Archive 1997-2016
By David Kolbusz
Local arts organizations are elated to receive a 20-per-cent boost in this year’s funding.
This money is part of $125 million in new funds approved by Heritage Minister Sheila Copps earlier this month.
The Liberal government approved $25 million for this year and an additional $25 million in each of the next four years.
The Arts Beat
By Elynn Wareham
Canadian arts organizations have been given a chance to catch their breath.
Last October, Heritage Minister Sheila Copps announced that the federal government had approved additional funding for the Canada Council for the Arts, $25 million for this year and an additional $25 million in each of the next four years.
By Zachary Houle
A labor dispute at the National Art Gallery could keep an anticipated Picasso exhibition under wraps should union members strike or be locked out.
The Gallery’s union, part of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), voted for a strike mandate last week after being in a contract dispute with Gallery management since April. Details of the vote aren’t being released.
By Zachary Houle
Declining crowds have forced the organizers of a monthly exploitation film program held at a Byward Market bar to scrape the bottom of their barrel in an attempt to lure more people out.
Chris Robinson and Lee Demarbre, organizers of Reel Mondays at Zaphod Beeblebrox, located at 27 York St., say that this Monday’s program will contain the crème de la crème of grotesque and bloody films.