arts philanthropy
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 [...]
Ross Beaty, Lukas Lundin give B.C. Museum of Mining $3.72 million
The BC Museum of Mining at Britannia Beach has received a total of $3.72 million from industry leaders Ross Beaty and Lukas Lundin. This includes personal donations from Beaty of $2 million and Lundin of $1 million and a corporate donation of $722,000 from Red Back Mining, where Lukas serves as chairman. The gift will support a [...]
Kim Cattrall helps Vancouver Youth Theatre stay afloat
Sex in the City’s Kim Cattrall has stepped in to help fill a funding gap left by the province. The Hollywood actor, who took part in acting programs during her childhood on Vancouver Island, made an unspecified donation to the Vancouver Youth Theatre on May 6. Along with the rest of the arts community, the [...]
Haida artist Davidson wins B.C.’s Audain Prize
Robert Davidson, a renowned Haida artist, has been named winner of the Audain Prize for lifetime achievement, B.C.’s largest visual arts award. The prize from the Audain Foundation grants $30,000 annually to a senior British Columbia artist, selected by an independent jury. Davidson is known for combining traditional imagery with modern techniques in his masks [...]
Ottawa honours West Vancouver arts dynamos, Yulanda and Mohammed Faris
When Yulanda and Mohammed Faris receive the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Volunteerism in the Performing Arts this afternoon in Ottawa, it will be tough to choose which branch of the creative tree of life is most indebted to these much-loved champions of the arts and artists. Dance or opera, literary arts or visual arts, [...]
Vancouver Foundation ups arts grants in reaction to provincial cuts
The Vancouver Foundation has announced it will donate $800,000 to arts and culture groups this year, double the funding it contributed last year to that sector. “Vancouver Foundation is stepping up to the plate,” said CEO Faye Wightman in a press statement. “We’re doing what we can to fill the need created by the recession [...]
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 [...]
Few Canadians give to the arts
Individuals gave about $101 million to arts and culture organizations in 2007, but these donors represent a very small percentage of Canadians who make charitable donations, according to a new report. A study by Hill Strategies Research found that of the Canadians who give, only 3.3 per cent give to the arts. The report is [...]
Heading to the Downtown Eastside for the swankiest party of the Games
Michael Ignatieff looks slightly stunned as he pushes his way into the packed reception at Bob Rennie’s fantabulous private art gallery in the Downtown Eastside with his wife Zsuzsanna on Wednesday afternoon. “Is this a church?,” he asks, gazing upward at the soaring ceilings and high windows that permitted beatific light. Then he went into [...]
Vancouver: About those new art galleries with Michael Audain’s name …
Soft-spoken philanthropist with a love of northwest coast art has no reservations about donating to support it The new Audain Gallery was unveiled recently at the University of B.C.’s Museum of Anthropology. Just over a week later, Simon Fraser University will open its Audain Gallery today in the SFU Woodward’s complex downtown. Both are named [...]
Philanthropist Michael Audain among five from B.C. named to Order of Canada
Two medical doctors, a former federal privacy commissioner, an actor and an art-collecting property developer were the B.C. recipients of Order of Canada awards announced Wednesday by Gov.-Gen. Michaëlle Jean. Fifty-seven individuals were given Order of Canada awards, including hockey legend Mario Lemieux and rock stars Neil Young and Burton Cummings. Polygon Homes chairman Michael [...]
Audain Foundation’s $2.5 Million Grant Supports UBC Museum of Anthropology Upgrade
At 5,800 sq. ft., the Audain Gallery will enable MOA to host and attract major international shows that to date have not been able to travel to Vancouver due to a lack of appropriate space. It will also allow MOA to continue to develop and produce its own major exhibits, but on a much larger [...]
