The Honourable Steve Crocker, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation, was at the Rotary Arts Centre (RAC) in Corner Brook today to announce approximately $3 million in financial support for arts and heritage organizations through the Provincial Government’s 2021 Cultural Economic Development Program. This funding provides support for events or initiatives that stimulate sustainable economic development in the cultural industries.
The Cultural Economic Development Program has two components, Arts and Heritage. The objectives of the program, for each component, are as follows;
Arts:
- Improve economic opportunities for professional artists
- Encourage sustainable economic arts activities
- Contribute to the stability of sector based organizations
- Increase capacity for market access and expansion of cultural products
- Develop a diversity of cultural products
- Support growth of the cultural tourism industry
Heritage:
- Increase/enhance the preservation and presentation of heritage resources
- Increase sustainability
- Increase relevance of heritage organizations to their community, province and region through increased social and economic contributions
A complete breakdown of the support provided for each component can be found in the backgrounder below.
Quotes
“It is wonderful to see this funding being distributed to so many arts and heritage organizations this year. Our investment in these groups demonstrates our commitment to growing and developing the cultural sector in communities across the province and sustaining our creative talent.”
Honourable Steve Crocker
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation
“Arts and Heritage organizations provide a significant contribution to our social, economic, and cultural aspects of our communities. I am pleased to see investments like these in the District of Corner Brook that will support these organizations as they provide the space to promote growth in this industry”
Honourable Gerry Byrne
Minister of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills, MHA for Corner Brook
“The funding received by the RAC and many other organizations from the province, has helped keep us alive throughout the pandemic. The province’s arts organizations and the artists who they support, are among the worst hit financially by COVID-19. When there is nowhere to play or act or display there is no income to pay the bills. When there is no audience and no box office receipts there are no performance fees, no money to pay staff and no money to pay even the most basic operating costs. Nevertheless, we are still here and artists are holding their own in spite of closures. The reason we have been able to avoid the imminent destruction of our cultural industries has been and continues to be our government’s financial assistance for the arts and by extension, the people who make their living in them.”
David Smallwood
Board Chair and CEO, Rotary Arts Centre
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BACKGROUNDER
CEDP Arts Funding 2021/22
| Resource Centre for the Arts | $125,000 |
| Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador | $85,000 |
| Visual Arts Newfoundland and Labrador | $80,000 |
| Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative | $65,000 |
| Music NL | $350,000 |
| Eastern Labrador Arts Alliance | $160,000 |
| Dance NL | $10,000 |
| Rotary Arts Centre | $40,000 |
| Seasons in the Bight Theatre Festival | $75,000 |
| Gros Morne Theatre Festival | $80,000 |
| Grand Bank Theatre Festival | $40,000 |
| Stephenville Theatre Festival | $40,000 |
| Perchance Theatre | $40,000 |
| NL Folk Festival | $25,000 |
| Tuckamore Festival | $10,000 |
| Opera on the Avalon | $30,000 |
| Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra | $40,000 |
| St. John’s Int’l Women’s Film Festival | $60,000 |
| The Nickel Independent Film Festival | $20,000 |
| Festival of New Dance | $35,000 |
| Gros Morne Summer Music | $10,000 |
| Woody Point Literary Festival | $5,000 |
| Eastern Edge Gallery | $15,000 |
| Lawnya Vawyna | $5,000 |
| Riddle Fence Publishing | $18,000 |
| Wonderbolt Circus Productions | $25,000 |
