VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA

Registered Name: THE VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA SOCIETY

Business No: 875808511RR0001

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Our Mission

The mission of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is to serve as a voice for Canadian composers and musicians of all cultural backgrounds…to act as a forum for the creation and performance of musical works that fuse and transcend cultural traditions. Through new creation, performance and educational outreach to both music professionals and the general public, the VICO strives to foster a new musical art form in which all of Canada’s resident cultures can take part.

In a country as diverse as Canada, forms of expression that cross cultural boundaries and encourage relationships between communities are the social building-blocks of the future.

The VICO is committed to:

1. Bringing new and existing intercultural music to broad audiences, locally, nationally, and internationally.

2. Educating the general public about intercultural music.

3. Educating musicians and composers in the new forms of intercultural music-making.

4. Employing all appropriate means to bring this new art form to the attention of professionals and the public, including radio, television, audio and video recordings, digital communications and website presence.

About VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA

The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, founded in 2001, was one of the first professional concert orchestras devoted specifically to performing new intercultural music on a grand scale. It is currently the only ensemble of its kind in Canada, and one of a only a handful that exist in the world. The VICO brings together musicians and composers from many cultural and artistic communities in the Greater Vancouver area, including Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Indian, Persian (Iranian), Latin and South American, Vietnamese, African, North American and European.

The VICO strives to be a fresh and relevant voice in contemporary classical music. We build bridges of imagination. We approach diversity as a fascinating challenge and a creative call to action. We make connections, between performers and audiences of all ages and backgrounds, across the Lower Mainland, throughout Canada and the world. We create and perform orchestral music that transcends boundaries: cultural, social, political, geographical.

REGISTERED CHARITY ADDRESS

#12 - 719 EAST, 31ST AVENUE

VANCOUVER, BC, V5V 2W9

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