Category: Arts

Last year’s funding bursaries are drying up and Ottawa’s artists are on an annual run to the granting trough. But Ottawa should hurry up and implement a new funding structure before the troughs go dry.

They came in herds. Busload after busload, and a few taxicabs later, a lineup quickly formed through the main lobby, snaking through the foyer and extending well past the entrance doors. The anticipation seemed to be more than usual for a normal orchestra rehearsal, and the young voices in the lineup sounded excited.

An overflow crowd at the recent Canada Council for the Arts information session on granting, highlighted the importance of grants to Centretown artists.

The station looks back to the future, Laura Murton reports.