BC Culture Days 2021 presents a dynamic lineup of interactive arts and culture events from September 24 to October 24, 2021. Culture Days raises the awareness, accessibility, participation, and engagement of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. It is a collaborative movement dedicated to providing free, hands-on, and interactive arts and culture activities across Canada.
Featuring a wide range of activities in alignment with public health recommendations, BC Culture Days offers socially-distanced outdoor and pre-registered indoor events, pre-recorded video content, livestream presentations, self-guided activities, and more.
Lorita Leung Dance Company by Mary Matheson Photography
BC Culture Days 2021
The month-long celebration invites culture enthusiasts to reconnect with their communities by learning a new skill or discovering creative talents. Participants are asked to come together to ‘RE:IMAGINE’ a brighter future post-pandemic, enhanced through creative connection.
To further enhance the 2021 arts and culture celebration and help boost community engagement, BC Culture Days has selected nine outstanding emerging artists to participate in this year’s cultural ambassador program. Representing a wide array of artistic disciplines – dance, theatre, visual arts, storytelling, poetry, film, and music – each ambassador will host an interactive event free to the public, as part of the ambassador event series, RE:CONNECT.
This year’s BC Culture Days activities will kick off with a brand new video series, RE:GENERATE, showcasing the creative resilience of five remote or rural B.C. communities, as they adapt to COVID-19 restrictions and re-emerge with inspiring ideas for the future. Each week of the month-long event, several new videos will be released online, featuring event coverage and interviews from one of five communities – Prince Rupert, Bella Coola, Sooke, Salmon Arm, and Kimberley.
There will also be a pre-recorded welcome ceremony from Chief Kwakwee Baker, member of the Squamish First Nation, as well as a pre-recorded provincial proclamation from BC Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, Hon. Melanie Mark.
BC Culture Days 2021 in Metro Vancouver
Here is the lineup of events for the Metro Vancouver region:
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by Rebecca BollwittDisclosure: Sponsored Post — Sponsored by the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC Please review the Policy & Disclosure section for further information.
World Cerebral Palsy Day (October 6th) is a global movement of people with Cerebral Palsy (“CP”) and their families, and the organizations that support them, in more than 60 countries. The #BC4CP campaign brings the province together to support the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC (“CPABC”) as some of the most iconic landmarks light up green for #WorldCPDay.
Cerebral Palsy is the most common physical disability in childhood and is also one of the least understood. Visit BC4CP.com to donate today.
World Cerebral Palsy Day
The day is an opportunity to celebrate, raise awareness and take action to ensure that people with CP have the same rights, access and opportunity as anyone else in their communities.
CP affects body movement and muscle coordination, is not hereditary nor contagious but is a life-long condition. Over 10,000 people in BC live with Cerebral Palsy. It is the number one physical disability in children, and while many adults with CP work and lead productive lives many are bound by therapy and equipment expenses that can be debilitating.
1 in 4 children with CP cannot talk
1 in 4 children cannot walk
1 in 2 have an intellectual disability
1 in 4 have epilepsy.
CP is a lifelong disability and there is no known cure.
“The need has never been greater for those persons with CP,” says Howard Blank, Provincial Ambassador. “Cerebral palsy is the number one physical disability in children world-wide. Covid has resulted with many cancelled therapies, programs and medical appointments for British Columbians with CP” said Blank.
CPABC has a robust roster of 12 programs and services that support their community of over 1,000 individuals. From educational bursaries to recreational programs to support services. It’s all covered for the recipient of the funds or the attendee of the program.
This weekend Miss604 is proud to sponsor the Portobello West Fall Outdoor Market at Helena Gutteridge Plaza (at Vancouver City Hall) from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Saturday. More events include the launch of the Maan Farms Fall Festival, the free WORD Vancouver festival, a free showcase from Vancouver Opera. Find these activities and more fun things to do around Metro Vancouver this weekend listed below:
Urban Ink’s 2021-22 season has been announced, featuring a dynamic hybrid program adapting to the ever-changing world with digital and in-person performances. Urban Ink’s mission is to uplift Indigenous and diverse artists through storytelling and performance, and create exciting opportunities that propel works in a new expanded direction.
Urban Ink’s 2021-22 Season
The season kicks off with the return of TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival, an Urban Ink & The Cultch partnership scheduled from September 23 to October 2, 2021. Groundbreaking in every way, the TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival consists of seven explosive days of bold, uncompromising, political, and interactive performances in a hybrid format taking it to the next level.
The festival is a platform for IBPOC artists to share their stories, featuring local and international Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in a variety of styles including theatre, music, drag, burlesque, circus, comedy, and everything in between.
Each show has a line-up of extraordinary collaborating artists that range from Sido Adamson and Cris Derksen’s circus mixed with Indigenous classical music, to The Candy Show with special guests Canadian rockstar Tom Wilson, Whose Line Is It Anyway? comic Colin Mochrie and the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie, plus family fun with critically acclaimed cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat and so much more.
Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound, an area renowned for its rich Indigenous culture, biodiversity and distinct geography, has become Canada’s 19th UNESCO Biosphere Region, the International Coordinating Council for the Man and Biosphere Programme (“MAB-ICC”).
Top: Chief Mamquam and Garibaldi – Steve Quane, Fire & Ice Geopark / Bottom: Diving Glass Sponge Reef-Adam Taylor
New Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region
As jurisdictions around the globe face the profound impacts of habitat loss and climate change, the Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Region (“AHSBR”) is an international showcase for how regional coordination can create a place for humanity and nature to thrive.
“My hope is that it will effectively bring all communities in Átl’ka7tsem together for effective decision making but also to help people get out on the Land. Building that connection, to the territory and the Land, will help people better honour and to respect the environment but also the Life that lives in that environment,” says Joyce Williams, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Councillor and Co-Chair of Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative Society Board.
“Átl’ka7tsem is really about beauty and hope, as much as it is about sustainable development.”
The Biosphere Region, located on the territories of the Coast Salish people, covers a 218,723-hectare swath of land and sea encompassing the entire Howe Sound watershed. Its zoning boundaries begin near Point Atkinson (Sḵ’íw̓itsut) in West Vancouver, running north to Black Tusk (T’eḵt’aḵmúy̓in tl’a In7iny̓áx̱a7en) near Whistler, and as far west as Gower Point on the Sunshine Coast. The core protected area traverses five BC Provincial Parks, one BC Provincial Conservancy, and several marine refuges. AHSBR is dotted by many iconic landmarks; such as Mt. Garibaldi (Nch’ḵay̓), a diamond-shaped peak towering over the Squamish landscape.
