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Toronto, December 7, 2020 – Parisa Sabet is the recipient of this year’s $7,000 Kathleen McMorrow Music Award. The award recognizes the composition and presentation of contemporary classical music by Ontario composers. This award is in support of Sabet’s new opera Vanishing Point, in collaboration with Nika Khanjani and commissioned through the Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes program. About Parisa […]

Toronto, ON, December 2, 2020 — For the past ten years, the Gina Wilkinson Prize has honoured female artists transitioning from one theatre discipline to that of directing. For 2021, Gina’s Prize is moving forward by reimagining the award to recognize female identifying artists who place community and new creation models at the heart of their artistic

Toronto, July 14, 2020 – The Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) are delighted to announce that Dillon Baldassero is the most recent recipient of the Christopher Dedrick Award for Live Musicians in Media Soundtracks. Funds from this award will be used towards the use of live musicians in Baldassero’s compositions for the upcoming feature film Girl,

Toronto, July 8, 2020 – The 2020 winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today by the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF).  The winners were selected by two juries of young readers from Canada’s National Ballet School.  A jury of grade 6 students selected the recipients of the Children’s Picture Book Award, and a jury

Toronto, June 23, 2020 – The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) are pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2020 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.  The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student juries work together to choose the winning books. The 2020 winners are being chosen by two student juries from Canada’s

June 21, 2020: Jesse Thistle, Arielle Twist, Michelle Sylliboy, and Elaine McArthur were among this year’s Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) recipients announced during an online gala hosted by past IVAs recipient Smokii Sumac. Including this year’s combined prize money of $30,000 (CAD), the IVAs have awarded a total of $70,000 over the past three years to Indigenous writers for published and unpublished writing

Toronto, June 17, 2020 – Toronto-based set and costume designer Sean Mulcahy is the 2020 recipient of the $20,000 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design.  The award is given annually to a professional costume designer in Ontario in mid-career to further enrich their career. About Sean Mulcahy Sean is a Toronto based designer whose work has been seen

Toronto, June 10, 2020 – Peterborough artist, Alex Bierk is this year’s recipient of the Laura Ciruls Painting Award. The $5,000 award is given annually to recognize an Ontario based mid-career painter. About Alex BierkAlex Bierk has presented his works internationally in exhibitions in Copenhagen, Paris and Stockholm, as well as at numerous art fairs including UNTITLED (New York),

Toronto – May 26, 2020 – The Ontario Arts Foundation is pleased to confirm that it has made a special distribution of $1.0 million to over 200 arts organizations across the Province of Ontario from funds established under the Arts Endowment Fund program. “We recognize the extraordinary stresses arts organizations are facing in the current COVID-19 environment, where performances,

Toronto – March 26, 2020 – The Ontario Arts Foundation is pleased to confirm that $ 3.3 million in endowment income payments have been disbursed to 261 arts organizations across the Province of Ontario earlier this month. The annual payout represents income earned on endowments created by arts organizations and funded jointly by the private sector and the government