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Port Coquitlam organizations wanting to take advantage of the city’s Community Cultural Development Investment Program grants should get their applications in before Nov. 30. This investment category represents a contribution towards the overall operating costs of well-established and developed arts, heritage and cultural organizations; it is intended to defray a portion of general overhead and [...]
B.C. restores $7 million in arts funding: Symphony, Pacific Opera, Belfry gain, easing the pain of steep cuts; Some cash earmarked for new projects, more support for artists
The provincial government has put $7 million back into the arts — restoring a major chunk of funding that was cut from groups during the past year. The Victoria Symphony will receive $155,000 back and Pacific Opera Victoria and the Belfry Theatre are among Victoria performing and literary arts groups that will also benefit, B.C. [...]
Mayor and councillors say civic arts budget will be spared cuts
As the City of Vancouver enters into public consultations on how to address its $20 million budget shortfall for 2011, the arts community is being reassured that it will not be affected. “There are four priority areas that we will not be cutting: affordable housing, the environment, public safety, and arts and culture,” Mayor Gregor [...]
Courtenay: Art gallery grant bid sidelined
Comox Valley Art Gallery’s request for a $25,000 a year grant has been sidelined by regional district directors. The gallery’s curator/director, Anh Le, made the case for financial help at a meeting of the committee of the whole on Tuesday. She said there had been significant cuts in financial support from the B.C. Arts Council [...]
Mean Days for Kids’ Festival $200,000 slash in government funding prompts urgent request for funds
The Vancouver International Children’s Festival is facing perhaps the toughest year ever in its 32-year history. Provincial and federal funding have been sharply cut, despite the festival’s decades of success. As festival board chair Paul Dumontet said in a recent email to supporters, “Over the past 12 months, we have developed a new vision for [...]
More B.C. Arts Council money to flow to arts groups
B.C. arts groups can expect to receive additional B.C. Arts Council funding as early as tomorrow (October 22), according to council chair Stan Hamilton. The money to be distributed comes from the $7 million in Legacy funds the province handed to the council in September, amid protests over previous funding cuts of about 50 percent.
B.C. Association of Charitable Gaming heightens tensions
A city councillor says the provincial government could hold Vancouver’s social housing hostage if council sides with the B.C. Association of Charitable Gaming, which challenged the city to block gaming expansion. “The province can make it very difficult for us to proceed,” COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth said. “They still haven’t funded the 14 sites that we’ve [...]
Courtenay: CVRD directors cool to art gallery funds appeal
Comox Valley Art Gallery staff have appealed to the regional district to open a standalone tax service that would stabilize funding for the gallery’s operations. The gallery — represented by curator Anh Le and financial officer Linda Gooding at Tuesday’s committee of the whole meeting — is requesting $25,000 per year for five years, to [...]
Funding cuts hurt communities: arts group
Cowichan Valley Arts Council president Judy Brayden is inviting the arts community to meet with New Democrat arts and culture critic Spencer Chandra Herbert and Cowichan Valley MLA Bill Routley to tell the pair about the effects of government funding cuts to the arts community. “It’s only an hour,” Brayden said of the Oct. 25 [...]
Five new appointments for B.C. Arts Council
The B.C. Arts Council’s board has been given a makeover. Stanley Hamilton has been appointed as the council’s permanent chair by Tourism, Culture and the Arts Minister Kevin Krueger. Hamilton has been serving as acting chair of the B.C. Arts Council since Jane Danzo publicly resigned in August in protest over funding cuts and increasing control of [...]
B.C. Arts Council chair expects ‘fair hearing’ over 2011 budget
The new chair of the B.C. Arts Council, Stanley Hamilton, said Friday that the board will be drawing up its 2011 budget within a few weeks and expects to get a fair hearing from the provincial government. Earlier this year, the arts community was in turmoil when the government announced deep cuts to funding, reducing [...]
ArtsFACT to Donate $500,000 to Vancouver Arts Community
ArtsFACT (The Arts Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) began as a cultural initiative by CHUM Radio in 1991. With an initial funding of $500,000, ArtsFACT was able to issue grants amounting to almost one million dollars from 1993 to 2002. A combination of declining interest rates and ownership changes kept ArtsFACT inactive until this year. [...]
Non-profit groups say B.C. duped them over casino proceeds
A coalition of non-profit groups is calling on Vancouver city council to delay approval of a downtown casino complex until the province agrees to steer more gambling revenue to charities and the arts. “There are huge pressures on city council and on the city of Vancouver to get this thing signed, sealed and delivered so [...]
Call your MLA: new arts coalition urges British Columbians ARTS CUTS / ‘BC has the least arts funding per capita in Canada, which is appalling,’ Dennis says
The Assembly of BC Arts Councils, the BC Touring Council, the Vancouver-based Alliance for Arts and Culture and the ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria are joining forces to encourage members of BC’s legislature to push for greater government support for arts and culture. It’s an initiative that’s being welcomed by queer arts groups who’ve felt [...]
Double community and arts funding, top lobbyist tells B.C., lliance of the province’s largest arts lobby groups says it should get a larger share of increasing gambling revenues
The provincial government should almost double funding to non-profit community and arts groups to $240 million a year as a way to help restore the social contract it has broken with the citizens of B.C., says the head of an alliance of the province’s biggest arts lobby groups. Amir Ali Alibhai, executive director of the [...]
