MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) are proud to feature a unique Mentorship Program that provides a way for past GGPAA recipients to inspire the next generation by offering guidance to talented Canadian artists in mid-career. The program serves as a creative catalyst and an investment in future Canadian artistic achievement.

Each year, a past laureate of the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award or the National Arts Centre Award is invited to act as the program’s mentor. In consultation with the National Arts Centre’s artistic leadership, the mentor selects an artist from the same performing arts discipline whom he or she would like to have as a protégé. Each year’s Mentorship Program is as unique as the artists themselves, but the aim is the same: both mentor and protégé enjoy a unique opportunity to share, learn and grow from each other’s experience and insights. In addition to receiving artistic guidance and an honorarium, each protégé is invited to participate in the GGPAA celebrations.


MEET THE 2024 MENTOR AND PROTÉGÉe

 

2018 Mentor and Protegee

Susan Aglukark, O.C.

2024 Mentor

Angela Amarualik

2024 Protégée

Mentorship program Partner:
The Keg Spirit Foundation

The GGPAA Mentorship Program was inaugurated in 2008 as a partnership between the GGPAA Foundation and Canada’s National Arts Centre, and is generously supported by founding partner The Keg Spirit Foundation. The foundation recognizes organizations that mirror the mentorship that The Keg Steakhouse + Bar has provided to tens of thousands of young people for over 40 years. Established in 2001, The Keg Spirit Foundation has raised over $8 million for more than 300 charities across North America.

Susan Aglukark

Biography
 


Angela Amarualik

2023
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Margie Gillis, O.C., C.Q.
2022
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Alexina Louie, O.C., O.Ont., FRSC
Christopher Goddard
2021
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Suzanne Lebeau
2019
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Alanis Obomsawin, C.C.
2018
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
2017
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Robert Binet
2016
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Albert Millaire, C.C., C.Q. (1935-2018)
Benjamin Pradet
2015
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Nicole Lizée
2014
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation and The Banff Centre
Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure
2013
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation and The Banff Centre
John Murrell, O.C. (1945-2019)
2012
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation and The Canadian Film Centre
Eugene Levy, C.M.
Daniel Perlmutter
2011
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Evelyn Hart, C.C.
Heather Ogden
2010
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Gordon Pinsent, C.C.
Kevin Loring
2009
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Oliver Jones, O.C., C.Q.
2008
Partner
The Keg Spirit Foundation
Veronica Tennant, C.C.
Crystal Pite

THANK YOU TO THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM PARTNERS



The GGPAA Mentorship Program gratefully acknowledges the support of its past creative partners:

The Banff Centre
Partner for 2013 and 2014 Canada’s leading institution for advanced training in the performing, visual and literary arts, film, television, and digital media.

The Canadian Film Centre
Our 2012 partner, a charitable organization that accelerates the careers of Canada’s brightest talent in film, television, screen acting, music, and digital media.
 

 

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