Programs
Cadena
An Interdisciplinary project focused on showcasing Latin American electronic music through research, events, workshops, community building & editorial work. Cadena currently consists of audiovisual artists Elias Musiak [AKA Jaijiu | Montreal via Argentina] & Max Ammo [AKA El Ángel Exterminador | Vancouver via Mexico].
Cadena
An Interdisciplinary project focused on showcasing Latin American electronic music through research, events, workshops, community building & editorial work. Cadena currently consists of audiovisual artists Elias Musiak [AKA Jaijiu | Montreal via Argentina] & Max Ammo [AKA El Ángel Exterminador | Vancouver via Mexico].
Neptune7: Holistic Sonic Spheres
Neptune7 a community-centered collective focused on organizing a series of electronic musical events that prioritize showcasing underrepresented QT2SBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex, Two-Spirited, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) artists within the electronic bass scene in Vancouver. Holistic Sonic Spheres is an interactive community workshops series where traditional Elders, knowledge keepers & holistic practitioners from local Indigenous & diasporic communities engage in ancestral knowledge sharing and participatory hands-on activities. The intention of this project series is to fluidly integrate traditional holistic medicine seminars that are interwoven with low-tempo electronic bass music & visual artistic performances for communal catharsis & healing.
Neptune7: Holistic Sonic Spheres
Neptune7 a community-centered collective focused on organizing a series of electronic musical events that prioritize showcasing underrepresented QT2SBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex, Two-Spirited, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) artists within the electronic bass scene in Vancouver. Holistic Sonic Spheres is an interactive community workshops series where traditional Elders, knowledge keepers & holistic practitioners from local Indigenous & diasporic communities engage in ancestral knowledge sharing and participatory hands-on activities. The intention of this project series is to fluidly integrate traditional holistic medicine seminars that are interwoven with low-tempo electronic bass music & visual artistic performances for communal catharsis & healing.
Barangay Project
Barangay Project Society is a non-profit organisation that provides, highlights and nurtures Canadian dance artists and other artforms through Dance festivals and mentorship programs. Our purpose is to build interconnections, create bridges and long lasting relationships with all kinds of artists all over the world. We aim to advance an equitable society for all kinds of Artists through our continuous efforts by providing job opportunities and equitable pay to local artists of Vancouver, BC and all of Canada.
Barangay Project
Barangay Project Society is a non-profit organisation that provides, highlights and nurtures Canadian dance artists and other artforms through Dance festivals and mentorship programs. Our purpose is to build interconnections, create bridges and long lasting relationships with all kinds of artists all over the world. We aim to advance an equitable society for all kinds of Artists through our continuous efforts by providing job opportunities and equitable pay to local artists of Vancouver, BC and all of Canada.
Notebook
Veron x/o's Electronic Music Incubator program designed to empower emerging QTBIPOC youth artists, providing foundational skills in electronic music through hands-on mentorship, an honorarium, discounted softwares, and free access to additional programming such as artist talks, workshops, and live performances.
Notebook
Veron x/o's Electronic Music Incubator program designed to empower emerging QTBIPOC youth artists, providing foundational skills in electronic music through hands-on mentorship, an honorarium, discounted softwares, and free access to additional programming such as artist talks, workshops, and live performances.
Constellation Mentorship
The Constellation Mentorship Program, an initiative launched in 2025, is set to reshape the future of arts leadership by supporting the next generation of QBPOC cultural producers in Vancouver. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and City of Vancouver, the initiative responds to urgent calls for equitable succession planning across Canada's arts sector. Led by Chapel Sound Art Foundation Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Nancy Lee, the program formalizes a peer-based mentorship model rooted in relationship-building, Access Intimacy, and cultural leadership. Six emerging QBPOC cultural producers—Yana K (Neptune7), Veron Xio (Notebook Platform), Alger Liang (Atelier254), Annie Ng (Fountains), Max Ammo (CADENA), and Sophia Laurio (Barangay Project)—are receiving intensive training in curatorial leadership, HR, financial planning, project development, grant funding, and community-based event production. The program emphasizes a complete approach to cultural production, from concept to presentation, grounded in equity and care. Participants will work collaboratively with Indigenous consultants and access culturally responsive mentorship, building leadership skills through hands-on community projects.
