(2000-12-05) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the creation of three new annual prizes, worth $10,000 each, to recognize outstanding professional theatre productions aimed at young audiences.
(2000-12-03) National arts councils and arts funding agencies from some 50 countries have agreed to form an international federation aimed at benefiting artists, arts organizations and communities throughout the world.
(2000-11-29) Ottawa, 29 November 2000 - The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the establishment of an electronic gallery of artists who have been supported through the Council's innovative Spoken and Electronic Words program.
(2000-11-24) The Canada Council for the Arts is getting ready to play host to more than 300 delegates and participants from over 50 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, from November 30 to December 3, for the World Summit on the Arts and Culture. Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, and Dr. Shirley L. Thomson, Director, will co-chair the Summit.
(2000-11-14) Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, presented the 2000 Governor General's Literary Awards this morning during a ceremony at Rideau Hall.
(2000-11-09) Members of the public interested in becoming involved in the upcoming World Summit on the Arts and Culture will be able to do so via a live webcast, Internet chat rooms, and the e_lounge, an electronic gallery and meeting place at the National Arts Centre.
(2000-10-24) The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the nominees for the 2000 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.
(2000-10-22) 2000 Awards will be announced and presented at Rideau Hall (the residence of the Governor General of Canada in Ottawa) by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at 9:00 am.
(2000-10-19) The number of artists and arts organizations receiving support from the Canada Council for the Arts has risen significantly over the past five years, and an increasing proportion of them are receiving grants for the first time.
(2000-10-12) Ottawa, 12 October 2000 - The Canada Council Art Bank has adopted a renewal strategy which will enable it to operate on a break-even basis.
(2000-10-11) The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada announced today that André Ristic is the winner of the 2000 Jules Léger Prize for new chamber music.
(2000-10-04) The Canada Council for the Arts will increase its support to programs and initiatives aimed at young audiences and emerging artists as a result of the $10-million increase in its Parliamentary appropriation approved in last February's federal budget.
(2000-09-28) Dr. John Kani, an internationally-known actor/director and Chair of the National Arts Council of South Africa; Acadian writer Antonine Maillet; journalist Ann Medina and Christophe Blandin-Estournet of La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris will head up the list of speakers at the World Summit on Arts and Culture, to be held at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa from November 30 to December 3, 2000.
(2000-09-27) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that the value of the 2000 Governor General's Literary Awards will be $15,000, up from $10,000 the previous year.
(2000-09-25) From November 30 to December 3, 2000, representatives of national arts councils and arts funding bodies from more than 50 countries - as well as representatives of 25 international organizations - will gather at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa for the World Summit on the Arts and Culture.
(2000-09-21) The Canada Council announced today the winners of the 2000 Canada-Japan Literary Awards. Winners in the category of published books are The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto and L'Oreille gauche by Michel Régnier; in the category of proposed work, Sakurako Tanaka was chosen for a narrative entitled Bringing Home a Dragon: Belated return of a Tsugaru Ainu and Ook Chung for a novel entitled Le Testament de Tokyo.
(2000-09-19) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the recipient of the 2000 Virginia Parker Prize.
(2000-09-14) The Canada Council Art Bank will be on tour in the Maritimes from September 18 - 29, 2000. Government, municipal and other public organizations as well as local private corporations will have the opportunity to visit the travelling exhibition and select art works for their offices and business spaces.
(2000-09-13) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce that Halifax cellist Denise Djokic and Calgary-born violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon are the winners of a national competition for the loan of a $4 million Stradivari cello and a $3 million Stradivari violin from the Canada Council's Musical Instrument Bank.
(2000-09-07) The Canada Council for the Arts will announce on Wednesday, September 13, 2000 the four winners of the competition for the loan of three fine violins and the 1696 Bonjour Stradivari cello at an awards ceremony and reception in Toronto.
(2000-09-06) The Canada Council for the Arts is proud to support independent Canadian film production and to promote the emergence of talent throughout the country.
(2000-08-29) The Canada Council for the Arts and Bell Canada are pleased to announce that video artist Vera Frenkel is the winner of the 1999 Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art.
(2000-08-01) Five Aboriginal artists and groups will perform at the Worldwide Music Expo (WOMEX) 2000, thanks to a Canada Council for the Arts initiative.
