Wendy Atkinson, the rentals and programming manager at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, was honoured with the B.C. Touring Council’s 2015 Presenter of the Year award.
Atkinson programs the Chan Centre’s Beyond Words series, launched in 2012 to explore the power of words in performance as an agent of change and a means of igniting conversation. Events have included sold-out engagements with songwriter John K. Samson, spoken word poets Shane Koyczan and Ivan Coyote, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and environmentalist/author Severn Cullis-Suzuki.
