CACV creates community through the arts
CACV supports the Alliance for Arts and Culture’s Creativity Counts campaign.
Mission Statement
CACV creates community through the arts.
CACV is the voice for the community arts in Vancouver. We explore critical social issues through creative processes. CACV fosters and supports programs, practices and initiatives that develop common understanding through shared experiences.
Core Values
To fulfill its mission of Creating Community Through the Arts the Council incorporates the following values:
* Accountability: To be transparent and responsive
* Contribution: To create opportunities for everyone to contribute and to learn
* Community: To encourage active participation and collaboration in community life
* Diversity: To be open and inclusive
* Creativity: To support the role of the artist in bringing out the creativity and the artist in everyone
* Meaning: To bring to light the beauty of people and their communities, the issues of social justice that challenge people and communities, and the opportunities for healing within our communities.
Roles
The Council fulfills its mission to “create community through the arts” through these key roles:
1. Annually selecting program priorities that will advance community arts throughout Vancouver (the current priority is the Downtown Eastside)
2. Operating a communications program that informs and engages people to understand and engage with about the community arts
3. Initiating and supporting demonstration projects in the community arts
4. Working to support the sustainability of community arts programs
5. Advocating for the central role of the arts in the lives of people and their communities.
2010 program priorities are to:
- Support community arts programming and infrastructure in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver;
- Provide leadership in community arts in the City as a whole; and
- Be a leader in the developing field of environmental art.
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Purpose:
The CACV Community Arts activities committee will:
• Seek out opportunities to engage with the public by offering community arts activities which highlight the importance of community art
• Represent CACV at events that attract people who would support community art in Vancouver
• Plan, develop and facilitate community arts activities
• Recommend events to the board
In doing its work, it will keep in mind the following:
CACV Vision: CACV is the voice for the community arts in Vancouver
CACV Mission: CACV creates community through the arts
CACV Goals: From the July, 2009 board retreat, the following goals are most relevant:
Increase/improve communications
Achieve greater recognition of CACV among community artists and community organizations
Take leadership in setting community arts direction
Determine how to improve networks for community artists in Vancouver
Priority will be given for activities which provide some sense of ongoing connection with other past and future events to provide continuity.
Composition:
The CACV Community Arts Activities Committee will include at least one board member and the administrator.
It will include 2-5 additional volunteers who will attend one meeting a month and take on other tasks between meetings, such as planning for activities; submitting grants for activities; attending activities.
Meetings and Tasks:
The Committee will have a working meeting once a month to:
- Plan and develop community arts activities
- Consider opportunities for engagement through a community arts activity
- Keep an inventory of activities, supplies and resources
- Report on their plans and meetings through the Committee board representative.
When facilitating a community arts activity, the committee will:
- Ensure promotion is done in advance and registration/ feedback if deemed appropriate
- Ensure CACV membership information is available and displayed
- Ensure the activity is engaging and appropriate for the time, location and audience/participants
- Provide feedback on the activity to the CACV board and administrator.
- When possible and appropriate, document the activity with photos and video.
Priorities
Priorities are events that we have a history with such as:
- Arts & Culture Week 3rd Week of April
- Langara Summer School on Building Community – Mid-June
- AGM programming November 25 -27 (date tba)
- Culture Days – September 24-26, 2010
- Winter Solstice Lantern event at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens – December 21
New events we are considering and that may become a regular offering:
- Village Vancouver connections (Derek Irland, Chair, and Leslie Kemp, Board Past President, are on Arts and Celebrations Working Group of Village Vancouver)
- Vancouver/ Kitsilano Car free Days June 20, 2010
- Vancouver International Folk Festival (in collaboration with Village Vancouver) July, 2010
Twice a year, the committee will review plans for the coming year and submit their plans to the board through the Board representative.
approved by CACV Board March 23, 2010
Current membership:
Derek Irland, Chair
Sabrina Cordeiro, Board Representative
Core committee members:
Sean Moxley
Christopher Rodrigues
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