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Circle tour offers Superior travel experience; splendours of Gichigami abound – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Apr 3, 2017 By Colin Perkel THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO _ It might not have the must-do cachet of California’s Highway 101, of South Africa’s Garden Route or of the Rockies. Yet a voyage around the world’s largest freshwater lake, the big sea they once called Gichigami, reveals a sublime and in-your-face spectacular […]
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Cultural organizations receive funding through B.C. | Canada 150 grants
April 2, 2017 SURREY – More than 220 projects in 150 communities throughout British Columbia are receiving a total of $7.6 million in B.C. | Canada 150 grants, Stephanie Cadieux, MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale announced today at the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society on behalf of Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Peter Fassbender. Administered […]
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Trust Accepting Built Heritage Grant Applications
March 28, 2017 First intake of three-year, $6-million granting program now open The first intake of Columbia Basin Trust’s new Built Heritage Grants opens on March 28. “We know that there are projects that organizations will want to get started on this year, so we’ve timed our first grant intake to help them take advantage […]
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Vancouver non-profit organizations get a funding boost to support public art
March 29 2017 Public art is getting a boost in Vancouver as the City invests more than $500,000 dollars to create opportunities for artists and organizations in Vancouver’s vibrant art scene. The investment will stimulate opportunities for murals, artwork by indigenous artists, and enable significant new public art projects in Vancouver. “Vancouver has a rich and diverse […]
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Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Grants Announced
Williams Lake, BC – The Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 CCACS Grants Program. Project grants were available for non-profit organizations or community groups in Williams Lake and the Central Cariboo (CRD Areas D, E, and F) to support and develop arts and culture within this […]
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FPCC’s Indigenous Arts Grant Recipients Announced Today
BRENTWOOD BAY, B.C. – The First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC) is pleased to announce that $979,950 in grants have been awarded to Indigenous artists in B.C. through the Aboriginal Arts Development Awards (AADA) and Aboriginal Youth Engaged in the Arts (AYEA) programs. Of 111 applications received for the October 31, 2016 deadline, 76 projects were […]
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Jack Knox: The value of learning in your mother tongue first – Times Colonist
March 24, 2017 Moustapha Fall had an upbringing familiar to a lot of Canadians. He spoke one language to Mom and Dad at home, then studied in another at school. So while he can understand and speak his parents’ language fluently, he can’t read or write it at all. With more than one in five […]
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The Aboriginal Tourism Association of Canada applauds tourism announcements in Federal Budget 2017
March 22, 2017, Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, BC) – The Aboriginal Tourism Association of Canada (ATAC) applauds the support and sustainable funding announcements for tourism in Federal Budget 2017. As a part of today’s budget announcements, the government will invest $8.6 million in funding over four years starting 2017-18 through the department of Indigenous and […]
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B.C., Czech museums, Indigenous groups work to find cultural treasures abroad – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Mar 22, 2017 VICTORIA _ Museum officials in British Columbia and the Czech Republic have signed an agreement to better track First Nations artifacts held beyond provincial borders. The deal was signed between the Royal BC Museum in Victoria and the Narodni museum in Prague. A release from the Royal BC Museum says […]
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MNBC: Call for Métis Cultural Ambassadors for March 19th, 2017 in Fort Langley, BC.
March 11, 2017 Métis Nation British Columbia is seeking 6 to 10 Métis people with a variety of Métis regalia or Métis artistic skills (fiddling, jigging, beading, etc.), who are interested in participating in our ‘Gathering Our Stories’ video on Sunday, March 19th, 2017. We are seeking individuals from across BC of all ages (Youth, […]
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