Workshops
PACT Town Halls Professional Association of Canadian Theatre Monthly 10am-11am
Arts BC Roundtable (Bi-Weekly) Arts BC Tuesdays 12pm-1pm
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion ($20) KCR Jan 26 & Feb 2 9:30am-12:30pm
Examples & Blueprints to Sell Out Your Next Fundraising Event Charity Village Thurs, Jan 27 10am-11am
What’s Next? Goal Setting Made Fun & Easy! Women in Leadership Thurs, Feb 3 12pm-1pm
Pivoting to Digital: Theatre Edition PLEO & GVPTA Thurs, Feb 3 1pm-2pm
Board Boot Camp 101 ($25) KCR Wed, Feb 16 4pm-6pm
Cybersecurity Awareness for Nonprofits and Charities Charity Village Thurs, Feb 17 10am-11am
Board Boot Camp 201 ($25) KCR Wed, Mar 2 4pm-6pm
Creating a Digital Marketing Funnel in 2022 Charity Village Thurs, Mar 10 10am-11am
Financial Resources
- Canada’s COVID Economic Response Plan: support to Canadians, businesses and organizations facing hardship as a result of COVID-19
- Canada Arts Presentation Fund: supporting Professional Arts Festivals, Performing Arts Series Presenters, and Presenter Support Organizations.
- Canada Music Fund: supporting individual and collective initiatives.
- FPCC’s Mentor Apprentice Program: This program is for B.C. First Nations individuals who want to become fluent with the goal of passing on to other learners through teaching or parenting.
- FPCC’s Mentor-Apprentice Program: Connections (MAPC): This new program is suitable for all adult language learners. It is for people who want to learn their language but may not be in a position to pass the language on.
- FACTOR’s Emergency Support Fund for Canada’s Live Music Sector: The purpose of this program is to help Canadian live music companies and organizations operating in Canada who are facing financial pressures due to public health directives in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
- FPCC’s Indigenous Arts Program & Indigenous Music Initiative: Indigenous (status, non-status, Métis and Inuit) artists, organizations and collectives located in B.C. are encouraged to apply.
- Creative BC’s Amplify BC Program: programs will open to support the rest and recovery of the province’s music industry.
- FPCC’s Pathways to Language Vitality Program: provides funding and support for community-led projects that revitalize First Nations languages in B.C. and help create new fluent speakers.
- 2022 City of Kelowna Cultural Grants Program: supporting cultural development in our community.
- FPCC’s Language Technology Program: This program provides support to technology, digitization equipment and training to communities to support language revitalization using technology.
Non-financial Resources
- Vantage Point COVID19 Response Program: short-term initiative to match you with an expert volunteer in four knowledge areas; information navigators, governance advisors, fundraising advisors and financial management advisors
- [email protected]: free crisis management support to arts organizations on topics such as finance, human resources, fundraising, governance, communications etc.
- LegalHelpBC.ca provides British Columbians with a starting point to get answers to their COVID-19 legal questions.
- [email protected]: free legal information is available upon request to this email address
- Kelowna’s Canadian Mental Health Association: online programs and services to support mental health
- Vantage Point Membership: offered for free during COVID-19 crisis
- I Lost my Gig Canada: a space for creative industries and other vulnerable freelance and gig economy workers to connect and share stories in response to growing income precarity in Canada
- Act Safe – Safety Association: safety resources for arts and entertainment industries
- Business and the Arts Video Resources: a new series, How are you adapting? Where they interview arts leaders from across Canada to learn about how they are changing their programming and business models in light of COVID-19.
- ActSafe’s COVID-19 Resource Page
- Arts Community Outreach Coach: First People’s Cultural Council has a new position which will connect directly with Indigenous artists and organizations to assist them in accessing FPCC programs and resources, planning projects to address COVID-19 requirements and offer advice on raising their profile
- Young Associates CECRA Tips: tips for navigating the CECRA program
- ArtsClub COVID-19 Safety Measures: safety measures outlining the audience and artist experience
- Pacific Legal Education and Outreach Society Resources For You: helping non-profits and artists understand the law
- A Conversation with Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage: the recording
- Updated information on your Civil Liability for exposure to or transmission of COVID-19
- 5 steps to securing sponsors
- Survivor guilt: how to deal with company layoffs
- Recording of Townhall with the Honourable Steven Guilbeault: Sept 1
- 10 Ideas for Community Based COVID-19 Recovery
- Who Owns that Sound: Music in the Digital Age
- SoundON: provides BC presenters and artists with direct support to get back to doing what they do best: creating unforgettable live music experiences
- New 2020 T4 Reporting Requirements for All Employers: The CRA announced new reporting requirements for all Canadian employers who issue T4 slips.
- Pacific Legal Education and Outreach Society (PLEO): BC-based society that creates legal tools and resources for artists and non-profits to prevent legal issues before they happen
Governance and non-profit resources
- Non-profit Boards and COVID-19: what could the role of your board be during a global pandemic
- Canada Business Resilience Network: to help businesses and nonprofits prepare, persevere, and ultimately prosper as we collectively face the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Building an inclusive culture of wellbeing at work
- Directors Liability Frequently Asked Questions: information on the duties of directors, what they may be liable for and how to protect themselves
- Employee Rights and Employer Obligations in COVID-19
- Canadian Charities Connect: join other Canadian Charity Professionals to discuss tips, lessons learned and strategies for taking advantage of opportunities enabled by this transformation.
- ArtsBC Executive Directors’ Mastermind Group: a place where arts administrators can come together, troubleshoot, share and support one another. Key themes include governance, knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Reopening Resources
- BC Restart Plan: a series of steps that we will take together to protect people and ensure that our province can come back from COVID-19 stronger than before.
