Category: Inductees

Choo Chiat Goh and his wife Lin Yee Goh are Co-Founders of  the Goh Ballet Academy.  Under their leadership, the Academy has flourished to become an internationally renowned institution, with alumni dancers advancing professionally worldwide and winning prestigious competitions. Mr. Goh began his training as a dancer at London’s Royal Ballet. At age 16, he…
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As founder and Artistic Director of the Vancouver Recital Society, Leila Getz has presented the Canadian and/or Vancouver debut performances of some of the world’s most brilliant and respected young musicians, and has steadily built a diverse and loyal audience for the recital concert form that doomsayers had proclaimed out-of-vogue. Since 1980, the first season of…
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Bruno Gerussi was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1928, He received a scholarship for the Banff Centre for The Arts in 1947 which launched a career on stage, radio and especially CBC TV invited to join the Stratford Festival, and stayed until 1965, playing many of the major roles of the Shakespearean canon including Feste…
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Born Geswanouth Slahoot, Chief Dan George was raised on the Burrard reserve in North Vancouver. He received his English name, Dan George, at St. Paul’s residential school, where he was sent when he was five years old. To most Canadians he is the first well-known Indigenous artist. Before he started acting at the age of 60, George had…
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Christopher Gaze was born in England and he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before coming to Canada in 1975 where he spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival Best known as Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Christopher Gaze has performed in England, the USA and across Canada. He…
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