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NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE . . JUNE 1, 2013

The arts engage and inspire us

The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards

Nominations are now The Governor General’s Performing Arts performing arts in , receive a being accepted for Awards are Canada’s most prestigious commissioned glass sculpture created by the 2014 Governor honour in the performing arts. Created in Canadian artist Naoko Takenouchi and a 1992 by the late Right Honourable Ramon commemorative medallion. General’s Performing John Hnatyshyn (1934–2002), then Governor Arts Awards. General of Canada, and his wife Gerda, Recipients of the National Arts Centre Award, Nominate today! the Awards are the ultimate recognition which recognizes work of an extraordinary from for Canadians whose nature in the previous performance year, Deadline: accomplishments have inspired and are selected by a committee of senior September 20, 2013 enriched the cultural life of our country. programmers from the National Arts Centre (NAC). This Award comprises a $25,000 cash Laureates of the Lifetime Artistic Achievement For more information, prize provided by the NAC, a commissioned Award are selected from the fields of classical please visit work created by Canadian ceramic artist music, dance, film, popular music, radio Paula Murray and a commemorative medallion. www.ggpaa.ca. and television broadcasting, and . Nominations for this Award and the Ramon All commemorative medallions are generously John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in donated by the Royal Canadian Mint. the Performing Arts are open to the public and solicited from across the country. The Awards also feature a unique Mentorship All nominations are reviewed by juries of Program designed to benefit a talented mid- professionals in each discipline; each jury career artist. The Program brings together submits a short list to the Board of Directors a past Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award of the Governor General’s Performing Arts recipient with a next-generation artist, helping Awards Foundation, which makes the them to develop their work, explore ideas and final selection. navigate career options. The Program is an Each laureate of a Lifetime Artistic opportunity for the laureates of tomorrow to Achievement Award receives a $25,000 benefit from the creativity and experience of cash prize provided by the Canada Council icons who have blazed the trail before them. for the Arts and a commemorative medallion. The Awards are administered by the Governor Recipients of the Ramon John Hnatyshyn General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation, Award, which recognizes outstanding a non-governmental, not-for-profit charitable contribution in voluntary service to the organization based in Ottawa.

4 Each year, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards celebrate the lives, careers and accomplishments of some of the most recognizable names in Canada. It is always a privilege to acknowledge the contributions of those who are cultural ambassadors wherever they go. The laureates continue to dazzle us with new and innovative performances, with fantastic art from behind the scenes, and with devotion to the arts through volunteerism. Their work evokes emotions and reactions that show us the inner workings of the mind and leave us wanting more. They lay bare the hard truths and whisk us away to places of the imagination. They are the gatekeepers to our performance culture and we are thankful for their efforts, as well as the efforts of all art supporters, to create a place at home and abroad for Canadian artists, and to build our Arts Nation. As we honour these men and women for a lifetime of achievements and for their generosity, I hope that we can all learn from their success. The dreams that we have in our youth can become a reality, through skill, hard work and dedication to the craft—whatever that might be. I congratulate all the laureates and I look forward to even more great art from them, as well as from so many other Canadians in the future.

David Johnston Governor General of Canada

5 Welcome to the 21st Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala. We are honoured to celebrate the exceptional talent and artistic passion of our 2013 laureates. They have changed the face of popular and classical music, moved and informed us with film, captivated us with superb theatre and television, revolutionized dance, and generously supported the arts. Canada is an Arts Nation. As a country we punch way above our weight in the arts, and we can take pride in the fact that the best known Canadians around the world, by far, are our artists. This is worth celebrating and it is a privilege to share such a joyous occasion with you this evening. The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation and the Awards Gala are the result of a unique creative partnership between the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Arts Centre and the National Film Board of Canada. We are supported by a dedicated group of individuals, foundations and corporations across the country, led for the fourth consecutive year by our presenting sponsor, Enbridge. The Foundation is deeply grateful for the commitment of Their Excellencies the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and Mrs. Sharon Johnston. On behalf of the Foundation we offer our warmest congratulations to our 2013 laureates.

Douglas Knight Paul-André Fortier Chair Co-Chair

6 The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards give Canadians a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge some of this country’s greatest artists, and to celebrate their remarkable work— work that has given such meaning, beauty and joy to our lives. Each year we are both humbled by and grateful for the strong support we receive for the Awards from donors across Canada. As a founding partner, we promote the Awards and produce the Gala, which for us has always been one of the most moving and entertaining events of the year. We know tonight will be no exception. We also present the National Arts Centre Award, which recognizes exceptional work by an individual artist in the past performance year. This year, we are honouring , a director, screenwriter and actress who has had an extraordinary year indeed. , her feature-length documentary about her family history, premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, then screened to unanimous acclaim at the Telluride Film Festival, the International Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Stories We Tell has won many awards, including the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award (2012) and Documentary Award. On behalf of the NAC’s Board of Trustees, the NAC Foundation Board and all of us here at the National Arts Centre, we offer our heartfelt congratulations to Sarah Polley.

Peter A. Herrndorf Julia E. Foster President and CEO Chair, Board of Trustees

7 Welcome to the 2013 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala. Our Government knows that arts and culture enrich the quality of life of Canadians while contributing to the strength of our communities and our economy. As we approach Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, we have a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Canadian excellence and the undeniable talent of our artists. For more than 20 years, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards have given us the chance to reward Canadian artists who have distinguished themselves throughout their careers by the quality of their work. On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Government of Canada, I commend the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation, which presents these prestigious awards each year. I would also like to congratulate this year’s award recipients, who contribute to our cultural scene through their passion and creativity.

The Honourable James Moore

8 As creative concept partner for the Governor General’s As Canada’s national arts funding agency and a Performing Arts Awards for the sixth consecutive year, founding partner of the Governor General’s Performing the National Film Board of Canada has reached out to Arts Awards, the Canada Council for the Arts is pleased talented filmmakers across the country to pay tribute to celebrate with all Canadians the exceptional to the artistic and social contributions of the 2013 achievements of the 2013 award recipients. award recipients. The arts permeate and enrich the lives of people The 2013 laureates have inspired the creation of everywhere, as artists shake off the forces of signature short films that constitute a unique cinematic convention, reshape traditions and transform experience for the Governor General’s Performing Arts experience in meaningful and exciting ways. However Awards, and a lasting cultural legacy. we experience them, the arts refresh our physical and social environments, stimulate our minds and awaken Premiering at the Gala and available at NFB.ca, these our emotions. And from the nomination process to the works put Canadians in touch with excellence in the celebration of the laureates, the Governor General’s performing arts and the contributions of artists from Performing Arts Awards reflect unique public across this land. engagement in the arts. Congratulations to all of our outstanding laureates. The Canada Council for the Arts salutes the recipients of the 2013 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for their extraordinary contributions to a vibrant and dynamic nation.

