Menagerie Invitation to Display

This is an invitation to Kootenay artists and artisans to show

their work at the new Artrageous Gallery location. 

Immediately behind the main gallery is our

Menagerie Gallery where the work of

established artists

will be featured for sale.

Two to four week rental periods available

Artists/artisans may exhibit solo or in groups

For more information contact the CDAC office

250-426-4223

Drop-in at CDAC office

32A – 11 Ave S(across from the RCMP building)

Get together with other watercolourists and acrylic artists to paint and provide learning support and constructive critiquing.

Please inquire at the CDAC office 250-426-4223

ART GRANTS

CKCA AND CBT

ANNOUNCE 2010/11 ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE

GRANTING PROGRAMS

Applications currently being accepted

Columbia Basin - The Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA)

is inviting individuals of all artistic disciplines - as well as arts, culture and

heritage organizations - to apply for funding

provided by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT)

under its Arts, Culture and Heritage granting program..

More information, funding policies and funding application forms are available online at www.basinculture.com , from local community arts councils, or by phoning the CKCA at 1-250-505-5505 or toll free at 1-877-505-7355. OR by contacting your local arts council.

Funding applications must be received by

March 19 or April 1, 2010, depending on the program

Following up on last year's success, CKCA is also coordinating the Columbia Basin

Culture Tour, a project that celebrates the rich culture, heritage and artistic talent in the Columbia Basin . It is a two day, free self guided tour taking place August 14-15, 2010 from 10am to 5pm. Any artist or cultural venue interested in participating in the culture tour must register before March 19, 2010 . The two-day free self guided tour takes place August 14-15, 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm. The call for entry for artists and cultural venues interested in participating in the culture tour is available at www.cbculturetour.com

PERFORMING ARTS

Singing For Non-Singers

Are you a hobby singer, a shower singer or a singer of any type

who would like to take part in a just-for-fun singing group?

If interested, please phone Pauline

at 250-426-4223

FREE for CDAC Members

$2 drop-in fee for non-members

Sessions: Every Tuesday evening 6:30 to 8:30 at the arts council.

To assist with the Singing for Non-singers actvitity, the CDAC is

seeking the donation of an electric keyboard.  The ideal keyboard

would a full-size 88 key board with a foldable stand.   However,

any electric keyboard with 64 keys or more, with or without a stand, would gladly be accepted.

A charitable receipt can be provided for the current value of the keyboard.   If you are able to donate this item or know of someone

who might, please phone Pauline at 250-426-4223.

One-year CDAC sponsor status can also be acknowledged re the donor.

Accoustic Music for Discerning Listerners

K.A.M.P.(Kootenay Association of Musical Performers)

Presents

Rick Voisey & Friends     -     March 12th , 2010

6:30pm to whenever…

At Ali Baba’s Lounge (Finnegan’s Pub, 365 Van Horn St, Cranbrook)

Cindy-Lou Muise & Friends - March 19th, 2010

Heather Gemmel & Friends - March 26th, 2010

A Cranbrook & District Arts Council Partnership

 

Art Reference Library

Library books are now available for members use.

Simply drop by the office and inquire at the office.

If you have books on your discipline that you no longer use, please consider passing them our way –

charitable receipt available.

 

FUNDING CUTS

Fill Your Opening Ceremony with Arts, then Cut Them

Thanks for the show, artists -- now get lost.  

BC to slash 90% of culture funding.

By Mark Leiren-Young  http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/02/15/MarkYoungArtsCuts/

An interesting and extremely well-written take

on the Olympics and art funding cuts.

THE CDAC will be directly affected to any cuts to Direct Access Gaming Funds, therefore, please help us out and have your say…

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Reinstate All Charitable Gaming Grants

in British Columbia!

To Premier Gordon Campbell, Minister Rich Coleman and the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia:

We the undersigned are deeply concerned with the cuts to Gaming Grants in the province of British Columbia and how it will affect our Communities.

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This is part of the preamble to an online petition that has been instituted on behalf of all Organizations affected by the budget cuts to the gaming grants of 2009 – 2010. It is our hope that when the budget is tabled in March after the Olympics we will not be targeted again.

