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MAC takes over project
By Carol Aun, Mission City Record, December 1, 2010 The Mission Arts Council (MAC) has revived the photo mural project proposed for the Leisure Centre. MAC executive director Nancy Arcand picked up the phone to offer help as soon as she heard early last week the donations were to be returned and the project cancelled. [...]
VSO pulls out of arts alliance lobby after disagreement over advocacy
By Kevin Griffin, Vancouver Sun, December 2, 2010 The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has resigned from the province’s biggest arts lobby group over a petition regarding a rezoning application for an expanded Edgewater Casino. Amir Ali Alibhai, executive director of the Alliance for Arts and Culture, confirmed Wednesday that the VSO had pulled out of the [...]
Vancouver Opera to kick off season with opera version of West Side Story
When you’re an opera you’re not necessarily an opera all the way. Such is the case with West Side Story – best known as a Broadway musical and subsequent movie musical. But there’s an operatic version of the Leonard Bernstein classic, and such a production will open Vancouver Opera’s 2011-2012 season. The story of a white [...]
Artist Shary Boyle and Curator Scott Watson Receive Hnatyshyn Awards
Gerda Hnatyshyn, C.C., President and Chair of the Board of The Hnatyshyn Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2010 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards. The $25,000 prize for outstanding achievement by a Canadian artist is awarded to Shary Boyle of Toronto; the winner of the $15,000 award for curatorial excellence in contemporary art is [...]
Coquitlam: Workshop aimed at immigrant youth
The Tri-Cities Arts Door Project is hosting an information-sharing session tomorrow (Thursday) about how inclusive the local arts and cultural industry is for immigrant youth. The Arts Door youth leadership team, made up of 14 newcomer youths, will share its preliminary research on how accessible opportunities are for immigrant and newcomer youth in the Tri-Cities [...]
Cumberland: New art gallery in village
You are invited to the opening of the new Corre Alice Gallery in Cumberland on Dec. 3. Come and enjoy an evening of art and merrymaking. The creative spirit that has graced Frelone’s Grocery in the past with yoga, music and film continues with a new art gallery and studio space. Corre Alice, a professional [...]
Duncan and Chemainus get $30,000 in Spirit cash Legacy: Money for post-Olympics cultural celebrations in communities
Duncan and Chemainus are two of 49 B.C. communities to share more than $1 million the province is using to commemorate B.C.’s 2010 Olympic success. This time it’s all about arts and culture with a series of BC Spirit Festivals scheduled for next February. Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Stephanie Cadieux announced the handout [...]
A tale of two cities: Seattle and Vancouver share a lot of similarities when it comes to scenery, weather and public interest. So why do their music scenes look so different?
British Columbia is blessed with towering evergreens, long, stretching beaches and natural mountain ranges—a veritable goldmine for outdoors-y types. Our lush natural scenery and temperate weather is the key ingredient in the active lifestyle of many Vancouverites, and while we can boast of being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the face [...]
Parksville: Sculpture sneak peek
Oceanside residents got to meet aboriginal artist Connie Watts last week at a reception at the McMillan Arts Centre (formerly OCAC) where she revealed a maquette of the her sculpture soon to be gracing downtown Parksville. The reception kicked off the artist’s month long exhibition Playing with Form & Time which shows her incredibly detailed [...]
Kootenay Literary Competition
Get your words on. The Kootenay Literary Competition — presented by the Kootenay Literary Competition Committee — is now open to any residents of the Kootenay region. Kootenay Literary Competition 2010 theme: isolation. Contestants should explore this theme in their original work.
Kamloops: Mayor’s award salutes leadership
Visitors to Peter Milobar’s house over the holidays, beware — the mayor may use you as imbibing guinea pigs. It will all be in support of the Mayor’s Gala for the Arts, a fundraiser for the city’s theatre, art gallery and symphony on Jan. 22. Prior to the event at the Kamloops Convention Centre, Milobar [...]
Vancouver: Mayor’s Art Awards recipients make personal connection, Established and emerging artists honoured at annual arts bash
Evelyn Lau doesn’t have an email address. So when the Governor General Award-nominated writer mentored Kaitlin Fontana through the University of B.C.’s Booming Ground creative writing program, Lau sent Fontana feedback in old-fashioned letters. But two years later, when Lau read Fontana’s short memoir “The Flight Album” in the Canadian magazine The Walrus, about interning [...]
Northern Communities to see Provincial Funding For Spirit Festivals in 2011
Over $70,000 will be coming to northern communities to lead spirit festivals next February. Minister for Community, Sport and Cultural Development Stephanie Cadieux announced today that to commemorate the provinces’ 2010 Olympic success, 49- communities will share just over a million dollars. The money is going to local arts and cultural organizations throughout the province [...]
Prince George Symphony Gets 50- G’s
The Prince George Symphony Orchestra will lead BC Spirit Festivals next February to commemorate B.C.’s 2010 Olympic success thanks to $50,000 from the Province. BC Spirit Festivals will bring together artists, cultural organizations, creative industries and local citizens to celebrate the spirit of British Columbia. Featured activities will include visual arts exhibitions, public museum programs, [...]
B.C. hands out just $1 million of the $3 million promised for Spirit Festivals
The B.C. government has announced that 49 communities will share just over $1 million to lead B.C. Spirit Festivals in February—one-third of the $3 million originally promised for the program. According to a news release, $1,077,224 will be dispersed to local arts councils, First Nations groups, and arts associations. The grants range from $2,000 each [...]