| Placentia Area Theatre D’Heritage | $10,000 |
| Bonavista Biennale | $9,165 |
| Kitchen Party Theatre Festival | $5,000 |
| Storytelling Festival | $5,000 |
| Winterset in Summer Literary Festival | $2,000 |
| Southern Shore Shamrock Festival | $5,000 |
| Cape St. Mary’s Performance Series | $4,500 |
| Ochre Fest | $3,000 |
| CB Nuit After Dark Festival | $10,000 |
| Art at the Gate | $5,000 |
| Garrick Theatre Summer Performances | $7,000 |
| Botwood Mural Arts Society | $5,000 |
| Spirit Song Festival, St. John’s Native Friendship Centre | $5,000 |
| Newfoundland Quarterly | $4,000 |
| Shakespeare By The Sea | $5,000 |
| Soundbone Traditional Arts Foundation | $4,000 |
| St. Michael’s Printshop | $5,000 |
| Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland | $8,000 |
| Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association | $15,000 |
| Engen Books | $8,000 |
| Persistence Theatre | $5,000 |
| Union House Arts | $5,000 |
| Kittiwake Dance Theatre | $5,000 |
| Publishers Assistance Program | |
| Boulder Books | $34,527 |
| Breakwater Books | $51,732 |
| Flanker Press | $47,623 |
| Running the Goat Books & Broadsides | $31,762 |
| TOTAL | $1,793,309 |
CEDP Heritage Funding 2021/22
| 50 Centuries Cultures Society | $3,140 |
| Admiralty House Museum and Archives Inc. | $9,770 |
| Archives of the R.C. Archdiocese | $4,300 |
| Arnold’s Cove Heritage Foundation | $2,640 |
| Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation | $26,420 |
| Baie Verte Peninsula Economic Development Association | $2,480 |
| Banting Historical Trust | $1,000 |
| Battle Harbour Historic Trust | $50,430 |
| Bay de Verde Heritage Committee | $5,720 |
| Bay Roberts Heritage Society Inc. | $2,490 |
| Bell Island Heritage Society Inc. | $16,390 |
| Bishop’s Falls Heritage Society | $1,340 |
| BHTF/BHS (joint application) | $36,520 |
| Bonne Bay Cottage Hospital Heritage Corporation | $1,340 |
| Botwood Heritage Society | $7,890 |
| Brigus Historical and Conservation Society | $2,270 |
| Burin Heritage Tourism Association | $16,200 |
| Cape Freels Heritage Trust | $40,150 |
| Cape Random Trust | $15,360 |
| Carbonear Heritage Society | $5,960 |
| Champney’s West Heritage Group | $3,000 |
| Chapel Restoration Committee – Blackhead, Cape Spear | $1,000 |
| Clarenville Heritage Society | $2,030 |
| Colony of Avalon | $70,940 |
| Conception Bay Museum | $2,120 |
| Cow Head Conservation & Heritage Committee Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum | $3,380 |
| Corner Brook Museum and Archives | $7,750 |
| Cupids Legacy Centre | $32,960 |
| Dorset Eskimo Carving Committee Inc. | $5,150 |
| Durrell Museum Corporation | $2,650 |
| Ferryland Historical Society | $ 2,210 |
| Fisherman’s Museum Musgrave Harbour | $1,000 |
| Fisherman’s Museum St. Vincent’s | $1,000 |
| Flambro Head Heritage Society | $1,000 |
| Fogo Island Heritage Advisory Committee | $12,400 |
| French Rooms Cultural Centre | $1,410 |
| French Shore Historical Society | $10,090 |
| Gateway Labrador | $ 7,140 |
| Glenwood Heritage Society | $1,000 |
| Glovertown Museum Association | $1,160 |
| Grand Bank Heritage Society | $3,300 |
| Grand Falls-Windsor Heritage Society | $1,960 |
| Greenspond Historical Society | $410 |
| Hant’s Harbour Willow Tree Heritage Society | $1,000 |
| Heritage Fortune Inc. | $1,000 |
| Heritage New Perlican | $1,000 |
| Heritage Society of Peterview | $1,000 |
| Hibbs Hole Fishermen’s Museum | $1,000 |
| Home From the Sea | $12,600 |
| Humber Valley Heritage Society | $2,470 |
| Jackson’s Arm Heritage Society | $1,280 |
| King’s Cove Historical Society Inc. | $1,000 |
| King’s Point Heritage Society | $3,520 |
| La Scie French Shore Connection Society | $1,000 |
| Labrador Heritage Society | $3,310 |
| Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation | $7,470 |
| Labrador Straits Museum & Craft Shop | $2,020 |
| Landfall Trust | $1,600 |
| Lewisporte and Area Heritage Society | $7,220 |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Museum | $1,000 |
| Long Island Heritage Society | $1,000 |
| Marystown Heritage Museum Corporation | $6,220 |
| Matthew Legacy Inc. | $18,590 |
| Mistaken Point Cape Race Heritage | $15,360 |
