VICTORIA – Students of the Canadian College of Performing Arts are presenting “Grey”, an original work based on a society living through an arts prohibition. This play is intended to bring awareness to the impending risk of 92% cuts in arts funding, and to encourage support of reinvesting in the arts.
"The global recession is expected to reduce revenues for cultural enterprises by approximately $3.1 billion in 2009". This is one of the findings of "The Effect of the Global Economic Recession on Canada's Creative Economy in 2009", a report prepared by The Conference Board of Canada for the Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) that measures the impact of the current recession on the cultural sector.
Read MoreSo the Standing Committee on Finance has recommended that all arts funding by the province be restored to the levels of 2008/09. Good. Now what? Rest assured that this is significant, but it is not over. Minister Krueger “gets it”, but is that enough? Nobody knows if Minister Coleman “gets it” since he refuses to meet with anyone. Funny, I thought that was his job.
I thought the Premier “got it”, and I hope these funding cuts are recognized as the big mistake that they are and he proves me right.
Read MoreA significant first step was taken today when the Select Finance Committee recommended that arts funding be restored to 2008-09 levels in British Columbia. Now is the time to continue the pressure on the government to adopt the recommendations.
Read MoreBC Arts Council Executive Director Jeremy Long will retire from the BC Public Service early in the New Year, Council Chair Jane Danzo announced today.
Read MoreVogue Theatre (918 Granville Street)
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 8:00pm
By donation
Canada’s leading Theatre Artists take on the BC government from Coast to Coast
Vancouver’s theatre community joins actors, directors and designers from across the country in creative and satirical protest to the BC government’s mind-boggling and short-sighted plan to slash 90% of cultural funding, which will make it the only jurisdiction in Canada not to invest in culture.
Read MoreMirna Zagar, executive director of The Dance Centre, has been presented with a commemorative medallion by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, for her work in the furthering of cultural relations between Canada and Croatia. She was presented with the medallion in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia during the Governor General’s state visit to the region.
Zagar also received a framed letter inscribed with the following message:
Read MoreThe Canadian Music Centre has hired Robert Baker as the new Regional Director for the British Columbia Region. Robert will replace Colin Miles, who has served as the CMC’s B.C. Regional Director for the past 31 years, at the end of November 2009.
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