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Each year, the Business for the Arts Awards Gala brings together Canada’s foremost business and arts leaders to recognize extraordinary contributions made by individual business leaders and companies who have shown outstanding commitment to the arts.
 
2009 Recap: 
The 31st Annual Business for the Arts Awards Gala was held on October 29, 2009.  A sold out, black tie affair; 300 leaders from the arts and business community converged at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) to celebrate outstanding business visionaries in support of the arts.  
 
The Awards Gala evening featured performances by Simone Osborne, the latest rising star soprano with the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio program and a musical performance by Royal Conservatory of Music’s prodigy pianist Alex Seredenko who collaborated with electric violinist Dr. Draw for an unforgettable duet.  A special tribute was made to this year’s Bovey Award winner, A. Charles Baillie, with a poetry reading by one of Soulpepper’s founding members, Nancy Palk.  The Awards Gala was followed by The Arnold Party, the official after party of the Business for the Arts Awards, in the AGO’s Walker Court – to view photos from both parts of the evening, click here.  
 
Nominations for the 2010 Awards are now open!  
 
Awards categories…
- The Edmund C. Bovey Award - Deadline to nominate is February 12, 2010.
- The Globe and Mail Business for the Arts Awards - Deadline to nominate is March 18, 2010.
- The Arnold Edinborough Award - Deadline to nominate is March 18, 2010.
 
31st Annual Business for the Arts Awards:
Click here for photos and video from the event (Oct. 29 at AGO)

 

For more information contact Eva Szymanski at:
E: e_szymanski@businessforthearts.org
T: (416) 869-3016 x223

 

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