(2001-12-18) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced its plans for the distribution of $75 million in new funding over the next three years.
(2001-12-12) Canada's largest theatre companies, dance companies, opera companies and symphony orchestras face major challenges in expanding their audience and generating sufficient revenues to be financially sustainable, says a new report conducted by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2001-11-14) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the winners of the 2001 Governor General's Literary Awards, in English and French, in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation.
(2001-11-09) Two Montreal-based architectural collectives, Atelier in situ and MEDIUM, are the winners of Canada Council for the Arts awards recognizing exceptional talent and achievement in the field of architecture.
(2001-11-08) A full list of the award winners, with biographical information and visuals, will be available as of 9 a.m. EST on November 14 on the Canada Council website.
(2001-10-29) a rendezvous with talented young Canadian jazz musicians November 2, 2001, at 7:30 pm Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Exhibition Place, Toronto
(2001-10-23) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the nominees for the 2001 Governor General's Literary Awards, in English and French, in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation.
(2001-10-18) The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada announced today that composer Chris Paul Harman is the winner of the 2001 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.
(2001-10-15) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the appointment of Russell Kelley as head of its Music Section, effective December 1, 2001.
(2001-10-12) The Canada Council for the Arts is among the first 18 national arts funding bodies admitted as founding members of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA).
(2001-10-10) Nominees: Tuesday, October 23, Winners: Wednesday, November 14
(2001-10-09) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced the winners of jazz i.d., the nationwide competition for young Canadian professional jazz musicians. The winners are: David Braid Sextet, Bryn Roberts Group, Tom Daniels Trio, The Donny Kennedy Quintet and Quinsin Nachoff Quartet.
(2001-09-24) Choreographer, director and dancer Brian Macdonald is the first recipient of the prestigious Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
(2001-09-18) The Art Bank of the Canada Council
for the Arts will be at the
Montreal World Trade Centre,
September 24 to 28, 2001
(2001-09-07) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Micheline Lesage has been appointed Director of the Arts Division, effective immediately.
(2001-09-05) The Canada Council for the Arts has described the first year of the new millennium as "a year of achievement" for Canadian artists at home and abroad.
(2001-09-04) The Board of the Canada Council for the Arts will meet in Regina and Saskatoon from September 11-15. The Board meets four times each year - three times in Ottawa, and once in another region of Canada.
(2001-08-30) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Montreal-based photographer Shari Hatt is the winner of the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography for 2001.
(2001-08-28) The Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts will tour to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta from September 4-28, 2001, as part of an awareness campaign for potential clients.
(2001-08-16) Trois-Rivières today became the first municipality in Quebec to display poetry on its city buses, as a result of a collaboration between the city's international poetry festival, the municipal government, the local transit authority and the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2001-07-05) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that Marie-Nicole Lemieux is the recipient of the 2001 Virginia Parker Prize.
(2001-07-04) Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, will be visiting Moncton, Dalhousie, Shediac, Bouctouche and Caraquet later this month to meet with artists, arts organizations and the media and to participate in a variety of cultural events.
(2001-06-28) Electroacoustic composer Sergio Barroso, sculptor and musician Nobuo Kubota and visual artist Eric Metcalfe have been named the winners of the Canada Council for the Arts' Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards for 2000.
(2001-06-19) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the creation of two $100,000 Killam Prizes, one in the humanities and one in the social sciences. The two new prizes will complement the existing Killam Prizes in the health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, bringing the total value of the Killam Prizes to half a million dollars each year.
(2001-06-11) The Director of the Canada Council for the Arts says the awarding of a major international prize to Alberta artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller is "a testament to both the remarkable creativity of Canadian artists and the value of public support for the arts."
(2001-06-07) Jacques Poulin, one of Quebec's most distinguished writers, and Ian Hacking, a world-renowned philosopher currently teaching at the University of Toronto, have been awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes for 2000.
(2001-06-05) The Canada Council for the Arts Fund for Future Generations Millennium Prize was awarded jointly to Olivier Choinière (theatre, Montreal), Liu Fang (music, Montreal) and Julie Hivon (media arts, Montreal).
