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We're Number One!

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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!

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Annual General Meeting

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society

Annual General Meeting  (new location)
Monday, March 22, 2010, 7 pm
Croatian Hall, 3250 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC

The Board of Directors welcomes all members of the Festival Society to attend and participate in the Society’s Annual General Meeting.  Memberships may be purchased up until 6:45 pm prior to the meeting.

The agenda for the meeting is below. Links to various support documents are listed immediately after the agenda.

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Culture Stimulates!

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.
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