Cranbrook: Arts Council funding cuts hurting local artists
A massive 50 per cent cut in BC Arts Council funding and the channelling of Arts Council funding into a special legacy fund to promote the spirit of the Winter Olympic Games is being criticized around the province and in Cranbrook.
But the Liberal government is also defending the cuts, saying it has poured half a billion dollars into the arts and culture sector since first being elected in 2001.
Newly acclaimed Cranbrook and District Arts Council (CDAC) President Sioux Browning said the cuts are coming at the expense of artists that don’t make a living wage as it is and now their lives will become even harder.
“I’m a huge fan of the Olympics and I love amateur sport too and I thought the cultural Olympiad was fantastic and I fully supported it. But that said I worry about actual working artists because they can’t get any support.”
Browning said money from the new three-year, $30 million Sports and Arts Legacy Fund is supposed to go to young and emerging artists for artistic works that support the spirit of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
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