(2000-07-25) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced new guidelines for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, which will be awarded for the second time in the spring of 2001.
(2000-07-19) Prof. Joachim Fiebach, a distinguished German professor of theatre studies, is the winner of the 2000 John G. Diefenbaker Award, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2000-07-07) Vancouver architects Jason King and George Yu are the winners of this year's Canada Council for the Arts' Prix de Rome in Architecture.
(2000-06-29) The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that violinist Jessica Linnebach is the winner of this year's Sylva Gelber Foundation Award.
(2000-06-27) Winnipeg's Plug In Gallery and the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts will present a new work by Alberta multimedia artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller as Canada's official representation at the 2001 Venice Biennale in Visual Art.
(2000-06-13) Seven additional artistic projects have been approved by the Canada Council for the Arts under the Millennium Arts Fund.
(2000-06-07) The Canada Council for the Arts, a partner with The Banff Centre for the Arts and Stentor in the Canadian Creative Innovation Initiative, announced today the opening of the exhibition Domain Games at the 2000 Banff Television Festival on Monday, June 12 at 4:30 pm at The Banff Centre for the Arts. This exhibition features two multimedia installations by this year's selected Canadian artists Elizabeth vander Zaag and Gretchen Schiller/Susan Kozel.
(2000-06-06) A unique national meeting on Aboriginal theatre in Canada will be held from June 23 to 25, 2000 at the En'owkin Centre in Penticton, British Columbia. Entitled Coyote's Roundup, it brings together the principal stakeholders in the Aboriginal theatre community.
(2000-06-01) A consultant's report commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts has concluded that Canada Council grants have a profound and far-reaching impact on the creative lives and careers of individual Canadian artists.
(2000-05-30) The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to support the presentation of Melvin Charney's UN DICTIONNAIRE..., Canada's exhibition at the 7th Venice Biennale International Exhibition of Architecture, from 18 June to 29 October 2000.
(2000-05-24) Ottawa, 24 May 2000 -- The Canada Council for the Arts today announced that Oakville Galleries is the recipient of the third annual York Wilson Endowment Award, for the purchase of the installation The Forces of Wolfe and Montcalm by Manitoba artist Liz Magor.
(2000-05-04) Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, will present the 2000 Killam Prizes to four Canadian scientists on Tuesday, May 9 at the National Gallery of Canada.
(2000-04-13) Carole Nadeau, co-founder and artistic director of Montreal's Théâtre Le Pont Bridge and Danielle Irvine, artistic director and co-founder of First Light Productions Theatre Company in St. John's, are the winners of this year's John Hirsch Prize, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2000-04-11) Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director, are pleased to announce the winners of the 2000 Killam Prizes, Canada’s most distinguished annual awards given in recognition of outstanding career achievements by Canadians in the natural sciences, health sciences and engineering.
(2000-03-23) Six Canadian artists and a well-known visual arts educator, philanthropist and volunteer have been named the first-ever winners of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
(2000-03-20) The Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Library of Canada are calling on Canadians to celebrate the first-ever World Poetry Day by writing a poem, reading a poem, or buying a book of Canadian poetry on Tuesday, 21 March.
(2000-03-14) The winners of the first-ever Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts will be presented with a medallion by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and with a $10,000 prize by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2000-02-29) The winners of the first-ever Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts will be announced and presented with their awards on Thursday, 23 March 2000 at a 9:30 a.m. ceremony at Rideau Hall.
(2000-02-17) Twenty-four outstanding Canadian researchers have been awarded a total of $1.6 million in the 32nd annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(2000-02-08) Kiawak Ashoona, one of Canada's most renowned Inuit artists, and Dr. Thomas Courchene, a distinguished Queen's University economist, have been awarded the 1999 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes.
(2000-02-04) Ottawa, 04 February 2000 -- Three more Canadian musicians will be given the opportunity to use fine stringed instruments for a two-year period as a result of the continued generosity of an anonymous US donor.
(2000-01-06) The York Wilson Endowment Award at the Canada Council for the Arts, which assists Canadian art museums and public galleries in the purchase of original artworks, has been increased to $20,000 a year as a result of a generous donation of $181,818 from Mrs. Lela Wilson.