{ Monthly Archives }
Toronto Star — May 29, 2004.
Santee Smith’s new creation Kaha:wi venerates earth ballet and native dance traditions. Next week her dream will take the stage at Harbourfront’s Premiere Dance Theatre.
She completed a degree in kinesiology at McMaster University and spent four years involved with the aboriginal dance project at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
The Japan Times Online — May 28, 2004. To mark the 75th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Canada and Japan in 1929, the Bungakuza Theatre Company will present a classic Canadian play, “Waiting for the Parade,” penned by leading Canadian playwright John Murrell.
Murrell, born in Texas, has been artistic director at the Banff Centre for the Arts since 1999. His works include “Power in the Blood,” which won him the 1975 Clifford E. Lee award, and “Memoir,” his biggest hit, written in 1977.
Scoop (NZ) — May 26, 2004. Announcing the grants in the Pacific Arts Committee’s latest project funding round, Chair Marilyn Kohlhase said there was a growing international interest in the work of Pacific artists from New Zealand.
$8000 to Lonnie Hutchinson (Samoan/Ngai Tahu) of Lyttelton, Christchurch: towards a six-week artist residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada and group exhibition in Vancouver
The Globe and Mail — May 15, 2004.
Leona Paterson died on April 4 in failing health. She was 91.
Over the course of 16 summers at the Banff School of Fine Arts beginning in 1946, she taught notable Canadians including the late Bruno Gerussi, a star of The Beachcombers television series, as well as Ted Follows, father of actress Megan Follows and himself an accomplished actor of both television and film.
Grant Paterson said his mother’s fondest memories of the mountain school was the highly charged artistic and creative atmosphere that existed there as well as the opportunity to rub shoulders with artists from all over the world. ”I only wish she’d bought a painting from A.Y. Jackson.” He said she also admired David Leighton, who headed up the school in the 1970s, but spoke very fondly of Donald Cameron as an administrator and a “man of vision and encouragement.”
London Free Press — May 14, 2004. Museum London has named Windsor native Melanie Townsend its new curator of contemporary art.
“Melanie’s got a great track record, an imaginative approach to curatorial practice and a proven ability to connect with the communities she’s worked in,” said the museum’s executive director Brian Meehan, who announced the appointment yesterday. For six years, Townsend, a UWO graduate with a master of arts degree from the University of Windsor, has been the curator at the Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery, where she developed exhibitions and programs and managed an active curatorial work study program for emerging professionals. Townsend, whose appointment takes effect July 5, replaces Nova Scotia native Robin Metcalfe.
The Advertiser — May 14, 2004.
Stephen House is directing his new play, Lavender Hope .
House’s eagerly awaited Lavender Hope opened at Holden Street Theatres last night. It is his biggest play to date and started life in 2000 when he won a residency at the Banff PlayRITES Colony in Canada. An Australia Council grant allowed him to develop the work in 2001–02, and an early draft was short-listed for the 2002 Patrick White Award.
Western Catholic Reporter — May 12, 2004.
Review from a Catholic prespective of Mary of Canada: The Virgin Mary in Canadian Culture, Spirituality, History and Geography, by Joan Skogan.
For those who love Canada and want to understand more deeply the nature of its people, this beautifully bound and illustrated book from the Banff Centre Press will be a welcome acquisition.