Tom Perlmutter Robert Sirman Government Film Commissioner and Director and CEO Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada

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21 Get involved. Nominate! The GGPAA Medallion How did , , , The distinctive GGPAA medallion, produced by the Royal Eric Peterson, Alanis Obomsawin and Rush become Canadian Mint, was designed by the Canadian College laureates of the Governor General’s Performing of Heraldry. Each medallion bears on one side the Arts Awards? Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards emblem: a coat of arms with the Latin inscription Artes nos tenent They were nominated by people like you – members of et inspirant (“The arts engage and inspire us”). On the the public. other side are engraved the name of the recipient and Your nomination could determine the next recipient of the date, encircled by maple leaves. The medallion is Canada’s most prestigious award in the performing arts! hung from a ribbon striped in burgundy, yellow and blue. Nominations for the 2014 awards are being accepted Composition: 90% copper, 10% zinc, plated with 24 karat gold until September 20, 2013. Weight: 78 grams Diameter: 57 mm The nomination process is simple and straightforward! Finish: Frosted background and brilliant relief For complete details, please visit www.ggpaa.ca. Photo: Royal Canadian Mint

22 2013 LAUREATES Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award ANDREW DAWES Violinist and teacher

Andrew Dawes is one of the finest violinists Music. In 2011 he was appointed Director of Canada has ever produced. An exceptional the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Chamber performer and gifted teacher, he is known Music Institute, and currently serves on the for his commitment to hard work, technical board of the St. James Music Academy, excellence, musical integrity, and excitement which provides free instruments and music of performance. In a career spanning half lessons to children from Vancouver’s a century, his unique ability to share his poorest neighbourhoods. enthusiasm for classical music has inspired listeners, students, and fellow musicians He has served as a jury member for around the world. numerous prestigious music competitions, including the London International String Mr. Dawes was born in High River, Alberta in Quartet Competition, and chaired the Banff 1940. He is best known for his role as first International String Quartet Competition violinist of Canada’s internationally acclaimed . During his 26-year 1989–2004. tenure (1965–91), the ensemble gave nearly Mr. Dawes’ some 63 recordings include 3,000 concerts on six continents and made notably all ten sonatas for piano and violin “He who divines more than 60 recordings, featuring key by Beethoven, recorded with pianist the secret of my works of the classical repertoire as well as Jane Coop (Skylark); all the Beethoven new works by Canadian composers. The string quartets (CBC Records/Delos Records); music is delivered quartet also toured regularly in Canada, and five quartets by Canadian composer from the misery bringing the world’s finest music to concert (and GGPAA laureate) R. Murray Schafer halls, church basements and high school that haunts (Centre Discs). the world.” gyms across the country. In 2000, the CBC named the Orford String Quartet one of the Awards and honours include Member – Ludwig van “Ten Great Canadian Performers of the of the Order of Canada (1991); Molson Beethoven Twentieth Century.” Prize (Canada Council for the Arts, 1976); A generous and dedicated teacher and Chalmers National Music Award (1994); mentor, Andrew Dawes has taught at the Dorothy Somerset Award for Excellence in , the University of British Performance and Development (University Columbia, and McGill University, where in of British Columbia, 2002); Queen Elizabeth 2006 he was the first Distinguished Visiting Jubilee Medal (2002) and Diamond Jubilee Scholar, Catherine Thornhill Steele Chair in Medal (2012); and three JUNO Awards.

24 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award DANIEL LANOIS Record producer, songwriter and musician

Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as “the most records, they need a good friend and curator,” important‘ record producer to emerge in the he explains. 80s”, Daniel Lanois has won international He has produced albums by such gifted acclaim as one of the most distinctive and artists as Brian Eno (his mentor and frequent talented producers of his time. Through his collaborator), U2 (The Joshua Tree, Achtung work with such leading artists as U2, Bob Baby, All That You Can’t Leave Behind), Dylan, , Robbie Robertson and Peter Gabriel (So, Us), Bob Dylan (Oh Mercy, Neil Young, among many others, he has made Time Out Of Mind), Robbie Robertson an exceptional contribution to Canada’s music (Robbie Robertson), Neil Young (Le Noise), industry and inspired an entire generation and many more. of producers and engineers. He is also an award-winning songwriter and musician in his As a solo artist, his discography includes his own right, with a dozen successful albums to acclaimed debut album Acadie (1989), For his credit. the Beauty of Wynona (1993), Shine (2003), Rockets (2004), Belladonna (2005), Here Is Mr. Lanois was born in Hull (now Gatineau), Photo: Lurah Blade What Is (2007), and Omni (2008). He has also in 1951 and grew up near Hamilton, composed for film (Billy Bob Thornton’s Sling Ontario. He set up his first recording studio “Get up in the Blade and David Lynch’s Dune, among others). at 17 in the basement of the family home. morning and put From these modest beginnings he has built Daniel Lanois has been inducted into a career as one of the most sought-after the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2002), on your boots.” producers in the world, with studios in Canada’s Walk of Fame (2005), and the – Daniel Lanois Toronto, Los Angeles and Jamaica. He is Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame known for his rigorous production values, (2012). He has won seven GRAMMY Awards passionate commitment to the message in (including three for Album of the Year) and five the music, signature atmospheric studio JUNOs, and holds an honorary doctorate from sound, and ability to work closely with McMaster University. His autobiographical musicians to help them achieve their full memoir, Soul Mining: A Musical Life, was creative potential. “When people are making published in 2010.

25 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award Independent filmmaker

A seminal figure in Canadian cinema, Mr. Lefebvre has brought a deeply humanist Jean Pierre Lefebvre has received approach to Quebec’s history and day-to- international acclaim for his innovative, day reality. He has written and directed thoughtful, fiercely independent films. His close to 30 features, most with a modest body of work includes close to 30 features budget. They include Il ne faut pas mourir and numerous short films, documentaries pour ça (1967, Best Foreign Film award, and videos. His work has been the subject Rencontres du jeune cinéma, Hyères, of retrospectives in Canada and abroad, and France), Les dernières fiançailles (1973, Prix his films have been screened at the Cannes de l’Organisation catholique internationale Film Festival and the Toronto International du cinéma), Le vieux pays où Rimbaud Film Festival (TIFF), among many others. est mort (1977), Les fleurs sauvages As a teacher and mentor, he has also (1982, Cannes International Critics’ Prize), played a key role in encouraging a Le jour “S” (1984), La boîte à soleil (1988), younger generation of filmmakers. Le fabuleux voyage de l’ange (1990), Aujourd’hui ou jamais (1997), Le manuscrit Photo: Édouard Faribault Mr. Lefebvre was born in in 1941. érotique (2001), and La Route des cieux He studied literature at the Université de (2010). He has also explored video as a “Somewhere Montréal and worked as a teacher and film creative medium, notably in his five-part critic before embarking on his film career between chance project L’âge des images (1993–95). in 1964. He formed his own production and mystery lies company, Cinak, in 1969, and headed the Awards and honours include Officer of the imagination, National Film Board’s French-language fiction Order of Canada (1991); Wendy Michener the only thing studio in 1969–70. He has enjoyed equal Prize (, 1971); Ontario that protects success—what he calls “a double career”— Film Institute Award of Excellence (1983); in English and French Canada, thanks to Independent Film Alliance Award (1985); our freedom.” the film workshops he has given from fellowship from Ryerson Polytechnical – Luis Buñuel coast to coast to coast and to numerous Institute (1987); Albert Tessier Award retrospectives of his work, including the (1995); and Prix Lumières (Association inaugural edition (2001) of TIFF’s “Canadian des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Retrospective” showcase. Québec, 1997).

