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The Vancouver Folk Music Festival takes the top spot in the Georgia Straight reader’s poll for “Best Local Music Festival” – and ties at third with the amazing PuSH International Performing Arts Festival for “Best Local Performing Arts Festival”. We’re thrilled, and totally gratified by this recognition. In a city with so many great festivals and music events, this is a real honour.It’s icing on the cake of a great year for the festival – so yay!
The Extraordinary General Meeting previously set for October 8, 2009, has been rescheduled to October 23, 2009, same place, same time (6:00 pm, St. Mark’s Church, 2nd Avenue and Larch Street, Vancouver). We apologize for any inconvenience this causes to those who have already set the date, and we hope that you will be able to reset your plans to include October 23. And, of course, we hope a number of others who were not going to be able to make the meeting on such short notice will now be able to attend. Continue reading NOTICE: Date Changed for Extraordinary General Meeting The struggle continues! Keeping up the pressure to fight provincial cuts to the arts.Ironic isn’t it? Vancouver’s 2009 “Best Local Music Festival” along with over 6000 other arts & culture, heritage, parents, teachers, hot lunch programs, libraries, amateur sports, AIDS relief centres, health centres, emergency preparedness, music and summer camps for blind kids across the province continue to try to come to grips with the current and prospective results of the BC government’s unprecedented level of cuts to funding. A great little video put together by James Cowan. It takes a few minutes to load, but it’s worth it! You can see it on the Youtube site here. It is interesting that the BC Arts Council has updated their website with a new look while Kevin Krueger, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts has the same old message stating his “tremendous respect for British Columbia’s arts and culture community—both for the beauty and significance of what it creates, and for the important economic generator that it represents” even after the present government has axed funding to the arts. While some arts organizations had their funding reinstated because they had previously received a letter confirming funding for three years, the VFMF was not one of them. We did not receive $80,000 in funding that was in our last budget for the 2009 festival. This is devastating to a festival that is important to our audience, musicians, the city and the cultural landscape of Canadian folk festivals. FACT - The Province of BC has cut arts funding by 50% this year and 92% next year, with devastating effects throughout the communities we live in. It’s time to tell them what you think: Hon. Gordon Campbell (Premier): gordon.campbell.mla@leg.bc.ca Hon. Kevin Krueger (Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts): Kevin.krueger.mla@leg.bc.ca |
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6:00 pm (Sharp), 23 October 2009
