By Sean Leslie

Prince Albert Arts Hall of Fame in the works

Oct 28, 2013 | 4:44 PM

The Prince Albert Arts Board plans to honour people who have contributed to the city’s arts scene by creating a hall of fame.

The initiative will hopefully shine a spotlight on Prince Albert’s sometimes under-appreciated arts scene, said the board’s chairperson Roxanne Dicke.

“We want to bring attention to the vibrancy here. We don’t hear about it all the time and if there’s some way that we can gather these stories together then that’s an exciting prospect,” said Dicke.

A kiosk will be set up at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre, hopefully by the end of next September, where people will be able to see the first five inductees who have been acknowledged.

Those five inductees were honoured after death for their contributions to the legacy of the arts in Prince Albert, said Dicke.

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“They had to have contributed to the arts in a significant way and that could have been as a supporter, a builder or a contributing artist.”
Moving forward, the Arts Board will create a new selection process which will allow people to nominate other citizens for induction into the Hall of Fame.

A virtual hall of fame is also in the planning stages and will be launched in late September, along with a display at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre.

Eventually, said Dicke, the Board hopes to expand the Hall of Fame into a walk of fame.

“That will take in areas of Prince Albert and the downtown and offer an attraction for the city.”

The Prince Albert Arts hall of famers are:

    – Margo Fournier, the founder of the Prince Albert Boy’s Choir

    – John Victor Hicks, a poet who received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit,

    – Ed Rawlinson, a patron of the arts who donated more than $1 million to help build the E.A.  Rawlinson Centre

    – Bernice Sayese, the 2002 Prince Albert Citizen of the Year

    – Annabel Taylor, a contributor to the arts as an artist, educator and volunteer.

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