Grant for arts festival
The Minister for the Arts (Mr Highetj has announced a grant of $lO,OOO to the Christchurch Arts Festival Society. According to the society’s festival director. Mis Julia Perry, the grant is a "once-, only" emergency one to cover the deficit which the festival sustained in 1976. and to allow the festival’s organisers to work from a clean slate. Money for the grant has come from lottery profits available to the Minister for special projects in the arts. Mrs Berry said that the grant would not alter the society's plans for 1982. A festival would not be held in 1982. although some individual performances and exhibitions would be presented in
association with the society. The Southern Regional Arts Council has given $3500 to help the society to bring to New Zealand some of the artists who were to have come for the. 1982 festival.’ which was cancelled because the Queen Elizabeth II Arts' Council would not grant tne society $20,000. Many of the businesses which have given money for a 1982 festival have allowed the money to be used for administrative costs for the next festival winch is now planned for 1984. The chairman of the. Society Mr C. F. Whitty. said last week that this had al lowed the deficit of sBotio from previous festivals to be reduced to $6147.
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