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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">Hello! (and apologies for the mass email…)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">Please help us spread the word to students studying in a full-time arts program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">The BC Arts Council is accepting applications to the Scholarship program until April 30, 2025.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">The Scholarship program supports the development of future artists, arts administrators and arts and cultural practitioners.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">Grants of up to $6,000 per year are available to B.C. residents enrolled in full-time post-secondary arts training or to pursue high school half-day dance programs during the Summer 2025,
Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 terms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">Information is on our website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans""><a href="https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/scholarship/">https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/scholarship/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">We encourage interested applicants to read through the Scholarship program guidelines and use the Application Checklist if they would like to apply.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">Both documents are on the webpage above.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">Have additional questions about eligibility or the application process?</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans""> Feel free to reach out to me. My contact information
is below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans"">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="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-family:"BC Sans";color:#1F4E79">Anissa J. Paulsen
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">(she/her)<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">Program Advisor - Indigenous Cultural Centres | Museums | Scholarship | Accelerate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="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-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">236.478.2560 |
<u><a href="mailto:Anissa.Paulsen@gov.bc.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">Anissa.Paulsen@gov.bc.ca</span></a></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">Check out our grant program calendar here:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"BC Sans""><a href="https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/app/uploads/sites/508/2023/12/BCAC-Grant-Program-Calendar.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">BCAC program intakes (bcartscouncil.ca)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="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-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-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-family:"BC Sans";color:#404040">The BC Arts Council acknowledges it carries out its work on the territories of Indigenous nations throughout British Columbia.</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="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-family:"BC Sans"">lək̓ʷəŋən<span style="color:#404040"> (Songhees) and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) ancestors and families, on whose lands we operate our main offices.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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