BC Alliance for Arts + Culture

BC Alliance for Arts + Culture The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture represents over 400 member organizations and individuals from across the artistic disciplines in British Columbia.

Founded in 1986, the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture represents over 400 member organizations from across the artistic disciplines in British Columbia. The Alliance is BC's leading arts information aggregator and a resource to the arts, culture and heritage community. We advocate for our sector by monitoring public policy, synthesizing issues for our members, supporting and developing research, pro

viding services and professional development, and representing the interests of artists and cultural workers. Our members have access to a comprehensive package of benefits including group health, RRSP, general liability and directors and officers' insurance, and human resources services. Members receive discounts on a range of products and services through our Members' Advantage Program. We also offer a range of services that allow members to publicize and plan their events, gather and network, and access training and skills development opportunities.

Coming up:➡️ All Over The Map ()🌎 Experience dance that celebrates diverse cultures and styles through a free outdoor da...
06/12/2026

Coming up:

➡️ All Over The Map ()

🌎 Experience dance that celebrates diverse cultures and styles through a free outdoor dance performance series.

🌎 From high-energy contemporary movement and street dance to the beautiful storytelling of Kathak, Bharatanatyam, and even juggling, everyone is invited to enjoy these captivating, family-friendly performances from all over the map.

🎟️ Free for audiences of all ages.

🌎 Event Dates:
📅 Friday, July 24 at Vancouver Public Library, Central Library | 12 pm
📅 Sunday, July 26 at Picnic Pavilion, Granville Island | 1 pm & 3 pm
✨ Performing Artists: Arno Kamolika & Akshaya Surve, Jes Hanzelkova, Joanne Park, and Satya Mari & Max Hanic
📅 Friday, August 14 at Vancouver Public Library | 12 pm
📅 Sunday, August 16 at Picnic Pavilion, Granville Island | 1 pm & 3 pm
✨ Performing Artists: Bryn Bridgen, Linnea Goldstrom & Piper French, Jayden Gigliotti, Mario Matias, and Sruthi Purushothaman & Remya Rajiv

ℹ️ More info: https://www.newworks.ca/all-over-the-map-2026/
📅 Date: Jul. 24 & 26 + Aug. 14 & 16
📍 Location: Picnic Pavilion, Granville Island (267 Old Bridge Walk) & South Terrace on Level 8, Vancouver Public Library, Central Library (350 W Georgia St)

➡️ Ghibli Jazz Orchestra

🎷 Under the direction of Isabel Leong, Vancouver’s .jazz.orchestra is composed of 18 musicians who combine their love of Studio Ghibli films and video games with a deep reverence for the big bands of the 1940s.

🎷 Their repertoire consists of compositions by Joe Hisaishi featured in Studio Ghibli films like Spirited Away and Princess Monokoke, with all music arranged by the band in a style influenced by big bands, wind ensembles, and orchestral music.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/ghibli-jazz-orchestra/
📅 Date: Oct. 24, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

Coming up:➡️ An Evening with Zadie Smith📖 Join for a captivating conversation with Zadie Smith, one of the most prolific...
06/12/2026

Coming up:

➡️ An Evening with Zadie Smith

📖 Join for a captivating conversation with Zadie Smith, one of the most prolific writers of her generation, whose work has helped shape the literary landscape for over two decades.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/zadie-smith-vancouver/
📅 Date: Oct. 15, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ BEST PRACTICES in Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Promotion, & Donor Recruitment

💲 Have you ever wished there were a colleague or an organization you could reach out to and ask about donor and solicitation history, concession/merchandise purchases, and marketing dos and don’ts?

💲 The and the District of West Vancouver invite arts leaders and arts groups to come together, share insights, and shape a collaborative approach.

💲 MODERATORS: Mirjana Galovich, Executive Director, WVCAC, and Sharon Habib, artist.
💲 TARGET GROUP: Small and mid-size arts organizations/groups.
💲 REGISTRATION: $10.

ℹ️ More info: https://westvanartscouncil.ca/event-6703443
📅 Date: Jun. 23, 2026
📍 Location: Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave. West Vancouver

➡️ Eastside Arts Society: 6th Annual Eastside Arts Festival

🏙️ The presents the , bringing together local artists and audiences across the Eastside Arts District neighbourhoods, parks, studios, and breweries.

🏙️ This year’s festival features soundwalks, artist-led workshops, public art tours, immersive performances, and live music.

🏙️ On July 25, the festival will host its annual free, outdoor concert at MacLean Park from 3-8 PM. The festival will also co-present The Dance Deck (July 18, 19, 25, & 26) and an afternoon of free music at MacLean Park (July 26).

