arts and education
Saanich: Art show funds school program
There is a very positive feeling within the arts community on the Peninsula. Despite the current economic uncertainty, the Sidney Fine Art Show was an outstanding success, financially and artistically. This success, in these times of reduced and unstable funding for the arts in BC, will ensure that local programs such as the arts council’s [...]
100 Mile House: Student gallery instant success at Parkside
Parkside Art Gallery is feeling pride in a newly designated area just for student art. It opened on Sept. 17, and Parkside director Joanne Young says it met with instant success. She was one of the main supporters of the idea to make student art visible to the public. What she hadn’t anticipated was the [...]
UBC’s new arts dean plays a different tune
Gage Averill has a unique curriculum vitae. He dropped out of the University of Wisconsin in the early 1970s to play fiddle in an Irish band and do community organizing. He also started one of the first world music radio shows in the States, relocated to Seattle, and paid the bills driving a school bus [...]
Vancouver: Plan would turn Queen Alexandra into a multicultural fine arts school
Parents have proposed turning Queen Alexandra elementary into a multicultural fine arts school in hopes of increasing its enrolment — and dissuading the school board from shutting it down. “The school has significant extracurricular activities, a long history of fine arts programs built into the school in an unofficial way,” said NDP MLA Jenny Kwan, [...]
Victoria: Funding boost a relief for arts groups
The student population at the Canadian College of Performing Arts is growing. The 38 first-year students accepted is the largest number since the college’s inception in 1997, said college director Ron Schuster, and brings the total number of students at the school to 77 this year. Schuster said a funding injection from the federal government [...]
Arts and sciences dominate post-secondary enrolment, UBC Okanagan sees 22-per-cent jump in admissions
The arts and sciences are the most popular fields of study among first-year students entering B.C. post-secondary institutions. This fall, 2,691 students are expected to attend arts classes at the University of B.C.’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, followed by 2,033 in the faculty of science. Together, the two fields draw about 63 per cent of [...]
Kelowna: Centre for Arts and Technology Schools Implement over $100 000 Audio Studio Upgrades
The Centre for Arts and Technology, Kelowna and Fredericton Campuses, have committed funds to upgrade both Audio Engineering Studios in their respective provinces. These upgrades include a SSL (Solid State Logic) AWS 900+SE mixing console in both Kelowna’s Studio A and Fredericton’s campus Studio, accompanied by an upgraded ProTools software extension, taking the system to [...]
Job posting: Executive Director for ArtStarts in Schools
The Board of Directors of ArtStarts in Schools is seeking a full-time Executive Director to lead and manage the BC-based not-for-profit society. With offices and a gallery located in downtown Vancouver, ArtStarts is looking for an individual with financial, administrative and programming experience to lead the development and delivery of ArtStarts’ BC-wide arts and education [...]
The culture of Ron Burnett and the success of Emily Carr University
Many people refer to Ron Burnett, president of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, as president, Dr. Burnett or just plain Ron. But the French now call him a chevalier. That’s because Burnett has just become one of the relatively few Canadians named a knight (chevalier) of France’s Ordres des Arts et des [...]
Bosa family donates $6 million to Capilano University for new high-tech film centre
Real estate and film-industry mogul Nat Bosa and his wife, Flora, have donated $6 million to Capilano University, the largest private gift in the school’s history. The money will support Capilano’s new Centre for Film and Animation, due to open in 2011, said the university in a release Wednesday. Capilano, already a major B.C. film [...]
Williams Lake: Youth video project preview Thursday
For the past six weeks seven youth lead by a dynamic team of professional artists from Vancouver and Nelson have been learning all about theatre, writing and documentary film making. This Thursday, May 20 from 6 to 8 p.m. the community is invited to the Longhouse for a sneak preview of the youth videographers’ accomplishments. [...]
Kamloops: Students ready to create own licks
Eleven jazz students will be in the groove on Thursday, May 20, as School District 73 presents its District Jazz 2010. The students, all seniors at various secondary schools, auditioned in March for the concert and have had rehearsals with local professional musicians Steve Griffith, Ian McQuaig, Dale Rasmussen and Peter Ward. The goal of [...]
Salmon Arm: Scholarship fit for the arts
Students applying for the Salmon Arm Folk Music Society (SAFMS) Roots and Blues Fine Arts Development Award for the 2010 school year will be pleased to know that the award has increased from $500 to $1,000. The scholarship is open to any 2010 graduate of School District #83 who is going on to post-secondary education [...]
Art program strives to boost critical thinking
The Nootka Fine Arts Program incorporates drama, music, visual arts and dance to supplement learning for students in the K-7 group, better equipping them with skills needed to succeed in secondary school. Its aim is to strengthen critical thinking skills, boost social collaboration and to encourage curiosity about the world by inspiring artistic creativity in [...]
Vancouver: Band and strings program granted temporary reprieve
Vancouver Technical’s concert band played composer John Philip Sousa’s The Liberty Bell march outside the Vancouver Art Gallery earlier this week during Music Monday–a Canada-wide event promoting music education in public schools. An estimated 700,000 students from across the country participated, but the local performance underscored the Vancouver School Board’s struggle to maintain the district’s [...]
