The Edmonton Heritage Council (EHC) announces Adriana Davies as the inaugural recipient of the Heritage Writers’ Reserve award.
Posts By: EHC Team
Virtual AGM
EHC members are invited to celebrate an extraordinary year of Edmonton heritage
A Message from EHC’s Programs Manager: Changes to HCIP
Since its launch in 2013, the HCIP grant program has been EHC’s most direct way of equipping heritage practitioners with the tools they need to tell Edmonton’s stories. Through this city’s many evolutions, planned and otherwise, it is the duty of this program to evolve along with it.
HCIP Spring/Summer Recipients!
The Heritage Community Investment Program (HCIP) invests funds, provided by the City of Edmonton, into the stabilization, increased professionalism, and innovation of heritage in Edmonton, for Edmontonians. The HCIP includes four distinct grant streams: Operational, Project, Project Accelerator, and Travel Grants to individuals and heritage organizations working to connect citizens to the stories of our city.
HCIP Changes and New Deadlines
In response to community feedback and evolutions within the heritage sector, EHC has revisited its grant program to better address the needs of the community.
Congratulations to the 2020 HCIP Operational Grant Recipients!
The Heritage Community Investment Program (HCIP) provides Operational Grants to museums, archives, and other heritage organizations to research, preserve, interpret, and advocate for Edmonton’s heritage. Congratulations to the following organizations who received Operational funding in 2020!
HCIP Profile: Jean Middleton
HCIP Travel grant informs museum’s approach to family learning
Guest Post: Edmonton Heritage Council & interVivos 2019 Mentorship Program
The blog post below was contributed on June 3, 2020 by Soni Dasmohapatra, Zohreh Saher, and Larissa Kho. Why an Edmonton Heritage Council (EHC) mentorship program In the summer of 2019, while coordinating the Heritage Community Investment Program during a maternity leave coverage, Soni Dasmohapatra initiated a mentorship pilot project. This initiative brought to life… Read more »
HCIP Profile: Dustin Bajer
When Dustin Bajer applied for a Project Accelerator HCIP grant, his ambition was to develop an accessible database of Edmonton plants. He got more than he bargained for.
A Guest Post from Edmonton’s Historian Laureate: Preserving Your Family Archives
In my guest post of June 9, 2018 I wrote about organizing family archives, or more to the point, not organizing them, so that a family story can be told as it was created. In this post I am going to provide some hints to help you to preserve your family archives.