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Blog - Quickies | Arts Notes

Fringe Festival tickets on sale

By Jessica Werb
Tickets and passes go on sale in person on Wednesday (August 20) for the 24th annual Vancouver International Fringe Festival, where over 500 performances by more than 68 groups will take place September 3 to 13.
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Cultch reno garners criticism

By Jessica Werb
The Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s executive director is defending the extensive renovations under way at the historic site. The 99-year-old building at Venables Street and Victoria Drive, which was originally the Grandview Methodist Church, was stripped of its interior, without a roof, and held up by scaffolding at press time.
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Local duo Tiresias’s debut CD scores big

By Jessica Werb
Flutist Mark McGregor and pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa have reason to celebrate. The debut CD by the pair, who perform as Tiresias, has been nominated in the outstanding classical recording category in this year’s Western Canadian Music Awards. Delicate Fires includes a number of works by the late Vancouver-based composer Barbara Pentland, as well as premiere recordings written especially for Tiresias by local composers Rodney Sharman, Jennifer Butler, and Jocelyn Morlock.
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Western Front unveils fall season

By Jessica Werb
The Western Front has released the schedule for its fall 2008 season, which includes two new concert series, En Masse and Stand Alone, as well as a visit from accordionist and electroacoustic new-music pioneer Pauline Oliveros. En Masse will explore the ways musicians perform together, while Stand Alone will consist of solo performances. Oliveros, in her first Vancouver visit in 15 years, will perform November 28 at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of FUSE.
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Straight Talk | Arts Notes

Tories cut Trade Routes cultural grant program

By Jessica Werb
Just days after news broke that the federal government is axing the $4.7-million PromArt program, which provides cultural travel grants through the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, comes word that yet another cultural grant program is getting the hook.
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National Maritime Centre plan awaits federal nod

By Jessica Werb
Despite the July 31 announcement of the creation of a National Maritime Centre Society, North Vancouver’s plan to build a National Maritime Centre for the Pacific and the Arctic (NMC) is still awaiting the federal stamp of approval that would secure the project’s future.
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Ballet B.C. looks east

By Jessica Werb
Ballet B.C.’s participation in the inaugural Ballet Expo Seoul, which runs August 15 to 23 at the Yong Theatre in Seoul, South Korea, is just one element in the dance company’s plan to increase its exposure in the Asia-Pacific region, according to executive director Susan Howard.
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Big wins for B.C. singers

By Jessica Werb
It’s enough to make you wonder if there’s something in the B.C. air: last week, three young singers from our shores scored big wins. On July 27, 21-year-old UBC School of Music student Simone Osborne was announced as a cowinner, with Pennsylvanian baritone Edward Parks, of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
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What not to miss at Festival Vancouver 2008

By Jessica Werb
String theory The Spectacular String Quartets series may be packing three concerts into a single day (August 10) at Christ Church Cathedral, but that clearly hasn’t dampened the zeal of die-hard chamber music lovers. According to Festival Vancouver program director George Laverock, button sales—the festival’s version of a series pass—are strong.
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B.C. Teachers Federation rallies for arts education

By Jessica Werb
Public funding of programs by independent arts organizations should not take the place of arts education at school, according to Irene Lanzinger, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. On July 22, the provincial government announced a $167,000 grant to Arts Umbrella for an ongoing outreach program that delivers visual and performing arts workshops of up to 10 days to vulnerable children and youth in a variety of locations throughout the province.
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New GM at Firehall Arts Centre

By Jessica Werb
After two years without a general manager, the Firehall Arts Centre has appointed Amy Benson to the task. Benson, who previously worked in theatre administration at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and, most recently, at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver, fills the gap left by Jessica Schneider in 2006.  
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Theatre veteran David Diamond nabs book award

By Jessica Werb
The American Alliance for Theatre and Education has honoured David Diamond, artistic and managing director of Headlines Theatre, with its 2008 Distinguished Book Award. The award, presented July 26, is for Diamond’s Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-Based Dialogue—the first self-published book to win the award.  
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Council to vote today on new downtown arts complex proposal

By Jessica Werb
After a long history of stops and starts, Vancouver city council is ready to breathe new life into a proposal for a major new arts complex downtown.
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Green Thumb Theatre uprooted to Gastown

By Jessica Werb
After 22 years in the green house at 1885 Venables—which is on land slated to be redeveloped as part of the Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s extensive renovations—Green Thumb Theatre has been forced to find new administration and rehearsal space. The task has proven difficult, according to general manager Ivan Habel.
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Public art gets boost from Langara College

By Jessica Werb
Langara College has announced the creation of a new Centre for Art in Public Spaces, featuring artist-in-residence programs, classes, and a speaker series. The centre was formed to meet the city’s public-art requirement for new developments by the college, which recently completed a new library and is constructing a student-union building. “It’s quite an innovative approach to the public-art requirement,” Lorna Brown, the new centre’s program facilitator, said.
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Theatre scene mourns Harry Vanderschee

By Colin Thomas
Harry Vanderschee, who was a technical director in Vancouver theatre for many years, died in his sleep on July 16. The 59-year-old had been working for the Caravan Farm Theatre near Armstrong and had recently sought attention for chest pains.
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Local theatre in awards spotlight

By Jessica Werb
Three B.C. residents have joined the cast of Canadian playwrights in the running for the $100,000 Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Michele Riml of North Vancouver, Carmen Aguirre of Vancouver, and Marie Clements of Galiano Island have been nominated for awards, which get handed out in October.
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Arts Partners announces $1.5 million in grants

By Jessica Werb
A total of $1.5 million in funding for the creation of 16 new works by B.C. arts groups was announced yesterday (July 17) by Arts Partners in Creative Development.
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UBC Museum of Anthropology safe for six-month closure

By Jessica Werb
A representative of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC says she’s confident the institution’s artifacts will be safe when it shuts its doors to the public over a six-month period starting this fall.
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Arts organizations get screen time in Vancouver streets

By Jessica Werb
The City of Vancouver’s new video-screen advertising program is garnering mixed reviews from members of the local arts community. On July 9, the city announced it was launching a program that will offer local nonprofit arts and cultural organizations free time for 10-second promotional messages on a pair of video monitors on a building at the corner of Robson and Granville streets.
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Critics say New West’s arts strategy misses mark

By Jessica Werb
A draft arts strategy for New Westminster has received a lukewarm reception from an arts advocacy group in the city.
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Vancouver seeks Unesco Literature designation

By Jessica Werb
Vancouver city council gave its blessing Tuesday (July 8) to a community initiative that wants Vancouver designated a UNESCO City of Literature.
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Order of Canada for early music director

By Jessica Werb
The executive director of Early Music Vancouver has been awarded the Order of Canada for his work in promoting early period music. José Verstappen, who has worked with Early Music Vancouver for more than 25 years, said he was surprised to hear that he had been recognized with the country’s highest civilian honour. The news came July 1, but was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding Henry Morgentaler’s appointment to the order.  
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Belkin Art Gallery satellite fizzles out

By Jessica Werb
A lack of funds has forced the downtown branch of UBC’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, where graduate students in critical and curatorial studies curated shows, to leave its home at 555 Hamilton Street after five years. At the end of August, the Belkin Satellite will make way for the Or Gallery, which will take over the space.
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RBC Canadian Painting Competition announces semifinalists

By Jessica Werb
Vancouverites dominate the 10th annual Western Canada category of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, with all five Western Canadian semifinalists hailing from Vancouver.
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