Lotto funds for arts
PA Wellington Funds worth $1.5 million, raised through Lotto, will go to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Dr Bassett, has announced. Dr Bassett, the chairman of the Lottery Board, said extra profits from Lotto meant it could make a series of one-off grants to special community pro-
The Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council will receive SI.SM, both to set up an Artists’ International Travel Fund and partly as an investment, he said. “The fund will be used to grant bursaries to allow New Zealand artists to travel overseas, and to bring in experts to teach here,” he said. "It is very important that our artists have the chance to be trained in
the latest techniques, so this grant - will be of enormous value in giving the arts in this country a real boost.” The grants will bring the total given by the Lottery Board to the Arts Council to $9.5M, compared with just over SSM last year. The Arts Council planned to use SIM for the fund and to invest $500,000. .
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