Municipal arts
White Rock: City approves grant money
White Rock council has approved its list of grants to local organizations that applied for aid for 2010, totalling $25,880. Highest individual grant is $4,000, which goes to the Community of Lights Events Society, which will organize the 2010 Spirit of the Sea Festival. Next highest is two grants of $2,000, to the Semiahmoo Family [...]
Festivals Kelowna propose loan sked
Festivals Kelowna is hoping to repay its debt with the City of Kelowna over the next three years. The organization received $73,000 from the city in November to retire the deficit incurred by the 2009 Music and Arts Festival. Festivals Kelowna was asked to repay $43,000 of that with the remaining $30,000 being covered through [...]
Needle collection, hip-hop CD among projects getting Victoria grants: City of Victoria hands out $87,000 in 19 ‘special project’ contributions
Everything from needle-collection programs to youth recording a hip-hop CD received funding from the city of Victoria this year through special-project grants. As usual, the city received far more applications for funds than it had money to grant. Twenty-nine applications were received totalling more than $240,000. The city’s corporate services committee ended up giving at [...]
Kelowna: City funds art projects with some hesitation
A bit of a struggle Monday afternoon for members of Kelowna City Council while considering the funding for two public art projects. The Living Positive Resource Centre was asking for four thousand dollars for paintings aimed at showing the impacts of living with H-I-V. The artwork would appear in the Kelowna Art Gallery, but would ultimately [...]
White Rock: $15,000 arts study rejected
White Rock council has rejected a recommendation to allocate $15,000 for a feasibility study for a dedicated arts centre in the city. The suggested study – part of a report from leisure services director Rita Clarkson – is “premature,” according to Couns. Lynne Sinclair and Helen Fathers. But both say they believe a dedicated arts [...]