- Event Safety Alliance Reopening Guide: considerations for reopening your facilities and events
- WorkSafeBC’s Returning to Safe Operation – Phase 2
- Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission’s COVID 19 Business Resources
- ActSafe’s Performing Arts Industry Relaunch Framework
- What will it take for Canadian’s to return to the arts? Full report from Business/Arts
- Return to Work Letter Template
Offering Support
- Art Helps Auxiliary Directory: add your skills and capacity to the initiatives below to help reduce the impact of COVID-19
- [email protected]: experts and professionals can offer their free crisis management support to arts organizations on topics such as finance, human resources, fundraising, governance etc.
Digital and Working from Home Tools
- GVPTA Zoom Meeting Rooms to Book
- 8 Tips for Non-profit Leaders to Support Virtual Teams
- Community Engagement Using the Virtual Peer Input Process: A tool to crowdsource the wisdom of your team, focus team discussion and make progress on an idea, practice or challenge.
- Lake Country Museum Resources: The Lake Country Museum is providing resources for teachers, students and family at no cost to assist them with online access to resources
- New Video Interviewing Services: Charity Village is offering new video interviewing services that will help you take your hiring, volunteer recruitment, or job search entirely virtual.
- 8 Tips to Running your first online AGM from CAGP
- Virtual AGM Facilitation Guide
- Template: Virtual AGM Script
- Template: Virtual AGM critical path
- Virtual Event Planning Template
- How to transition volunteer training workshops to a virtual delivery
- Starting a job remotely during COVID-19? Here’s what you need to know to succeed
- How to build trust and boost productivity within remote team
- Tips for Safe Sharing on Social Media: social media provides platforms to share cultural content, but it comes with potential risks. We provide some helpful tips to keep your content safe
- Nine free remote team-building ideas to keep co-workers connected – combat loneliness and isolation, and build trust among team members
- COVID-19 Home Office Expense Tax Deductions: Employees that worked from home due to COVID-19 are able to claim their home office expense as a tax deduction.
Continue Indulging in the Arts
- Share and enjoy local art through ArtStream Okanagan’s Facebook page
- Learn more about the City’s Public Art collection by taking the Public Art Virtual Tour
- Attend the Social Distancing Festival
- For more ways to stay involved and to promote your ongoing programs, check out the #CultureDoesntStop portal!
- Culture Online: Visit museums, view live music, watch dance and explore science centres from across BC. #CultureDoesntStop
- Zuppa Theatre’s Vista: 30-minute, interactive storytelling map about working in public health
- Cultural District Self-Guided Walking Tour: take a tour of Kelowna’s Cultural District’s past and present on your mobile device
- Check out the third year of Uptown Rutland Business Association’s Mural Fest
- Visit the facilities in the Cultural District that have reopened with your safety in mind: Kelowna Art Gallery, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna Museums and the Okanagan Regional Library – Downtown Branch
Impact Reporting
- Purple Seven: Join the sector benchmark. TRG Arts and Purple Seven have partnered to provide real-time intelligence and advice to the arts and culture sector on the economic impact of COVID-19.
- COVID-19 Impact Survey: Fall 2021 Edition: GVPTA is asking artists, arts workers, and arts and culture organizations across British Columbia to complete the Fall 2021 version of the COVID-19 B.C. Arts & Culture Sector Impact Survey. The deadline to respond is November 23.
Available Impact Data
- Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Association Summary Report
- Canada Council’s April Survey Results
- Vantage Point Sector Survey Results
- What will it take for Canadians to return to the arts? Full report from Business/Arts
- Confederation Centre for the Arts Survey Results: Audience survey about returning to performances
- Global Pulse, COVID-19 Results, Canada
- Professional Association of Canadian Theatres COVID-19 Survey Results
- 30-Minute Executive Briefing on Audience Outlook Monitor Survey
- The State of the Arts: Impacts of 2020: Culture Days and CBC Toronto hosted a discussion examining how the Canadian arts sector has been upended by COVID-19
- Arts Research and COVID-19 by Hill Strategies
- GVPTA’s Summary Report December 2020
- Vantage Point’s No Immunity Report
- Business / Arts Arts Response Tracking Survey
- PACT COVID-19 Impact Survey – One Year On Summary
- PACT COVID-19 Audience Impact Monitor
- Vantage Point’s No Immunity Report
- Business / Arts Arts Response Tracking Survey
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono
Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) is incorporated federally as a non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists. As a non-profit association and a National Art Service Organization, our mandate is to promote the visual arts in Canada, to promote a socio-economic climate that is conducive to the production of visual arts in Canada, and to conduct research and engage in public education for these purposes. Exhibition Artist Fee Schedule Can’t find what you’re looking for? Look at CARFAC’s Tools for Visual Artists TONAC was born out of the dissolution of the Okanagan Mainline Regional Arts Council (OMRAC). The board of OMRAC dissolved in order to get rid of the structure and regulations that boards are required to maintain, and instead have an informal group that meets less regularly but continues to support each other. Funds left over from OMRAC are held with the Shuswap Community Foundation and are earmarked to fund an annual meeting of arts councils in which arts councils share resources, stories and strengthen ties and network between arts councils in our region. Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists/West Chapter (CADA/BC) cadabc.org for Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (Equity) caea.com for performers (actors, Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) imaa.ca for independent media artists BC Alliance for Arts + Culture – allianceforarts.com represents members from across the artistic disciplines. It includes organizations, professional associations, not-for-profit groups, artists and cultural workers throughout British Columbia. They also have a great job board. The Creative Sector in Kelowna, BC: An Economic Impact AssessmentCARFAC – carfac.ca
Thompson Okanagan Network of Arts Councils (TONAC)
Other Support for Artists:
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singers, dancers), directors, choreographers, fight directors and stage managers,
engaged in theatre, opera and dance in English Canada
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