ℹ️ More info: http://eastsideartsfest.ca/
📅 Date: Jul. 17–26, 2026
📍 Location: Eastside Arts District

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

Coming up:➡️ An Evening with Min Jin Lee📖 Acclaimed novelist explores diaspora, identity, and belonging as she launches...
06/12/2026

Coming up:

➡️ An Evening with Min Jin Lee

📖 Acclaimed novelist explores diaspora, identity, and belonging as she launches her new novel, American Hagwon, at her first Canadian event.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/min-jin-lee-vancouver/
📅 Date: Nov. 5, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ Indian Summer Festival: 16th Annual Celebration of South Asian Arts

🇮🇳 presents its 16th annual celebration of South Asian arts with comedy, live music, theatre, literature, and interdisciplinary exchange.

🇮🇳 The program features more than 90 Canadian and international artists, including Sri Lankan comedian Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa, acclaimed singer-songwriter Rashmeet Kaur, and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat.

🇮🇳 Festival-goers can enjoy free performances, exhibitions, and community events.

ℹ️ More info: https://indiansummerfest.ca/festival
📅 Date: Jul. 9–19, 2026
📍 Location: Various venues across Vancouver, Burnaby, & Surrey

➡️ Finding Home Among the Floral Tuppies Exhibition

💌 Finding Home Among the Floral Tuppies is a relational body of work by 2-spirit Métis artist Carly Nabess ().

💌 Centring the creation of tuppies (dog blankets), this exhibition explores themes of reclamation, Indigenous joy as resistance, longing, and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, love, and healing.

💌 Nabess brings together Métis flat-stitch beadwork and tufting, as well as beaded watercolour landscapes. This exhibition acts as a love letter to Métis kin and a personal journey of reconnecting with tuppie-making.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/finding-home-among-the-floral-tuppies-exhibition-tickets-1990917854898?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 Date: Aug. 6, 2026
📍 Location: Craft Council of BC, 1386 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

Coming up:➡️ Jóhann Jóhannsson: Cinematic Suites🎵 This unforgettable production celebrates the remarkable collaboration ...
06/10/2026

Coming up:

➡️ Jóhann Jóhannsson: Cinematic Suites

🎵 This unforgettable production celebrates the remarkable collaboration between the late composer and visionary director .

🎵 This special performance, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Cinematic Suites – The Denis Villeneuve Scores, brings to life the evocative musical landscapes of three acclaimed films: Prisoners, Sicario, and Arrival.

🎵 In addition to those scores, the night will also include a suite from the award-winning film The Theory of Everything and a song from Jóhann’s album Orphee.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/johann-johannsson-cinematic-suites/
📅 Date: Oct. 9, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves Celebrate John Coltrane

🎺 In September 2026, the jazz world marks the centennial of one of its greatest musicians: .

🎺 To honour his enduring legacy, luminaries and unite for a remarkable tribute, revisiting Coltrane’s 1963 collaboration with Johnny Hartman.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/branford-marsalis-and-dianne-reeves-celebrate-john-coltrane/
📅 Date: Oct. 13, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

Coming up:➡️ Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: End Times Fascism and The Fight for the Living World📖 Join us for an essentia...
06/10/2026

Coming up:

➡️ Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: End Times Fascism and The Fight for the Living World

📖 Join us for an essential conversation with and Astra Taylor as they discuss their forthcoming book, END TIMES FASCISM – And the Fight for the Living World.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/naomi-klein-and-astra-taylor-end-times-fascism-and-the-fight-for-the-living-world/
📅 Date: Oct. 8, 2026, 7 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ Tinariwen

🎵 Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture in the desert borderlands between Mali and Algeria, ’s bluesy, guitar-driven music has found global acclaim for its lively blend of Tamasheq-language politicism, syncopated rhythms, and soaring melody.

🎵 On Hoggar, their tenth album, they now stake their claim as elders of this Tuareg musical tradition while also passing the torch onto a younger generation of featured musicians who can continue to keep the flame of rebellion and defiance alive.

🎵 Co-presented with MODO-Live.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/tinariwen-vancouver/
📅 Date: Sep. 4, 2026, 8 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

➡️ Artist-in-Residence Studio Showing - Harmanie Rose

🩰 Disabled choreographer explores distance and connection through the Zoom box. The box is all the barriers, like distance, chronic fatigue, and pain, and also how disabled artists innovate together.

🩰 Working with access artists Kelsie Acton and Colin van Uchelen, she weaves a web of embedded description that makes the performance accessible to blind and sighted audience members.

