Cultural Capitals Legacies
CommunityNow: Year Five Premiere
Thursday, February 19,2009 -- Millennium Place at7:30pm, free admission
Each year since 2005 in the lead-up to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the Whistler Museum has been capturing and producing a featurette-film on a different local demographic consisting of interviews of Whistler residents on the history of Whistler, the experience of living in Whistler and their thoughts of the 2010 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games.
This year’s featurette will be Whistler’s Coming of Age Story. Follow the mountain community’s journey from its First Nations beginnings and sunny days of Rainbow Lodge to a rope-tow ski mountain growing at the speed of a quad chair as it readies itself for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Whistler’s story is told by the people of the community; each sharing their memories, successes and hopes for the future.
In 2009, the individual featurettes will be edited into a single full-length film that documents the forces that have led to Whistler in its current form.
Commmunity Now is an important legacy that documents and preserves local stories for the education and enjoyment of generations to come. The Whistler Museum and Archives Society is reaching out and connecting locals and visitors with the heritage of Whistler, and helping them to engage in the process of building a sustainable community.
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W.A.t.C.H2011-2020: Whistler’s Roadmap to Cultural Sustainability:
A long-term futureof Whistler’s arts, culture and heritage scene is a core component ofWhistler’s success as both as a four-season world-class resource and as a community committed to sustainability. During the 2009 Cultural Capitals of Canada year, Whistler’s arts, culture and heritage community will be developing a cultural plan for the continued growth and success of events, festivals, and programs that celebrate Whistler in all its incarnations, seasons, adrenaline-seeking experiences, and sheer beauty.
Whistler Arts, Culture and Heritage (W.A.t.C.H.) has goals to reach by 2020. One step along this path is to use the lead-up to the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to raise cultural programming to the next level. Whistler has already taken significant strides to strengthening the programming of its cultural sector.
The next step is how to use the momentum of 2010 to achieve the goals articulated in the Whistler 2020 Arts, Culture and Heritage Strategy. It is felt that to take full advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Whistle that the Games represents, there needs to be both a roadmap created, and a reformation of Whistler’s arts, culture and heritage sector in a way that streamlines and enhances the capacity of the separate organizations into a more coordinated programming and producing organization.
This project will be among the most important beneficial legacies of Whistler’s Cultural Capital year, as it will address a very significant concern for the resort community: namely, what happens after 2010. A sound strategy, based on research and involving all Whistler stakeholders, will give direction about how Arts, Culture and Heritage can continue thrive on the road to 2020. In other words, “W.A.t.C.H 2011-2020” will help Whistler’s culture sector to take the next natural step towards cultural sustainability.
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