GENERAL ARTS

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4Real

www.4real.com

4REAL informs, inspires and engages people passionateabout art, culture, and change. Aspects include 4REALProductions (4REAL TV Series); a global onlinecommunity (4REAL.com), tools for social change(4REAL Flow) and educational materials (4REALSchool).

Contact:

201 West Hastings StreetSuite 810Vancouver BC V6B 1H7Phone: 604-682-7341

ArtStarts in Schools

www.artstarts.com

A non-for-profit organization that offers students,educators, artists and parents a broad range ofprograms, services and resources to promote arts andcreativity among BC’s young people.

Contact:

808 Richards StreetVancouver BC V6B 3A7Email: creativity@artstarts.comPhone: 604-878-7144Katey Varney (Program Coordination, Artists inEducation)katie@artstarts.com1-888-604-878-7144 x7

Arts Umbrella

www.artsumbrella.com

A non-profit centre that provides visual and performingarts education to youth and children ages 2-19 inVancouver.

Contact:

1286 Cartwright Street Granville Island,Vancouver BC, V6H 3R8Email: info@artsumbrella.comPhone: 604-681-5268Gerhard Maynard (Director of Programming)gmaynard@artsumbrella.com604-681-5268 x244

Emily Carr University of Art and Design Summer Program

www.ecuad.ca/programs/cs/institutes

An introductory four-week, full-time, studio-basedprogram for students who have successfully completedgrade 10, 11, or 12

Contact:

1399 Johnston StreetGranville IslandVancouver BC V6H 3R9Email: csinfo@ecuad.caPhone: 604-844-3800 (General)604-844-3810 (Registration)

Native Youth Arts Collective (Visible Arts Society)

www.nativeyouthartistcollective.net/NYAC/Welcome.htmlA Collective under the umbrella of the KnowledgeableAboriginal Youth Association encouraging Native YouthArtists who wish to advocate for their own art of allgenres. It is open to all Native Nations/Mixed and agesup to 29 years.

Contact:

Email: nativeyouthartistcollective@gmail.comAmanda MittenPhone: 604-649-4629

Place des Arts: Arts Centre & Music School

www.placedesarts.ca

An integrated arts center that offers a variety of classesin music, dance, drama and visual arts. They also hostexhibitions, concerts, festival and special events.

Contact:

1120 Brunette AvenueCoquitlam BC V3K 1G2Katrina Driver (Visual Arts Program Coordinator)Kate Lancaster (Communications Coordinator)Email: info@placedesarts.caPhone: 604-664-1636

Vancouver Art Gallery

www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

Contact:

750 Hornby Street

Vancouver BC V6Z 2H7Email: customerservice@vanartgallery.bc.caPhone: 604-662-4700

MEDIA EDUCATION______

Access to Media Education Society (AMES)

www.accesstomedia.org

A registered non-profit organization that offers programsthat help youth cultivate individual, group and masscommunications skills, such as through the creation ofshort films, videos and public service announcements.

Contact:

141 Sturdies Bay RdGaliano Island BC V0N 1P0Email: amesgaliano@yahoo.caames@gulfislands.comPhone: 250-539-5904

Community Media Education Society

(Independent Community Television Affiliates)

www.vcn.bc.ca/ictv

A non-profit cooperative, community televisionproduction office that offers training and equipment forthe production of television that reflects the localcommunity.

CMES Contact:

4837 Sophia StreetVancouver BC V8V 3W5Email: cmes@vcn.bc.caPhone: 604-324-2682

ICTV Contact:

4040 Inverness StreetVancouver BC V5W 4W5Email: ictv@vcn.bc.caPhone: 604-878-7966

MEDIA PRODUCTION_______

Cineworks

www.cineworks.ca

An independent Filmmakers society that promotes andencourages the production, distribution, and exhibition ofindependent film in British Columbia.

Contact:

Suite 300-1131 Howe StreetVancouver BC V6Z 2L7Phone: 604-685-3841Cheyanne Turions (Programs Manager and Curator)

Intersections Media Projections

www.intersectionsmedia.com

A non-profit, digital filmmaking skills developmentprogram that works with youth at risk.

