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“Arts and cultural activities are at the heart of communities – they make communities more attractive places to live, they help bring a community to life, they define a community's unique characteristics, they attract tourists and they help communities compete economically around the world.” - The Canada Council for the Arts “I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” - Emily Carr, artist “Art is my life, and the life of my people. I want my work through the many pieces I have created, to live and carry on the rich tradition of our people…I have always felt the importance of passing on my knowledge and my skills to my sons, my family and any person interested in learning. We cannot allow our art to die out, for it connects us to our past and intertwines us in the present and makes way for us into the future.” - Walter Harris, Gitxsan carver “The purpose of art is the gradual lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” - Glenn Gould, musician “Those communities that are richest in their artistic tradition are also those that are the most progressive in their economic performance and most resilient and secure in their economic structure.” - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” - Yann Martel, author “…the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.” - Lawren Harris, visual artist “We need art. Those who deny this need deny society as a whole, its right to live and experience with every fibre as sentient beings. They deny the evolving humanity which makes society aspire to heights of perception. They deny the deep community that comes from sharing a vision.” - Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General “ 'The arts' – as we've come to term them – are not a frill. They are the heart of the matter, because they are about our hearts, and our technological inventiveness is generated by our emotions, not by our minds. A society without the arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart. It would no longer be what we now recognize as human.” - Margaret Atwood, author “Creative culture is infinitely porous – it absorbs influences from all over the world. That is what differentiates a genuine culture from nationalism. Nationalism is the parody of the reality of cultural identity.” - Northrup Frye, author “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” - Stephen Leacock, author “Companies can go anywhere and they expect good schools, hospitals, etc. Those are the table stakes. But what differentiates a city is the vibrancy of its cultural life and that's what differentiates Canada international competitiveness. I'm making the case for more investment in the arts not because the arts are good or uplifting, but on the hard - nosed economic benefits that they deliver.” - Former Altamira CEO Greg Reed “Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.” - Marshall McLuhan, author “I cannot imagine life without art.” - Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit artist/carver |
10: Number of journalism students from UBC in Vancouver involved in producing the documentary Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground, which won the 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism (beating out such contenders as 60 Minutes, 48 Hours and Nightline). www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/09/27/ubc-graduate-school-of-journalism-wins-emmy-award-for-outstanding-investigative-journalism/ 225: Number of Canadian artists that Nakusp artist Sharon Bamber was competing against when she won the bronze award at the Art Vision 2010 competition of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Total number of years she had been painting: 4 www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/arrowlakesnews/lifestyles/106538058.html
1: Length - in minutes - of performances for a Wells-based international play competition held annually during the Artswells Festival of All Things Art. 600: Age of the cedar tree from which Tsimshian artist Bill Helin of Lantzville carved a 12-meter canoe that was displayed at the Klahow-ya Village in the Pan Pacific during the 2010 Olympics. 50%: Percentage of the eight developing artists grants awarded to the most promising young artists across Canada by the Hnatyshyn Foundation that were presented to British Columbians. (Jocelyn Lai – classical piano; Daniel Reynolds – jazz performance; Danielle Gould – classical ballet; Barbara Kozicki – English theatre acting) $19,500: Size of award given to visual artist Betty Kovacic of Prince George by the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund to create a six-by-sixteen foot painting.
Number of years it will take to complete the painting: 2 51%: Percentage of working Canadians aged 18-40 who agree that arts are important to them, according to a 2010 poll conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of Business for the Arts 362: Number of attendees at Kispiox Valley Music Festival: 2,000 Population of nearest town (Hazelton). 80 acres: Size of the stage utilized by the Caravan Farm Theatre near Armstrong for their productions. 20: Number of countries that Nanaimo author Chevy Stevens' debut novel Still Missing was pre-sold to before its publication. #1: Ranking that Alex Cuba of Smithers received in the category of Best New Artist in the Latin Grammy Awards. 3.2 billion: Television audience numbers for those watching Shane Koyczan of Penticton perform his spoken word piece "We Are More" at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympics. $1,021,722,575: Amount spent in British Columbia on film and TV productions in 2010. 12: Number of months that 17 original outdoor sculptures making up the 2010 SculptureWalk in Castlegar were on display for the public. 75: Total number of performances presented during the 29 hours of programming for the 2010 Rarearth Jazz and Blues Music Fest in Vernon. 3: Number of dance companies invited to represent Canada at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo's Canada Pavilion. Of those three, the number of dance companies that were from British Columbia: 2 (Move: the company and Dancers of Damelahamid, both from Vancouver). $143.8 million: Annual economic impact of Kelowna's creative sector. |