🎟️ Supported through the Artist-in-Residence program. Free admission.

ℹ️ More info: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/harmanie-rose/
📅 Date: Jul. 2, 2026, 1 PM
📍 Location: The Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver BC V6B 2G6

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

Coming up:➡️ Elijah Fox🎹 Multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer brings a richly textured sound that drifts between...
06/10/2026

Coming up:

➡️ Elijah Fox

🎹 Multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer brings a richly textured sound that drifts between jazz, impressionism, and psychedelic soul.

🎹 At the , Fox makes his Vancouver debut performing solo piano works, offering a listening experience that is deeply immersive, contemplative, and poetic.

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/elijah-fox-vancouver/
📅 Date: Nov. 28, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd.

➡️ Julian Lage Quartet

🎵 Witness the genius of live in Vancouver for an unforgettable experience.

🎵 For this concert, he performs music from his newest album, Scenes from Above, with bassist , drummer Kenny Wollesen, and renowned keyboardist .

ℹ️ More info: https://chancentre.com/events/julian-lage-quartet-vancouver/
📅 Date: Oct. 14, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd.

➡️ Intimate Observations | Artist Talk and Private Viewing

💎 Please join artist .artist () as she discusses the work in her retrospective exhibition, followed by a private viewing of the exhibition. This exhibition brings together works spanning her multidisciplinary practice in jewellery, printmaking, drawing, and enamel.

💎 The exhibition considers jewellery beyond its conventional role as adornment. Removed from the body and presented independently, these works ask viewers to encounter jewellery as sculptural and conceptual objects in their own right.

💎 Alongside finished works, visitors will be invited to engage with unfinished pieces through touch, offering insight into Smith’s process.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/intimate-observations-artist-talk-and-private-viewing-tickets-1990827193728?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
📅 Date: Jul. 16, 2026
📍 Location: Carousel Theatre, 1411 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is pleased to welcome Kayleigh Harrison as Interim Executive Director, effective July...
06/10/2026

The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is pleased to welcome Kayleigh Harrison as Interim Executive Director, effective July 2, 2026.

A respected arts leader, consultant, and former Director of Development at Vancouver Opera, Kayleigh brings extensive experience in organizational leadership, strategic planning, and relationship-building across the arts and non-profit sectors.

She succeeds Rainbow Robert, who will be stepping into the role of Executive Director at ArtSpring on Salt Spring Island, after four years of dedicated leadership at the BC Alliance. We extend our sincere gratitude to Rainbow for her vision, care and commitment as an advocate for BC's arts and culture and heritage community, and wish her success in this exciting next chapter.

Please join us in welcoming Kayleigh to the BC Alliance as we continue our mission to build relationships that connect, energize, and activate the cultural community.

Read the full announcement: https://www.allianceforarts.com/blog/2026/6/10/bc-alliance-for-arts-culture-appoints-kayleigh-harrison-as-interim-executive-director

Coming up: ➡️ PJ Storytime🧸 Join the for thesecond quarterly PJ Storytime of 2026! 🧸 Held collaboratively with the , ki...
06/08/2026

Coming up:

➡️ PJ Storytime

🧸 Join the for thesecond quarterly PJ Storytime of 2026!

🧸 Held collaboratively with the , kiddos can drop by the Museum in their favourite pyjamas, listen to fun stories, and enjoy snacks in slumber-party style at the 1909 Heritage House.

🎟️ Free. Ages 3-5. RSVP required.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/events/pj-storytime-1
📅 Date: Thursday, July 2, 7 PM - 8 PM
📍 Location: Coquitlam Heritage Society, 1116 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam BC

➡️ Connection Salon: Mad Pride Festival

🎭 The Connection Salon Artists Collective presents Mad Pride Festival this summer from June 25 to July 25, 2026, at the Gathering Place Community Centre.

🎭 The free event features a diverse line-up of visual artists, stand-up comics, theatre actors, musicians, poets, and more, all in celebration of art-making by people who identify as living with mental illness, psychiatric disabilities, or “madness.” The festival aims to reclaim the term “mad” while celebrating neurodiversity and challenging psychiatric stigma.

🎭 Programming includes an all-Indigenous Mad Arts Coffee House on June 25 featuring artists like Joseph Dandurand, Trevor Jang, and Randy Tait; an evening of Stand Up for Mental Health led by David Granirer; a double-bill film screening at the Cinematheque titled Desiring Bodies; a visual arts exhibition Gifts of Madness; and more engaging events culminating in a Mad Pride Parade and Cabaret to close out the festival.

