Concert helps reduce deficit

Press, 29 August 1978, Page 7

Concert helps reduce deficit

A two-hour concert at the; Town Hall on Sunday raised about $l5OO for the Christchurch Arts Festival. About 500 people l attended. The money will go towards clearing a $15,500 deficit from the arts festival; last March. The festival organisers had hoped to raise! about $BOOO from the concert. The Canterbury Orchestra, the Bob Bradford Big Band, the Court Theatre, the Southern Ballet Company, and Malcolm McNeill performed free yesterday and the Town Hall board of management gave free use of the auditorium and of the services of Town Hall staff. The director of the Arts Festival (Mrs Helen Holmes) said that Christchurch

;■ people were not used to var-i ■ iety concerts but those who; (had attended had enjoyed; ■ Themselves. ! >i A “Festival 200 Club”; ! raffle run by the organisers! • to help clear the deficit was! ) about half sold. The raffle; !; has only 200 subcriptions, atj • $2O each, and will raise; ■(about $3200 after prizes of! ■ ! about $4BO have been paid. Draws will be every; , Wednesday for 20 weeks.; , The weekly prize will bej » $2O, with a prize of $lOO in! , the last week. The raffle. • will begin when it is fully! 1 subscribed to but not later! f than October 11. > Mrs Holmes said that the! I Arts Festival executive! ! would meet on September 18! 31 to discuss more ways of j i raising money to clea'r the; i deficit.