Submit your nominations for the Vancouver Heritage Awards
Nominations are now open for the Vancouver Heritage Awards, which recognize outstanding efforts to preserve and sustain our city’s cultural heritage, including the tangible and intangible heritage of our diverse communities.
The awards acknowledge and celebrate the different facets of heritage in Vancouver that are reflected not only in historic buildings and places, but also through intangible heritage and the self-expressed heritage of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh Nations, Urban Indigenous Peoples, and the many cultures that enrich our city.
Award categories
The Heritage Awards will honour achievements in three categories:
Living heritage
- For projects or initiatives that highlight the self-expressed heritage of Vancouver’s communities, or for projects that support reconciliation, cultural redress, or safeguarding or regeneration of living heritage
Heritage conservation
- For the restoration, rehabilitation, adaptive re-use, or continued maintenance of buildings, structures, cultural landscapes or other natural features, including seismic or sustainability upgrades
Education and awareness
- For the use of a publication, exhibit, activity, social media, or website to promote tangible or intangible heritage, or celebrate diverse cultures and histories
Projects eligible for consideration must have been completed within the past six years and not have previously received a City of Vancouver Heritage Award.
The deadline for nominations is February 6, 2023, at 4pm.
Find submission requirements and nomination forms
The Heritage Awards will be adjudicated by an independent jury and presented at a ceremony in spring 2023.
Background
We oversee a comprehensive heritage program that works to strengthen the policies and tools available to support and protect tangible and intangible heritage.
In March 2020, City Council approved the new Vancouver Heritage Program PDF file (5.8 MB), which expands the meaning of heritage to firmly embrace cultural heritage and support the self-expressed histories and heritage of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and Urban Indigenous Peoples. The Heritage Program also allows policy framework and planning tools to further integrate heritage conservation within city-wide planning and urban development processes.