(2003-12-16) The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada announced today that composer Éric Morin is the winner of the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.
(2003-11-12) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the winners of the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Awards, in English and French, in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and translation.
(2003-11-10) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the four winners of the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Awards for children’s literature (English and French, text and illustration).
(2003-11-06) Traditional African music artists Les Frères Diouf have won the Galaxie Rising Stars Prize of the CBC for World Music worth $2,000.
(2003-10-20) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the finalists for the 2003 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.
(2003-10-09) Updates and info on the 2003 Awards
(2003-09-22) World beats, jazzy tunes and original sounds will converge when Exposed Roots brings together 16 Canadian musical groups and artists to perform on Montreal stages from November 21st to 23rd, 2003, thanks to an initiative undertaken by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2003-09-08) The Canada Council for the Arts has called upon the federal government to increase its arts funding to affirm the importance of the arts in Canadian society and to meet the challenges facing Canada’s artists and arts organizations.
(2003-09-05) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that cellist Kaori Yamagami and violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou are the first-place winners of a national competition in 2003 for the loan of musical instruments with a total value of more than $15 million U.S.
(2003-08-28) Pianist Sonia Chan, soprano Measha Brueggergosman and violinist Julie-Anne Derome are the winners of three Canada Council for the Arts prizes aimed at young Canadian musicians.
(2003-08-26) Classical music’s answer to Canadian Idol? It may be, for the talented young musicians who are vying for the loan of 10 fine stringed instruments-worth more than $15 million U.S. ($21 million Canadian)-in the largest national competition ever held by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.
(2003-08-12) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Melanie Rutledge as Head of Writing and Publishing, effective September 22.
(2003-07-17) The Canada Council for the Arts joins the literary world in remembering a great Canadian author. Carol Shields, winner of the 1993 Governor General Literary Award, died Wednesday night at the age of 68.
(2003-07-10) Five Aboriginal writers from across Canada will be going to Australia later this month to participate in a follow-up to last year’s successful Honouring Words tour here in Canada.
(2003-06-19) Six Canadian groups and artists are flying to Europe next week, on a three-week tour of key festivals of world music thanks to an initiative undertaken by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2003-06-16) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Calgary architectural designer Andrew King is the winner of the 2003 Prix de Rome.
(2003-06-12) A prominent German scholar is coming to Canada to further his work in the area of Aboriginal literature. Dr. Hartmut Lutz, professor of English and American Studies at the University of Greifswald in Germany, has been awarded this year’s John G. Diefenbaker Award by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2003-06-02) Walter Boudreau, musician, composer, conductor and artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), and Janice Gross Stein, a distinguished international affairs specialist and Professor at the University of Toronto, have been awarded this year’s Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes.
(2003-05-06) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that The Edmonton Art Gallery is the recipient of the 2003 York Wilson Endowment Award, for the purchase of Signs of Breathing, by contemporary Alberta artist Arlene Stamp.
(2003-04-24) Five prominent scholars in the fields of electrical and computer engineering, economics, philosophy, immunology and ecology will be honoured with the 2003 Killam Prizes, Canada’s most distinguished annual awards for outstanding career achievements in engineering, natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
(2003-03-20) In an effort to better serve Aboriginal artists in Quebec, the Canada Council for the Arts recently held a historic gathering bringing together Aboriginal artists and Canada Council staff. This was the first time that a province-wide gathering for Aboriginal artists from Quebec had been organized by the Council.
(2003-03-19) Outstanding young musicians from across Canada are vying for the loan of 10 fine stringed instruments and a fine cello bow in the largest-ever national competition held by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank in 2003.
(2003-03-04) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced the names of the seven winners of the fourth annual Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
(2003-02-28) Twenty-eight outstanding Canadian researchers have been awarded a total of $2 million in the 35th annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2003-02-26) The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, funded and administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, were created in June 1999 and presented for the first time in March 2000.
(2003-02-20) The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada announced today that composer Yannick Plamondon is the winner of the 2002 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.
(2003-02-11) The Canada Council for the Arts has embarked on a series of new initiatives aimed at increasing public awareness of Canadian architecture and helping architectural firms achieve artistic excellence.
(2003-02-04) Six Canadian groups and artists will perform on the stages of key European festivals of world music in June 2003, in a promotional tour entitled Sonic Weave.
(2003-01-28) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Montreal-based dancer and choreographer Bill Coleman is the winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Jacqueline Lemieux Prize for 2002.
(2003-01-09) Art galleries and museums across Canada are reaping the benefits of a Canada Council Art Bank program to expose works by contemporary Canadian artists to a broader public.