop a script loosely based on the story of Rip van Winkle through two intensive workshops, leading to rehearsal and the production of a new play which will be presented in Vancouver.

Organization: Axis Theatre Society explores, creates and performs original physical theatre plays for audiences of all ages.

Project: Residential Schools Exhibition Grant Received: $12,000 Location: Vancouver The Residential Schools Exhibition project will be an exhibition of aboriginal art on the topic of the Indian Residential Schools experience. The work will be done by people who directly experienced this trauma as well as those from successive generations who are still affected by it. It will take place at three venues in Vancouver, to coincide with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Dialogues. The treatment of Aboriginal Peoples by government officials and members of religious communities, including their forced attendance at Residential Schools for over 150 years, will be brought to the public's attention.

Organization: Malaspina Printmakers Society supports the development of printmaking as a contemporary art form and to promote and preserve traditional practice.

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Project: The Secret Garden and Other Works Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Victoria The Secret Garden and Other Works is a two-act ballet program featuring a mixed repertoire and an original one-act narrative by P. Destrooper based on M. Shamata's interpretation of Burnett's classic novel, The Secret Garden. With few original ballet creations in B.C.'s repertoire, this project attempts to build the Province's artistic profile by producing a '100% made in B.C.' show that highlights some of B.C.'s brightest dancers, designers, choreographers, and musicians.

Organization: Ballet Victoria Society performs classical and innovative repertoire.

Project: The Spoken Word Marquee Series Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver The Spoken Word Marquee Series will bring the best poets from Canada and around the world to Vancouver to amaze audiences with high-energy poetry as part of the Vancouver International Poetry Festival. Spoken Word is a rising global phenomenon. The Spoken Word Marquee Series establishes Vancouver as a centre for poetic innovation in the oral tradition, showcasing today’s premier spoken word poets and developing the next generation.

Organization: Vancouver Poetry House support the development of new and emerging writers and enriches the cultural landscape of BC.

Project: Ocean Falls Reunion Grant Received: $7,500 Location: Central Coast The town of Ocean Falls was built to serve a paper mill, and died when the mill closed. This project will create a physical and online reunion exhibition/memory space of the now-defunct community. It asks the questions: “What is a community?” “Can it be created artificially?” “Can it be preserved in memory only?” And “What do we do when we create towns around resources and then abandon them?”

Organization: Narrative 360 advances documentary arts, primarily through the use and exhibition of documentary photography.

Project: PSWE Youth Musical Initiatives Grant Received: $3,250 Location: Delta The Youth Musical Initiatives Project provides master classes, mentorship and unique performance opportunities for student musicians to make music with professional musicians. This project is designed to inspire young musicians to pursue musical endeavors, improve their individual skills, interact within the larger musical community, perform with high-level performers and enjoy a video legacy of their experience.

Organization: Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble

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Project: Whose Life is it Anyway? Grant Received: $15,000 Location: Vancouver There are few plays that speak authentically about disability and even fewer opportunities for people with disabilities to get involved in the performing arts. This play features a quadriplegic with a mischievous sense of humor, who fights for the right to die. This leading role will be played by a professional actor with a disability. This project will inspire people with disabilities to pursue the arts, encourage Vancouver theatre companies to include artists with disabilities, and enlighten the general public on disability issues.

Organization: Realwheels Society creates and produces world-class performances that deepen the audiences’ understanding of the disability experience, and fosters inclusion of people with disabilities into the performing arts.

Project: Language Documentation Grant Received: $28,000 Location: Bella Coola This project is critical to the survival of the . The classes currently taught have not produced any fluent speakers. At least 30 elders living in Bella Coola spoke Nuxalk as their first language. They will be systematically recorded with professional recording equipment.

Organization: Wuikinuxv Kitasoo Nuxalk Tribal Council aims to improve the lives of its members.

Project: A Workshop On and Performance of Monteverdi's Vespers in March and June 2013 Grant Received: $7,500 Location: Victoria This project supports a workshop on and performance of Monteverdi's Vespers. Large scale choral works like Monteverdi's Vespers are rarely put on in Victoria. This work shows off the best that music had to offer 400 years ago.

Organization: Victoria Philharmonic Choir Society provides Victoria and Vancouver Island with live performances of choral music.

