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2010

Elizabeth Paden wins the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners

(2010-03-11) She will study the impact that large-scale public buildings can have on territorial boundaries within geopolitical regions.

Eight remarkable Canadians win Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts from the Canada Council for the Arts

(2010-03-09) Haida sculptor Robert Davidson, filmmaker André Forcier, painter Rita Letendre, video artist Tom Sherman, photographer Gabor Szilasi and painter Claude Tousignant won the awards for artistic achievement. Glass sculptor Ione Thorkelsson won the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in fine crafts, while Terry Ryan received the Outstanding Contribution Award.

The Canada Council for the Arts announces dates to remember for the 2010 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts

(2010-02-25) The celebration of the 2010 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts winners will begin with a news conference on Tuesday, March 9th.

Daina Warren is on the job as Canada Council for the Arts’ Aboriginal curator-in-residence at the National Gallery of Canada

(2010-02-25) Ms. Warren is the second to benefit from the Canada Council for the Arts pilot project and will be working at the Gallery until July 29, 2011.

Over 17,000 Canadian authors share $9.9 million in public lending right payments

(2010-02-24) These payments are issued to writers, translators and illustrators every February for the presence of their books in Canadian libraries during the previous year.

Be the first to see “Hylozoic Ground,” Canada’s installation at 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture

(2010-02-18) Tonight, the first public version of the “Hylozoic Ground” project, from architect Philip Beesley destined for the next Venice Biennale, will officially open in studio d’Essai of the Coopérative Méduse, 591, rue de Saint-Vallier Est in Québec City, at 5:30 p.m.

Announcing the 2009 CBC Literary Awards/Prix littéraires Radio-Canada Finalists

(2010-02-16) CBC/Radio-Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and Air Canada’s enRoute magazine are proud to announce the 80 English finalists of the CBC Literary Awards/les Prix littéraires Radio-Canada.

The Canada Council for the Arts awards the John Hirsch Prizes to directors Beatriz Pizano and Christian Lapointe

(2010-02-10) The two $6,000 prizes are awarded every second year to emerging professional theatre directors – one working in English and one working in French.

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