Engaging Communities
Check out our 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...
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...
In October 2019 PC/Cp invited theatre pioneers, Dipankar Mukherjee and Meena Natarajan of Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota to facilitate Decolonizing the Stage, a weekend symposium of events focused on decolonizing theatre ...
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...
BLM = BAM
Black Lives Matter = Black Artists Matter = Black Art Matters
One year ago on May 25, George Floyd was murdered in a callous act of police brutality. Tragically, he was not the first Black person to die in this way and he...
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...
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