Congratulations to Betty Lou Phillips for being recognized by the Mayor's Arts Awards for volunteerism in support of the arts! Betty Lou is a longtime volunteer ambassador with Vancouver Opera and you would often find her helping out down at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre during our productions.
The awards presentation, co-produced by the Alliance for Arts and Culture, will take place on Wednesday November 2 at Club Five Sixty. The 2010 Mayor's Arts Awards recognizes local artists as well as community members making outstanding and creative contributions to our city.
This year's recipients include:
Studio Arts:
Ruth Scheuing (Sharon Kallis) for Craft & Design
Frank Pabst (Canadian World Culinary Olympics Youth Team) for Culinary Arts
Cease Wyss (Dustin Rivers) for Film & New Media
Evelyn Lau (Kaitlin Fontana) for Literary Arts
Christos Dikeakos (Alex Morrison) for Visual Arts
George Norris (Reece Terris) for Public Art
Carmen Rosen (Maggie Winston) for Community Arts
Performing Arts:
Alvin Erasga Tolentino (Sujit Vaidya) for Dance
Sal Ferreras (Evan Arntzen) for Music
Norman Armour (Tanya Marquardt) for Theatre
Support of the Arts:
Yosef Wosk for Philanthropy;
Betty Lou Phillips for Volunteerism;
Rio Tinto Alcan for Business Support.
Other artists to be recognized include: 2010 Mayor’s Book Award winners Bruce Grenville and Scott Steedman; Artist Live/Work Award recipients (2009 - 2012) Althea Thauberger, Michelle Allard, Josh Beamish and Kristen Roos; and Poet Laureate (2009-2011) Brad Cran.
Mayor Gregor Robertson will be on hand, along with MC Bill Richardson, to give out awards.
Congratulations to everyone from Vancouver Opera on such a prestigious honour!
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