Four arts and culture groups in the North are getting more than $200,000 help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Twenty-six arts and culture groups throughout the Lower Mainland are getting more than $1 million help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Ten arts and culture groups on Vancouver Island and the islands in the Salish Sea are getting more than $440,000 help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Ten arts and culture groups in the Kootenays and the Thompson Okanagan are getting more than $317,000 help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Professional artists and others who work in the arts can get more support to help with challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic though a new grant program.

The Province is further increasing resources to address racism and expand multiculturalism throughout B.C. as part of the economic recovery from COVID-19.

Artists and organizations are getting more to help them through the pandemic, with increased funding and extended deadlines to apply for arts and culture recovery supports.

Anne Kang, Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, has issued the following statement in honour of BC Multiculturalism Week, Nov. 15-21, 2020:

British Columbia is celebrating the contributions of the Punjabi Canadian community to its economy, history and culture through the development of new educational supports, exhibits and online resources.