Fill out the B.C. Arts, Tradition, & Heritage Sector Insights Survey — BC Alliance for Arts + Tradition

Higher Vancouver Skilled Theatre Alliance GVPTA encourages arts, tradition, and heritage staff, artists, and organizations from all disciplines throughout British Columbia to finish the B.C. Arts, Tradition, & Heritage Sector Insights Survey to assist them higher perceive, advocate, and inform authorities, funders, and stakeholders on the present state of the sector.

This survey is led by GVPTA, on behalf of and in collaboration with a coalition of B.C.-based arts, tradition, and heritage service organizations that signify hundreds of arts, tradition, and heritage organizations throughout BC and in each group and area. This contains a whole lot of cultural companies, venues, festivals, consultants, and unbiased practitioners, in addition to hundreds {of professional} artists, cultural practitioners, and volunteers all through the province.

You’ll be able to evaluate earlier examples of our sector-wide surveys and experiences right here and right here. 

What does this survey discover?

Among the areas this survey explores embrace:

• Working within the sector – What are artists’ and staff’ incomes for 2023, and do they count on to be working within the sector over the approaching 12 months?

• Obstacles – What obstacles have artists, staff, and organizations confronted final 12 months, and do they count on to face within the coming months?

• Dangers – How are people and organizations feeling about their money stream and present housing or facility stability?  

• Organizational Construction – What’s the present make-up of governance and decision-making constructions that exist inside organizations?

• Well being and Security – What steps are being taken, and what considerations exist as we transfer into respiratory sickness season?

• Psychological Well being and Optimism – What ranges of stress and nervousness are of us feeling proper now, and the way optimistic are they as we head into 2024?

• Helps – What sort of assist or sources is the group on the lookout for from arts funders, the federal government, and the humanities and tradition group?

• Attendance Developments – Reflections on constructive and unfavourable traits in patron attendance over the previous 6 months.

Be aware: Questions will differ based mostly on whether or not responding as a person or on behalf of a corporation).

Why ought to I fill out the survey?

Your enter is efficacious in serving to CVPTA perceive the present realities felt by the cultural sector in British Columbia, and to help arts service organizations in advocating for you. 

The ensuing report will probably be shared with federal, provincial, and municipal governments, arts funders, and stakeholders throughout the group to assist convey the present standing of our sector and inform decision-making. 

Survey fatigue is actual, however we urge all artists, arts and cultural staff and organizations to finish the survey right now – even when your group has closed, or you have got just lately left the sector. All enter is vital.

How lengthy will it take?

The survey will take 12–quarter-hour however will fluctuate relying on what number of questions you select to reply. Most questions within the survey are optionally available.

You probably have questions concerning the survey, contact GVPTA government director Kenji Maeda at kenji@gvpta.ca.

Click on right here to begin the survey.

Closing Date: Nov. twentieth, 2023