(2005-12-14) The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada announced today that Garland by Toronto composer Linda Catlin Smith is the winner of the 2005 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. Garland is a contemporary work for baroque period instruments, commissioned by the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and premiered in 2004.
(2005-11-16) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the winners of the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Awards, in English and in French, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation.
(2005-11-08) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that composer and educator R. Murray Schafer is the winner of the 2005 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
(2005-10-17) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the finalists for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Awards, in English and in French, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation.
(2005-10-13) Fifteen Aboriginal arts groups from across Canada will benefit from a new program aimed at helping them develop new skills and strengthen their organizational capacity.
(2005-10-12) The Canada Council for the Arts announced that Vancouver-based flamenco dancer Oscar Nieto is the winner of the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize. It is the first time that the award goes to a flamenco artist.
(2005-10-04) SweaterLodge, a project by Pechet and Robb Studio of Vancouver, has been selected through a national juried competition to represent Canada at the 2006 Venice Biennale in Architecture. Marking its 10th anniversary, the Biennale, which is the world’s most prestigious architectural exhibition, will take place in Venice, Italy from September to November 2006.
(2005-09-22) Karen Kain, who was appointed last year as Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, says the budget of Canada’s national arts funding agency has failed to keep up with the enormous growth in the arts that has taken place over the past 10 years.
(2005-09-13) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the names of the first grant recipients in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program. This program encourages the artistic development of emerging Aboriginal writers and storytellers.
(2005-09-08) The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture to Eric Bunge of nARCHITECTS.
(2005-08-30) Media artist Rebecca Belmore, choreographer and dancer Rae Bowhay, director and actor Lois Brown, writer Lynn Coady, sculptor Jean Pierre Gauthier, multidisciplinary artist Irene Loughlin and singer Jane Siberry have been named the winners of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards for 2005.
(2005-07-26) With hundreds of publishers, writers and booksellers in attendance, Book Expo Canada is one of the year’s most important events on Toronto’s literary calendar.
(2005-07-12) John Hobday, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, has announced the appointment of Roger Gaudet as Head of the Canada Council’s Theatre Section, effective August 22, 2005.
(2005-06-29) The Canada Council for the Arts has embarked on a unique partnership with PEN Canada to fund a residency at a Canadian university for a writer in exile who now calls Canada his home.
(2005-06-24) Karen Kain, Chair of the Canada Council since September 2004, has been appointed Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, effective July 1.
(2005-06-22) Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, violinist Judy Kang, mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier and baritone Peter McGillivray are the winners of three Canada Council for the Arts prizes for young Canadian musicians.
(2005-05-18) The Canada Council for the Arts has approved a new program that changes the way grants are awarded to visual artists, while at the same time continuing its tradition of support for independent artistic research and creation.
(2005-04-28) Visual artist Iain Baxter and historian Ramsay Cook are the winners of this year’s Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes.
(2005-04-25) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to contribute $100,000 to Montreal, World Book Capital. The funds will help support activities organized for the event’s celebrations this year.
(2005-04-25) A prominent German scholar is coming to Canada to further her research on the European Union. Dr. Ingeborg Tömmel, professor of political science at the University of Osnabrück, has been awarded this year’s John G. Diefenbaker Award by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2005-04-20) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that the Department of Canadian Heritage will contribute an additional $500,000 in 2005-2006 for the translation of works by Canadian authors.
(2005-04-19) The Canada Council for the Arts has launched a new program to encourage the artistic development of emerging Aboriginal writers and storytellers.
(2005-04-07) John Hobday, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, has announced the appointment of David Schimpky as Executive Secretary of the Public Lending Right Commission, effective June 8, 2005.
(2005-03-30) Five prominent scholars from McGill University, Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto will be honoured with the 2005 Killam Prizes, Canada’s most distinguished annual awards for outstanding career achievements in engineering, natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and health sciences.
(2005-03-10) John Hobday, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, announced today that André Courchesne has been appointed Director of the Arts Division, effective
April 4, 2005.
(2005-03-07) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced the names of the eight winners of the sixth annual Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
(2005-03-03) 38th annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships
(2005-02-24) Announcement of laureates, Awards ceremony, Exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
(2005-02-24) The Canada Council for the Arts has welcomed the news that a major infusion of federal funding for culture – including $25 million a year for the Canada Council – has now been extended for the next five years.
(2005-02-22) The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada announced today that composer Patrick Saint-Denis is the winner of the 2004 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.
(2005-02-10) Musicians and groups supported by the Canada Council for the Arts have received a total of 59 nominations for the 2005 JUNO Awards, to be held in Winnipeg later this year.
(2005-01-26) The Canada Council for the Arts applauds Oscar-nominated filmmakers Chris Landreth and Hubert Davis, who both received Canada Council funding for their films Ryan and Hardwood.
(2005-01-19) University of Waterloo architecture graduate Taymoore Balbaa will have an unprecedented opportunity to research the architecture of Spain and Egypt as the first winner of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.