Speak With Your Feet

Send a quick email to Ida Chong, B.C.’s Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, demanding disclosure of where public arts dollars have been spent.

- go to idachong.com and click the red ‘Feedback’ tab on the left

The remaining $3.2M of the Sport and Arts Legacy Fund has been allocated, but the B.C. Liberals are not saying where the money has gone.

The government announced a portion of the fund for community anniversary celebrations this past March, however, most of the money remains unaccounted for.

“The Liberals are awarding over 3 million of British Columbians’ dollars meant to support arts with no application process, no criteria, and no consultation with the arts community,” says Chandra Herbert, MLA, Vancouver—West End.

Ida Chong states that all remaining funds have been distributed to various organizations, but that there will be no announcement of where the money has gone or what process was used for choosing the recipients.

Traditionally, arts monies are distributed in an arms-length manner to ensure integrity in the process. Herbert says this money was not only awarded quietly at the minister’s discretion, but also without input and participation from experts like the B.C. Arts Council.

“B.C.’s arts community deserves better” says MLA Herbert.

If you agree that a more transparent process is necessary…

Go to idachong.com, click the red ‘Feedback’ tab on the left side of the page and demand full disclosure of how public arts funds are being allocated.

“The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.”

The combination of their tools and their users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.

-taken from the Creative Commons website

Thanks everyone for your support of CADA/BC is One-of-a-Kind.
We are happy to report that the auction was a great success.

Please join us for a Membership PARTY! March 30, 5-7pm, Studio 7 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Drop off your Membership form, learn to use the Member’s Area of our website, meet other Members and enjoy a beverage.

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Membership renewal is March 31, 2012…RENEW TODAY

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