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

PERFORMING ARTS

Singing For Non-Singers

Restarting Fall 2010

Every Tuesday at 6:30pm

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. 

Thank you CBT/CKCA

for a grant to purchase an electric keyboard,

mic and sound system, and percussion instruments!

Accoustic Music for Discerning Listerners

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

Presents

 

6:30pm to whenever…

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

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

Seeking support for a province-wide advocacy campaign

to restore arts funding in British Columbia to the 2008 / 2009 levels

You are probably aware of Creativity Counts: Restore Arts Funding Now through communications from Junko Sakamato, Trudy Van Dop and others. Full details, and our advocacy toolkit, can be found at www.creativitycounts.ca.
To date nearly 7,000 British Columbians have responded to this campaign by sending email messages through the website (where you will find an auto-letter program) to the premier and their own MLAs.
If you haven't already done so, please take a moment to send a letter, and encourage your friends, colleagues and members to do the same.
Creativity Counts is emerging as our collective voice in an extended campaign to demand a comprehensive and sustainable provincial arts funding policy - one that will ensure that no future government can ever again treat the arts as an expendable "frill".
We need to keep up the pressure right through to the March 2 presentation of the next budget, and continue developing the network and strategies to keep Creativity Counts at the top of the agenda between now and the next provincial election.
There are three ways you can help support this campaign :
1. Propose A Municipal Resolution: The Union of BC Municipalities, several BC municipalities, and the Metro Vancouver Regional District board have all adopted resolutions calling on the provincial government to restore arts funding to previous levels. A copy of the template for this resolution is attached. Check with your municipal government and if they have not already done so encourage them to adopt a similar resolution and forward it to Premier Gordon Campbell. Susan Jersak of Powell River will be making calls to Assembly members across the province in the next several days to encourage and track action on this initiative.
2. Distribute Pins & Bookmarks (and Raise Money!): We have created a lapel pin and bookmark to raise public awareness of our campaign.  You can help distribute these pins and bookmarks in your own community, and raise a little extra cash for your organization as well.
3. Make A Personal Donation: We have developed a fundraising appeal that works a bit like a chain letter. Everyone who makes a personal donation to the Alliance 's advocacy fund receives a version of this letter with their own name at the bottom, to forward to their own circle of friends and colleagues. Please consider making a donation.

Kevin Dale McKeown, Director of Communications
Alliance for Arts and Culture  ph: 604.681.3535 (215) e: communications@allianceforarts.com  c: 604.345.2548

 

FUNDRAISING

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