{"id":126367,"date":"2022-11-14T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=126367"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:04:59","slug":"terraces-skeena-salmon-arts-festival-society-wins-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/terraces-skeena-salmon-arts-festival-society-wins-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace&#8217;s Skeena Salmon Arts Festival Society wins award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Skeena Salmon Arts Fest Society announced on Nov. 3 that they\u2019ve received a Lieutenant Governors Arts and Music Award for Visual Arts award for contributions to the visual arts in the north west.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In August, the society was represented at the award ceremony by their vice chair Amanda Hugon and fellow visual artist Stephanie Anderson.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The awards were a one time occurrence as part of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Platinum Jubilee. Hugon says that though they technically received the award earlier in the year, the ceremony itself was delayed due to COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Hugon, the society was nominated for the award by Cynthia McCreary, the art curator for the Terrace Airport art installations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Established in 2018, the society has since contributed a number of murals and sculptures around Terrace, as well as holding their annual Skeena Salmon Art Show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re surrounded by so much beauty of our nature, our mother nature and stuff, that\u2019s what we\u2019re inspired by,\u201d Hugon says of working with the society, which was originally started to honour the importance of the salmon to the ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The award came to the society in the form of $700, which was received at the ceremony in Vancouver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Amanda Hugon below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skeena Salmon Arts Fest Society announced on Nov. 3 that they\u2019ve received a Lieutenant Governors Arts and Music Award for Visual Arts award for contributions to the visual arts in the north west.\u00a0 In August, the society was represented at the award ceremony by their vice chair Amanda Hugon and fellow visual artist Stephanie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":107061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[20603,18864,17044,20602],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126727,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126367\/revisions\/126727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126367"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=126367"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=126367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}