Protest against the BC Cuts to BC Arts and Culture Funding - today (Monday), 12:30PM, Wosk Centre in Vancouver 560 Hastings at Seymour
Arts groups in BC are gathering outside the BC Liberals’ Public Finance meeting in Vancouver this Monday at 12:30.
The Finance Committee’s meeting, which collects public opinion about its 2010-11 budget, was announced at the last minute, and the speaker list is full. However, arts groups will be gathering outside to demand the restoration of arts and culture funding. They will be demanding that Kevin Krueger, minister responsible for the arts, either begin defending the arts against his party’s brutal 90% cuts, or resign. They will also be demanding that Rich Coleman, the minister responsible for Gaming and the bulk of the funding cuts, reconsider the economic foolishness of demolishing an entire sector.
We will be asking why, when the government’s own studies prove that arts and culture subsidies give a 30% return on the government’s investment, an entire sector will be cut off during a recession.
In keeping with the “grey square” emblem of this fight against cultural demolition, this will be a silent rally in grey, along both Seymour and Hastings.
Media can contact stopbcartscuts@paarc.ca.
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