26 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award VIOLA LÉGER Actress and teacher

Viola Léger is one of the brightest stars in Sagouine in Bouctouche, NB, where she Canada’s artistic firmament. She is best appears in character. known for her role of La Sagouine in the Ms. Léger has also appeared in plays play of the same name by Acadian writer by, among others, Michel Tremblay, Michel Antonine Maillet: she has performed it more Garneau, Tennessee Williams, and Federico than 2,500 times, winning rave reviews for her authentic and engaging portrayal. She García Lorca, and her performance in Tom has made an enduring creative contribution Ziegler’s Grace and Gloria earned her the in both English and French, and is a passionate 2001 “Masque” award (Quebec Theatre ambassador for Acadian culture in Canada Critics’ Association) for Best Actress. and around the world. In 1985 she founded her own theatre Following her studies in Acadia, Ms. Léger company, La Compagnie Viola-Léger, which taught high school literature and drama she directed until 2008, and in 1999 she for 15 years. She later obtained a master’s established the Viola-Léger Foundation to degree in theatre education from Boston support theatre production and professional Photo: Dolores Breau University and studied in Paris with training for Acadian theatre artists. renowned theatre artist Jacques Lecoq. Her remarkable talent has earned her many “The only thing She became an actress almost by accident, awards and honours, including Officer of the I can take credit when Antonine Maillet invited her to play Order of Canada (1989); Chevalier de l’Ordre for is saying yes the lead in La Sagouine. Thus was born des Arts et des Lettres de la France (1991); —and continuing this legendary character, a humble Acadian Government of New Brunswick Award for cleaning woman who tells her colourful life Excellence in Theatre (1995); Member of the to say yes.” story with humour and dignity. Ms. Léger Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique (1998); – Viola Léger premiered the role in 1971 and has performed Officer of the Ordre de la Pléiade (2004); it (in English and French) in Canada, the USA Order of New Brunswick (2007); and four and France, winning numerous accolades honorary doctorates. From 2001 to 2006 including a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Ms. Léger served in the Senate of Canada, Outstanding Performance. Since 1993 she where she passionately defended the has spent her summers at Le Pays de la importance of artists in our society.

27 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award ERIC PETERSON and arts advocate

Eric Peterson is one of Canada’s most Angel Theatre Company, Crow’s Theatre, and accomplished . In a career spanning of course Soulpepper Theatre Company. over four decades he has portrayed a broad He is best known to theatre audiences range of memorable characters, from a World War I flying ace in Billy Bishop Goes to War for his award-winning performance in Billy to left-wing lawyer Leon Robinovitch in Street Bishop Goes to War, which he co-wrote and Legal (CBC TV) and the irascible Oscar Leroy performed with Canadian playwright and in Corner Gas (CTV). Through his long composer John Gray. The play premiered association with the Alliance of Canadian in Vancouver in 1978 and toured across Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), Canada and internationally to unanimous he has been a strong advocate for indigenous acclaim. Mr. Peterson reprised the role in Canadian production as well as “Status of the a 20th anniversary production (Canadian Artist” legislation at all levels of government Stage/NAC) and again in 2009 (Soulpepper); here and globally. the latter production was subsequently released as a feature film. Photo: Tim Leyes Mr. Peterson was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan in 1946 and launched his For television, he has held leading roles in “Soon it will be acting career in the early 1970s, most Street Legal (CBC) and Corner Gas (CTV) bedtime.” profoundly in Toronto’s groundbreaking and supporting roles in This Is Wonderland Theatre Passe Muraille collective directed (CBC) and Slings and Arrows (Showcase), – Eric Peterson by Paul Thompson (2011 GGPAA). He has and guest starred in such popular Canadian performed at most of Canada’s major series as Murdoch Mysteries, Republic of , including the Stratford Shakespeare Doyle, and The Mercer Report. Festival, the National Arts Centre (NAC), and Canadian Stage, and internationally at the Awards and honours include Member of Edinburgh Festival, on Broadway, in London’s the Order of Canada (2010); five Gemini West End, and at the International Theatre Awards; Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Festival in Melbourne, Australia. But Toronto Performance (1998); ACTRA Toronto Award is home and the scene of Mr. Peterson’s most of Excellence (2008); recent creative endeavours: at Tarragon (2009); and an honorary doctorate from Theatre, The Company Theatre, Necessary the University of Saskatchewan.

28 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award MENAKA THAKKAR Dancer, choreographer, artistic director, institution builder and teacher

In a career spanning some 50 years, presents an annual season in Toronto and Menaka Thakkar has made an extraordinary tours widely in North America, Europe, and contribution as a dancer, choreographer, Asia, showcasing her choreography and the institution builder and teacher. Acknowledged superb performance technique of a company worldwide as a pioneer of Indian classical of artists who can trace their first dance steps dance, this trail-blazing creator has had a to classes with Dr. Thakkar herself. profound effect on the appreciation and popularity of dance from a diversity of In 1972 she formally established Nrtyakala: cultures. She is deeply committed to artistic The Canadian Academy of Indian Dance, integrity and excellence, and her vision Canada’s first full-scale Indian dance school. and dedication have paved the way for She is an adjunct professor at York University, countless emerging Canadian dance has given workshops across the country artists and organizations. (including annual sessions at Canada’s Dr. Thakkar was born in Mumbai in 1942 and National Ballet School), and is currently began her formal training at the age of four. exploring online teaching via live streaming. Photo: David Hou A brilliant and expressive dancer with over a “My proudest achievement is that I have thousand performances to her credit, she has become a vehicle for transmitting my culture “There is freedom created more than 40 choreographies, ranging through dance to all Canadians,” she says. in discipline.” from variations on the classical Indian forms of Bharatanatyam, Odissi and Kuchipudi to Menaka Thakkar’s awards and honours – Menaka Thakkar experimental multidisciplinary works, and include the Tri-National Creative Residency from expressive solo numbers to elaborate Award (Canada-Mexico joint program, U.S. dance dramas. Her collaborations with some National Endowment for the Arts, 1996), Indo- of Canada’s finest dance artists, including Canada Chamber of Commerce President’s Robert Desrosiers, Danny Grossman, Award (1998), Toronto Arts Award for Claudia Moore and Grant Strate, are at Performing Arts (2000), City of Toronto “Face the forefront of North American fusion the Arts” Cultural Maverick Award for Dance choreography. (2006), Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in She is the founding artistic director (1978) of the Performing Arts (2012), and an honorary the Menaka Thakkar Dance Company, which doctorate from York University.

