explorPERFORMANCE Development Award

The Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society is pleased to announce explorPERFORMANCE, a new performance development award created by the Society and CBC Television in recognition of the success and significance of the explorASIAN 2004 Festival.

Designed to assist up-and-coming BC talent who have Asian or Pan-Asian influenced performances, the explorPERFORMANCE Development Award aims to provide the inspiration and tools for under-exposed artists to take that “next-step”. Recording time in a CBC Television studio, valued at up to $5000, and a personal consultation with a CBC Television programming executive will be awarded to the non-professional performer who best shows his or her creative potential. Performance genres eligible in the selection process include music, comedy, theatre, dance, spoken-word or cross-disciplinary performance with Asian or Pan-Asian roots.

As incubators of Canadian talent, CBC Television and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society recognize the volume of talent that explorASIAN highlights each year. The goal of this award is to launch undiscovered talent, to elevate their profile and to help them realize their performance dreams.

The explorPERFORMANCE Development Award arose from the continuing partnership between the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society and CBC Television. explorASIAN celebrates Asian and Pan-Asian performance and culture in our community during Asian Heritage Month each May.

For more details on explorPERFORMANCE, please visit http://www.explorasian.org/explorperformance_intro.html