Restore Arts Funding Now
From the Alliance for Arts and Culture Speak out about the cuts to arts and culture Go here.
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Stop the Cuts
Some local Vancouver artists take a creative approach to getting the message out about cuts to the arts.
What he said
Comments made by Mitchell Kreiger to the BC Select Standing Comittee on Finance and Goverment Services in Victoria about the Provincial Budget – from the Orchestra Canada website – link Continue Reading →
Socio Economic Impacts of Arts and Culture
There has been much ado in recent weeks about the notion that a $1 investment in the arts in BC generates a $1.38 return on that investment. This statistic has Continue Reading →
If Rich Coleman is the real arts minister, Derek Sturko is the key arts bureaucrat | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
If Rich Coleman is the real arts minister, Derek Sturko is the key arts bureaucrat | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com From the Georgia Straight, October 3, 2009. In a previous Continue Reading →
Budget 2010 consultation
The provincial Finance Committee will be traveling the province to hear from you about what you think the 2010/2011 budget should look like. The current BC Liberal budget plan for Continue Reading →
Death by a thousand cuts
Delta Community Music School, like everyone else has lost the financial support of the Government of BC with cutting of the Direct Access grants from Gaming. We have been receiving Continue Reading →
Culture Matters – Don’t Torch the Arts
This is an information sheet issued today by the Arts Alliance in Vancouver. Here is an excerpt: Despite recent announcements reinstating funding to multi-year clients of Gaming grants, funding to Continue Reading →
Gaming Grant Impact Survey
From the Alliance for Arts and Culture The media has asked for stats regarding the number of organizations affected by recent provincial funding cuts. They want to know how groups Continue Reading →
Op-Ed piece about Gaming and non-profit funding
Here is an interesting perspective about the use of Gaming and gambling funds and the history of their use for funding charities in the province of British Columbia. The article Continue Reading →