Show your support for the arts by attending the Arts Summit - Sept 28
- An evening of art and entertainment
- Exciting guest speakers
- It is absolutely FREE
See you at the Massey Theatre, 7 - 9 pm !

Arts Summit Guest Speakers

We are fortunate to have two extremely competent speakers with extensive experience in the Arts.

Dr. Tom Kerr

Tom Kerr created British Columbia’s first professional theatre company outside the lower mainland when he founded Kamloops’ Western Canadian Theatre Company in 1972. Tom is a distinguished Canadian director who has directed productions in major theatres from coast to coast. His last production at the Arts Club Vancouver Travels with My Aunt was nominated for four Jessie Awards, including best Production, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Sound. He also won The Vancouver Sun’s reader poll for Best Production of the Season. His production of Fiddler on the Roof for Royal City Musicals was named by The Sun as one of the Ten Best of the Season. Recently, in Vancouver, he has directed Romeo and Juliet, Brechty Arturo Ui, The Fantastiks, Aristophenes, The Birds and a new revue, Musical Dames.

In October he will direct Cyrano De Bergerac at the Jericho Arts Centre and in the spring of 2004, Noel Coward’s Private Lives for the Stanley Theatre.

Mr. Kerr was twice Artistic Director of Neptune Theatre, Halifax, and one of his last productions there was a highly acclaimed Man of La Mancha, starring Broadway Tony winner, Brent Carver. At the Stratford Festival he directed Macbeth and Arturo Ui. Recently he directed a revival of Amadeus and The Constant Wife at the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Tom was twice awarded the prestigious Festival First award at the famous Edinburgh Festival with Canadian Companies Performing Premieres of George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and David Freeman’s Creeps.

Mr. Kerr, a distinguished teacher and adjudicator, was professor and head of the Drama Department for University of Saskatchewan.
 

Howard R. Jang ~ General Manager - Arts Club Theatre

Howard Jang has been an active member of several volunteer boards and committees, most notably for the Canadian Arts Summit, Orchestras Canada, the Manitoba Arts Stabilization, Tourism Winnipeg and Vancouver, The Canada Council Dance, The BC Arts Council Music, the Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance. Howard is a founding board member of PAL Vancouver, most recently a member of the executive committee of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and a member of the Theatre Advisory for the Canada Council for the Arts. Howard currently sits on the Board of Directors for Tourism Vancouver and the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation.

Trained first as a musician, Howard has served as the Executive Director for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Ballet British Columbia and was the Orchestra Manager for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's (NYC).

In 2004 Howard completed the Stanford University Graduate School of Business/National Arts Strategies Executive Program for Non-profit Leaders in the Arts.

His background as both an artist and an arts administrator provides him with a unique perspective. Appreciating the need for artistic vision and what is required to support it, Howard is able to balance these requirements with strong fiscal and strategic planning.

Howard is extremely pleased to be home in Vancouver and is thrilled to be partnered with Bill Millerd and the Arts Club Theatre Company as they embark upon their 43rd season of exceptional theatre presentations in Vancouver and British Columbia.