29 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts JEAN PIERRE DESROSIERS

Jean Pierre Desrosiers is well known in circus arts company that has performed Montreal’s cultural community for his generous in Quebec, Africa and Europe, notably in and enthusiastic support of performing arts London, UK as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s organizations ranging from music ensembles 60th Anniversary Jubilee celebrations. to theatre and dance companies, and even a circus! His inspired leadership of several He is a current or former director of, among major fundraising campaigns has helped many others, Théâtre La Chapelle, Compagnie Marie organizations to flourish, and his energy and Chouinard, La La La Human Steps, Angèle dedication have served as an inspiration to Dubeau and La Pietà, the Musée Marc-Aurèle volunteers, artists, and arts supporters alike. Fortin, and the Montreal Arts Council, and has funded performances by emerging artists Mr. Desrosiers was born in the village of at major Montreal venues. He has chaired Saint-Majorique, Quebec. A professional important fundraising campaigns for numerous chartered accountant, he began volunteering performing arts organizations, including the in the arts in the early 1980s, when a colleague Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Centaur Theatre, Photo: Denis Gendron invited him to serve on the board of the Simoniaques Théâtre, Théâtre Prospero, contemporary dance company La La La Théâtre La Chapelle, and Fondation Éloize. “All grown-ups Human Steps. “I’m a logical kind of guy,” were children says Mr. Desrosiers, “and this connection “It’s all about teamwork,” he says. “Coming brought me into contact with people who up with an innovative concept, working once, although were vibrantly exciting. It really opened my together to meet the artistic and financial few of them mind—it was amazing.” target, and having fun with people who deserve support—that’s what I enjoy most.” remember it.” He currently chairs the board of Montreal’s – Antoine de internationally acclaimed Cirque Éloize Jean Pierre Desrosiers is a Fellow of the Saint-Exupéry contemporary circus, and is a founding Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants (The Little Prince) member of Fondation Éloize, which (1993) and the recipient of the 2011 Prix rehabilitates marginalized youth through the Arts-Affaires de Montréal (Arts/Business performing and circus arts. The foundation’s Personality category) for his exceptional beneficiaries include ArtCirq, a Nunavut-based support of the city’s cultural community.

30 National Arts Centre Award SARAH POLLEY Film director, screenwriter and actress

Director, screenwriter and actress the 2008 Genie Award for Best Direction Sarah Polley is at the forefront of Canadian (first woman to receive this award) and filmmaking today. Her latest film, Stories Award for outstanding We Tell, a feature length documentary about achievement by a first-time feature film her family history, premiered at the 2012 director, the Directors Guild of Canada Venice Film Festival, then screened to award for Best Feature Film, and the unanimous acclaim at the Telluride Film TFCA’s Best Canadian Film Award. Festival, the Toronto International Film Her second feature, Take This Waltz—for Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. which she also wrote the screenplay, inspired Produced by the National Film Board of by a song by (GGPAA 1993)— Canada and hailed by Maclean’s film critic premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Brian D. Johnson as “a brilliant film: an Film Festival. She has also made five short enthralling, exquisitely layered masterpiece films. She is currently writing short fiction of memoir that unravels an extraordinary and working on a script for a new film based world of family secrets,” Stories We Tell won on Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace. Photo: Michael Gibson, courtesy of Mongrel Media the 2012 Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA)’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award Ms. Polley’s acting credits are equally “If we hope to and Allan King Documentary Award, and impressive: she has appeared in over 30 films, took the prize for Best Feature Length including Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, go anywhere or Documentary at the inaugural Canadian The Hanging Garden, Guinevere, Go, develop ourselves Screen Awards in March 2013. The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me (Genie Award, Best Actress), Don’t Come in any way, we can Born in Toronto in 1979, Ms. Polley made her Knocking, Mr. Nobody, and Splice. only step from where feature film writing and directing debut in 2006 with , based on a short Sarah Polley’s awards and honours also we are standing. story by Alice Munro and starring Julie include the ACTRA Toronto Award of If we don’t really Christie and (GGPAA 2004). Excellence (2006), a star on Canada’s Walk know where we are The film was nominated for an Academy of Fame (2010), and an honorary doctorate Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and won from Trent University. standing... we may only go in circles....” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

31 The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Mentorship Program

A unique partnership inaugurated in 2008 between the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation and the National Arts Centre, the GGPAA Mentorship Program serves as a creative catalyst and an investment in future Canadian artistic achievement. This year, the NAC and the GGPAA Foundation are delighted to introduce a new Mentorship Program partnership with The Banff Centre, Canada’s The Governor General’s Performing leading institution for advanced training in the performing, visual and Arts Awards Mentorship Program literary arts, film, television, and digital media. acknowledges the important role that a mentor can play in an artist’s Unlike the numerous mentorship programs that support emerging artists, life. The Keg Spirit Foundation has the GGPAA Mentorship Program is designed to offer creative guidance been proud to support this valuable to talented artists in mid-career. Each year, a past laureate of the Lifetime program since its inception in 2008. Artistic Achievement Award is invited to select a professional artist (or artists) to share, learn and grow from the experience and insight of their In keeping with our Foundation’s mentor. In addition to receiving artistic guidance and an honorarium, mandate to support the mentorship each protégé is showcased throughout the GGPAA celebrations. of young people, we are honoured each year to help foster a rising 2013 Canadian artist who will undoubtedly Mentor: John Murrell, O.C. become a role model for aspiring Protégée: Anita Majumdar artists in the years to come. 2012 Mentor: , C.M. Protégé: Daniel Perlmutter 2011 Mentor: Evelyn Hart, C.C. David Aisenstat Protégée: Heather Ogden President & CEO, The Keg Steakhouse & Bar 2010 Chairman & Founder, Mentor: Gordon Pinsent, C.C. The Keg Spirit Foundation Protégé: Kevin Loring 2009 Mentor: Oliver Jones, O.C. Protégée: Dione Taylor 2008 Mentor: Veronica Tennant, C.C., LL.D. Protégée: Crystal Pite Special thanks to The Keg Spirit Foundation, Founding Mentorship Program Partner since 2008.

