Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Community Endowment | SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs

In 2010, Goldcorp partnered with SFU to establish the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts and to create the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Community Endowment. The Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Community Endowment, established with a $5 million donation, will support SFU community programs that benefit the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood and broader artistic community.

In the first year, the Goldcorp Endowment Fund will support local hiring, youth arts programming and partnerships, community arts collaborations, accessible arts education programs, public forums and dialogues, ticket and venue subsidies, and accessibility to credit and non-credit courses at SFU.

Since opening its doors in September 2010, the SFU Woodward's Cultural Unit, as part of its mandate, has already initiated several community oriented programs that exemplify what Goldcorp’s endowment will support including:

Community Arts Presentations
- Bah Humbug - a creative retelling of a Christmas Carol with a community theme and with the support of professional and community actors
- A dance workshop with Canadian dancer Margie Gillis
- Ghosts of Violence ballet, a partnership with the We Can Coalition of BC

Public forums and dialogues
- A range of accessible non-credit arts-related courses for inner city residents
- Numerous talks, discussions, and dialogues on social and artistic topics with free public admission

A community ticketing program
- In 2010 SFU gave hundreds of tickets to co mmunity members to allow them to attend a broad range of performances, seminars, public forums, and dialogues.

Venue subsidies

Working with local groups, this endowment will subsidize the venue costs to allow presentations and co-presentations with external arts organizations.

PARTNERSHIP PROPOSALS

SFU regularily undertakes partnerships with non-profit organizations and they are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Applications should clearly state how the partnership with Simon Fraser University would fit mandate of the university. Deadlines for partnership proposals are June 1, 2012 and January 10, 2013.

Applications will be considered for each of these areas:

supporting local hiring
youth arts programming and partnerships
community arts collaborations
accessible arts education programs
public forums and dialogues
ticket and venue subsidies

Budgets for proposals should not exceed $5,000.00. To find out more about application, email info (at) sfuwoodwards (dot) com.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information on the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Community Endowment activities please contact:

SFU Media and Public Affairs
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 Canada