arts awards
Canada Council for the Arts: Artists & Community Collaboration Program in the Visual Arts (ACCP)
DEADLINE: APRIL 15 ANNUALLY This program awards project assistance grants to Canadian, non-profit organizations and collectives with a primary mandate in the contemporary visual arts. Grants provide a contribution toward projects that bring together professional artists and the broader community for the purpose of giving the visual arts a stronger presence in everyday life. Artists [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mayor announces 2010 Arts Awards
Vancouver poet and novelist Evelyn Lau and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival executive director Norman Armour are among the recipients of this year’s Mayor’s Arts Awards. Lau (Living Under Plastic) was named the winner in the literary arts category and Armour, whose edgy PuSh Festival has become one of the most anticipated events on the [...]
Canadians among winners at Latin Grammys
Canadians Alex Cuba and Nelly Furtado were among the winners Thursday night at the Latin Grammy Awards gala in Las Vegas. Singer-songwriter Cuba, who is based in B.C., earned the trophy for best new artist for his self-titled third album. He was also a nominee in the category of best male pop vocal album. Last [...]
B.C. children’s authors finalists for Governor General’s Awards: In an effort to grow an online community of readers, The Sun introduces a virtual book club that will meet once a month, online
Three B.C. children’s authors are finalists for this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards: K.L. Denman of Powell River, for Me, Myself and Ike, Surrey’s Gina McMurchy-Barber, for Free as a Bird, and Richmond’s Wendy Phillips, for Fishtailing. Nominated for illustration of children’s literature are Kristi Bridgeman of Victoria, who brought to life the P.K. Page [...]
Nakusp artists wins national award
To be an artist doesn’t have to mean going to school for years to develop your style. It doesn’t have to mean even working at it from a young age in an attempt to create perfection. An artist can be born at any age, any time, anywhere. And that’s what Sharon Bamber has found out [...]
Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre co-founder wins Canada’s largest theatre award
The largest theatre award in Canada has been handed to one of Vancouver’s most innovative directors. The BMO Financial Group announced Monday that Kim Collier, co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre, has won the 10th-anniversary edition of the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. The award is worth $100,000 but a unique provision calls [...]
A Nice, Nice, Very Nice night for B.C. artists at Western Canadian Music Awards
Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Mangan was the big winner at the 2010 Western Canadian Music Awards, held Sunday night at the Kelowna Community Theatre. The bearded balladeer’s breakout CD Nice, Nice, Very Nice nabbed the awards for independent album of the year, roots solo recording of the year and songwriter of the year. Mangan follows up this [...]
Got Music? Get Exposed!
The BC Interior Music Awards have moved their fall date to the new spring event to be held at Kelowna Community Theatre on Apr 23 2011. Nominations are being accepted until Jan 31 2011 at www.BCIMA.org for the 27 Awards categories being presented. It’s a great market for independent artists who have achieved excellence, and [...]
BC Creative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art to be presented tomorrow
The 2010 BC Creative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art will be presented in a ceremony Friday (October 22) at the Fairmont Pacific Rim. The recipients of the $2,500 awards are Haida jeweller and carver Alvin Adkinds of Vancouver, Haida weaver Lisa Hagerman of Massett, Tahltan visual artist and educator Peter Morin of Victoria, Nuu-chah-nulth [...]
Kelowna: Canada celebrates its musicians with Western Music Awards
Forget the wine-ing. This weekend, Kelowna is going to be rocking. The Breakout West 2010 Festival and Western Canadian Music Awards (WCMA) blast into the Okanagan’s biggest burgh this weekend. Big-name acts from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Yukon showcase at nine city venues, plus there’s the big gala going down on Sunday [...]
Summerland to host Ryga Award
This year, a writing prize named in honour of George Ryga will be presented in the town where he did most of his writing. The eighth annual George Ryga Award will be announced at Centre Stage Theatre in Summerland on Nov. 6, the last day of George Ryga Week. From 1962 until his death in [...]
Castlegar: ‘Peace Sign’ wins top SculptureWalk award
Almost 1,600 people voted for their favourite sculpture in this year’s SculptureWalk and the winner of the People’s Choice was Denis Kleine of Nelson for his piece, “Peace Sign.” As part of the award, Kleine received $10,000 from the City of Castlegar, which has purchased his sculpture for permanent display. He also received a $3,000 [...]
