As you have no doubt heard by now, the Harper government has proposed major cuts to several arts and cultural programs directly affecting the promotion of Canadian arts, and the work of Canadian artists, here and abroad. After having abolished PromArt, the program administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the government then announced it would be cutting the Trade Routes program through the department of Canadian Heritage. [Click title for more info]. According to a study conducted by the Devoir there are at least 12 programs that are implicated, equaling a total of more than 40 million dollars in cuts since the spring. Artists working in interdisciplinary practices are certainly to be among those directly affected by the elimination of these programs.
Make your voice heard! If you are in Montreal, please come out to the meeting being held on Wednesday August 27 at 10:30am at the SAT, 1195 blvd. St-Laurent. This meeting is organized jointly by the Conseil des arts de Montréal and Culture Montréal.
For more info and related press please visit http://www.culturemontreal.ca/dossiers/dossiers.htm
If you are in the Toronto area please follow this link for info on the meeting happening on Sept. 3:
http://www.akimbo.biz/news/index.php?id=309
Lise Gagnon, director of the RAIQ
Victoria Stanton, coordinator of Popstart
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