2010
(2010-07-27) The Jacqueline Lemieux Prize is awarded annually to the most deserving applicant in the Canada Council Grants to Dance Professionals program. (2010-07-13) Toronto architecture firm Lateral Office is the winner of the $50,000 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2010. Administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, this award recognizes excellent achievement in Canadian architectural practice. (2010-07-12) Over the next three years, more money than ever before will be available for official language translations by professional publishers through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing. (2010-06-23) Michel Campeau has been part of the contemporary photography scene for four decades. His work explores the subjective and narrative dimensions of photography, that contrast with the conventions of documentary photography. (2010-06-18) The Canada Council for the Arts joins the nation in remembering opera singer, teacher, advocate and champion of the arts Maureen Forrester, who died Wednesday at the age of 79. (2010-06-15) The $25,000 prize was established in 1982 by Virginia Parker for Canadian performers of classical music under the age of 32, who demonstrate outstanding talent and musicianship. (2010-06-09) The partners in the Vivacité Montréal program today announced the winners of the third registration period: 28 Montréal artists 35 years of age and under are receiving grants totalling $160,000 to carry out projects in the performing arts, the visual arts, literature and arts and crafts. (2010-06-09) Both Ken McGoogan, who represents The Writers’ Union of Canada on the Commission, and Aline Apostolska, who represents the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois, underlined that they will bring a perspective to PLRC discussions based on the views of the many members of their associations. (2010-06-02) Mamadou Diawara, a professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has been awarded this year’s John G. Diefenbaker Award by the Canada Council for the Arts. (2010-05-26) Two Molson Prizes, worth $50,000 each, are awarded every year to distinguished Canadians, one in the arts and the other in the social sciences or humanities.
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