32 JOHN MURRELL ANITA MAJUMDAR Mentor Protégée John Murrell (GGPAA 2008) is one of Canada’s A native of Port Moody, British Columbia, most frequently produced playwrights and a award-winning actress Anita Majumdar has highly respected arts advocate, mentor and performed in leading roles from the Stratford consultant. His works have been translated Shakespeare Festival to the Museum Theatre into 15 languages and performed in more than in Chennai, India, and was recently feted for 30 countries. His best known plays include her performance in Deepa Mehta (GGPAA Waiting for the Parade (about five Calgary 2012)’s film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s women during World War II), Memoir (about Midnight’s Children. She is also a classically the last days of legendary French actress trained Indian dancer in Kathak, Bharatanatyam Sarah Bernhardt), Farther West (detailing a and Odissi. prairie prostitute’s search for absolute freedom), However, she is most deeply committed to and The Faraway Nearby (about American Photo: Don Lee, The Banff Centre playwriting. Her first play, Fish Eyes, produced painter and feminist icon Georgia O’Keeffe). John Murrell by Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille, was He has also collaborated with composer nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award, John Estacio on the successful Canadian has toured extensively across Canada Filumena, Frobisher, and Lillian Alling. and abroad, and has been included in the His most recent works are Taking Shakespeare, theatre curriculum at Queen’s University, which is being produced by the Stratford the University of Guelph and the University Shakespeare Festival this year, and Peace In of Alberta. Her second play, The Misfit, was Our Time: A Comedy, an adaptation of Shaw’s nominated for two Doras. In 2011 Ms. Majumdar Geneva, opening at The Shaw Festival in June. was appointed playwright in residence at Nightswimming Theatre (Toronto), where she Mr. Murrell has served as Associate Director of wrote her most ambitious project to date, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Head of the Same Same But Different, which will premiere Banff Playwrights Colony and Artistic Director/ at Alberta Theatre Projects and Theatre Passe Executive Producer of Theatre Arts at The Banff Muraille in 2014. She is also working with Centre, and Head of the Theatre Section of the Nightswimming to complete the trilogy of Canada Council for the Arts, among others. one-woman shows she began with Fish Eyes, His many awards and honours include Officer expressing the experience of teenagers of of the Order of Canada (appointed in 2002), colour through dance. She worked on the Photo: Scarlet O’Neill the Gascon-Thomas Award for outstanding second play, Boys With Cars, at The Banff Anita Majumdar lifetime service to arts education in Canada, Centre earlier this year, and is currently the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in completing the last play in the series, the Performing Arts, the Alberta Order of Let Me Borrow That Top. Excellence, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award, three Chalmers Canadian Play Ms. Majumdar is a graduate of the National Awards, and an honorary doctorate from the Theatre School of Canada and holds a degree University of Calgary. in English, Theatre and South Asian Languages from the University of British Columbia.

33 2013 Gala Performance

Hosted by Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra

There will be one intermission. Guest Artists The Producers and Presenters Wish to Thank

The Air Command Pipes Alberta Ballet Leslie Lester and Drums Warrant Officer Aldwin Cathy Levy Albino Angelica Bongiovonni Molly Lipman The Banff Centre William Littler Édith Butler Maggie Barbosa Seth Loeser Brent Butt William Bonnell Guillaume Lord Dolores Breau Marcel Côté Ottawa Pianos Sergeant Thomas Brown Peter Oundjian The Fanfare Trumpets of Daphne Burt Judi Pearl The Central Band of the Canadian Forces Win Butler by kind permission of Colonel Bill McLean, Rachel Punwassie Commandant of Canadian Forces Support Unit Ottawa D. Brian Campbell Brian Quirt François Carlier Ricoh Canada The Fanfare Trumpets of the Governor General’s Foot Guards LCol Frances Chilton- Kelly Robinson by kind permission of Lieutenant-Colonel K.C. MacLean, Mackay CD, ADC, Commanding Officer, Governor General’s Foot Guards Derrick Ross Frank Dans Sarah Ryan Jian Ghomeshi Karen Dempster Chloé Saint-Denis Piers Handling Meaghan Denomme Peter Sever Nancy Elbeck Katie Malloch Barry Shiffman Loie Fallis Gary Slaight Maghan McPhee Peter Gabriel Solotech Inc. Menaka Thakkar Dance Company The Governor General’s Sarah Garton Stanley Foot Guards Aarati Amlani, Ilina Das Gupta, Neena Jayarajan, Toronto International Parinitha Rajagopalan, Nivedha Ramalingam, Guerlain Film Festival Kiruthika Ratnasingam, Aarthami Siva, Zooni Thusoo Steve Jordan Stefani Truant Jeannot Painchaud Yosuke Kawasaki Charlotte and Jillian Keiley Grayson Walker Joel Quarrington Richard Lachance Nancy Webster Guy Laliberté Shannon Whidden Albert Schultz Diane Lemire Pam Winter Veronica Tennant, C.C. Marie-Jo Thério The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala is an original concept by Brian W. Robertson and David Langer.

Artists and presenters are subject to change without notice. The information in this program was complete and accurate at the time of printing.

35 2013 Gala Performance

Creative and Production Vincent Colbert For Cirque Éloize Kari Cullen Assistant Lighting Designer, Excerpt from Cirkopolis 3id Design Corporation Peter A. Herrndorf Jeannot Painchaud Executive Producers Laurie Champagne Artistic Director and Co-Director Pierre Boileau Rebecca Miller Assistant Stage Managers Dave St-Pierre Stage Director Co-Director and Choreographer Shanan Hyland Stéphane Laforest Stéphan Boucher Gala Talent Coordinator Musical Director Composer Paul Hennig Julie Delorme Liz Vandal Production Director Off Site Talent Coordinator Costume Designer Anne-Séguin Poirier Paul Bélanger Valérie D’Amours Set Designer Graham Dunnell Tour Manager, Cirkopolis Carl Martin Adam McLaren Michael Fortin Scriptwriter Camera Operators Technical Director Lise Lépine Enrico Pradal Assistant Scriptwriter Teleprompter Operator Natasha Drouin-Beauregard Stage Manager Fran Walker Ken Freisen General Manager Monitor Engineer For the Menaka Thakkar Amanda Baumgarten Dany Yockell Dance Company Assistant Producer Lighting Technician Menaka Thakkar Susan Monis Brett Charles Déziel Choreographer Stage Manager Marius Thériault Rasesh Thakkar Charles Cotton David Vincent Concept Technical Director Audio Technicians Bradley Trenaman Richard Lachance Éric Chartrand Lighting Designer Sound Designer Pascal Rhainds Sri Padmanabhan Jimmy Lakatos Video Technicians Music Composer Video Projection Designer, Governor General’s Eddie Kastrau Artificiel Performing Arts Awards Music Editing/Stage Manager Pierric Ciguineau Gala Theme Video Server Operator, Glenn Morley Produced by Canada’s National Arts Centre Turbine Studio Composer in partnership with the Governor General’s Mathieu St-Arnaud Anthony Rozankovic Performing Arts Awards Foundation and Video Technical Designer, Arranger the National Film Board of Canada Turbine Studio Jean Renaud Évangéline Lighting Designer, Michel Conte 3id Design Corporation Composer