Contact:

101-329 Main StreetVancouver BC V6A 2S9Don Woodman (Operations Director)dwoodman@intersectionsmedia.comPhone: 604-899-1077 x204Selina Crammond (Youth Support Coordinator)Email: selina@intersectionsmedia.comPhone: 603-899-1077 x106

Kaleidoscope

www.kaleidoscopefilms.ca

A 16-week film production program for youth, where theybecome part of a small film production company. Afterfilm basics are elarned, youth hope create short filmsdeveloped and produced in-house by the Kaleidoscopeteam.

Out on Screen (Out in Schools)

www.outonscreen.com

A Youth education program that brings independentqueer film into BC high schools to intitate discussionswith students about school safety, homophobia andbullying. NO HATE: anti-homophobia youth filmmakingworkshops encourage and assist youth to create theirfirst films.

Contact:

405-207 West Hastings StreetVancouver BC V6B 1H7Ross Johnstone (Director of Youth Education)Email: ross@outonscreen.comPhone: 604-844-1615

Peace it Together

www.peaceittogether.ca

A charitable organization that empowers and gives youththe appropriate tools to promote peace through dialogue,filmmaking, and multimedia.

Contact:

412-411 Dunsmuir StreetVancouver BC V6B 1X4Email: info@peaceittogether.caPhone: 604-568-1413

Redwire Native Youth Media Society

www.redwiremag.com

A media and arts organization that facilitates youthcommunity access to film, print, radio, podcasting,websites and performances as well as offers practicalskills to youth in media. It also provides a space forNative Youth to educate each other on issues facingtheir communities, as well as support and promoteNative youth artists, writers, activists, performers andmusicians.

Contact:

PO Box 2042 Station Main TerminalVancouver, BC V6B 3R6Email: info@redwiremag.comPhone: 604-602-7226

Reel 2 Reel

www.r2rfestival.org

A non-profit registered charity that shows culturallydiverse, authentic programming for youth. They presentan annual film festival, the Reel 2 Real International FilmFestival for youth, and media arts programming year-round.

Contact:

4326 Dunbar StreetVancouver, BC V6S 2G3Email: info@r2rfestivalPhone: 604-224-6126

Reel Youth

reelyouth.ca

A non-for-profit, media empowerment program thatworks with youth-serving organizations to provide mobilestop motion animation, video production, and Reel youthFilm Festival programs to support young people increating and distributing films about their visions for amore just and sustainable world.

Contact:

400-163 Hastings StreetVancouver BC V6B 1H5Email: info@reelyouth.caPhone: 778-888-7335

Summer Visions Film Institute

(Pacific Cinematheque and Templeton Secondary)

summervisions.cinematheque.bc.ca

A digital media production program for youth aged 14 – 19. Over two weeks, youth work in production teams towrite, shoot, edit and screen a short digital video,learning video making skills as they create.

Contact:

#200-1131 How StreetVancouver BC V6Z 2L7Phone: 604-688-8202 x 321Pacific Cinematheque Education DepartmentEmail: education@cinematheque.bc.caLiz Schulze (Education coordinator, PacificCinematheque)Email: liz.schulze@cinematheque.bc.ca

Vancouver Youth Radio

www.vancouveryouthradio.com

Part of the Hastings Street Media Lab Project,Vancouver Youth Radio provides youth with tools theyneed to explore digital creativity, as well as produce andbroadcast intelligent and progressive content from ayouth perspective.

Contact:

920 Hastings Street EastVancouver BC V6A 3T1Email: rgilson@vancouveryouthradio.comPhone: 604-257-6949

Video in Studios (VIVO)

www.videoinstudios.com

A non for profit media production, exhibition anddistribution centre. They are an artist-run centre withstate of the art facilities and educational workshops.

Contact:

1965 Main Street,Vancouver BC V5T 3C1Phone: 604.872.8337 x1Dinka Pignon (Operations and Education Coordinator)Email: info@vivomediaarts.com

Youth in 57 Minutes (Co-op Radio)

y57.ca