(1998-12-07) Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, announced today the names of the successful candidates in the first competition for the $10 million Millennium Arts Fund.
(1998-12-07) Shirley L. Thomson, Director of The Canada Council for the Arts, today announced the appointments of François Lachapelle as Head of the Visual Arts Section, David Poole as Head of the Media Arts Section, and Keith Kelly as Director of Planning and Research.
(1998-11-26) A redesigned and revamped Annual Report from the Canada Council for the Arts giving Canadians a better view of the breadth and variety of arts activity in which the Council is a partner was released today.
(1998-11-17) Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, announced today the winners of the 1998 Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards.
(1998-11-10) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that an outreach and information tour will be organized from November 1998 to February 1999 to First Peoples communities in the Prairies.
(1998-10-21) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Martin Beaver of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the winner of the national competition for the loan of the 1729 ex-Heath Guarneri del Gesù from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.
(1998-10-20) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the nominees for the 1998 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.
(1998-10-19) The Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Stentor announced today the launch of the Canadian Creative Innovation Initiative, an exciting new partnership which will provide three Canadian artists with an opportunity for research, professional development and training, and will allow them to create works in new electronic media.
(1998-10-14) Changes to the Announcement of the Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards
(1998-10-08) The Canada Council for the Arts and Bell Canada are pleased to announce that the 1998 Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art will be awarded to video artist Luc Bourdon on 21 October 1998 in Montreal, during the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media.
(1998-09-17) Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director, announced today that the Canada Council for the Arts will be hosting and organizing an historic gathering of First Peoples artists from 24-27 September 1998 in Ottawa/Hull.
(1998-08-25) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that pianist Ian Parker, of Burnaby, British Columbia, is the winner of this year's Sylva Gelber Foundation Award.
(1998-08-17) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the nine grant recipients of the 1998 Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts competition.
(1998-08-17) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Montreal architectural collective Atelier Big City is the winner of the 1998 Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture.
(1998-08-06) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that four additional 1998 Killam Research Fellowships have been awarded totalling approximately $280,000. The Killam Selection Committee at its January 1998 meeting awarded $1.1 million to 16 outstanding Canadian researchers in the 31st annual competition for the Fellowships, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(1998-07-20) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that fifty key presenters from across the country will be introduced to the best musicians and creators from Canada's culturally diverse and First Peoples communities in one-day showcases featuring up to 16 different performances.
(1998-07-16) The Canada Council for the Arts and Victoria University, Toronto, today announced that Emmanuel Bensimon and Abigail Sone are the recipients of the Canada Council for the Arts Coburn Fellowships for 1998.
(1998-07-13) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that Montreal choreographer, teacher and dancer Elizabeth Langley is the winner of the 33rd Jacqueline Lemieux Prize.
(1998-06-22) The new Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, Jean-Louis Roux, was warmly welcomed at his first meeting with the Board last week.
(1998-06-17) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that James Ehnes from Brandon, Manitoba, is the recipient of the 1997 Virginia Parker Prize.
(1998-05-26) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that the Petro-Canada Award in Media Arts will be awarded to Thecla Schiphorst, of Vancouver, for her achievements and cross-disciplinary approach to interactive art, dance, computer science and video.
(1998-05-23) The Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, Shirley L. Thomson, announced today at the Canadian Theatre Conference the establishment of a new program to support organizational development in the not-for-profit professional theatre community.
(1998-05-20) The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and the Canada Council for the Arts announced today that the Canadian Music Centre is embarking on one of the biggest projects of its 39-year history: the digitization of its library and its migration to the Internet.
(1998-05-19) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that renowned visual artist Mary Pratt has been awarded the 1997 Molson Prize in the Arts.
(1998-05-19) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that internationally renowned sociologist Guy Rocher has been awarded the 1997 Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
(1998-05-07) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Philippe Soldevila of Quebec City, is the winner of the 1998 Canada Council for the Arts John Hirsch Prize.
(1998-04-17) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Jillian Keiley of St. John's, Newfoundland, is the winner of the 1998 Canada Council for the Arts John Hirsch Prize. The $6,000 prize was awarded to Ms. Keiley by Council Director Shirley Thomson today at a ceremony at the du Maurier World Stage Festival in the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto.
(1998-04-15) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that the Board has approved a plan for the distribution of the federal government's new funding over the next four years.
(1998-04-01) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that the Winnipeg Art Gallery is the recipient of the first York Wilson Endowment Award toward its purchase of the painting Rotterdam Pioneers: New Technologies for a Subterranean Eco-Suburb, an Environment with Clean Air, Clean Water and Abundant Daily Sunshine, by Manitoba artist Eleanor Bond.
(1998-04-01) Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, and Shirley Thomson, Director, are pleased to announce the winners of the 1998 Killam Prizes, Canada's most distinguished annual awards given in recognition of outstanding achievements by Canadians in any of the disciplines in the natural sciences, health sciences and engineering.
(1998-02-03) The Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, Donna Scott, today announced that the Council has approved grants totaling $3 million to 156 individual artists and 165 projects.