Engaging Communities
Check out our Incubation Projects and other community-based activities which reflect our commitment to work both across Canada and to recognize the specificity of various territories based on IBPoC histories, demographics, languages, connections (or not) to land-based arts practices, to name just a few considerations. We endeavour to listen to the particular needs of an arts community and then ask, “How can Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires support a project here?”, by networking, suggesting, seed funding and sharing knowledge.
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Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires Emerging Artist Award is a $2000 award given annually to an emerging artist who is Indigenous or of colour. The Emerging Artist Award is funded exclusively from donations to Primary Colours/Couleurs pri...
As well as our ongoing incubation projects, we have responded to specific requests for our participation. The resulting projects are more like ‘incubation partnerships’ because we are actively involved in designing, planning and facilit...
In developing Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires the concept of Incubation Projects was built in to its design from the beginning. The concept of incubation is based on the frequently missed opportunities that occur when artists and oth...
Throughout the month of March (March 1 to March 31, 2019), Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires partnered with Tah’lum Indigenous Artists Collective; Open Space Arts Society; MediaNet and the ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria for a serie...
For the whole month of March 2019 Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires, Open Space, Tah’lum Indigenous Artists Collective and ProArt Alliance presented Sche’chulth: Decolonizing the Arts in Victoria - a series of events designed to engage ...