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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">Hello!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">I’m pleased to announce that the BC Arts Council is accepting applications in the Project Assistance program for Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">Project Assistance: Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans""> supports the development and creation of artistic or cultural
history programming; including exhibitions, dissemination projects, artists’ residencies, exploration of new museological and curatorial practices, community engagement projects and collections management projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">Applications can be submitted at any point before October 17, 2022. The program guidelines are available on our website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans""><a href="https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/museums-indigenous-cultural-centres/">https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/museums-indigenous-cultural-centres/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">Anissa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#1F4E79">Anissa J. Paulsen
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">Program Advisor - Indigenous Cultural Centres | Museums | Scholarship Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">BC Arts Council<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">Phone: 236.478.2560 | Email:
<u><a href="mailto:Anissa.Paulsen@gov.bc.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">Anissa.Paulsen@gov.bc.ca</span></a></u> |
<u><a href="http://www.bcartscouncil.ca/"><span style="color:#404040">www.bcartscouncil.ca</span></a></u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#7F7F7F">Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#7F7F7F">800 Johnson Street | PO Box 9819 STN PROV GOVT | Victoria | BC | V8W 9W3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#7F7F7F">Main office: (250) 356-1718 or reach us toll-free through Enquiry BC: 1-800-663-7867<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">The BC Arts Council acknowledges it carries out its work on the traditional territories of Indigenous nations throughout British Columbia.</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">
We pay our respects to the Elders, past and present, descendants and custodians of these lands. We honour the knowledge keepers and the continuing relationships with Indigenous peoples in BC that develop through our work together. The BC Arts Council is grateful
to the </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">lək̓ʷəŋən<span style="color:#404040"> (Songhees) and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) ancestors and families, on whose traditional lands we operate our main offices.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">The BC Arts Council’s online system email sender has been updated. Add
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:norepoly@bcartscouncil.ca"><span style="font-family:"BC Sans";color:blue">noreply@bcartscouncil.ca</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"BC Sans"">
to your email program’s contacts or safe senders list to ensure you receive system communications including password reset links and funding status updates.<b><span style="color:#7F7F7F"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></i></p>
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