Constellation Mentorship
The Constellation Mentorship Program, an initiative launched in 2025, is set to reshape the future of arts leadership by supporting the next generation of QBPOC cultural producers in Vancouver. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and City of Vancouver, the initiative responds to urgent calls for equitable succession planning across Canada's arts sector. Led by Chapel Sound Art Foundation Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Nancy Lee, the program formalizes a peer-based mentorship model rooted in relationship-building, Access Intimacy, and cultural leadership. Six emerging QBPOC cultural producers—Yana K (Neptune7), Veron Xio (Notebook Platform), Alger Liang (Atelier254), Annie Ng (Fountains), Max Ammo (CADENA), and Sophia Laurio (Barangay Project)—are receiving intensive training in curatorial leadership, HR, financial planning, project development, grant funding, and community-based event production. The program emphasizes a complete approach to cultural production, from concept to presentation, grounded in equity and care. Participants will work collaboratively with Indigenous consultants and access culturally responsive mentorship, building leadership skills through hands-on community projects.
Atelier 254
Atelier254 is a multi-use grassroots community space in Chinatown providing marginalized and underrepresented artists and community members with accessible space for events, workshops, and artistic production. Through community relationships and curatorial care, Atelier254 has hosted many grassroots events and supported underground cultural producers in realizing their initiatives, uplifting those who face economic or systemic barriers in participating in mainstream arts and culture, especially racialized, low-income, and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. A few collectives Atelier254 has supported include: MadeByWe, Come Spin With Us, Chinatown Today, Barangay Project, Notebook, Fountains, NormieCorp, Van Vogue Jam, and Chinatown Movie Night.
Atelier 254
Atelier254 is a multi-use grassroots community space in Chinatown providing marginalized and underrepresented artists and community members with accessible space for events, workshops, and artistic production. Through community relationships and curatorial care, Atelier254 has hosted many grassroots events and supported underground cultural producers in realizing their initiatives, uplifting those who face economic or systemic barriers in participating in mainstream arts and culture, especially racialized, low-income, and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. A few collectives Atelier254 has supported include: MadeByWe, Come Spin With Us, Chinatown Today, Barangay Project, Notebook, Fountains, NormieCorp, Van Vogue Jam, and Chinatown Movie Night.
CHAPEL SOUND PRESENTS
Through seven years of operation, CHAPEL SOUND PRESENTS programming and activities have paid more than 250 artists & cultural producers over $190k in artist and cultural production fees, solidifying our place in the BC cultural scene as a key player in creating a truly rich, inclusive and diverse ecosystem for the advancement of artistic performance, presentation and practice. As an organization, we have supported this programming with extensive contributions of time from our core team members. In order to ensure the sustainability of and fully support the continuation of this programming, we’re striving to more suitably compensate them for their essential contribution.
Each year, we produce up to three multi-day events featuring presentation, performance and educational opportunities. All public events are promoted through our diverse network of partners and communities, through email invitations, social media, traditional media and personal outreach.
CHAPEL SOUND PRESENTS has been our core program consistently since October 2016, when we officially became a registered not-for-profit. We chose to incorporate upon recognizing a need for marginalized artists and cultural producers in multidisciplinary arts & music in the field of production, curation and performance to have a platform to showcase their work, and to create programming for their own communities of belonging. We additionally acknowledged the importance of these platforms to centre leadership of marginalized cultural producers and curators.
CULTURAL PRODUCTION MENTORSHIP
CULTURAL PRODUCTION MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
A key part of the work of Chapel Sound Art Foundation is in engaging and supporting mentorship practice, especially in the category of curation. We have engaged in a cultural production mentorship program for the past five years, offering aspiring and emerging curators and cultural producers an opportunity to select and present artists and art projects with ongoing one on one support with experienced mentors to advance their cultural production skill set.
We support our cultural production mentees from concept to production, offering them hands-on guidance in artist selection, contract and agreement creation, venue selection and preparedness, production support, production team building, marketing and public relations, as well as front and back of house management, as needed for their vision and skill level. Mentorships focus on the needs and vision of each mentee.
This program spans varying levels of familiarity and experience in cultural curation, from small intimate shows produced in house, to larger performances, to named collaborations and partnerships. Many of our mentees have gone on to curate segments of our CHAPEL SOUND PRESENTS programming, offering us an opportunity to support them in career development, as well as to train our collaborators of the future. This program additionally provides an incubator, allowing us to identify and develop fresh vision and talent to support all of our programming.
Through this program we have supported the presentation of more than 100 events spanning from music, dance, film, visual art, media art, drag to virtual reality. Recently these presentations included events hosted with Fakeknot, Barangay Project, Acceleration Radio, Fountains, MadeByWe, CURRENT, Normie Corp, INTER/MEDIATE, Chinatown Movie Night, just to name a few.
