Our Mission

CACV creates community through the arts.

CACV is the voice for the community arts in Vancouver. We explore critical social issues through creative processes. CACV fosters and supports programs, practices and initiatives that develop common understanding through shared experiences.

Roles

The Council fulfills its mission to “create community through the arts” through these key roles:

1. Annually selecting program priorities that will advance community arts throughout Vancouver (the current priority is the Downtown Eastside)

2. Operating a communications program that informs and engages people to understand and engage with about the community arts

3. Initiating and supporting demonstration projects in the community arts

4. Working to support the sustainability of community arts programs

5. Advocating for the central role of the arts in the lives of people and their communities.

About COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF VANCOUVER

Current program priorities are to:

1. Support community arts programming and infrastructure in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver;

2. Provide leadership in community arts in the City as a whole; and

3. Be a leader in the developing field of environmental art.

Core Values

To fulfill its mission of Creating Community Through the Arts the Council incorporates the following values:

* Accountability: To be transparent and responsive

* Contribution: To create opportunities for everyone to contribute and to learn

* Community: To encourage active participation and collaboration in community life

* Diversity: To be open and inclusive

* Creativity: To support the role of the artist in bringing out the creativity and the artist in everyone

* Meaning: To bring to light the beauty of people and their communities, the issues of social justice that challenge people and communities, and the opportunities for healing within our communities.