(2001-05-23) A University of Toronto pharmacologist whose work brings together pharmacology and genetics, a McGill University psychologist who pioneered the study of pain, and a University of Alberta professor emeritus who is one of the world's pre-eminent civil engineers are the winners of the 2001 Killam Prizes, Canada's most distinguished annual awards for outstanding career achievement in the natural sciences, health sciences and engineering.
(2001-05-11) Professor Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, a professor at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, and an internationally-recognized scholar in the field of cultural history, has been awarded this year's John G. Diefenbaker Award by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2001-05-10) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Rachel Browne, choreographer and founding artistic director of the Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, and Montreal choreographer and performer Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood are the co-winners of the 2000 Canada Council for the Arts Jacqueline Lemieux Prize.
(2001-05-07) The Canada Council for the Arts is holding a nationwide competition for young professional jazz musicians to showcase their work at the Canadian International Jazz Convention in Toronto in November 2001.
(2001-05-02) The Canada Council Art Bank will acquire 54 new works with a total value of $139,120, its first acquisitions in more than five years.
(2001-04-26) The Canada Council for the Arts and the Berton House Writer's Retreat Society announced today a new partnership to fund four writers' residencies a year at the Berton House Writer's Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon.
(2001-04-25) The Canada Council for the Arts congratulates Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, whose film Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) has been officially selected for the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, taking place May 9 to 20.
(2001-04-20) The the Canada Council for the Arts announced today that it will inject $2.5 million over the course of the next five years into the creation and production of new Canadian opera and music theatre.
(2001-04-10) The Canada Council for the Arts and Mrs. Lela Wilson today announced that the Art Gallery of Hamilton is the recipient of the 2001 York Wilson Endowment Award, for the purchase of the sculpture/installation Bruegel-Bosch Bus by Edmonton-born artist Kim Adams.
(2001-04-03) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that its Media Arts Section will receive an additional $1 million per year starting this year, following the implementation of the new Canadian Feature Film Policy announced in October 2000 by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
(2001-03-26) The Canada Council for the Arts and Bell Canada are pleased to announce that video artist Richard Fung is the winner of the 2000 Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art.
(2001-03-14) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced the names of the seven winners of the second annual Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
(2001-03-07) Thirty-six outstanding Canadian researchers have been awarded a total of $2.5 million in the 33rd annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2001-02-28) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of eight Canadian arts organizations who have received grants from the Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts.
(2001-02-22) The winners of the second annual Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts will be announced on Wednesday, March 14, and presented with their awards at a gala ceremony at Rideau Hall one week later.
(2001-02-21) The Public Lending Right (PLR) Commission celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. This commission, set up in 1986, makes payments to Canadian authors for the presence of their books in public and university libraries. This week, it is distributing $8.6 million to 12,740 Canadian writers, translators and illustrators.
(2001-02-20) A committee of prominent Canadian artists and visual art experts has been chosen to select new works to be purchased by the Canada Council Art Bank for the next two years.
(2001-02-15) The Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto businessman and philanthropist Walter Carsen today announced the creation of the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, worth $50,000 annually.
(2001-02-12) Canadian Aboriginal artists - status and non-status, Métis and Inuit - who are interested in producing projects in film, video, audio or new media are invited to contact the Media Arts Section of the Canada Council for the Arts to find out more about the Aboriginal Media Arts Program. The next application deadline is April 1st, 2001.
(2001-01-25) The Canada Council for the Arts wants to know how best to help Canada's largest performing arts organizations maintain their financial stability and expand their audiences, and has formed a high-level working group to provide advice and recommendations.
(2001-01-15) When TV-watchers tune into the new Alliance Atlantis drama series The Associates, which makes its debut on CTV on Tuesday, January 16, they will have an opportunity to view some 25 works of contemporary Canadian art, thanks to the Canada Council Art Bank.
(2001-01-11) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Toronto photographer Katherine Knight is the winner of the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography for 2000.
(2001-01-10) The Dance Section of the Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce the introduction of a pilot program to support organizational development in the not-for-profit professional dance community.