It took a while, but the federal government finally seems ready to invest a bit of money in the Quebec arts scene. In fact, the department of Canadian Heritage is giving $4,222,861 to Montreal organizations like the National Theatre School, Les Grands ballets canadiens de Montréal and The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre. They are […]
Since we reported on reaction to arts funding in the Harper government’s most recent budget last week, a new controversy has sparked up. It’s not over lack of funding for a particular area of the arts, but rather due to $25 million being spent on the Canada Prize for the Arts. The problem? After canceling […]
Many independent activist arts collectives have always found ways to get things done with little or no funding. When you challenge corporate influence, having some of their financial influence help you out in some way is, to put it mildly, unlikely and in many cases unwanted. Who wants to take money from a system you […]
