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- Alliance Responds To Gaming Grant Announcements
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- Wed, Jan 11th, 2012
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Premier Christy Clark today released Scott Triplett’s Community Gaming Grant Review report and announced some good news for the arts community.
”We are very encouraged by Premier Clark's announcement of increases to funding and eligibility for BC Gaming Grants,” said Alliance for Arts and...
- ArtsBC Names New Executive Director
- Mon, Nov 7th, 2011
- Vancouver , British Columbia – The Board of Directors of ArtsBC/Assembly of BC Arts Councils is very pleased to announce that a new Executive Director has been named.
Having worked as Interim Executive Director since March 2011, Sheryl McGraw has been appointed permanently for the position...
- Join In Welcoming The New Poet Laureate
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- Fri, Oct 14th, 2011
- Mayor Gregor Robertson will welcome Evelyn Lau as Vancouver’s third Poet Laureate at a ceremony on Saturday October 22 at 5 p.m. at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St).
This free event will close the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference (October 19-22) organized by Brad Cran,...
- BC Book Prizes 2011 Winners Announced
- Wed, Apr 27th, 2011
- Vancouver, BC – The West Coast Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the names of the winners of the 27th annual BC Book Prizes:
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE Supported by Friesens and Webcom Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye (Mother Tongue Publishing)
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE...
- City approves cultural and theatre grants for 176 organizations
- Fri, Mar 25th, 2011
- Cultural organizations, including the Vancouver International Children's Festival and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, today received more than $7 million in cultural grants and $2.5 in theatre rental grants from the City of Vancouver.
Council approved $2,984,600 in operating grants for 94...
- Artspeak welcomes Kim Nguyen as Director/Curator
- Wed, Mar 23rd, 2011
- Artspeak is pleased to announce the appointment of Kim Nguyen as Director and Curator. Kim continues our long history of promoting critical conversations between visual art and writing while supporting emerging curators and practices. She will add a distinctive voice to Artspeak’s tradition of...
- BC Book Prizes 2011 Shortlists Announced
- Thu, Mar 10th, 2011
- Vancouver, BC – The West Coast Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the names of the finalists vying for recognition in seven categories at the 27th Annual BC Book Prizes.
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize awarded to the author of the best work of fiction:
Supported by Friesens and Webcom
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- City Opera Scores Largest Commissioning Grant In Canadian History
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- Mon, Feb 21st, 2011
- City Opera Vancouver’s Board of Directors is delighted to announce the company has been awarded a commissioning grant of $250,000 US from the Annenberg Foundation, in connection with the philanthropic multimedia organization Explore. This extraordinary sum is believed to be the largest single...
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