For his contributions to arts, music and drama initiatives, particularly for youth, in communities across Labrador and New Brunswick.
For more than four decades, Tim Borlase has championed youth participation in arts and culture. Throughout his career with the Labrador School Board, he developed arts education programming that had students expressing themselves by sharing their stories through music, drama and dance. He co-founded the Labrador Creative Arts Festival, which uses art to promote self-empowerment, particularly among Indigenous youth. After retiring to Moncton, he became the director of the Capitol School of Performing Arts, which he developed into a bilingual drama school for people of all ages.