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.
2025/26 Projects
Blueridge Chamber Music Society
The Blueridge Chamber Music Festival is an innovative Vancouver-based organization that blends classical and contemporary music while highlighting diverse composers and engaging audiences through participatory experiences. Its 2026 project features public graphic score installations, community workshops, and performances that invite people of all backgrounds to create and interpret music.
Connection Salon Artist Collective Society
Connection Salon Artist Collective Society is a Vancouver-based group that supports Mad and neurodivergent artists through inclusive, low-barrier arts programming that builds community and reduces stigma. Its Mad Pride Festival 2026 is a free, two-day celebration of performances, workshops, and community activities that amplifies lived experience and fosters connection.
Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival (Vancouver Moving Theatre Society)
Vancouver Moving Theatre Society is a DTES-based arts organization that runs the Heart of the City Festival, a community-driven event showcasing diverse local voices through accessible arts programming. Its Mayor of Oz project is a grassroots play that reimagines The Wizard of Oz through DTES experiences, exploring social issues while fostering community storytelling and collaboration.
soma anima arts (legal name: Kinesis Dance Society)
soma anima arts is a Vancouver-based dance organization focused on inclusive, community-engaged movement experiences that foster connection and care. Its Generations project brings interactive dance and music sessions to care and healthcare settings, creating moments of connection and creative expression across generations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2022/23 Projects
A celebration of the past and a look to the future: 40 years of the Carnegie Learning Centre
BIG TOP Art Tent
Exploring Perceptions Latino-Canadian identities in Vancouver through art
Parsing Genocide
Squeak! (Community Stories from a DTES neighbourhood) – presented by Ray-Cam Community Association
2017/18 Projects
The Great Accordion Journey
Create and Share Community Sketchbook Project & Exhibit
BREATH-ahhh
Nest Community Mural 2.0 - A Sequel to a Collaborative Effort
2016/2017 Projects
Downtown Eastside Sacred Circle Society Survivor’s Totem Pole (Phase 4): Final Carving, Community Painting & Witnessing Ceremony
Positive Living BC Raise the Rates: We Can’t Afford Poverty
Mriyaty: A Ukrainian-Canadian Dream
The Hidden Stories Project
Wild Mind
Richka
2015/2016 Projects
Take My Word For It
Sustain and Nourish
Raincity Housing and Support Society Hooker Monologues
Underwater Chinatown: Digital Stories
2014/2015 Projects
RainCity Housing and Support Society Much Ado about SOMETHING!
Urban Cloth Project
Nest Community Mural
2014 (and earlier) Projects
Bread and Salt
The Only Animal Out On A Limb
Meeting on Common Ground
