Alberta names finalists for $50000 arts awards Aug 26, 2008
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts has created a new award for visual artists and boosted prize money for its annual awards for literature and the performing arts. The Visual Arts Award, Grant MacEwan Literary Award and Tommy Banks Performing Arts Awards each have a top prize of $50,000. (CBC.ca)
Premier announces more money for art programs Jan 29, 2008
Stelmach announced the province was increasing cultural funding in the coming budget by $12 million, including a 30-per-cent increase in the budget for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, as well as a $1. 6 million increase in the Alberta Film and Television Development Fund. (Vancouver Sun)
Alberta's arts community receives $12 million boost Jan 26, 2008
At a press conference held at the Jubilee Auditorium, Stelmach announced that the province was increasing cultural funding in the upcoming budget by $12 million, including a 30 per cent increase in the budget for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, as well as a $1. 6 million increase in the Alberta Film and Television Development Fund. (Canada.com)
Play to stay Jun 23, 2007
"This is the first year we're solely on our own as the Edmonton Jazz Festival Society, because we've now got the support of the Edmonton Arts Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canadian Heritage Fund.". It's precisely that kind of funding the late Jazz City lost. (Edmonton Sun)
Provinces get Scene and heard Apr 22, 2007
At first, Alberta media deemed Alberta Scene a "monumental financial failure." But Jeffrey Anderson, director of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, says journalists got their math wrong. Alberta Scene, which he says "was of tremendous benefit," actually made a small profit -- $21,000. (Globe and Mail)
Albertans open up their wallets for arts Feb 21, 2007
Three years later, howls of protest greeted then premier Ralph Klein's announcement that he would be giving $45-million in lottery money to the province's horse-racing industry while the province's main vehicle of cultural funding, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (also lottery funded), would have to sit tight with a total budget of $32. 5-million. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Endless nights Jan 20, 2007
Speaking of the arts, a few hundred artsies and Hicks on Six wasted a valuable night Monday at a "where we're at" presentation by Alberta Foundation for the Arts director Jeffrey Anderson. Anderson used every buzz word in the technocrat's guide to bafflegab - "engage, dialogue, conversation, indicators, increased awareness, partnership, collaboration, strategic resources, tools, tool kits.". (Edmonton Sun)
