PROGRAM 1: Funding Support to Communities through Community Arts Councils

Arrow Lakes Arts Council:

• Annual Hills Garlic Festival
• Arrow Lakes Historical Society," Archival Material Protection - Supplies"
• A.L.F.A. Guild Gallery - Computer Skills Development/Training
• Music in the Park
• Nakusp Fall Fair
• Ruby Holland - Storytelling & Reading to Children

Castlegar Arts Council:

• Kootenay Columbia Child Care Soc. - Arts Project Coordinator
• Cultural Interpretive Society - Community Awareness & Start-Up
• Kootenay Gallery - Great Millennium Wall of Canada
• Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Soc. - Installing Modules

Cranbrook & District Arts Council:

• Symphony of the Kootenays - Christmas 2000 - A Bach Celebration
• Ktunaxa Independent School Soc - Clay Therapy for FAS/E Individuals
• Cranbrook Composer's Festival
• Souled Out Arts Society - Theatre Production
• Fort Steele Mining Collection: Public Access

Creston Arts Council:

• Creston Concert Society - Enthusiasm for Dance
• Creston Historical & Museum Soc. - Hank Buckna Collection - Indexing
• Kootenay Blacksmiths' Assoc - Mobile Blacksmiths' Shop
• Starbelly Jam Society - Starbelly Jam Music Festival
• Yahk Youth Theatre Group Project

Columbia Valley Arts Council:

• Windermere Dist. Historical Soc. - David Thompson Millennium Project
• Other projects still pending approval

Fernie & District Arts Council:

• Dave O'Haire - A Year at the Gallery
• East Kootenay Health Unit - Children's Mural Wall
• Fernie & Dist. Historical Soc - Heritage Walking Tour Brochure
• Arts Council Outreach Project

Golden District Arts Council:

• Donald Konrad - E. Kootenays-Country Sketches
• Enid Petherick - Figurative Landscapes
• Golden Art Class - Painting & Printmaking
• Golden Players - The Mousetrap
• Moosic Masters - Instrument Purchase

Kimberley Arts Council:

• Col. Valley Bluegrass Assoc - Bluegrass Campout
• Dragon Iron Forge - Heritage Blacksmithing Workshops
• Kimberley Community Band - Record CD

N. Kootenay Lake Arts & Heritage Council:

• Ainsworth Historical Society - Book: Ainsworth Now and Then
• Charles Finn - Book: Wild, Feathered and Furred
• Margot McKague - Novel: The Black Bear Chronicles of Maeve McIntyre

Nelson & District Arts Council:

• Carla Nemiroff - Photography: Faces & Places of Nelson-The Untold Story
• Simone Varey - Puppet Show: Why Ymir is Here!
• David Thompson Cultural Society - Shakespeare in the Park
• Community by Design - Speakers: Designing Community
• David Cureton - Steel Sculpture: The Planter
• K. Linda Kivi - Creative Documentary: The Inner Green
• Amy Ferguson Institute - Nelson Summer Songfest
• Nelson Youth Choirs - Nelson Youth Choirs: Start-up Costs

Revelstoke Arts Council:

• BC Interior Forestry Museum Soc - Museum Research & Documentation
• Revelstoke Art Project Feasibility Study

Rossland Council for Arts & Culture:

• Columbia Writers Studio - Columbia Writers 2000 Conference
• John Dougall - Introduction to Claymation
• Rossland Adventure Lifestyle Film Festival
• Soren Johnson - Film: Attention Deficit

Salmo District Arts Council:

• Concert: Robert Minden Duo
• Salmo Public Library - Audio/Video Collection
• Salmo Theatre: "Opening Night"
• Shenango - Workshops: Choral Techniques & Vocal Jazz
• Salmo Community Services - Youth Painting Progress

Slocan Lake Gallery Society:

• Stephen Lones - Archival Exhibition: Bringing Images to Light
• Hidden Garden Gallery Society - Invitational Gallery Shows
• Slocan Lake Garden Society - Kohan Garden Brochure & Plant Key
• Silverton Gallery: 25 Year Celebration
• Valhalla Summer School of Music

Slocan Valley Arts Council:

• CD: Songs from the Vortex
• Heritage Theatre Series: Grow Apples, Grow Rich
• Must Make Art Co. - Startup

Trail Arts Council:

• Projects pending approval

Valemount Arts & Cultural Society:

• Valemount Community Choir, Community Concert: Salute to Rivers
• Composition: River Suite for Choral Group
• Valemount Painters Group, Painters' Postcards
• Walking Tour Work Group, Signs of Life - Interpretive Walking Tour
   

PROGRAM 3: Special or Developmental Project Support:

Fernie & District Arts Council:

• Board Development/Orientation
   

PROGRAM 3(B): Capitol Funding:

Argenta Community Association:

•  Argenta Community Hall Acoustical Upgrade

Arrow Lakes Arts Council:

• Arts Council Computer Purchase

Fernie Arts Station:

•  Acoustical/Sound System Upgrade

Slocan Lake Gallery Society:

• Gallery Roof Repair
   

PROGRAM 4: Funding Support to Touring:

• Peter Christensen - Poetry Book Launch & Reading Tour
• Richard Rowberry - Heritage Theatre Project
• Pauline Lamb - Music: From the Art
• Print & Paint: Golden Artists Showcase
• Rylan Kewen...Where I'm From
• Vi Plotnikoff - Storytelling: The Doukhobor Culture
• Mushana Marimba Tour
• Tamasine Drisdale - AfroKootenay Dance Tour
• Salmo Watershed Streamkeepers Soc. - River Art 2000
• Symphonie of the Kootenays - Canadian Guitar Quartet
• Thursday Evening Painters - Selected Works of Thursday Evening Painters
   

PROGRAM 5: Arts & Heritage Mentoring/Master Classes

• Kyra Soko - Computer Audio for Multi-Media Workshops
• Ann Alma - Writer in Residence
• Virginia Graham - Youth Centre Mural Project
• Castlegar & Dist Public Library - Melanie Boyd Workshop
• Cultural Interpretive Society - Cultural Preservation in a Contemporary Setting
• Kimberley Arts Council/Centre 64 - Workshops: Enhancing the Arts
• Kootenay Gallery - Fibre Optics: Textile Mentorship & Master Class
• Kootenay HipNotics - Bellydance Workshops
• Kootenay Storytelling Festival - Storytelling Workshops
• Performing Arts Coalition of the Kootenays - N. Kootenay Lake Music & Dance Workshops
   

OTHER PROJECTS:

• Basin Visual Arts Tour, Best of the Basin
• Publication: Marketing & Grant Writing
• Basin Festivals Calendar