2007 Business for the Arts Awards Gala

Roy Thomson Hall


TSO Brass


Four Seasons table, left to right: Matthew Teitelbaum, CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario; Jeff Melanson, Administrative Director of the National Ballet School of Canada; Michael Koerner, O.C., President of Canada Overseas Investments Limited and the 2006 Bovey Award Winner; Sonja Koerner


Nichole Anderson, Interim President of Business for the Arts, was MC of the evening.


Left to right: Jim Fleck, O.C., Chair of Business for the Arts; Ian Grais, Partner at Rethink Communications and winner of this year's Globe and Mail Business for the Arts Award for Most Innovative Marketing Sponsorship; Phillip Crawley, Publisher and CEO of The Globe and Mail


Gail Asper, Corporate Secretary at CanWest Global Communications Corp. and Jim Fleck, O.C., Chair of Business for the Arts


Takashi Yamashita, Co-Chair of Business for the Arts Young Professionals group, artsScene, announces the new Arnold Edinborough Young Business Professionals Award


Senator Marjory LeBreton reads a letter from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, addressed to Donald K. Johnson, O.C., winner of the 2007 Edmund C. Bovey Award


Donald K. Johnson, O.C. accepts the 2007 Edmund C. Bovey Award from Jim Fleck, O.C., Chair of Business for the Arts


Karen Kain, Artistic Director of the The National Ballet of Canada (left), sits with Donald K. Johnson, O.C., holding his new award, and his family (right and foreground)


Michael Judson, President & CEO of Blue Note Mining Inc., holds his Globe and Mail Business for the Arts Award for The First Dance, the award recognizing a first time sponsorship. Ursula Mueller, his wife, stands on the left. To the right are Natasha Fotopulos, General Manager of Infinitheatre, the arts organization that nominated him for the award, and Glenn Massad of Blue Note Mining, and friend.


The awards


Donald K. Johnson, O.C. in Roy Thomson Hall: winner of the 2007 Edmund C. Bovey Award.


Jim Fleck, Chair of Business for the Arts (left) with brother Bob Fleck


Left to right: Gail Asper, Corporate Secretary at Canwest Global Communications, Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet, Adina Erem Isenberg, President of Lifestyles Magazine, and Michael Isenberg


Left to right: Nina Wright, Director on the Board of Business for the Arts, Jim Fleck Chair of Business for the Arts, and Nichole Anderson, Interim President of Business for the Arts


Ana Lopes, Chair of the TSO (left) with Billie Wilder (centre) and Sheryl Kerr


Christine Armstrong, President of Aeroplan, with Rupert Duchesne, CEO of Aeroplan (centre) and Natasha Fotopulos, General Manager of Infinitheatre (right)


Don Johnson, Bovey Award winner (left) with Bob Gillespie, President of Gilvest (right)


Don Johnson, winner of the Bovey Award (left) with Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet


Takashi Yamashita (left) with Gillian Hewitt (right), Co-Chairs of artsScene, Business for the Arts Young Professionals Group


Rebecca Wilmot (left) with Anna McCowan-Johnson (centre) and Virginia Johnson (right)


Serge Lapointe, VP Marketing at TD Bank Financial Group (left) with Stephanie Crawley and Phillip Crawley, Publisher & CEO at The Globe and Mail


Sonja and Michael Koerner


Matthew Teitelbaum, Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (left) with Sonja and Michael Koerner (right)


Michael Judson, President of Blue Note Mining (left) with Guy Sprung, Artistic Director of Infinitheatre


Nada Ristich, Senior Manager Corporate Donations at BMO Financial Group (left), Ian Grais, Partner at Rethink Communications (centre) and Christina Ritchie of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver


Gillian Hewitt, Co-Chair of artsScene (left) with Sara Beazley, Diretor of artsScene