arts competition
Duncan: An artistic success
The Warm Land’s hosting of Performing Arts B.C. ended with Thursday’s big Cowichan Theatre finale that drew deserved kudos from all corners of the province. “It was the best of the best,” Langley visitor Jacki Ashworth summed after the 24-act highlights night. Her comments followed a week of stiff competition among 500 provincial finalists from [...]
The prize is right: Music contests and competitions offer much more than big cash
When Kelowna rockers We Are The City won top honours at the first instalment of the Peak Performance Project music competition earlier this year, they quite literally hit the jackpot. As the trio stood dumbfounded on the stage at the Commodore Ballroom, the enormity of the oversized cheque being handed to them and also the [...]
Deadline May 24 for juried visual arts competition, ‘Green: ON THE EDGE’
The San Juan Islands Museum of Art & Sculpture Park (IMA) is sounding the call to Washington, Oregon and British Columbia artists to enter IMA’s juried visual arts competition, “Green: ON THE EDGE.” The upcoming summer exhibition asks artists to tackle the question, “What does green mean to you?” “ON THE EDGE” is IMA’s way [...]
Williams Lake: Festival honours concert Saturday
The Cariboo Festival 2010 wraps up this Saturday evening with the Honours Concert starting at 7 p.m. at Cariboo Bethel Church. The Honours Concert includes performances by some of the top award winners of the festival and those who have been chosen by the adjudicators to participate in the B.C. Festival of the Arts coming [...]
Prince Rupert: BC Annual gets underway Sunday
The B.C. Annual Dance Competition will be held in Prince Rupert from May 2 until May 8, with the City of Prince Rupert and several local businesses donating approximately $55,000 to the event. This year there will be two adjudicators at the B.C. Annual Dance Competition. One of the adjudicators will be Everett Smith who [...]
Vancouver: Young artists hope to help stop crime, put an end to violence
Recreations of bloody crime scenes, weeping relatives and young people behind bars. Those are just some of the images that more than 300 secondary students from across B.C. used to create anti-gang posters for a provincewide contest sponsored by The Vancouver Sun and the Gang Task Force. Some entrants said they had seen gang violence [...]
Contest pairs producers with scientists: Gen Screen BC gives filmmakers chance to make plots more accurate
A new initiative, which kicks off tonight, will not only give at least three filmmakers money in their pockets, it will go a long way to make their films more accurate when it comes to scientific details. Gen Screen BC, organized by Genome BC and the BC Clinical Genomic Network, is a film competition that [...]
Peak Performance Project returns for an encore: Competition for emerging B.C. artists boosts prize money for Top 20 finalists in its second year
The second instalment of the Peak Performance Project will officially kick off Friday, when the online application forms for the music competition are made open to the public. The music competition that started in 2009 will once again offer artists from all over B.C. the opportunity to win sizable development money prizes and a unique [...]
Turning Point Ensemble wins Rio Tinto Alcan arts award
Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble is the winner of the 2010 Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, it was announced Tuesday. Founded in 2002 and co-directed by Owen Underhill and Jeremy Berkman, Turning Point is a music group devoted to exploring the repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inception, the TPE has been [...]
Vote For ArtsWells on CBC Radio Three: ArtsWells has made it to the CBC3 top ten “Best Festival in Canada”
The ArtsWells Festival Of All Things Art in the historic Cariboo community of Wells/Barkerville, BC is ecstatic to have been selected by CBC Radio Three as one of the top 10 festivals in Canada! Please help ArtsWells to become the number 1 festival in Canada! Click on the link to vote…you can vote once each day! [...]
ArtsWells Festival Of All Things Art in the historic Cariboo community of Wells/Barkerville is ecstatic to have been selected by CBC Radio Three as one of the top 40 festivals in Canada!
The ArtsWells Festival Of All Things Art in the historic Cariboo community of Wells/Barkerville is ecstatic to have been selected by CBC Radio Three as one of the top 40 festivals in Canada! Please help ArtsWells to be voted the NUMBER 1 festival in Canada! Follow this link in order to vote…you can vote once [...]
Courtenay: Performing artists lining up for their turn in spotlight
February is a time for performers from the North Island to shine. For the past two weeks, singers and musicians from the Valley and beyond have been participating in the North Island Festival of Performing Arts (NIFPA), which runs all month long at the Sid Williams Theatre. An annual festival, the NIFPA features adjudicated performances [...]
Prince George: Performers prepare to take to the stage
There are just over 800 performers busily preparing for the 59th annual Prince George and District Music Festival. Four adjudicators will assess the young musicians’ performances in strings, piano, instrumental and vocal. Joel Stobbe, a former Prince George cellist who has performed throughout Europe, is currently program advisor for the string department of Langley Community [...]
Smithers Secondary wins 2010 zone drama festival
They say: all the world’s a stage. The world that is northwest BC came to the stage at Mount Elizabeth Theatre in Kitimat from February 4 to 7 to compete in the 2010 Northwest Zone High School Drama Festival. Kitimat hosted representatives from Prince Rupert, Smithers, Hazelton and Houston, and a total of 11 plays [...]
ABSOLUT® VANCOUVER: Meet the finalists and vote for their project
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