36 National Arts Centre Orchestra

Pinchas Zukerman Oboes Gaston Roussy Music Director Charles Hamann (Principal), House Manager Mario Bernardi, C.C. Anna Petersen Stearns Jim Reynolds Conductor Laureate Clarinets Head Carpenter Alain Trudel Kimball Sykes (Principal), **Sean Rice, Ronald Colpaart Principal Youth & Family Conductor *Shauna McDonald Head Electrician Jack Everly Bassoons Shane Learmont Principal Pops Conductor **Christopher Millard (Principal), Assistant Electrician First Violins Vincent Parizeau, Ben Glossop Malcolm Elliot Yosuke Kawasaki (Concertmaster), Horns Property Master Jessica Linnebach (Associate Lawrence Vine (Principal), Julie Fauteux Mark Hollingworth Concertmaster), Noémi Racine (Associate Principal), Elizabeth Simpson, Head Sound Engineer Gaudreault, Elaine Klimasko, Jill Kirwan, Nicholas Hartman [Vacant] Leah Roseman, Manuela Milani, Trumpets Assistant Sound Engineer Karoly Sziladi, **Lynne Hammond, Karen Donnelly (Principal), Steven van Ross Brayne *Martine Dubé, *Heather Schnarr, Gulik *Daniel Godin Head Flyman Trombones Second Violins David Milliard Donald Renshaw (Principal), Colin Donnie Deacon (Principal), Head Projectionist Traquair *Jeremy Mastrangelo (Guest Principal), David Strober Winston Webber (Assistant Principal), Bass Trombone Head Carpenter Susan Rupp, Mark Friedman, Douglas Burden Scenic Workshop Edvard Skerjanc, Lev Berenshteyn, Tuba Kirk Bowman Richard Green, Jean-Hee Lee, Nicholas Atkinson (Principal) Assistant Carpenter Brian Boychuk, *Maria Nenoiu Timpani Scenic Workshop Violas Feza Zweifel (Principal) Peter van Duynhoven Jethro Marks (Principal), Percussion Keith Moulton David Goldblatt (Assistant Principal), Carpenters Jonathan Wade, Kenneth Simpson David Thies-Thompson, Nancy Karen Phillips Curran Harp Sturdevant, Peter Webster, Scenic Painter *Guylaine Lemaire Manon Le Comte (Principal) Lucie Bélanger-Hughson Cellos Piano Financial Coordinator **Amanda Forsyth (Principal), Leah Wyber, *Mark Ferguson Timothy McCoy, **Carole Sirois, Scottie Mitchell Nancy Elbeck Technical Director, Front-of-House *Wolf Tormann, *Thaddeus Morden, Principal Librarian *Karen Kang, *Peter Rapson T Corey Rempel S

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E Double Basses Assistant Librarian I Joel Quarrington (Principal), Marjolaine Fournier (Assistant Principal), **Meiko Taylor Acting Personnel Manager Stagehands, Projectionists, Vincent Gendron, Murielle Bruneau, Wardrobe, Hair and Make-Up Hilda Cowie Ryan Purchase Mistresses, Masters and Flutes Assistant Personnel Manager Attendants are members Joanna G’froerer (Principal), Emily Marks * Extra musicians | ** On leave of I.A.T.S.E. Local 471.

37 Short Films produced by the National Film Board of Canada

As creative concept partner for the Governor General’s Andrew Dawes Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA), the National Film Andrew Dawes: Dynamic Range Board of Canada has brought together some of the Lisa Jackson | Director country’s most talented docu mentary filmmakers to Selwyn Jacob | Producer create signature films that capture the essence of Daniel Lanois each of the 2013 laureates and serve as a testament Daniel Lanois to their creative genius. After premiering at the GGPAA Éric Morin | Director Gala, the films will be made available to all Canadians Hugues Sweeney | Producer at NFB.ca and ggpaa.ca. Jean Pierre Lefebvre These short films are National Film Board of Canada Jean Pierre Lefebvre productions. All rights reserved. Simon Galiero | Director Nathalie Cloutier | Producer Viola Léger Viola Léger, Together Rodolphe Caron | Director Maryse Chapdelaine | Producer Eric Peterson Canadian Famous Kevin McMahon | Director Gerry Flahive | Producer Menaka Thakkar Menaka Arev Manoukian | Director Anita Lee | Producer Jean Pierre Desrosiers Jean Pierre Desrosiers – A Remarkable Journey Marquise Lepage | Director René Chénier | Producer Sarah Polley Stories Sarah Tells Ann Marie Fleming | Director Anita Lee | Producer

38 Directors

Rodolphe Caron • Viola Léger Marquise Lepage • Jean Pierre Desrosiers Documentary filmmaker Rodolphe Caron was born in Marquise Lepage’s celebrated film career spans more Madawaska, New Brunswick. He served as assistant than 20 years. She has produced, scripted or directed cameraman, cinematographer, assistant director and over 30 films and broadcasts, winning numerous eventually co-director on numerous productions before awards in Canada and abroad, and is the founder directing his own acclaimed projects. His documentaries of Les Productions du Cerf-Volant. Her films feature a include Léonard Forest: Filmmaker and Poet (2008), singularly offbeat perspective on the people—real or Marie Hélène Allain: Speaking with Stone (2009), fictional—whom she profiles. For the Cause (2011) and René Derouin, artiste pour Arev Manoukian • Menaka Thakkar la nordicité (2012). Arev Manoukian experiments with art and technology Ann Marie Fleming • Sarah Polley to tell stories in ways that challenge the imagination. Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning artist, writer and He recently directed Nuit Blanche, which won the independent Canadian filmmaker who works in a variety coveted Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica and of genres and formats, including animation, experimental has also been featured at the Moscow Museum of film, documentary and drama. Her films often deal with Modern Art. Arev has directed numerous commercials, themes of family, history and memory. Ann Marie was as well as a music video for multi-GRAMMY Award- born in Okinawa of Chinese and Australian parentage winning artist Skrillex. and is currently based in Vancouver. Kevin McMahon • Eric Peterson Simon Galiero • Jean Pierre Lefebvre Kevin McMahon’s interest in our relationship with Montreal-born Simon Galiero began directing short nature, technology and the Canadian landscape has documentaries and fiction films in 1998. In 2008, he resulted in several award-winning films on a wide range received the Jutra Award for Best Short or Medium- of subjects, from the Great Lakes to nuclear weapons length Film for Notre prison est un royaume. His debut to the rebirth of the Haida and First Nations. Kevin feature, Nuages sur la ville, won the award for Best also devotes much of his time to mentoring young Feature Film in the Focus section at the 2009 Festival filmmakers, both informally and through various du nouveau cinéma. documentary organizations. Lisa Jackson • Andrew Dawes Éric Morin • Daniel Lanois Named one of Playback magazine’s “10 to Watch” Éric Morin has directed several music videos, shorts that in 2012, Lisa Jackson crafts genre-blending works— have screened at international festivals, and the feature documentaries, dramas, animation, performance-based documentary Mutantès: Dans la tête de Pierre Lapointe pieces and even a musical about residential schools. (2010). His work in television includes directing for the Her films have aired across Canada, screened at major series Mange ta ville (for which he has received six international festivals and garnered numerous awards, Gémeaux Awards), La liste and Ils Dansent. He is including a 2010 Genie for best short film. Lisa is of currently completing the feature Chasse au Godard Anishinaabe descent and lives in Vancouver. d’Abbittibbi.

