The B.C. Culture Days Task Force is pleased to announce that it has engaged the Alliance for Arts and Culture, through the Society to Bridge Arts and Community, to co-ordinate the 2011 B.C. Culture Days.
The Alliance's director of communications and special events, Kevin Dale McKeown, will take the role of B.C. co-ordinator of B.C. Culture Days, and Trudy Van Dop of Van Dop & Associates has been retained by the Alliance to serve as the B.C. Culture Days programmer.
British Columbia participated in Culture Days 2010 in a soft launch fashion, without a provincial organizer, with at least 75 B.C. organizations and individual artists taking part in the three days of open-house events and activities during the last weekend of September.
Culture Days is an annual Canada-wide event, initiated in 2010, that invites people to celebrate and explore arts and culture in every province and territory in Canada. It represents the largest-ever collective public participation campaign undertaken by the arts and cultural community in this country. A collaborative volunteer movement, Culture Days seeks to raise awareness and engagement by all Canadians in the arts and cultural lives of their communities. ??During Culture Days participating groups and municipalities are encouraged to provide cost-free opportunities for the public to learn more about their particular cultural activity.
Cultural groups can open their doors to the public to provide interactive cultural experiences ranging from holding an open house, providing demonstrations for school groups, offering opportunities to learn about a particular cultural heritage. Individual artists can open their studios to the public and provide demonstrations and hands-on experiences. ??Participants might choose to give behind the scenes guided tours, hold workshops, or give public performances.
Anyone who wants to can be involved! ??Any cultural or heritage group or individual artist willing to provide one or more free and interactive, cultural experiences that are open to the public during the weekend of Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2 can register their event in the Culture Days database at www.culturedays.ca??.
You can also sign up at www.culturedays.ca for general Information about Culture Days activities in your community or to receive details on how your organization can register.??
Event organizers can also contact BC Culture Days programming director Trudy Van Dop at [email protected].
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