CKCA Background
The
Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA) administers
and manages the Arts, Culture and Heritage funding
sector of the Columbia Basin Trust. The CKCA has a
Steering Committee of 14 members from around the Basin
elected for two year terms.
Nominations are put forward by the 18 local arts
councils in the Basin as well as the Heritage Federation
of South Eastern BC. Nominees can be any member of a
community with a background in arts, culture or
heritage, are involved in the cultural work of their
region and have a background in working on committees
and program development.
Funding
from the CKCA is for all arts disciplines (visual art,
theatre, music, dance,
media,
literary and inter-arts), includes grants to individuals
as well as arts, culture and heritage organizations.
Funding
applications are adjudicated once a year by local arts
councils and the CKCA Steering Committee.
The
Columbia Basin includes all communities within the area
roughly bounded by Valemount, Revelstoke, Rossland,
Creston, Sparwood, and Golden.
Working
with community arts councils, individual artists,
performers, heritage workers and cultural organizations,
the goal of the CKCA is to build long-term
sustainability for artists and to strengthen and support
arts, cultural and heritage organizations.
Directions
of the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance
The
Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance has set the
following future directions as an organization:
1) Build
long-term sustainability for artists, thereby
increasing the number of artists who can create an
economic living through their art.
2) Create a positive image for artists, the arts,
culture and heritage organizations as community
assets.
3) Support art, culture and heritage that increases
public and community awareness of social, ecological
and economic issues, seeing art, culture and
heritage as part of the connection between and
within communities.
4) Create increased opportunities for all segments
of local communities including seniors, youth,
ethnic groups, first nations to participate in arts,
culture and heritage.
5) Create an increased audience and market for
artists and performers, both within and beyond the
Basin.
6) Assist the on-going viability and availability of
community facilities for use by artists, arts,
cultural and heritage organizations and residents.
7) Support development of skills, and structures for
marketing, artists, arts and heritage organizations
and the arts, culture and heritage.
8) Encourage and support mentoring relationships.
9) Strengthen arts, cultural and heritage
organizations, both locally and Basin wide.
10) Build a common voice within and for the arts,
cultural and heritage community.
Definition
of Heritage
Heritage is what we value
from the past. Heritage is those places, objects,
records, indigenous languages, and other things that
have aesthetic, historic, scientific, social
significance, or other special value for future
generations as well as for the community today.
Heritage includes the
intangible records of our past such as memories, stories
and songs, ways of life, customs, attitudes, and
interactions between individuals and communities.
Heritage is the record of culture as it was.
Goals of the
Heritage Community
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Promoting the collection, preservation, and
protection of, and public access to, cultural
heritage resources;
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Promoting respect for the historical diversity of
communities;
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Cooperating with, and sharing information and
knowledge with others to promote heritage;
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Raising awareness of heritage, heritage issues, and
their importance;
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Identifying and securing funding for the support of
heritage;
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Promoting opportunities for heritage research; and
education.
CKCA
Steering Committee Members
Following is a list of
our current steering committee members, click the name
to read their bio below.
Pamela Cinnamon
- Valemount
Janice Edwards
- Fernie
Stephanie Fischer, Vice Chair
- Nelson
Penny A.P Anderson
- Yahk
Anne Jardine
- Edgewater
Jacquie Hamilton, Chair
- Castlegar
Deborah Loxam-Kohl
- Winlaw
Laurie Charlton
- Rossland
Margaret Pacaud
- Revelstoke
Ann Damude
- Rossland
Thelma Brown
- Golden
Judy Wray
- Trail
Dorothy Blunden - Invermere
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