2009 Awards
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Arts Awards Winners 2009
The winners of the 2009 Toronto Arts Foundation Award
(Back from left) Winners of the 2009 Toronto Arts Foundation Awards Gregory Nixon (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Jane Nokes (Scotiabank), Christopher House, Mayor David Miller, TAF Executive Director Claire Hopkinson. (Front from left) Anusree Roy, Miriam Adams. Photo credits – Tom Sandler
Finalist: Christopher House
Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Dance
Artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre since 1994, Christopher House is one of Canada’s most exciting choreographers. He has transformed TDT into a company known internationally for its fresh, intelligent and provocative dance.
Finalists: Marie-Josée Chartier
Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Dance
Marie-Josée Chartier is a choreographer, performer, director, vocalist, teacher and artistic director of Chartier Danse. As an artist she finds great inspiration in contemporary art forms and believes in bringing contemporary artists of diverse disciplines from the beginning of the creation of a new work to allow the development of layered and integrated work and foster a level of communication that is central in accomplishing a strong artistic vision.
Finalist: Supporting Our Youth (SOY)
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Arts For Youth Award
Supporting Our Youth (SOY) is a dynamic volunteer program, based at Sherbourne Health Centre, that works within an anti-oppression framework to create opportunities for queer and trans youth and adults to build an inclusive, welcoming community together. The annual success of SOY’s photography and writing workshops, as well as their youth arts festival each year at Pride, prove that through artistic processes, young people who are all too often relegated to the margins of society are able to explore and expand their reality and engage with the world in ways that are creative, innovative and exciting.
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Finalist: Mammalian Diving Reflex
Arts for Youth Award
Mammalian Diving Reflex is an interdisciplinary company that creates opportunities for youth to be valued creators in their own right and have their voices respected in collaboration with adults through various youth-driven events, theatre-based performances, theoretical texts and community happenings. Most notable programs for youth include their international touring projects Haircuts by Children and The Children’s Choice Awards, and local projects Parkdale Public School vs. Queen St. West I & II. MDR is helmed by Artistic Director Darren O’Donnell and Producer Natalie De Vito.
Finalist: Expect Theatre
Arts for Youth Award
Expect is a registered charity that was formed in 1996 by Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley to create cutting edge, multi disciplinary productions and programs that engage urban youth in the arts.
Finalist: Kate Cayley
RBC Emerging Artist Award
Kate Cayley is a playwright and director. She is the co-founder and artistic director of feminist theatre company Stranger Theatre, for which she has written or co-written East of the Sun, West of the Moon, The Yellow Wallpaper Project, The Clown of God, The Counterfeit Marquise, LUZ, The World Turned Upside Down, and what Alice found there, and Käthe Kollwitz.
Finalist: Anusree Roy
RBC Emerging Artist Award
Anusree Roy’s theatre credits include playwright and performer of Letters to my Grandma (Theatre Passe Muraille) and Pyaasa (Theatre Passe Muraille) winning two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance. Roy is a playwright in residence at The Canadian Stage Company writing her new play Brothel #9 and will be the playwright in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille to write Fire as the Witness.
Finalist: Ravi Jain
RBC Emerging Artist Award
Artistic Director of Why Not Theatre, Ravi Jain works internationally as an actor, director and teacher. He is the Community Arts Associate at Canadian Stage Company and is directing the inaugural young company. A graduate of L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Ravi received a nomination for the Ontario Arts Council’s John Hirsch award for emerging director and was most recently awarded the Urjo Kareda Residency at the Tarragon Theatre for the 2009-2010 season.