Prince George arts
Prince George: P.G. symphony performs One Song Festival
By Christine Skorepa, The Prince George Citizen, December 27, 2010 The Prince George Symphony Orchestra’s Spirit of the One Song Festival takes place in February. This event, sponsored by the Assembly of B.C. Arts Councils and the B.C. 2010 Arts and Cultural Festival, will partner with several arts organizations to showcase local talent. The PGSO [...]
Prince George Symphony Gets 50- G’s
The Prince George Symphony Orchestra will lead BC Spirit Festivals next February to commemorate B.C.’s 2010 Olympic success thanks to $50,000 from the Province. BC Spirit Festivals will bring together artists, cultural organizations, creative industries and local citizens to celebrate the spirit of British Columbia. Featured activities will include visual arts exhibitions, public museum programs, [...]
Prince George: Coldsnap announces 2011 lineup
The mainstage 2011 Coldsnap Music out-of-town line-up has been announced by the Prince George Folkfest Society. Local artists will be announced at a later date. Tickets go on sale Nov. 1 and there are a variety of workshops involving the themes of racism, diversity, multiculturalism and inclusion in music. Listen to a sample of music [...]
Prince George: Graffiti Magnets Now Community Art
Later this morning, Prince George Community Policing and B.C. Hydro will unveil two special hydro boxes which have been given a special wrapping to discourage vandalism. Electrical boxes are often the target for nasty graffiti. With some funding from City of Prince George Communities in Bloom Community Enhancement Grant and some dollars from B.C Hydro, the boxes located at the corner of Massey Drive [...]
Prince George: Theatre North West Requests Service Agreement Extension
Theatre North West is looking to the city of Prince George for a little stability . On Monday night, Theatre Northwest appeared before council to request their service agreement of 18 thousand dollars annually from the city be extended an other year. General Manager Anne Laughlin says its been a challenging year for the theatre.
North Central Arts Summit comes to Prince George
Effective networking and the use of social media will be some of the topics covered at the upcoming North Central Arts Summit Conference in Prince George. The free conference takes place this Friday and Saturday at the Civic Centre and is being sponsored by the Prince George and District Community Arts Council and the 2010 [...]
Prince George: Arts group hopes for funding restoration
The Executive Director of the Prince George and District Community Arts Council says her organization has been treading water since their BC Arts Council funding was cut by almost forty percent from last year’s levels. Wendy Young hopes that will change now that the province has announced the BC Arts Council will receive seven million [...]
Prince George: Small venue resurgence
Want to start a Revolution? Get some talented local musicians together, form a band (call them, say, Revolution) then make them part of a larger vision to bring other talented artists, groups and great music to downtown Prince George. Pretty soon everyone will want live music with their morning coffee. It’s coming. Artspace and Cafe [...]
Prince George: New Banners to be Unveiled this Morning
This summer, new street banners will beautify the Hart community and Central Street, as the City of Prince George and Hart Community Association have partnered in an art beatification program. th Avenue and Highway 16. These eight were designed by students Candice Daoust, Ashley Knight, Hailey Koshel, Angie Lundblom and Ashlee Menning. “We are grateful [...]
Prince George: Consultants expected to choose a site for the Performing Arts Centre by September
With the Smart Growth on the Ground planning complete, the selection of a site for the Prince George Regional Performing Arts Centre is once again underway. Vice President Jo Graber says the Arts Centre Society waited for the Smart Growth initiative to wrap up before engaging consultants at the suggestion of the City. He says [...]
RFP: Prince George Regional Performing Arts Centre Society
The Prince George Regional Performing Arts Centre Society requests proposals from qualified consultants to prepare a five year business plan for the operation of a performing arts centre and ancillary operations, The PGRPAC Society recently completed a Feasibility Study to determine the market demand and initial operating and space requirement models for a new Performing [...]
Lottery cuts downright sleazy
The Campbell government’s decision to scoop $10 million in lottery grants in arts-group funding is mean spirited, politically dumb, and disproportionately unfair to rural British Columbia. Putting it as delicately as I can, those cuts are a downright sleazy way to treat an enormously talented and productive group of citizens. Measuring the cuts on an [...]
Band programs making noise again at local elementary schools
After going nearly extinct, elementary school bands are making a comeback in Prince George. Heritage elementary is the latest to confirm it will run a band program. Years of cutbacks by various levels of government and public apathy are being blamed for the near demise of all elementary school bands not only in School District [...]
Bridges: An Arts & Culture Festival in Our City, June 11-13 in Prince George
The festival will take place at the University of Northern British Columbia on June 11th – 13th, 2009. There will be displays and performances of original work by Prince George visual artists, writers, and musicians; academic presentations, panel discussions on the cultural economy of small cities and the culture of small cities, with a focus [...]
Arts centre society adds new directors
The Prince George Regional Performing Arts Centre Society will be taking on a new phase of its plan to develop a performing arts centre in Prince George with three new directors joining the board. A planning phase has now begun, following a feasibility study completed in November that recommended Prince George have a performing arts [...]
