Arts

Native Women in the Arts (NWIA) announced in Toronto that the winner of the inaugural Barbara Laronde Award is Aylan Couchie. The award was created to honour the legacy of NWIA founder Sandra Laronde and her vision and commitment to ...

Marguerite Andersen — It happened at PAL, the Performing Arts Lodge in Toronto (110 The Esplanade), when two artists, Pam Hyatt and Marguerite Andersen, got together to create a short play, Behind the Door, about an actor reflecting on her ...

Alan Bennett may be a very well-known British stage and screen writer whose films include The Madness of King George (1991) and The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith, which featured at TIFF 2015. But to those of a ...

Bruce Bell – Present-day Parliament Street was once a rough road cut through a dense forest leading up to Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe’s country home, Castle Frank, that at one time overlooked the Don River at present day Bloor ...

Kathryn Townshend — Statistics Canada’s release June 9 of the Provincial and Territorial Culture Satellite Account, 2010 report is providing insight into the economic importance of arts and culture in Ontario and across Canada. The figures in the report measure the contribution ...

It was 29 years ago when Aret Oymakas, owner of a new engagement ring design studio Livia Diamonds (named after his wife and daughter), first laid his 12-year-old hands on a diamond. His grandfather, the first of 3 generations of ...

Dennis Hanagan — Danny Rosales knew from the moment he picked up the device it was just the thing he needed to make art. That device was an airbrush gun. The Leslieville artist has spent the past eight years creating ...

Heather Kelly — The Bloor St. Culture Corridor, Toronto’s most diverse arts and culture district, celebrates its one year anniversary in April 2015 and is pleased to announce the 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media + Education and the Toronto ...

Kimberly Spice– There seems to be no rest for 36-year-old, playwright Hanna Moscovitch, who works on a number of projects simultaneously in theatre, opera, film and television. “It’s kind of a train wreck a lot of the time,” Moscovitch told ...

Kirsten Gunter – Judith Gelber has been appointed Vice-Chair of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), while  Martha Durdin, OAC’s longest serving Chair, recently completed her third 3-year term in February. As Vice-Chair, Judith will helm OAC’s board of directors until a ...