🎟️ Visit connectionsalon.ca for the full festival program. Admission to all events is free.

ℹ️ More info: http://connectionsalon.ca/
📅 Date: June 25 – July 25, 2026
📍 Location: Gathering Place Community Centre, 609 Helmcken St., Vancouver BC V6B 5S4

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

Coming up: ➡️ MashUp: Pride Pins🏳️‍🌈 In celebration of Pride month, join the for some pin-making! Learn about the histo...
06/08/2026

Coming up:

➡️ MashUp: Pride Pins

🏳️‍🌈 In celebration of Pride month, join the for some pin-making! Learn about the history of Pride and 2S/LGBTQIA+ activism at theirpin-making nights.

🏳️‍🌈 Use provided vintage Pride pin templates or create your own designs based on historical q***r symbols.

🎟️ All materials provided. Free. RSVP appreciated but not required.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/events/mashup-pride-pins
📅 Date: Thursday, June 18, 4 PM - 7 PM and Friday, June 19, 5 PM - 8 PM
📍 Location: Coquitlam Heritage Society, 1116 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam BC

➡️ Summer Craft Saturdays at Mackin House Museum

☀️ Beat the heat this season by stopping by for Summer Crafts every single week of June!

☀️ You and your family can make your own pinwheels or pick up a colouring sheet while visiting the Museum.

🎟️ All materials included. Free. RSVP appreciated. All ages.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/events/summer-craft-saturdays-at-mackin-house-museum
📅 Date: Every Saturday in June from 12 PM - 4 PM
📍 Location: Coquitlam Heritage Society, 1116 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam BC

➡️ Feasts of Coquitlam: Mexican Cooking Demonstration

🇲🇽 Join the on the evening of June 26 for a Mexican session of Feasts of Coquitlam! They will be joined by Mi Tradicion Mexican Cuisine, who will be demonstrating a selection of dishes, followed by a meal in the heritage dining room.

🇲🇽 Menu: Guacamole & Pico de Gallo, Sopes (Fried disks of corn masa topped with meats & other savoury toppings), Ceviche (Raw seafood dish marinated with lime, fresh veggies, often served with chips).

🎟️ $35 per person. Registration required.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/events/feasts-of-coquitlam-mexican
📅 Date: Friday, June 26, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
📍 Location: Coquitlam Heritage Society, 1116 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam BC

➡️ These events are presented by members of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Interested in having your events featured and joining a vibrant arts community? Become a member today: https://www.allianceforarts.com/become-a-member

⭐ Expression of Interest for Cultural Operating Funding (COF) is now open ⭐📅 DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026, 11:59PM ...
06/06/2026

⭐ Expression of Interest for Cultural Operating Funding (COF) is now open ⭐

📅 DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026, 11:59PM

✨ An Expression of Interest (EOI) process is now open for organizations wishing to be considered for Cultural Operating Funding (COF).

✨ To be eligible, organizations need to be cultural organizations based in Vancouver, that have received three Communities and Artists Shifting Culture (CASC), Cultural Equity & Accessibility (CEAF), and/or Cultural Indigenous (CIF) grants, and have a minimum annual operating budget of $150k.

✨ EOIs will be reviewed by staff, resulting in a limited number of organizations invited to submit a full grant application to COF, based on anticipated available funding. Submitting an EOI does not guarantee an invitation to apply or, if invited to reply, to receive a grant.

❗ Please note that:
➤ Organizations who submitted an EOI in 2025 do not need to re-submit unless your information has changed. Staff will review 2025 submissions along with 2026 submissions.
➤ Other core operating streams (CIF and CEAF) are not accepting new applicants, and will reopen in 2028.
➤ Organizations already receiving COF or Cultural Operating Funding – Multi-year (COFM) do not need to submit an EOI.

ℹ️ Detailed program information is available:
➤ On the website (https://link.lists.vancouver.ca/c/443/81f138bdeac23c117c065dbfa65d44aa8a45911ab3f5d36a5cd62bb7bb9f69309012a002ca135532)
➤ In the Information and Eligibility document (https://link.lists.vancouver.ca/c/443/81f138bdeac23c117c065dbfa65d44aa8a45911ab3f5d36acfceb860aff8d486b6cfa1d05167399e)
➤ In the FAQ which outlines eligibility criteria, provides information on the process, and how to contact staff (https://link.lists.vancouver.ca/c/443/81f138bdeac23c117c065dbfa65d44aa8a45911ab3f5d36a96b965ee28be71b1b6cfa1d05167399e)

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