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PAST PROJECTS

Discover the inspiring projects previously supported by the Community Arts Fund. To view, click on the desired year below or simply scroll down to explore these creative endeavours in detail.

2024/25
2023/24
2022/23
2017/18
2014/13
2016/17
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2015/16

2024/25 Projects

BIG TOP Art Tent

"Big Top Art " is a community art initiative in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver put on by Andrew Dadson and Alex Stursberg, two Vancouver based artists and community volunteers. We are partnering with the Carnegie Community Centre to provide a weekly low-barrier art school taking place at Oppenheimer park every Sunday.

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VUFFF

The Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation (VUFFF) will partner with a number of artists in the neighbourhood to provide a variety of arts-based, knowledge-sharing workshops that happen out of our fieldhouse at Burrardview Park and at Chenchenstway Garden at Oxford Park.

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2023/24 Projects

Enable Creativity, Enable Play Presented by Enable: Arts Society

A series of five workshops with multidisciplinary artists and seasoned workshop facilitators. These workshops served to create a safe and encouraging environment for its participants; diving into the exploration of different artistic practices and creation methods from a low-stakes and playful angle.

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XINEMA x EPFC North’s COSMIC QUEERITIES Workshop Series

As an expansion of XINEMA’s eight program COSMIC QUEERITIES, with guest programmer Rae Grant Duff, this workshop was able to host the collaborative workshop series: “COSMIC QUEERITIES: An Analogue Film Crash Course and Queer Conversation Hub” with EPFC North.

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Bison Harvest and Community Dinner Celebration

This project aims to create a dialogue in a culturally safe environment about traditional Indigenous knowledge regarding cultural foods.

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Marpole Community Artist Exhibit presented by Marpole Neighbourhood House

Marpole Neighbourhood House has been a safe and inclusive space where people come together to strengthen their leadership capacities and build a better neighbourhood.

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Pride in Art at the Carnegie Community Centre presented by the Pride in Art Society

This project aims to strengthen community ties, provide residents of the DTES free access to performing arts events and visual arts classes, and increase the visibility of Vancouver-based 2SLGBTQIA+ artists as agents of positive social change.

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25th Anniversary Podcast Series presented by Centre A

Pigeon, Seagull & Crow: Centre A Chronicles is Centre A’s inaugural podcast series. In a series of 8 episodes featuring 8 artists and curators, this podcast explores the 25 years of Centre A as an arts and culture institution.

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2022/23 Projects

A celebration of the past and a look to the future: 40 years of the Carnegie Learning Centre

This project will celebrate the 40-year history of the Carnegie Learning Centre.
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BIG TOP Art Tent

This project is a community arts initiative that seeks to bring art making and education to marginalized populations in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) through a supportive, all-inclusive, and accessible environment.
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Exploring Perceptions Latino-Canadian identities in Vancouver through art

Participants will share stories of identity, acquire skills in Painting and creative writing to share their story and what it means to be someone of dual identities.
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Parsing Genocide

This project creates a dialogue between the work of emerging Secwe̓pemc & Scottish interdisciplinary artist, Jaz Whitford, and local Indigenous authors, and Indigenous youth, through the creation of ekphrastic poetry.
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Squeak! (Community Stories from a DTES neighbourhood) – presented by Ray-Cam Community Association

The Squeak! Community Stories Project will include support from a writing coach to facilitate reflections and insights from the members across diverse ethnicities and cultures.
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2017/18 Projects

The Great Accordion Journey

This project provides an enriching and intensive experience for youth at St James Music Academy to participate in the music and story of the accordion.
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Create and Share Community Sketchbook Project & Exhibit

Gallery Gachet and WePress will bring together 40 diverse participants from Downtown Eastside organizations, connect them with professional artists to make sketchbooks and share their work and stories at a public exhibition and art opening.
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BREATH-ahhh

A project that features the artistic strengths of deaf artists, featuring a performance that explore the nature of breath relying heavily on movement, choreographed dance, imagistic gestures, and a self created/expressed soundscape.
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Nest Community Mural 2.0 - A Sequel to a Collaborative Effort

A large-scale outdoor mural, with the intention of enhancing leadership skills in the participating individuals.
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2016/2017 Projects

Downtown Eastside Sacred Circle Society Survivor’s Totem Pole (Phase 4): Final Carving, Community Painting & Witnessing Ceremony

The Survivor’s Totem Pole is a multi-year grassroots community art and action project paying tribute to Salish Nations and Urban Aboriginal people impacted by racism and other forms of exclusion.
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Positive Living BC Raise the Rates: We Can’t Afford Poverty

A project that highlights the widening gap between rich and poor through community-driven art.
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Mriyaty: A Ukrainian-Canadian Dream

Mriyaty is a multidisciplinary theatre/dance work focused on rituals and customs in the larger context of history and cultural identity informed by Ukrainian dance and folklore.
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The Hidden Stories Project

Brings together members of the Indigenous community and people who live with a disability to build artistic skills, create ritual structure with guidance from an Elder, and enter into a creative process with the goal of increasing understanding of shared struggle and humanity.
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Wild Mind

A project offering theatrical workshops and performances inspired by the process of re-wilding an urban area with a core group of community participants.
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Richka

A multidisciplinary theatre/dance project focused on rituals and customs in the larger context of history and cultural identity informed by Ukrainian dance and folklore.
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2015/2016 Projects

Take My Word For It

A series of spoken word workshops with youth to build their “voices” to comment on issues affecting their lives.
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Sustain and Nourish

Sustain and Nourish investigates the connection between literature and food considering ideas related to neighbourhood-specific issues.
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Raincity Housing and Support Society Hooker Monologues

An original theatrical production featuring the voices of people of all genders and social locations, including their allies, as they share a myriad of experience in and about the sex industry.
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Underwater Chinatown: Digital Stories

Underwater Chinatown: Digital Stories includes a set of three 5-week, artist-facilitated community digital storytelling workshops focused on the space and the subaltern histories of Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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2014/2015 Projects

RainCity Housing and Support Society Much Ado about SOMETHING!

Raising awareness about homelessness through community theatre, this theatre project stimulated dialogue and new understandings around issues of homelessness.
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Urban Cloth Project

The project weaves together First Nations gathering traditions, early settler agricultural methods and contemporary environmental practices through shared investigations for urban cloth production.
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Nest Community Mural

Jacob’s Well, in collaboration with Mission Possible and Servants, facilitated the creation of a large outdoor mural on the wall space of the Mikado Martial Arts Supplies Building at 701 East Hastings Street.
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2014 (and earlier) Projects

Bread & Salt, Ukrainian dance theatre, a Community Arts Fund project

Bread and Salt

Bread and Salt is inspired by stories and memories from the East End’s historic Ukrainian community. This 85th Anniversary tribute interweaves oral history with live theatre and music, haunting choral singing and the driving rhythms of Ukrainian dance.
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The Only Animal Out On A Limb​

An intergenerational collaboration of storytelling workshops, public presentations, and online archives on the theme of growing up and growing older for both DTES and non-DTES residents.
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Meeting on Common Ground

A multicultural and intergenerational theatre-based project for seniors and youth where participants through the stages of story exchange, creative process, show building (including puppet and costume making), and public performance.
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Connecting our Voices

Connecting our Voices connects professional artist mentors with participating women of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre to create in a variety of artistic media, culminating in an participant-led multimedia arts show to be displayed at local galleries.
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