Media Release

For Immediate Release
May 20, 2004

The Banff Centre awards 2004 Fleck Fellowships to twelve artists

This year’s recipients of The Banff Centre’s Paul D. Fleck Fellowships in the Arts cross all artistic disciplines, from choreography to non-fiction writing to audio engineering. They include choreographer Crystal Pite, who is developing a new dance work for Les Ballets jazz de Montréal, librettist and composer Michael Cavanaugh, who is working on a new Canadian opera, and exiled Bosnian poet Goran Simic.

Established in 2001, the Fleck Fellowships allow senior artists in all disciplines to participate in independent artistic residencies at The Banff Centre to create new work or collaborate with other arts programs at the Centre.

“This group of incredibly talented artists represents the high calibre of accomplishment associated with the Fleck Fellowship,” says Joanne Morrow, senior vice-president of Programming at The Banff Centre. “They represent a great diversity in artistic genres, and we look forward to seeing their creative projects take shape during their residencies here.”

The Paul D. Fleck Fellowship Trust was established in memory of Paul D. Fleck, former president of The Banff Centre. The Trust allows for up to 15 Fellowships to be awarded every year in the fields of aboriginal arts, media and visual arts, music and sound, theatre arts, and writing and publishing. Fleck Fellows are nominated, then chosen based on past accomplishments and potential for artistic achievement during their residencies.

Recipients of the 2004 Paul D. Fleck Fellowships in the Arts are:
• George Littlechild, Comox, BC
• Rita McKeough, Halifax
• Ron Wakkary, Surrey, BC
• Paul Wong, Vancouver
• Jason Corey, Ann Arbor, MI
• Alain Trudel, Chambly, QC
• Cori Caulfield, Port Moody, BC
• Michael Cavanaugh
• Crystal Pite, Montreal
• Hannah Stilwell, Calgary
• Goran Simic, Toronto
 

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