The City of Richmond, BC, coordinated one of the country’s most successful Culture Days campaigns in 2010 and 2011, ranking ninth overall in terms of number of activities presented and fifth among regional and belt cities in 2011. As a growing number of municipalities across Canada take the lead to promote Culture Days participation in their communities, Liesl Jauk, Manager of Community Cultural Development for the City of Richmond and member of the Culture Days BC Task Force will present the associated challenges and opportunities of running an effective local campaign at the Annual Arts BC Conference on Saturday, April 21.
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Activity Ideas for Libraries
April 12th, 2011 by Reuben Finley
In 2009, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ray Danyluk, communicated his support of Alberta Arts Days by challenging libraries to participate as activity hosts and organizers through local partnerships. Here are a few of the activities that were suggested in a newsletter from South-Central Alberta’s Marigold Library Network. The full article, which also provides some great promotional and media relations tips, can be downloaded here.
1) Shoot and Click @ Your Library:
Invite teens to take your/their digital or video camera on a walk around the library and capture some unique moments. Host a premiere party.
2) Cover Story @ Your Library:
Ask teens or other age groups to design a jacket of a book they’ve read, or one that they imagine. Have them choose the artwork and fonts, and write a “teaser” description and snippets of reviews.
3) Story Slam @ Your Library:
Gather local writers and story tellers (or aspiring writers). Throw out a theme and have them create a story on the spot. Encourage young writers to share their experiences.
4) I Remember When…@ Your Library:
Invite seniors to the library. Ask them to talk about “the good old days” or retell a story from way back when to children and teens. Consider recording them and/or writing down their stories and creating a book.
5) Glorious Texts @ Your Library:
Ask teens in the library to take an actual text or social media message they wrote and commit it to paper. Encourage them to decorate it as lavishly as a medieval manuscript, to make it a true work of literary art. Does it change their perception of what they wrote?
Culture Days in British Columbia
January 15th, 2010 by Culture Days
Each provincial initiative is supported by a volunteer committee known as the Provincial Task Force. Charged with facilitating connections and helping to promote and develop provincial events, the Provincial Task Forces also help liaise between provinces to encourage continuity and to share expertise. For a list of British Columbia Task Force members, please click here.
The British Columbia Task Force is working to coordinate and promote Culture Days in the province, the planning for which predates by many months the serious financial situation that the B.C. arts and cultural community is now facing. Culture Days is viewed as a timely initiative rooted in solidarity, which demonstrates and promotes widespread public appreciation for the role that arts and culture play in the lives of all British Columbians.
To get involved with Culture Days British Columbia, please contact the B.C. Task Force.