Project: "Locating the City" (Community Workshop/Performance/Exhibition) Grant Received: $17,500 Location: Vancouver This project will address the lack of opportunity for the exchange of ideas and information and perspectives from a variety of people and groups. Locating the City will allow individuals to document parts of the city and become part of a mapping project that explores where the physical and virtual worlds connect within the cityscape. It will offer a workshop for 100 participants culminating in a final public performance/exhibition event showcasing Vancouver through community mapping, identity, structure, and culture.

Organization: New Forms Media unites creative communities, pushes artistic and conceptual boundaries, and explores digital media as an art form. In partnership with Perspective Arts Foundation.

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Project: Gathering Project Grant Received: $25,000 Location: Vancouver This project will be a gathering for over 40 culturally diverse and Aboriginal contemporary dance artists and/or companies to develop networking action plans at the 2013 Vancouver International Dance Festival. Over six days, the gathering will alternate performance and discussion sessions. It will create an active and mutually supportive network of dance artists that helps artistic creations seen by more people outside of their own communities.

Organization: Vancouver International Dance Festival Society supports culturally diverse contemporary dance.

Project: Expansion of Archive & Artifact Collection Rooms Grant Received: $10,000 Location: Central Coast This project will build a west wing for the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society to house growing artifact and archive collections. This will enable the Museum to grow as an important island centre of learning and connection, with increased service delivery and community programming, improved public access to archival records and artifact collections, and better protection of valuable historic assets.

Organization: Cortes Island Museum and Archives collects and preserves the social and natural history of Cortes Island.

Project: Lester and Thomson Garage Exhibit Grant Received: $8,285 Location: Thompson / Shuswap This project will construct and install an exhibit of an early garage built in Salmon Arm in 1917. It will help share the story of how our farming community changed forever as transportation reliance shifted from the C.P. Rail and horse and buggy to automobile. It will also create a home for the Antique and Classic Car Show, delighting 13,000 people annually, and start conversations between multiple generations.

Organization: Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association operate museums and archives representing the Salmon Arm and Shuswap Area.

Project: Valley of Stories: Valley of Worlds Spoken Word Performance Series Grant Received: $5,000 Location: Vancouver Island This project will create a new spoken-word performance series to fill a void in regional performance activity, and will advance outreach and audience development goals for multicultural programming, First Nations programming, and youth programming. Four performances will incorporate community outreach activities and feature artists from diverse cultural/social backgrounds, and build audiences and community participation.

Organization: Sid Williams Theatre Society stimulates and enhances artistic, cultural and economic activities in the Comox Valley region by operating the Sid WilliamsTheatre.

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Project: Wild New Territories (WNT) Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Metro Vancouver This project will create and present an indoor and outdoor international visual art exhibit of ecological art. The art will attempt to analyze and explore the natural and the urban simultaneously. The project has partnered with many groups and those partnerships ensure that it will have an audience with several key demographics - Artists for Kids Trust will bring youth; Stanley Park Ecology Society will represent the natural history community, etc. The project also involves artists with disabilities (Kathy Kenny), First Nations Artists (Edgar Heap of Birds), and multi-ethnic artists (Gordon Cheung).

Organization: KBR Collective (Ron den Daas, Kathy Kenny, Bo Myers) in partnership with Simon Fraser University.

Project: Home is a Beautiful Word Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Victoria This project will create a new piece of theatre on the issue of homelessness in Victoria, using dialogue drawn from hundreds of interviews conducted with members of our community. It aims to shed light on some factors that shape the current state of homelessness in Victoria and to help affect social change and facilitate the inclusion of voices not usually heard — in the theatre or elsewhere.

Organization: Belfry Theatre Society is a professional theatre company, dedicated to producing contemporary plays, with an emphasis on Canadian work.

Project: Centennial Building in honor of BC Forest Service, Elks Lodge, 4-H & Co-op Movement of Canada Grant Received: $16,400 Location: Kootenay This project will develop a new exhibit/celebration area for the Boundary Museum Society. The building will be used for events such as the centennials of the BC Forest Service, Elk Lodge 493 & the 4-H Organization. It will also provide much-needed long-term secure storage space for the Community logging and other large artifact displays.

Organization: Boundary Museum collects, preserves, encourages research and facilitates awareness of the heritage of Grand Forks and the Boundary region.

