Survey: Anti-Racism Data Project

Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA) is a movement of Black, Indigenous, and racialized BC-based artists and cultural workers to redistribute resources through data-driven action.

Individuals aged 18+ of Black, Indigenous and/or racialized descent.

BC-based artists and cultural workers working in/with Arts, Culture and Heritage organizations, or grantmaking organizations.

You may be an early/emerging/mid-career/established independent practitioner, employed (part-time or full-time), and/or have experience applying for funding, participating in juries, and presenting work (performance, exhibition, publishing, etc).

While there is no criteria for accreditation from post-secondary institutions, we are interested in people who are regularly engaged in the Arts, Culture and Heritage sector (formally, or informally). For clear guidance, please refer to the definitions below.

Upon entering the survey link, you will complete preliminary screening questions which will direct you to the appropriate survey.

If you have any questions or concerns about your eligibility, contact Dana at dana@221a.ca.

Artist: The term “artist” for this survey refers to someone who has developed skills through training (not necessarily in an academic institution) or practice in any creative discipline, is recognized by artists working in the same artistic practice, has a history of public presentation or publication, seeks payment for their work, and actively practices their art.

Cultural worker: The term “cultural worker” for this survey refers to a person involved in the (official or unofficial) production of culture, such as a curator, art administrator, clerk, custodial or technical worker of an art organization, cultural technologist, art historian or scholar, language worker, media worker, etc.

Racialized person or group: The term “racialized person or group” for this survey refers to a person or group who experiences discrimination or disadvantage based on race, ethnicity, or other socially constructed categories.

Part of our study is interested in surveying people engaged with BC-based Arts, Culture and Heritage organizations, and grant-making organizations.

Arts and Culture Organizations: These are registered non-profit organizations and community service co-operatives with a dedicated arts and cultural mandate and offering public arts and cultural programming; professional book publishers; and arts and cultural organizations embedded within local governments or post-secondary institutions with independent advisory/governance structures (BC Arts Council, n.d.).

Community Arts and Culture Organizations include community arts councils and community-driven arts and cultural non-profit organizations whose primary purpose is to enrich a specified community through a range of arts disciplines and experiences. Although generally volunteer-run, they may engage and collaborate with professional artists/arts, museum and cultural practitioners, arts administrators, Elders or Traditional Knowledge Keepers (BC Arts Council, n.d.)

Grant-making Organizations encompass a range of entities that provide financial support to non-profit organizations and other eligible groups. These organizations include public funders, public foundations, and community-based organizations.

Heritage Organizations refer to groups that focus on preserving and promoting BC’s heritage resources, including historic sites, cultural practices, and languages. They may operate at local, regional, or provincial levels and often collaborate with governments, Indigenous groups and communities.

Practices of data collection and analysis are essential to the development of, and advocacy for, policies that define individual and collective relationships to labour and economic governance.

With the Anti-Racism Data Project, SEARA centers BIPOC guidance and participation to gather and instrumentalise quantitative and qualitative data which will inform a set of policy recommendations to promote racial equity in BC’s Arts, Culture and Heritage sector. 

This survey is hosted on SurveyMonkey and can only be accessed via a general web link. This means that any personal information collected, such as your email address, location, or name, is not linked to your survey responses. Your survey responses will be reported as group statistics, and the open-ended questions will be summarized by themes.

Please note: in order to issue your honorarium, we will be collecting e-transfer details at the end of the survey. This information will not be linked to your individual survey responses, and destroyed after your payment has been processed.