Arts Notes
Ontario Arts Foundation Executive Director Janet Stubbs Steps Down in June 2010
As of the end of June, Janet Stubbs will be leaving the Ontario Arts Foundation (Foundation) to pursue what she is calling “new adventures, none of which is likely to include gainful employment.”
Janet Stubbs joined the Ontario Arts Foundation in 1995. Through her expertise and guidance, she has nurtured the Foundation’s relationships with arts organizations and donors. When Janet came to the Foundation, there were a handful of endowments. Today the foundation has the important role of overseeing the administration and investment of over 270 funds established under the Arts Endowment Fund Program, 14 funds established under the Endowment Incentives Component of the Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program and 19 funds and award programs established by private donors, all with a value of over $52 million. Under her leadership, the Foundation has paid out over $21.5 million in support of the arts in Ontario.
Janet summarizes her time at the Foundation as follows: “It has been a privilege to be a part of the work of the Ontario Arts Foundation and I value the many friendships that I have made through my work here.”
About Janet Stubbs
As a mezzo-soprano Janet Stubbs has performed in opera, concert and oratorio for nearly two decades all across Canada and in the United States. Janet enjoyed a close association with the Canadian Opera Company, performing a wide variety of roles, including the title roles in Carmen and La Cenerentola, Mère Marie in Les Dialogue des carmélites, Maddalena in Rigoletto and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro.
Janet graduated from Victoria College and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. After being admitted to the bar in Ontario, she ventured into the world of opera, studying at the Opera School at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Janet is one of 19 women profiled in a permanent photo exhibit launched in March 2006 honouring trailblazing female alumni from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and is a recipient of the University of Toronto’s Arbor Award for outstanding voluntary service. In 2006, the Janet Stubbs Graduate Fellowship in opera was established at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto by Chancellor Emeritus Henry N. R. Jackman.
About the Ontario Arts Foundation
The Ontario Arts Foundation is a public non-government foundation established in 1991 to encourage and facilitate private giving to the arts. The Ontario Arts Foundation works with donors to build lasting endowments in support of the arts and currently holds over 300 endowments established by individuals, foundations, corporations and arts organizations.
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2010 Winners of Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards Announced
| CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK AWARD |
YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE READER AWARD |
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Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay
(Pointe-Claire, QC)
Illustrations by Renné Benoit
(St.Thomas, ON)
Published by
Tundra Books |
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Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case
by Shane Peacock (Baltimore, ON)
Published by Tundra Books
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The winners were announced at
Huttonville Public School at 1 p.m. on May 26, 2010.
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K. M. Hunter Artist Award Winners Announced
On May 11, 2010, the
Ontario Arts Foundation announced the 2010 recipients of the
K. M. Hunter Artist Awards. These annual awards are given to Ontario residents who have completed their training, begun to produce a body of work and are starting to make a significant mark in their field. Presented at a critical moment in the artists’ careers, the awards are a means of encouraging the artist’s craft and propelling them to the next level.
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Essential Information for Canada's Charities — Harmonized Sales Tax and Charity Tax Tools
Imagine Canada has launched a website to share information on the basic legal requirements for all Canadian charities registered with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that are entitled to issue tax receipts for charitable donations: http://charitytax.imaginecanada.ca/
Harmonized Sales Tax to take effect on July 1, 2010
As announced in the 2009 Ontario Budget, Ontario is moving to a federally administered Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), effective July 1, 2010. In general, the HST will follow the same tax base and rules that already exist under the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST). Further details on Ontario’s Comprehensive Tax Package may be found at www.ontario.ca/taxchange and on the Canada Revenue Agency website.
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Grand Philharmonic Choir commemorates conductor Howard Dyck’s legacy
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Emcee Eric Friesen introduces Maggie and Howard Dyck at his farewell concert with the Grand Philharmonic Choir in Kitchener-Waterloo.
(Photo: Matt Tiessen and Petra Hroch) |
Noted choral conductor Howard Dyck recently signed off after more than 38 years as artistic director of the Grand Philharmonic Choir in Kitchener-Waterloo. He was also known to opera-loving Canadians as the host of CBC Radio 2’s Saturday afternoon at the Opera and Sunday morning’s Choral Concert show, two gigs from which he had retired in 2007 and 2008 respectively. A capacity audience packed Kitchener’s Centre in the Square for a gala presentation of the Verdi Requiem on May 8, 2010. Below are excerpts from Mr. Dyck’s speech, in which he spoke of the principles that guided his career:
“I believe that the arts make us better people. I believe they ennoble us, they enable us to transcend our own limitations, they encourage us in our weaknesses and failures, and they empower us in our pilgrimage through this vast and wondrous and kaleidoscopic adventure we call life.
I believe that it is possible for a community of like-minded artists – in this case singers and players – to achieve certain exalted forms of expression which none of us could even dream of achieving on our own.
I believe that as performing artists we bear the responsibility of transmitting and communicating to our troubled world rarified and distilled and insightful statements by our civilization’s most visionary and inspired prophetic voices, those prophets being composers and poets and painters and choreographers and film-makers. To be able to communicate these works of art is a privilege as well as a responsibility.”
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Emcee Eric Friesen addresses a packed Centre in the Square on the occasion of Howard Dyck’s (centre) farewell concert after more than 38 years as Artistic Director of the Grand Philharmonic Choir. Left, Ken Seiling, Regional Chair of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. In the background are members of the Grand Philharmonic Choir and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.
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OAC-funded Artists Among Juno Award Nominees and Winners
Congratulations to the following Juno award winners!
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Aboriginal Album of the Year
Digging Roots
Album: We Are
Francophone Album of the Year
Andrea Lindsay
Album: Les sentinelles dorment |
Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Group
Good Lovelies
Album: Good Lovelies
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Congratulations to the following artists who received a 2010 Juno Award nomination!
- Kirk MacDonald Quartet
Album: Songbook Vol. 1
- Darren Sigesmund
Album: Strands II
- The Hylozoists
Album: L’île de Sept Villes
- Sultans of String
Album:Yalla Yalla!
- Jaffa Road
Album: Sunplace
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- Lucie Idlout
Album: Swagger
- Alex Durlak (Art Director)
Album: Potential Things - Canaille
- Treasa Levasseur
Album: Low Fidelity
- Thunderheist
Album: Thunderheist
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Are You an Artist Based in Northern Ontario? Drop by One of our Regional Offices
The Ontario Arts Council has two regional offices to support Northern artists and arts organizations. Our regional consultants are here to answer your questions and provide guidance.
- Use OAC's maps of Ontario regions
to locate your area.
- If you are based in Northwestern Ontario or the Far North and would like information in English, contact Marilyn McIntosh at 807-622-4279, toll-free 1-866-391-2221, mmcintosh@arts.on.ca.
- If you are in Northeastern Ontario and would like information in French or in English, contact Gouled Hassan at 705-665-4907, toll-free 1-877-265-8842, ghassan@arts.on.ca
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Arts in the News
Click on the links below for a selection of news articles about OAC-funded projects throughout the province. (Content in French only)
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