Assessment Committee

General Information

Cultural Services uses a blended assessment approach whereby members of the arts and cultural community (peers) are nominated to participate in the assessment process along with one Cultural Planner from Cultural Services. This approach has been successful in that it allows for practicing artists and administrators to contribute their current and historical knowledge of a particular sector/form, while allowing staff to impart a funding history and a thorough financial and operational analysis of the applicant based on data collected from the groups over the years.

Cultural Services invites nominations from the community to assist Staff in the adjudication process for Cultural Grants programs.

Criteria for consideration of Assessment Committee Members

• Members will have expertise in one or more of the following areas: theatre, dance, music, festivals, visual arts, media arts, literary arts, Aboriginal, community arts, and administration.
• Members will have a thorough understanding of the arts and cultural sector in Vancouver (either through practice or work experience), and have been active members of the Vancouver arts and cultural communities in recent years.
• Members should not be in a conflict of interest situation with any applicants and must abide by the City’s Conflict of Interest Policy and Guidelines.
• Prior experience on juries or advisory committees is considered an asset.

The role of the Assessment Committee member is to evaluate applications from proponents requesting assistance from the City/Cultural Services, based upon explicit program criteria. This requires pre-reading applications, participating in Assessment Committee meetings to further discuss the applications, and arriving at recommendations which will be forwarded to City Council for approval. Assessment Committee Members will be paid an honorarium and must be available to meet for at least 1 to 2 days per year.

Nominate yourself or another qualified peer from the community (294kb).

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