arts competition
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
ABSOLUT® VANCOUVER highlights a thriving Vancouver arts scene. Pick up the Limited Edition ABSOLUT® VANCOUVER bottle and proceeds from your purchase will support the Vancouver arts community. We’ll donate up to $120,000 to help celebrate everything that’s unique about the city. With your help, we’ll salute leading edge Vancouver artists whose vision, passion and body [...]
Vancouver Opera announces Operabot contest winners
Vancouver Opera has announced the winners of its first Operabot contest. This international on-line contest asked contestants to create animated shorts based on the VO’s four 2009-2010 operas: Norma, Nixon in China, The Marriage of Figaro, and Madama Butterfly. The winning entries, chosen by a panel of judges at a screening at Rainmaker Studios on [...]
Arts in Vancouver? Absolut-ly
Absolut Warhol. Absolut Haring, Hirst, Cattelan, Bourgeois….And now, Absolut Vancouver. Absolut Vodka has been tight-lipped about Douglas Fraser, the illustrator behind the Vancouver-labelled vodka bottle that launches Tuesday, but Absolut collectors have been buzzing and tweeting for weeks about a mysterious sealed shipment of 60,000 bottles delivered to B.C. liquor stores. The bottle’s image, which [...]
