h4>>From 2009 to 2018, CACV focused on Environmental Arts programming including hosting a symposium, Eco-Arts Salons, and the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project. The project was in partnership with the Stanley Park Ecology Society and Park Board staff. The Stanley Park Environmental Art Project honours the park and its significance to our city, and on a greater level, comments on sustainability …

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h4>>In 2004, CACV sponsored a one-day symposium about Addiction in Vancouver with partners in the Downtown East Side including Heart of the City Festival, City of Vancouver Drug Policy Program and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. This event was organized by Sharon Kravitz, who later became a CACV board member and would help root CACV in the local community of the DTES.    …

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h4>>As CACV celebrated its 40th anniversary, Board President Genevieve Lemarchand helped secure an art gallery space at 837 Davie Street with 2,200 square foot of space over two levels. CACV operated the gallery from 1985-1996. This location is now home to Vancouver New Music Society and Canadian Music Centre BC. During this time CACV also published a bimonthly magazine, Arts Vancouver, showcasing, …

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h4>>The Community Arts Council of Vancouver sponsored a World Conference of Arts, Politics and Business. The conference would coincide with the city’s Centennial, and the World Fair— Expo ‘86. The conference hosted over 50 speakers and diverse views were expressed on the theme of “Support for the Arts: Philanthropy or Investment?. The legacy of the 1986 World Conference on Arts, politics and business …

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h4>>In 1980 the Vancouver Arts Council in coordination with the BC Committee on Arts and Education produced What's the Fuss?  a Community Arts campaign kit and lobbying guide designed to help strengthen the role of arts in education. Subsequently, the committee formed the Western Council for Arts Education Association, an organization which continues to operate today as the BC Arts and Education …

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h4>>The Arts Council set a series of very popular annual, juried craft and art exhibitions. Including the Sunday Artist Show, which gave recreational artists a chance to have their works exhibited (foreshadowing the creation of future Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival). One such annual show was the very popular Christmas Craft Sale –known today as the very popular Craftworks …

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