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he first, in 1982, was in
Kamloops), providing dif-
ferent communities with
the benefits of arts and
culture
At a glance, it seems that host
communities give much more to
the festival than it gives to them.
This year, for example, the five day
event has a $510,000 budget —
most of the money is from govern-
ment lottery funds — and perform-
ance and exhibition space is pro-
vided, free of charge, by the munic-
ipalities of Saanich, Oak Bay, Vic-
toria and Esquimalt and by the
Victoria School District
Sinclair Lewis wrote, in Babbitt,
that artists outside America live in ©
attics and feed on booze and spa-
ghetti; he’d be shocked to know
that the festival’s half million dol-
lar budget provides participating
artists with $17 worth of food each
day and then subsidizes accommo-
dation with $10 per day, per partic-
ipant. Most of the delegates receiv-
ing such benefits are high school
students (the visual arts exhibi-

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however, is also open to adult
competitors) and, quite probably,
many will decide against a profes-
sional art career

Still, the festival is not, by the
stretch of any imagination, a mere
indulgence

“We have an obligation to en-
courage the arts. We acknowledge ~
that they are an integral part of —
our community and the way to
encourage them is with funding
and support,” says Saanich alder-
man Carol Pickup. A member of a
steering committee formed to help
develop an arts policy for Oak Bay,@
Saanich, Esquimalt and Victoria,
Pickup says that communities
should give at least as much con-
sideration to arts and culture as is
given to other concerns, such as
tourism

“Art has an incredibly strong
financial impact upon our com-
munity, she says

It’s a claim supported by festival ,
administrator Cherie Thiessen,

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