News Releases - 2010
Canada Council for the Arts to hold Annual Public Meeting in Toronto
Ottawa, October 15, 2010 – The Canada Council for the Arts will report on last year’s results and launch a new Strategic Plan at the Council’s Annual Public Meeting on Wednesday, October 20th in Toronto. Joseph L. Rotman (Chair), Simon Brault (Vice-Chair), and
Robert Sirman (Director/CEO) will review the Canada Council’s activities.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
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Doors open: 3:30pm
Meeting: 4:00-5:30pm |
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Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
145 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario |
To arrange an interview, contact Grace Thrasher at 1-800-263-5588,
ext. 5145 (cell: 613-795-3669).
Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957. The role of the Council is to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. To fulfill this mandate, the Council offers a broad range of grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations in dance, integrated arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing and publishing. It also promotes public awareness of the arts through its communications, research and arts promotion activities.
The Council administers the Killam Program of scholarly awards, the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Public Lending Right Commission operate within the Council. The Canada Council Art Bank, which has some 17,400 works of contemporary Canadian art in its collection, rents to the public and private sectors.