Vancouver fringe festival sees 60 percent cut to B.C. Arts Council funding
When David Jordan, executive director of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival, opened his cheque from the B.C. Arts Council this year he saw that the annual festival’s funding had seen a staggering drop—from the usual $32,500 to $12,700.
Jordan told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview that despite the 60-percent cut in funding, his concern is not limited to the effects the provincial arts cuts will have on the fringe festival.
“What they [the government] are doing is a fundamental change to the way we deal with and treat the arts and culture in this province,” he said. “They are definitely being shortsighted”.
The fringe festival has an agreement with the B.C. gaming fund to receive $70,000 per year until the end of next year. Jordan is hopeful that money will come through, but worries about the future of the fringe fest.
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