39 The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation

Board of Directors Administration 2013 Peer Assessment Juries Douglas Knight | Chair Whitney Taylor Classical Music President, St. Joseph Media Inc. Director Paul-André Fortier | Co-Chair Jami Peterson Matthew Larkin Creator, Performer and Teacher, Communications and Alain Perron Fortier Danse-Création Administrative Assistant Christopher Wilcox Gayle Young Peter A. Herrndorf Assisted by President and CEO, Dance Isabelle Brisebois National Arts Centre Yvonne Coutts Translation and Editing Karen Kain Robert Sirman Larry Chavarie Cathy Levy Director and CEO, Accounting Jack Udashkin Canada Council for the Arts Stephen White Represented by Carole Chouinard Joanne Larocque-Poirier Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Film Head, Endowments and Prizes, Solicitors Wayne Carter Canada Council for the Arts Guy Patenaude Translation François Lévesque Tom Perlmutter Daniel Perlmutter Government Film Commissioner Tara Shields Elizabeth Yake and Chairperson, National Film Board Weber Shandwick Communications of Canada Popular Music Diana Tyndale Susan Aglukark Alain Pineau Piranha Communications Phillip Victor Bova National Director, Writing and Editing Bob D’Eith Canadian Conference of the Arts Special Thanks Michael Kaeshammer Stephen H. Saslove | Treasurer Radio and Television Beth Mackay Chartered Accountant Broadcasting D’Arcy Levesque The National Arts Centre Nini Baird Vice-President Enterprise and the Gala Team Jessica Holmes Communications, Brand & The National Film Board of Canada Rob Salem Community Partners, Enbridge Inc. Staff of Government House John Sheppard Denise Donlon Alexandre Trudeau Broadcasting Executive Theatre John M. Gray Susan Benson Playwright/Composer Magali Lemèle Kevin Loring Richard Ouzounian Steven Schipper Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award Dean Brinton Earlaine Collins Jean André Élie Ruth Foster Louise Pujo

40 Canada’s National Arts Centre

2013 Gala Team Board of Trustees GGPAA Gala National Committee Kari Cullen Julia E. Foster | Chair We are grateful for the efforts of the Executive Producer, Gala Normand Latourelle | Vice-Chair following volunteers from across Special Advisor to the President Kimberley Bozak Canada, who have worked to secure and CEO Adrian Burns financial support for these important Jayne Watson Christopher Donison awards and who are champions of the CEO, NAC Foundation Larry Fichtner performing arts in their communities. Claude Gauvin Fran Walker The Honourable Hilary M. Weston, Donald Walcot General Manager, Gala C.M., O.Ont. | Honorary Chair Jim Watson | Mayor of Ottawa Director, Patron Services Marc Bureau | Mayor of Gatineau Susan Glass, C.M. | Co-Chair Laura Weber Arni Thorsteinson | Co-Chair Events Manager, Gala National Arts Centre Foundation Kate Alexander Daniels | Vice-Chair Corporate Events Planner Board of Directors Amanda Ruddy Gail Asper, O.C. | Chair James S. Kinnear, Coordinator, Special Events – Zita Cobb B.Sc., CFA, LL.D. | Past Chair Sales and Logistics Marcel Côté M. Ann McCaig, Amoryn Engel Julie Byczynski C.M., A.O.E., LL.D. | Past Chair Margaret Fountain Associate Director, Major Gifts, Ian Anderson Dale Godsoe, C.M. Sponsorship and Special Events Salah Bachir Dianne Kipnes Yaprak Baltacioğlu Karen Swain D’Arcy Levesque Development Officer Doug Black, Q.C. Hon. John Manley, P.C., O.C. Linda Black, Q.C. Rosemary Thompson M. Ann McCaig, C.M., A.O.E., LL.D. Julie Byczynski Director of Communications Grant J. McDonald, CA Jeronimo De Miguel Jennifer Hirst Janice O’Born Richard Ellis Marketing Manager Karen Prentice, Q.C. Margaret Fountain Greg A. Reed Manon Gauthier Sarah Connell François Roy Marketing Coordinator Christiane Germain Barbara Seal Peter A. Herrndorf, O.C. Amanda Baumgarten C. Scott M. Shepherd T. Gregory Kane, Q.C. Assistant Producer Paul Sparkes Douglas Knight Mary Gordon and Carl Martin Eli Taylor Jessica Mulroney Communications Advisors Arnie Vered Sheila O’Gorman Gary Zed Anne Tanguay Dan O’Grady Julia E. Foster | ex officio Manager, Translation Services Tara Shields Peter A. Herrndorf, O.C. | ex officio Yves Siciliano Assisted by Gail O’Brien | ex officio/ Eli Taylor Llama Communications Emeritus Chair Dee Dee Taylor Eustace Program Design and Layout Friends of the National Arts Centre Vince Timpano Diana Tyndale (U.S.) Jayne Watson Bob Walker Piranha Communications Board of Directors Gary Zed Program Management and Editorial Ambassador Gordon D. Giffin Chair| Liane Clasen Michael U. Potter

41 Leadership In Appreciation of Donations our Corporate Sponsors

The National Arts Centre Foundation Presented by Produced by would like to thank the following individuals for their generous philanthropic support of tonight’s Gala.

