arts philanthropy
UBC Museum of Anthropology Receives $1 Million Gift from O’Brian Family Foundation
The Michael O’Brian Family Foundation has donated $1 million to the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA) toward the renovation of one of MOA’s major galleries and to support future projects, including MOA’s Acquisition Fund. Recognition of this gift will include the renaming of Gallery 3 to The O’Brian Gallery, which will be unveiled on November 25, 2010 [...]
Developer offers charitable donation to Kelowna ballet co
A generous donation from a philanthropic developer has administrators at Ballet Kelowna dancing in the aisles this week. On Thursday, Western Star Auctions will help the school auction off furnishings valued at over $48,000 after Derek Trethewey offered up the contents of two of his own homes he recently sold to help finance the young [...]
Vancouver’s new public gallery opens at Five Sixty Nightclub on Seymour
Satellite Gallery, Vancouver’s newest public art gallery, officially opens Saturday in Vince Alvaro’s Five Sixty nightclub on Seymour. Located on the second level, Satellite Gallery is a joint project of three institutions: the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of B.C. and Presentation House Gallery in North [...]
ArtsFACT to Donate $500,000 to Vancouver Arts Community
ArtsFACT (The Arts Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) began as a cultural initiative by CHUM Radio in 1991. With an initial funding of $500,000, ArtsFACT was able to issue grants amounting to almost one million dollars from 1993 to 2002. A combination of declining interest rates and ownership changes kept ArtsFACT inactive until this year. [...]
New prize has $15K for young musicians
A new, $15,000 award has been created to recognize promising young Canadian performers of classical music. The Canada Council for the Arts and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada announced the Michael Measures Prize Tuesday in Toronto. The prize is being established with a $1 million bequest from Michael Measures, an Ottawa classical music lover [...]
Goldcorp donates $10 million to SFU downtown arts centre
Simon Fraser University will name its new arts complex after Goldcorp Inc., after the gold producer donated $10 million to its downtown Vancouver campus at Hastings and Richards streets. “This gift will ensure that our contemporary arts program is not just located in the Downtown Eastside,” said SFU president Andrew Petter, “but also is a [...]
WV man donates $4M to SFU, Woodward’s redevelopment will benefit
West Vancouver philanthropist Djavad Mowafaghian is donating $4 million to performance spaces in the new home of Simon Fraser University’s contemporary arts school in the Vancouver Woodward’s development. When the school opens next month in its new location, two of its major performance spaces — a cinema and a world art centre — will bear [...]
Vancouver: SFU arts centre gets $4m boost
North Vancouver businessman and philanthropist Djavad Mowafaghian has donated $4 million to Simon Fraser University’s new contemporary arts campus at the former Woodward’s site in the Downtown Estside. When the campus opens next month it will have the 350-seat Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema and the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre. Mowafaghian made his fortune as a [...]
The patron of the opera, Alice Choi helps keep Cantonese art form alive in Vancouver with her performances and funding
A great deal of truth is contained in the crude slogan “form follows funding“: All the world’s great art traditions were paid for somehow, by someone. In the European context those some-ones were the church and/or the aristocracy, before governments somewhat reluctantly inherited the role of patron of the arts. Most of us are accustomed [...]
Hnatyshyn performing arts grants awarded to 8
Stéphane Tétreault, a young classical musician studying in Montreal, and Barbara Kozciki, an actress studying in Vancouver, are among the recipients of Hnatyshyn Foundation performing artists grants. The $10,000 grants were announced Monday in Ottawa. Tétreault, 17, has studied violoncello with Yuli Turovsky and given solo performances with chamber ensembles such as Musici de Montréal, [...]
Victoria: Shaw gift boosts Carr fund $100,000 donation puts campaign near goal for statue of noted artist
A $100,000 donation from Shaw Communications has moved the Our Emily campaign closer to its $400,000 goal of a bronze statue of artist Emily Carr. “I was speechless,” Anne Geddes, president of the Parks and Recreation Foundation of Victoria, said when told about the donation. The foundation, which is spearheading the campaign, first approached the [...]
Vancouver: Theatre Under the Stars Introduces New TD Sponsored Initiative Making Theatre More Accessible
Marking the first time in the organization’s history, Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) announced that it has signed a major sponsor for its upcoming 2010 season. TD Bank Financial Group will provide $50,000 in funding to this season’s productions and will also enable the organization to offer student discount pricing. The agreement with TD will [...]
Maple Ridge: Help for festivals and arts
PeterTam Productions will be sponsoring up to three non-profit organizations per year with $6,000 worth of in-kind production services and equipment, for the next two years. The Maple Ridge company provides professional sound, lighting equipment and crew for events, concerts, theatrical productions and parties. The purpose of the sponsorship is to broaden the bases for [...]
Vancouver’s artists shortchanged by $700,000
The late Abraham Rogatnick must be shaking his head in disgust with a recent decision by Vancouver Council to reduce the amount his estate could have donated to the arts community by $700,000. Rogatnick was a well known architect and professor at the University of British Columbia who recently passed away and decided to leave [...]
Britannia Beach: Teck donates $1M to BC Museum of Mining
The B.C. Museum of Mining in Britannia Beach is built on what was once the largest copper mine in the British Commonwealth – but it struck gold this week. Teck Resources Limited, Canada’s largest mining company, has donated $1 million to the Museum for its three-phase redevelopment, the Britannia Project, which aims to transform the [...]
