Gibsons wins this year’s Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts

Margaret Grenier of Gibsons has won this year’s Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. The $50,000 prize, administered and presented by the Canada Council for the Arts, recognizes the highest level of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement by a Canadian professional artist in music, theatre or dance. Grenier is of Gitxsan and Cree ancestry and has worked as a professional dancer since 1991. She is also the producer and director of the annual Coastal Dance Festival.