North Shore FANS night By John Goodman Contributing Writer ALTHOUGH puppetcers Luman and Arlyn Coad maintain a low local pro- fiJe they were the centre of attention at Capilano College on Friday night. The couple were recipients of 1997 FANS awards along with composer Jean Coulthard and musician Roy Forbes as the * North Shore arts community came out in force to honor their distinctive achievements. The Fund for the Arts on the - North Shore (EANS) was estab- lished by the North Shore Arts FANS Night 1897 honored Lumari and Artyn Coad as well as Jear: Commission in 1995 to support Coulthard and Roy Forbes. the development of local arnsts. The FANS award honors selected artists each year who have received nadonat and ir intemational recognition for their work. The gala fundraiser at Capilano College’s Birch Theatre included an auction and visual art exhibition as well as 2 program of performances. evening was hosted by Arts Alive television co-hosts Graham areyle and Jackie Dyck with help from arts commission representatives Don Williams, Roger Nelson, John Kennedy and the North Vancouver Community Arts Council's Linda Feil. The award presentations included profiles of each artist produced by Arts Alive ‘TV's Fif Fernandes. The entertaining vignettes (family photos of the Coads in their workshop, Forbes playing guitar with his daugh- tex) gave'a behind-the-scenes look at each of the artists: “I didn’t know there was that much to know about me,” said Forbes. open stage Performances ers uniformly orm excellent: two of the Three Divas ¢ evenin: Uncle Productions previewed songs from The All Night Strut production whedvled bor Presentation Housc Theare i in November; Tara Nocline Burnett demonstrated Irish dancing; and Pandora’s Vox vocal ensemble closed out the program with a wide selection of music. Diva Valerie Galvin gave a beautiful pevformance of Coulthard’s Haida Songs prior to the West Vancouver receiving her award. The 1997 FANS award sculptures were works of art in their own right creat- ed by Marina Papais and Xwa Lack Tun (Rick Harry) especially for the event. Most of the members of both North Vancouver municipal councils were pre- sent to show their for the North Skore arts community. The City’s Barbara Perrault and | District’s Lisa Muri ave council representatives to the North ie proceedin; es Varpomees Bato Cale ora During igs West Vi ‘s 0 made zs ue precast FANS fom a andra they el The suport om ihe patel owned business underlined the need for community involvement in the arts. The “gallery is presently looking for a new location. pays tribute to artists Family affair IN 1991 North Shore artist Norman Tait was doing restoration work in Edinburgh’s Royal Museum of Scodand when the staff asked him te look at another piece in their collection. They knew nothing about an ancient Northwest Coast totem pole that had been given to them by Marius Barbeau but they had felt it was important cnough to build a winding staircase around it. Tait took one look at the object and then began interpreting its significance. Museurn staff scranibled for tape recorders. The several-hundred-year-old totem pole had been created by Tait’s mother’s great-great-great grandfather, Oych, an Eagle Chief of the highest ranking. Oych was the last carver tained in the ancient practices of the Nisga’a. Nor-nan Tait grew up in the tradi- tional territory of his people along the Nass River on the northwestern coast of B.C. The culture can trace their presence in the area back at least 10,000 years. Tait’s sculptures and totems can be found in muscum’s and public art spaces around the world including the Field Museum in Chicago; the Heard Muscum in Phoenix; the Museum of Anthropology and Stanley Park in Vancouver; the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan; and the - Museum in Edinburgh which has recently added another Tait to its collec- tion. The Nisg2’a artist works with his apprentice carver and partner Lucinda Tumer out of their West Vancouver stu- dio. ~— Norman Tait and Lucinda Turner were among the 36 North Shore artists who displayed their work in the Visual Art Exintition at Capilano College as part of FANS Night 1997. VanCity is pleased to announce that the Cooperative Auto Network has been selected as one of four 1997 VanCity EnviroFund Award winners. CAN received $20,000 for its com- munity-based car sharing initiative. This alternative tc private car ownership aims to reduce the number of cars on the road and their negative environmental impact. Since its inception in 1990, the EnviroFund has provided nearly $500,000 for community- based environmenta! initiatives in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. To learn more about the EnviroFund, call 877-7620. You can help change places too by using your new VanCity EnviroFund™ VISA! Apply at your local branch today! 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