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    Arts and Letters Club of Toronto

    The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. Club for men and (beginning in 1985) women engaged in or interested in the arts (literature, architecture, music, painting, stage, and sculpture). It was founded in 1908 largely through the efforts of Augustus Bridle.

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    Arts Club Theatre

    The Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, opened in February 1964 with a production called Light Up the Sky. The theatre was established by Otto Lowy, Yvonne Firkin and others on the second floor of a gospel hall at 1181 Seymour Street in Vancouver.

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    Arts & Crafts

    Arts & Crafts. Independent record company formed in Toronto in 2002 by Jeffrey Remedios and Kevin Drew.

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    Arts, Heritage and Cultural Industries Funding

    Arts, Heritage and Cultural Industries Funding Not-for-profit arts and heritage institutions in Canada receive funding from 3 major sources: self-generated revenues from tickets or admissions, concessions, facility rentals, memberships, sales or rentals of works, gift shops, and other operations; governments at all levels; and the private sector, including individuals, corporations and foundations. These cultural organizations - performing arts companies, festivals, media arts organizations, museums and art galleries - also depend heavily on volunteer labour for...

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    Asian Canadian Theatre

    Asian Canadian theatre started early in the 20th century with lavish performances of traditional Cantonese operas. Today, Asian Canadian playwrights like Ins Choi address the struggles of everyday life in Canada.

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    Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

    The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Founded in 1889 to serve as the examination body of the RAM, the RCM, and, in 1947, the Royal Manchester College of Music and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. In 1984 it was reconstituted as an independent company, linked to the Royal Schools.

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    Associated Manitoba Arts Festivals, Inc

    Associated Manitoba Arts Festivals, Inc. Co-ordinating body for Manitoba community arts festivals. It was established in 1961 by R.W. Cooke, J.P. Redekopp, William Sonnichenk, and Vi Streuber as the Associated Manitoba Festivals and incorporated under its new name in 1978.

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    Association chorale Brassard

    Association chorale Brassard. Choral society founded in Montreal in 1915 by Joseph-Arsène Brassard. It began as a male-voice choir which gave its first concert at the Salle St-Sulpice 20 Nov 1916.

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    Association chorale Saint-Louis-de-France

    Association chorale Saint-Louis-de-France. Male-voice choir founded in 1891 to serve in the church of that name in Montreal. It was incorporated in 1897. Its conductors were Charles Labelle 1891-1902, Alexandre M. Clerk 1903-27, Joseph Saucier 1927-36, and Charles Goulet 1936-68.

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    Association de musique actuelle de Québec

    Association de musique actuelle de Québec (AMAQ). Non-profit organization founded in June 1978 by Irène Brisson, Claude Brisson, Pierre Genest, Michel Drapeau, Odile Magnan, André Morin, and Gisèle Ricard to promote and disseminate contemporary music from Canada (especially Quebec) and abroad.

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    Association des chanteurs de Montréal

    Association des chanteurs de Montréal. A 125-voice mixed choir which began, and sang 1918-20, as a men's chorus and was directed successively by Armand Renaud and Hercule Desjardins.

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    Association of Canadian Choral Communities

    The mainstay of the ACCC's activities is its biennial national conference, Podium.

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    Association of Canadian Orchestras/Association des orchestres canadiens

    Association of Canadian Orchestras/Association des orchestres canadiens. National service organization formed in 1971 for Canada's professional, semi-professional, community, and chamber orchestras. In 1997 the ACO merged with the Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras to form Orchestras Canada.

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    Association of Canadian Women Composers/Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes

    The Association of Canadian Women Composers (ACWC)/L'Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes (AFCC). Founded in 1980 by writer and broadcaster Carolyn Lomax to address the lack of recognition for women composers in Canada.

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    Association of Canadian Women Composers/L'Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes

    Association of Canadian Women Composers/L'Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes Association of Canadian Women Composers/L'Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes, a national organization founded in 1980 by writer-broadcaster Carolyn Lomax, whose aims are to promote the performance of works by women composers in Canada and abroad, to encourage women composers to realize their creative potential and to foster the highest standard of composition. Membership, initially about 40, was approximately 95 in 2002, and comprised active, affiliate, associate...

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