Regional Partners Margaret and David Fountain Susan Glass and Arni Thorsteinson Pearl Family Alvin Segal Family Foundation In partnership with The Honourable Hilary M. Weston and W. Galen Weston

Impresario Supporters Kate Alexander Daniels Gail Asper, O.C., O.M. and Michael Paterson Kimberley Bozak and Philip Deck John and Bonnie Buhler Paul and Carol Hill With the support of Donald K. Johnson and Anna McCowan-Johnson James S. Kinnear Leacross Foundation Eric and Dana Margolis Peter Tielmann Gary Zed Inspiration Seats Dinner Sponsor

42 In Appreciation of our Corporate Sponsors

Mentorship Program Print Sponsor National Media Partner

National Partners

Regional Partners

43 In Appreciation of our Corporate Sponsors

Impresario Sponsors

Supporters

Media Partners

Additional In-Kind Sponsors Friends Andrew Peller Ltd., Apple Inc., W. Geoffrey Beattie, Cecily and Robert Bradshaw, CIBC, AVW-TELAV Audio Visual Solutions, Golden West Broadcasting Ltd., Claudia Hepburn, Douglas Knight, Macartney Farms, Sovereign Sedan Jerry and Joan Lozinski, McMillan LLP, Starlight: The Canadian Film Channel, and Limousine Triple E Canada Ltd. (Winkler, MB)

The information in this program was complete and accurate at the time of printing.

44 LAUREATES 1992.2012 GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:43 AM Page 46

1992 1993

William Hutt Gweneth Lloyd Dominique Michel Leonard Cohen Don Haig 1920–2007 1901–1993 1924–1996 1933–2002

Mercedes Palomino Léopold Simoneau Lois Marshall

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award Prix de la réalisation artistique 1913–2006 1925–2007 1916–2006 1924–1997

Norman Jewison M. Joan Chalmers Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for John Hnatyshyn Award Ramon Arts in the Performing Voluntarism John Hnatyshyn pour le Prix Ramon bénévolat dans les arts du spectacle

Gilles Maheu Michel Marc Bouchard

National Arts Centre Award Prix du Centre national des Arts & Carbone 14 & Les Deux Mondes GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:44 AM Page 47

1994 1995

Frédéric Back Celia Franca Maureen Forrester Peter Gzowski 1921–2007 1930–2010 1934–2002

Frances Hyland Jean Papineau-Couture Neil Young Paul Hébert Anne Murray 1927–2004 1916–2000

Sandra Kolber Arthur Gelber 1934–2001 1915–1998

Robert Lepage Ben Heppner GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:44 AM Page 48

1996 1997

François Barbeau Nicholas Goldschmidt 1929–2009 1908–2004

Joni Mitchell Luc Plamondon Grant Strate Gordon Lightfoot Betty Oliphant Jean-Pierre Ronfard

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award Prix de la réalisation artistique 1918–2004 1929–2003

Martha Lou Henley Maryvonne Kendergi

Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for John Hnatyshyn Award Ramon Arts in the Performing Voluntarism John Hnatyshyn pour le Prix Ramon bénévolat dans les arts du spectacle 1915–2011

Jon Kimura Parker Karen Kain National Arts Centre Award Prix du Centre national des Arts GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:44 AM Page 49

1998 1999

Paul Buissonneau Bruce Cockburn Rock Demers Mavor Moore 1919–2006

Royal Canadian Air Farce Arnold Spohr Jon Vickers Louis Quilico Michel Tremblay 1946–2011 1927–2010 1925–2000 John Morgan 1930–2004

Joseph H. Shoctor Sam Sniderman 1922–2001 1920–2012

Denis Marleau Mario Bernardi GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:45 AM Page 50

2000 2001

Janette Bertrand Stompin’ Tom Connors Mario Bernardi Diane Dufresne Max Ferguson 1936–2013 1920–2006 1924–2013

Christopher Newton Teresa Stratas Evelyn Hart Anne Claire Poirier Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award Prix de la réalisation artistique

Walter Carsen Thea Borlase

Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for John Hnatyshyn Award Ramon Arts in the Performing Voluntarism John Hnatyshyn pour le Prix Ramon bénévolat dans les arts du spectacle 1912–2012

Cirque du Soleil Edouard Lock & La La La Human Steps National Arts Centre Award Prix du Centre national des Arts GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:45 AM Page 51

2002 2003

André Brassard Joy Coghill The Guess Who Pierrette Alarie Dave Broadfoot Douglas Campbell 1921–2011 1922–2009

Karen Kain Phil Nimmons Jean-Pierre Perreault Norman Jewison Micheline Lanctôt Ian Tyson 1947–2002

Fernand Lindsay, C.S.V. Sandra & Jim Pitblado 1928–2009

Angela Hewitt GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:45 AM Page 52

2004 2005

Kate 1946–2010 Gordon Pinsent Peter Boneham Marcel Dubé & Anna McGarrigle 1939–2010

Jean-Louis Roux Veronica Tennant Eric Till Oliver Jones Moses Znaimer Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award Prix de la réalisation artistique

Constance V. Pathy Gail Asper Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for John Hnatyshyn Award Ramon Arts in the Performing Voluntarism John Hnatyshyn pour le Prix Ramon bénévolat dans les arts du spectacle

Rick Mercer k.d. lang National Arts Centre Award Prix du Centre national des Arts GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:45 AM Page 53

2006 2008

Jacques Languirand Lorne Michaels Albert Millaire Anton Kuerti Eugene Levy Brian Macdonald

Robbie Robertson Joysanne Sidimus Mark Starowicz John Murrell Alanis Obomsawin Michel Pagliaro

Sherif & Georges Laoun Eric Charman

Richard Bradshaw The Tragically Hip 1944–2007 2007 The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards have been presented in every calendar year except 2007, when it was decided to change the dates of the Awards weekend from the fall to the spring. As a result, the weekend was moved from November 2007 to May 2008. Depuis leur institution, les Prix du Gouverneur général pour les arts du spectacle ont été présentés à chaque année civile, à l’exception de 2007, moment où la Fondation a décidé de déplacer la fin de semaine des PGGAS de l’automne au printemps, donc de novembre 2007 à Veronica Tennant Crystal Pite mai 2008. mentor protégée GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 113-05-177:46AMPage54

Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts Mentorship Program National Arts Centre Award Prix Ramon John Hnatyshyn pour le Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award Programme de mentorat Prix du Centre national des Arts bénévolat dans les arts du spectacle Prix de la réalisation artistique 2009 James D. Fleck Peggy Baker Oliver Jones Paul Gross mentor R. MurraySchafer Dione Taylor Édith Butler protégée Clémence DesRochers George F. Walker 2010 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Mohammed Faris Gordon Pinsent Edouard Lock Bryan Adams Yulanda & mentor Françoise Faucher Robin Phillips Kevin Loring protégé Buffy Sainte-Marie Walter Homburger GG13_Program_EN_v18:Layout 1 13-05-17 7:46 AM Page 55

2011 2012

Yvon Deschamps Margie Gillis William Shatner Janina Fialkowska Paul-André Fortier

Howard Shore Leslee Silverman Paul Thompson Deepa Mehta Rush Mary Walsh

Jean André Élie Earlaine Collins

Denis Villeneuve Des McAnuff

Evelyn Hart Heather Ogden Eugene Levy Daniel Perlmutter mentor protégée mentor protégé