CBC News: “Toronto journalist Ian Brown has won British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, Canada’s richest non-fiction prize. Brown, a Globe and Mail writer, won for his moving story about life with his disabled son, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son.”
Brown is Rogers Communication Chair of Literary Journalism.
The Globe and Mail: Discussion of The Three Man Project: Full Bloom, wich premiered at The Banff Centre on January 9.
The Globe and Mail: “Lillian Alling, the first full-length piece Vancouver Opera has ever commissioned for its main stage, will have its world premiere next fall, but about 50 VO donors, staff and colleagues got a preview earlier this month…. The opera, written by Estacio and Murrell, is based on the real-life story of Lillian Alling, a Russian immigrant who arrived in New York in the 1920s and proceeded to walk across the continent to British Columbia.”
CBC News: “John Estacio of Edmonton, Peter Paul Koprowski of Ottawa, and Ana Sokolovic of Montreal are the winners of the National Arts Centre Awards, which encompass musical commissions and residencies valued at $75,000 each.”
Estacio has been a faculty member at The Banff Centre and was composer of The Banff Centre opera commissions Filumena and Frobisher.
CBC: “Amid tough economic times for many arts organizations, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra and chamber choir ended its 30th anniversary year with its ninth consecutive operating surplus…. Another highlight was The Galileo Project, Taffelmusik’s co-production with The Banff Centre. The concert toured Ontario and Mexico this year and is slated to travel to the U.S., Asia and Australia.
CBC News: CBC picks Filumena (2003) and The Fiddle and the Drum (2007) as two of the decade’s most significant moments in the performing arts.
Marketwire: The $25,000 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards for outstanding achievement by a Canadian artist is awarded to Rebecca Belmore, while the winner of the $15,000 award for curatorial excellence in contemporary art is Anthony Kiendl, Director/Curator, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art.
Belmore was a resident artist at The Banff Centre in the 1990s. (Belmore has also been selected by CBC as one of the 10 most significant visual artists of the 2000s [photo gallery number 3].)
Kiendl was the Director of Visual Arts, Walter Phillips Gallery, and the Banff International Curatorial Institute at The Banff Centre from 2002 until 2006.
Calgary Herald: “A chance evening walk in snow-covered Banff ignited a passion for the mountains in Bernadette McDonald, then an 11-year farm kid from Saskatchewan — a passion that would eventually lead her to being inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence for her work in preserving and promoting mountain culture. On October 15, after almost 20 years at the helm of the Banff Mountain Festivals and now a successful author, McDonald received the highest honour the province can give a citizen for outstanding community service.”
Market Wire: “For more than three decades, Gordon Arnell has shown vision and leadership within the real estate industry and his community. Chairman of the board of directors and a former president and chief executive officer of Brookfield Properties, he has been a mentor and role model for many young executives. He is equally well-known as a supporter of and contributor to many arts and educational institutions. Over the years, the Banff Centre and the University of Alberta have benefited from his dedication and support.”
FFWD: “As an institution devoted to creativity, The Banff Centre provides for its artists and other residents because it expects a lot of them, and the musicians recruited for the Indie Band Residency are no exception. The program, the brainchild of the Banff Centre’s director of music, Barry Schiffman, and the director of audio, Theresa Leonard, is a bit of a departure for the institution, which typically has focused on classical and jazz for its residencies.”