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Project: A Canadian Musical Feast Grant Received: $5,400 Location: Metro Vancouver This project will present a dynamic concert celebrating great Canadian songwriters and the cultural diversity of Canadian life from coast to coast. The concerts will feature choral music written and / or arranged by Canadians and enhanced with dance, visual effects, and instruments, bringing to life and memory the experience of being Canadian for people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

Organization: Pandora's Vox Vocal Ensemble provides high quality, professional concerts.

Project: Inspiration From The Professionals Grant Received: $2,400 Location: Vancouver This project will provide 115 young Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra musicians an opportunity to work closely and intensively for one weekend with dynamic young professionals from the metro Vancouver community, and will present a public performance together. The young musicians will be greatly enriched with musical knowledge and inspiration through this mentorship.

Organization: Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Society funds, facilitates and provides the highest standard of orchestral training for young musicians from beginners to pre-professional.

Project: Musical Transformations: Our Story (working title) Grant Received: $6,000 Location: Vancouver This project will reflect how live performances on Chinese instruments came to Vancouver during immigration, how it has adopted new contemporary elements with the change of environment, and where it is headed. It will educate audiences by showcasing Chinese culture and celebrate the transformations and contributions of Chinese instrumental music to the heritage of arts and culture in Vancouver.

Organization: Vancouver Chinese Instrumental Music Society supports the creation, production and presentation of music for Chinese instruments or based on Chinese musical traditions.

Project: BC In Song - Creating Legends Grant Received: $10,000 Location: Victoria This project will research and compile events from B.C.'s past and experiment with ways to translate historical events into folklore. The ultimate goal is to create a theatrical piece composed of West Coast events by transforming them from simple events into folk legends through theatre, song and storytelling.

Organization: Other Guys Theatre Company Society creates musical, theatrical productions inspired by local stories to address community issues and history.

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Project: Black Strathcona Interactive Project Grant Received: $37,000 Location: Vancouver Vancouver's black history is little known and being forgotten. The Black Strathcona Interactive Project will celebrate Vancouver's black history and provide an innovative artistic and cultural experience through the on-line presentation of 12 video stories. The project will combine video, archival photos and film, and storytelling by members of Vancouver's black community to document, disseminate and celebrate the cultural and artistic legacy of the Black Strathcona via a new media platform.

Organization: Creative Cultural Collaborations Society (C3) in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre Society. C3 supports creative cultural initiatives and projects through stimulating, developing and executing unique arts and cultural projects and activities.

Project: Norwegian Spring Grant Received: $10,000 Location: Vancouver Vancouver's Elektra Women's Choir will welcome the esteemed Norwegian guest conductor, Maria Gamborg Helbekkmo, for a week of intensive rehearsals and public performance, with stimulating educational events for conductors and singers. Ms. Gamborg Helbekkmo is simply one of the finest conductors of women's choirs in the world. Elektra and the young conductors and singers involved will grow immeasurably from contact with her.

Organization: Elektra Women's Choir inspires and leads in the choral art form through excellence in performance and the creation, exploration and celebration of women's repertoire.

Project: Transpondings Grant Received: $7,500 Location: Vancouver and Victoria Vancouver's Redshift Music, together with Victoria's Open Space Society, will present a series of free spatial music concerts in public venues from Vancouver to Victoria with premieres by B.C. composers. This project will facilitate cooperation between the arts communities of Vancouver and Victoria. Composers and performers from both communities will work together to bring new classical music out of the concert hall and into the ears of the B.C. public, in places like Lonsdale Quay as well as smaller musical events on the B.C. Ferries during the sailings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay and on the Seabus between Vancouver and Lonsdale Quay.

Organization: Redshift Music Society brings the music of contemporary Canadian composers to the non- concert-going public.

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Project: War of the Eagles Grant Received: $20,000 Location: Greater Victoria War of the Eagles is an original Kaleidoscope work directed by Roderick Glanville that confronts racism, friendship, and mixed-cultural identity, presented in an immersive outdoor theatrical venue. This project will increase youth arts mentorship through the act of creation and offer a lasting, imaginative, and interactive theatrical experience to impact youth participants and youth audience.

Organization: Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions creates original, innovative and relevant theatre experiences that stimulate and inspire young people and their communities.

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April 2013