{"id":75348,"date":"2022-05-20T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=75348"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:25:27","slug":"scoop-five-winners-2021-johanna-metcalf-performing-arts-prizes-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/05\/20\/scoop-five-winners-2021-johanna-metcalf-performing-arts-prizes-named\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Five Winners Of The 2021 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75349\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Johanna-Metcalf-Prizes-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Marilo Nu\u00f1ez, Ravi Jain, iskw\u0113, Sandra Laronde, and Ian Cusson (Images courtesy of the Metcalf Foundation)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilo Nu\u00f1ez, Ravi Jain, iskw\u0113, Sandra Laronde, and Ian Cusson (Images courtesy of the Metcalf Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Five winners of the 2021 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes\/Les Prix Johanna-Metcalf des Arts de la sc\u00e8ne (Johannas) were announced at a ceremony at the Art Gallery of Ontario on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>The winners list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/03\/29\/interview-composer-ian-cusson-talks-about-his-craft-and-premiering-his-opera-fantasma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Cusson<\/a><\/strong>, a classical composer of M\u00e9tis and French-Canadian descent, his work in art song, opera, and orchestral pieces explores the Canadian Indigeous experience;<\/li>\n<li><strong>iskw\u0113<\/strong>, a Cree M\u00e9tis from Treaty One Territory, and Juno award-winning artist and storyteller;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ravi Jain<\/strong>, multi-award winning theatre director and founding Artistic Director of Why Not Theatre;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sandra Laronde<\/strong>, a multidisciplinary artist and arts leader, founder and A.D. of Red Sky Performance from the Teme-Augama-Anishinaabe (People of the Deep Water) nation;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marilo Nu\u00f1ez<\/strong>, Chilean Canadian theatre director and playwright, 2022-23 Playwright-in-Residence at Carousel Players.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with a cash prize of <strong>$25,000<\/strong>, each winner selects a prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u00a0\u2014 a promising early career artist\u00a0\u2014\u00a0who receives <strong>$10,000<\/strong>. The prot\u00e9g\u00e9s are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beverley McKiver<\/strong>, composer (prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Ian Cusson);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zeegwon \u201cZee\u201d Shilling<\/strong>, musician (iskw\u0113);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aaron Jan<\/strong>, theatre director (Ravi Jain);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aria Evans<\/strong>, interdisciplinary artist (Sandra Laronde);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margarita Valderrama<\/strong>, actor and playwright (Marilo Nu\u00f1ez).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total value of all prizes awarded is $175,000.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Johanna Metcalf Prize<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The performing arts prize is named in honour of the person whose work was central to the Metcalf Foundation for decades. The award was created to perpetuate her legacy of support for the arts, and was established in 2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Johannas are awarded on a biennial basis;<\/li>\n<li>The prizes are given in partnership with the Ontario Arts Council;<\/li>\n<li>Nominees are selected through several juried competitions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five winners of the 2021 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes (Johannas) were announced at a ceremony at the Art Gallery of Ontario on May 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":75349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,5,18,39,63],"tags":[29593,40104,33226,40107,40106,40105],"yst_prominent_words":[7292,10459,6985,27282,38732,33222,33225,33223,17949,7951,18521,8973],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Johanna-Metcalf-Prizes-2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jBi","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75350,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348\/revisions\/75350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75348"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}