Our hope is that each Association will forward the petition link to each of its members with a request that they forward the link to their members and supporters as well. Please follow the link below to review the complete petition and to add your support. Please pass this email onward to anyone.

http://www.petitiononline.com/VCBS2010/petition.html

As you know all too well, the arts community across British Columbia has recently experienced devastating funding cuts, and all indications from the government's service plan are that there will be further cuts in the budget being prepared for presentation in early March of 2010.

The Alliance for Arts and Culture has created an advocacy campaign, Creativity Counts: Restore Arts Funding Now, which includes an Advocacy Toolkit, online at www.creativitycounts.ca

In the remaining weeks of this year it is important that our premier, his ministers, and all MLAs hear from our community, our audiences, our sponsors and the businesses we depend on for supplies and services, letting them know that these funds must be restored.

 

FUNDRAISING

Stretcher Bar Fundraiser

Brand New Stretcher Bars for sale approx ½ price

All proceeds to the CDAC

Sizes 8” – 36”

For light to light medium use only.

8” x 2 = $.70	9” x 2 = $.80	11” x 2 = $.90
12” x 2 = $1.00	14” x 2 = $1.40	16” x 2 = $1. 50
18” x 2 = $1.60	20” x 2 = $1. 70	24” x 2 = $2.00
26” x 2 = $2.50	30” x 2 = $3.00	32” x 2 = $3.30
36” x 2 = $3.80

One of CDAC's Director's, Mike Lee of Ookpik Eyewear,

has offered to donate a significant portion of business sales

to the Cranbrook & District Arts Council as a fundraiser.

If you are in the market for glasses,

Check out the website at http://ookpikiwear.com

Find something you like??

Make a purchase and help us with our funding.

Artrageous Gallery

Rotary Art Auction Artwork

Charity Receipt info not yet available

2nd Annual

Art Expressions Basket Raffle Fundraiser

Netted $2,000 after expenses

An outstanding success!

Thank you to the artists who donated a basket for raffle!

The following people were basket winners:

Winner                    Artist Basket Picked

Gerry Atchison              Pauline Artifacet

Charlotte Turnaway       Sioux Browning

Susan Costello             Cranbrook Writer's Group

Heather Knight             Leslie Elder

Carole Purdy                Linda Holmes

Gina Bennett               Gerry Forget

Stan Byram                 Marilyn Oliver

Kay Canning                Bill & Karen McColl

Kyla Cornish                Ron McFarland

Ron Winnick                Thursdays Children Writer's Group #1

Louise Shypitka           Thursdays Children Writer's Group #2

Leslie Elder                 Tracie Truscott

Amy Jenzen                 Neal Weisenberg

 

Thank you very much to the members who sold tickets privately,

as well as to the sitters who volunteered there time to sell tickets

Pauline Artifacet, Cindy Dilts, Linda Damant, Chris Durning,

Gerry Forget, Lorill Love, Sheila Reynolds, Sara Szalanski,

Marianne Smith, Dorothy MCKay, Linda Holmes, Bill McColl,

Grace Ivers & Pauline Artifacet. 

Twice Loved Art Silent Auction

netted $750 after expenses 

We were really please with the quality of the donations received,

but the sales fell short of our goal for the event.

This was due to various factors including a shrinking economy.

While this was not as successful a fundraiser as we hoped,

a review has been done and changes recommended for

improving a future event.

Please feel free to contact the CDAC office at 250-426-4223

or email info@thearstcouncil.ca .

to review the recommendations or provide comments.

We would like to thank the following people for their support

and generous donation of Twice Loved Artwork:

A&W, Pauline Artifacet, Barbel Braun, Darlene Chatten, 

Cranbrook Photo Studio, John Crago, Marilyn Forbes, 

Elizabeth Glassford, Ruth Halliwell, Marion Hess,

Linda Holmes, Gordon Ingalls, Lorna Jackson, Norma Kroeger, 

Penny LeLievre, Shirley Lester, Joan Manjak, Bill McColl,

Amy Moore, Verna Oderkirk-Bungay, Bob Pearce, 

Yohanna Quackenbush, Lucy Sanderson, Marg Skoberg, 

Avril Sullivan, Neal Weisenberg, Jan Zora

Also, thank you to the following people who donated their time to

assist with the event:

Pauline Artifacet, June deGroot, Cyndie Dilts, Bon Elmore, Gerry Forget,

Bill McColl, Colleen Routley, Shirley Rutledge, Louise Selby