When thinking about the role of arts in education in the next 20 years, Artists on Tour Directory 2017 What will the world be like in 20 years? How can young people prepare for careers that don’t even exist yet? What can we do today to help our young people grow up to be the innovators, dreamers and leaders of the future? It all starts with imagining what’s possible and asking, what if... what if... all teachers had opportunities to build their creative what if... confidence? young people played a leadership role in directing their education? what if... teachers and artists were collaborators in education? what if... artists were present in the everyday culture of schools? what if... parents played a stronger role as arts champions? what if... the arts were integrated throughout all learning? What do you think? What might the future hold for your school, district or community? What questions are you asking today that might shape tomorrow? Triangle of Possibilities Educators Artists Families le p o e P g n u Yo Activate Young People’s Creativity with ArtStarts in Schools Each year, ArtStarts provides over 640,000 unique arts experiences for young people in urban, rural and remote communities across British Columbia. From Kindergarten to Grade 12, in public and private schools throughout the province, ArtStarts supports a wide range of arts-based experiences that activate learning for young people. Below are some of the ways you can get involved to activate young people’s creativity in your own school or community. Connect with ArtStarts Showcase Professional This event is Western Canada’s most Artists important performing arts showcase for arts programmers interested in booking performances for young audiences. Delegates discover new talent, network with peers and connect with professional artists. artstarts.com/showcase Booking and Touring Bring professional artists to your schools and communities. ArtStarts offers an efficient and cost-effective booking and touring service that takes care of the logistics of planning a tour. We advise you on artist availability, programming, touring, schedules and fees. artstarts.com/aotd BC students welcome touring artists into their schools. Pictured above are just some of the artists you'll discover in this Directory: Luv2Groove, Jellyfish Project, Iskwew Singers. 3 Artists on Tour Directory Apply for Grants to Support the Arts Do you want to book performing artists for your school or community venue? The Artists on Tour Directory, available in print or online, Artists in Education Grants for Districts presents a catalogue of artists who are well- suited for young audiences and are available Open to all BC School Districts, the Federation for performances and workshops throughout of Independent School Associations and the BC. Search the Directory by artist name, First Nations Schools Association, this funding discipline or specialty. program is designed to support a wide range of arts activities impacting students all across artstarts.com/aotd the province. AIE grants are funded by BC Arts Council and the Government of British Artists in the Classroom Directory Columbia's Creative Futures program. Looking for ways to explore the arts and artstarts.com/aie arts-based learning in your school? Search the online Artists in the Classroom Directory Artists in the Classroom Grants for Schools to discover practicing professional artists available to work with young people in BC. Teachers, principals, PAC representatives and Working in a variety of disciplines, many of artists can apply for Artists in the Classroom these artists have experience delivering arts grants to bring professional artists into the integrated projects in a classroom setting classroom. These grants support projects in and are eager to collaborate with educators schools across BC that demonstrate artistic to support rich learning experiences in excellence, strong curricular connections, the classroom. Search for artists by name, high levels of student engagement and an discipline or region. active partnership between an educator and a professional artist. AIC grants are funded artstarts.com/aicd by BC Arts Council and the Government of British Columbia's Creative Futures program. artstarts.com/aic Cherniavsky’s “Mr. Music” Fund This fund assists schools in purchasing tickets for students to attend classical and traditional music, opera or ballet. Grants cover 60% of the ticket cost, up to $500. Supported by the Cherniavsky Junior Club for the Performing Arts Society, the funding program was named after Jan Cherniavsky, a world-renowned th Students at Riverside Secondary in Port Coquitlam classical pianist. 2017 marks the 50 had the opportunity to work directly with a anniversary of the Cherniavsky Junior Club for professional artist, thanks support from an the Performing Arts Society. Artists in the Classroom grant. artstarts.com/cherniavsky 4 ArtStarts Gallery The ArtStarts Gallery is the only free, public gallery in Canada exclusively dedicated to young people's art. Since the gallery opened in 2006, our exhibitions have celebrated the exciting artwork that emerges when students, educators and professional artists work together to deepen learning, creativity and community connections. Our 4,000 square foot gallery and resource centre, located at 808 Richards Street in downtown Vancouver, Arts in Education Council of BC Fund Families experience the is free and open to the public. Our exhibitions often showcase the inspiring work resulting arts together at our free This fund offers grants of up to $500 for monthly workshops led from Artists in the Classroom projects. by professional artists. educators or schools to support professional development for K-12 educators in BC. artstarts.com/gallery These grants can be used to assist in the presentation or attendance of professional Gallery Tours: In Person and Online development workshops, clinics or seminars designed to increase the appreciation of the Are you visiting Vancouver with your arts for teachers in BC schools. students? The ArtStarts Gallery offers artstarts.com/aiecbc informative and interactive guided tours of our exhibitions and hands-on workshops. 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These accessible events bring Emerging artists across all disciplines living the community together and offer an easy in the City of Vancouver can apply with and fun way for young people to discover, arts-based projects that build their career, experience and experiment with a variety of engage young people, and embrace diversity, art forms firsthand. innovation and artistic excellence. Grants up to $2,000 are available. This grant is funded artstarts.com/events by the City of Vancouver. artstarts.com/creativesparkvancouver 5 “We very much enjoyed Fana Soro’s visit this past year. As an inner city school we not only find his musical performance entertaining and educational, but also the positive message Booking about school participation and respect particularly motivating.” and Touring —Principal, Surrey, BC Each year ArtStarts' Booking and Through this program, schools can expose Touring program brings about 2,000 their students to a wide range of arts performances into schools and performances and workshops, allowing communities across BC. young people to experience new art forms and new perspectives. We hope these With a roster of almost 100 professional experiences will inspire young minds to try something new, explore new ways of Rekha Pavanantharajah performing artist groups, ArtStarts provides Program Manager schools and communities in urban, rural and thinking, and spark their own creativity. 604-336-0626 ext 103 remote regions of BC with access to high [email protected] Artists on the ArtStarts roster represent an quality, professional artists. ArtStarts is the outstanding range of cultural traditions and bridge that connects schools to new and disciplines, including music, dance, theatre, exciting performers, and likewise connects storytelling and interdisciplinary arts. High- artists to new audiences for their work. calibre artistic experiences of all kinds are Juried by a selection committee of educators, waiting to be discovered in ArtStarts’ Artists artists, arts administrators and a young on Tour Directory, from traditional Chinese person, presenters can rest assured that instrumental music to contemporary hip- the artists on the ArtStarts roster are of the hop and rap; from Aboriginal storytelling to Nargis Dhirani highest quality and suitable for their young spoken word poetry; from classical ballet to Program Coordinator free-style modern dance, and much, much 604-336-0626 ext 102 audiences. [email protected] more... (until June 2017) ArtStarts offers