The BC Arts Council is engaging with artists, arts organizations, service organizations, and sector partners to inform the development of its Strategy and Action Plan. The Council is the provincial agency responsible for investing in and supporting arts and cultural activity throughout B.C.
The Council is seeking your input to ensure its priorities, programs, and funding approaches align with the changing needs, opportunities, and realities of the sector.
The Council invites feedback on the following priority areas:
- Reconciliation and Indigenous Leadership
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- Regional and Community Arts Engagement
- Sustainability, Resilience, and Strategic Innovation
- Collaboration, Partnerships, and Sector Capacity
This engagement builds on what the Council has already heard through previous and ongoing engagements with the sector, which informed a Renewed Strategic Vision (PDF, 2.2MB). To learn more about the future vision, priorities or past efforts of the council’s strategy, please see 2018-2022 New Foundations Strategic Plan (PDF, 530KB) and 2022-2024 Extending Foundations Action Plan (PDF, 836MB) for the BC Arts Council.
About the survey
Participants are specifically asked to provide input on:
- How much the priority areas reflect the current realities of B.C.’s arts and culture sector
- Areas that need more clarity or attention
- Realistic actions and approaches to advance each priority
- New opportunities, challenges, and ideas that should help inform the council’s future direction
Your input will directly inform the development of the Council’s Strategy and Action Plan by ensuring the Council’s priorities, programs, and investments reflect the current needs, opportunities, and realities of B.C.’s arts and culture sector.
The survey will take approximately 10–15 minutes to complete and will remain open until July 31, at 4:00 pm.
If you have questions about this survey or require an alternate format, please contact BCACengagement2026@gov.bc.ca.
The BC Arts Council acknowledges that it carries out its work on the lands of First Nations throughout British Columbia. We are grateful for the continuing relationships with Indigenous people in B.C. that develop through our work together. We acknowledge and raise our hands to the lək̓ʷəŋən people, known today as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, on whose lands we operate our main offices.
Please note: This online feedback form supports all newer comparable browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge, etc. with activated JavaScript. Your browser settings must have cookies enabled for the questionnaire to run properly and inactivity on the questionnaire for longer than one hour will result in the questionnaire timing out.
Collection Notice: The information you provide will be collected for the purposes of informing the BC Arts Council Strategy and Action Plan development. If you have any questions about the collection of this personal information, please contact: Director, Citizen Engagement, citizenengagement@gov.bc.ca. This information is being collected by the Ministry of Citizens' Services on behalf of the the BC Arts Council and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sports under the authority of section 26(c) and 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“FOIPPA”).
All responses are confidential and will not be linked to your identity or any personal information. Overall results and written responses will be shared with BC Arts Council and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sports in anonymous form to support the development of the Strategy and Action Plan. Participation is completely voluntary, and you may skip any questions you prefer not to answer.
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