Whistler arts
Whistler: Whistler Arts Council Announces Lani Imre Professional Artist Winner and Paige Keith Emerging Artist Winner
Whistler, B.C. – The Whistler Arts Council and La Bocca Restaurant are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Artist Award of Excellence. Painter, Lani Imre, won the award in the Professional artist category. Sketch artist and painter, Paige Keith, won the award in the emerging artist category. The award is the result of [...]
Whistler: PARC hopes to get to The Point, Local artists propose artist-run centre at site of former HI Hostel
Whistler may be a young town, but it has been home to artistic souls since its inception. Stephen Vogler and Vincent “Binty” Massey are two of the town’s long-time residents who also make their livings as full-time artists. Recently, they’ve begun to devote their time to a new, grassroots arts initiative: the Point Artist-Run Centre [...]
Whistler festival hits new heights, Daydream Nation leads out selection of premieres at ‘intimate’ event
The Whistler Film Festival is peaking in its 10th year with nine world premieres, five Canadian premieres and 21 films getting their first western Canadian screenings. There was a time when the five-day movie bash in the mountains had to make do with leftovers that didn’t make the cut at the earlier fall festivals. This [...]
Whistler BC’s Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre recipient of a National Award for Tourism Excellence
On the evening of November 2, 2010 in Gatineau Quebec, the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) received the National Cultural Tourism Award. The award was one of 14 Tourism Excellence awards given out by the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) and presented by the Toronto Star to recognize the best of Canada’s Tourism Industry. [...]
Whistler: Writers Fest wraps, reports jump in attendance
After three days of wordplay — read, written and spoken – the ninth annual Whistler Readers and Writers Festival wrapped up last weekend and organizers are reporting some promising numbers. A total of 203 people participated in this year’s festival, traveling from as far away as the UK to attend the event: that represents a [...]
Pemberton: Cash flows in for second phase of cultural planning Creative Communities program chipping in another $5,000 to be matched by VOP
The Village of Pemberton is getting a grant of $5,000 from the Creative Communities program funded by 2010 Legacies Now and the Province, and will match that with $5,000 of its own money, to continue cultural planning efforts for the Pemberton area, officials said last week. The Village’s recently completed cultural scan, which outlined the [...]
Question wins Whistler Business and Arts Award
The Whistler Question has contributed significantly to Whistler’s arts community over the past 34 years they have been publishing, regularly supporting a range of local arts events and festivals. In fact, the Question’s contributions have been so great that the Whistler Arts Council and Whistler Chamber of Commerce have decided to recognize the company’s efforts [...]
Ticketmaster no more in Whistler, MY Millennium Place opts to replace ticketing system, institute smaller Theatre Improvement Fund fee
Whistler residents may have noticed that ticket prices for arts and cultural events held at Maurice Young Millennium Place (MY Place) have been a bit more reasonable lately. That’s because the Whistler Arts Council has decided not to renew their contract with Ticketmaster, instead ticketing local events in-house. Doti Niedermayer is the executive director of [...]
Whistler: Another Games legacy takes shape
If construction wraps up at Whistler Olympic Plaza (also known under the Games-time moniker of Celebration Plaza) in the spring, the community will have a new arts and cultural hub at its disposal next summer. Doti Niedermayer, executive director of the Whistler Arts Council (WAC), envisions the new site opening up a “whole new world [...]
Britannia Beach: BC Museum of Mining Rebrands As Britannia Mine Museum
The BC Museum of Mining, a prominent historical destination located south of Squamish on the Sea-to-Sky highway, has been rebranded with a new name, Britannia Mine Museum. Along with the new name, the Britannia Mine Museum has also launched a new logo and a refreshed visual identity designed to reflect the museum‘s soon to be [...]
Whistler: Writers fest returns by popular demand, Partnership with Vancouver International Writers Festival helps bottom line, sees fest moved to October
Fans spoke and the folks behind the Whistler Writers Festival listened — despite an announcement late last year that the 2010 fest was cancelled, the troops rallied and the literary event is, in fact, returning Oct. 14 to 16. True to form, the ninth annual festival lineup includes interesting workshops, innovative events and a roster [...]
Pitman named new WAC chair, Whistlerite says she hopes to grow membership, donor base and awareness of arts council
The Whistler Arts Council (WAC) has elected a new chair. Joan Pitman recently succeeded Joan Richoz, who is remaining on the board of directors as past-chair. “I’ve inherited a very healthy arts council — I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the hard work that Joan Richoz and (Executive Director) Doti (Niedermayer) did,” [...]
Crawl through culture in August, Squamish one of 70 communities on annual BC Cultural Crawl
Squamish may have the words Recreation Capital of Canada written on a sign welcoming visitors to town, but it could just as well say Cultural Capital of Canada for all the musicians, artists and artisans that call the area home. During the entire month of August, Squamish shows off that vibrant and unique arts and [...]
Whistler writers festival wins reprieve, Teaming with Vancouver International Writers Festival allowed ninth annual Whistler festival
At the tail end of 2009, organizers of the annual Whistler Readers & Writers Festival announced that despite growing attendance rates they would be canceling the event. Not only was it not making money, it wasn’t breaking even. “I always thought that there would be a magic number that we could sustain ourselves at without [...]
Exploring Whistler’s artistic underworld
The traditional art galleries in the village may be the obvious places for inspiration, but Whistler’s industrial park, Function Junction, offers up an unexpected wealth of hidden artistic treasures: it’s home to the Blind Mute crew, Chili Thom’s art studios, Orkidz arts and crafts workshops, the newly-reopened Art Junction Gallery, Justin Ormiston’s tattoo studio and [...]