| Mizzen Heritage Society | $1,500 |
| Municipality of Spaniard’s Bay Heritage Society | $360 |
| Newfoundland Pony Society | $1,420 |
| Norris Arm Heritage Society | $3,800 |
| Norris Point Heritage Committee | $2,300 |
| Norstead Village Inc. | $18,000 |
| North Atlantic Aviation Museum | $11,090 |
| Nurse Myra Bennett Foundation | $1,680 |
| Old Perlican Heritage Committee | $1,000 |
| Over the Top Museum | $1,280 |
| Petty Harbour Maddox Cove Heritage Museum Association | $1,000 |
| Pilley’s Island Heritage Society Inc. | $1,230 |
| Placentia Area Historical Society | $2,980 |
| Placentia West Heritage Committee | $3,550 |
| Point Leamington Heritage Council | $1,320 |
| Pouch Cove Heritage Committee | $730 |
| Presentation Congregation Archives | $3,630 |
| Railway Coastal Museum | $21,000 |
| Railway Society of Newfoundland | $2,870 |
| Red Indian Lake Heritage Society | $2,450 |
| Rose Blanche Lighthouse | $8,150 |
| Signal Hill Tattoo Historical Animation Program | $43,320 |
| Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Historical Society | $24,930 |
| Sir William Ford Coaker Heritage Foundation | $29,410 |
| Smallwood Era Development Corp | $8,170 |
| South Dildo Whaling and Sealing Museum | $1,000 |
| South West Coast Historical Society | $2,250 |
| St. Lawrence Historical Advisory Committee | $1,610 |
| Sunny Cottage Heritage Centre | $2,460 |
| Them Days Inc. | $50,000 |
| Tourism Elliston | $21,650 |
| Trinity Historical Society | $ 33,220 |
| Trout River Heritage Committee | $3,050 |
| Turks Gut Heritage Conservation Inc. | $1,060 |
| Twillingate Museum Association | $6,410 |
| United Church Archives NL Conference | $1,670 |
| Veteran’s Interpretation Centre R.C. Legion | $1,000 |
| Whitbourne Heritage Society | $1,000 |
| White Elephant Museum | $1,000 |
| Whiteway Heritage Society | $1,000 |
| Witless Bay Heritage Committee | $1,000 |
| Wooden Boat Museum NL | $18,430 |
| Heritage Project Grants | |
| Conception Bay Museum – 2021 Exhibition at the Conception Bay Museum: Aviation in harbor Grace (1919-Present) | $14,760 |
| Them Days – Cataloguing the Labrador Winter Games collection | $14,200 |
| Fishing For Success – Soundwalk interactive app | $5,000 |
| Ferryland Historical Society – Digitizing Collections | $6,200 |
| Salvage Fisherman’s Museum – Research Project | $3,000 |
| Marystown Heritage Museum – Marystown Museum Mural | $2,000 |
| Heritage Sector Funding
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| Battle Harbour | $12,030.00 |
| Bonavista Historic Trust | $8,710.00 |
| Cape Freels | $9,580.00 |
| Coaker Foundation | $7,020.00 |
| Colony of Avalon | $16,920.00 |
| Cupids Legacy Centre | $7,860.00 |
| Grenfell Historical Foundation | $5,950.00 |
| Trinity Historical Society | $7,930.00 |
| Museum Association of NL | $100,000.00 |
| Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives | $54,000 |
| Family History Society | $7,500 |
| NL Historical Society | $7,500 |
| NL Historic Trust | $5,000 |
| Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program
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| Kikmanaq (our family; our friends) Indigenous Cultural Revival Association (KIRA) – Passing on Traditions: Waltes and Mi’kmaq Traditions Virtual Workshops | $10,000 |
| Qalipu First Nation – Passing on Traditions: Ko’kmanaq Apoqnmuksi’kik: Our Cousins are Helping Us | $5,000 |
| St. George’s Indian Band – Passing on Traditions: Drum Making Workshops | $6,500 |
| Benoit First Nation – Passing on Traditions: 2021 Traditional Cultural Workshops. | $5,000 |
| Benoit First Nation – Passing on Traditions: 2021 Traditional Cultural Workshops. | $5,000 |
| Flat Bay Band Inc – Passing on Traditions: No’kmaw Village Embroidery Program | $7,000 |
| Frontier College in partnership with Nunatsiavut Government – Documentation and Inventorying: Publication of Elder’s interviews in the Inuit community of Postville, Nunatsiavut | $8,500 |
| Three Rivers Mi’kmaq Band – Passing on Traditions: gathering of the sea traditional teachings | $8,000 |
| NunatuKavut Community Council – Traditional beading and net mending workshops | $8,000 |
| TOTAL | $1,215,670 |