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MAYORS DON Lanskail, Marilyn Baker and Jack Loucks sign an official document proclaiming April Arts
month. The declaration was made to introduce the newly-formed North Shore Arts Commission to the public,
and to celebrate ail the loca! cultural events happening during the month of April.

Commission to boost arts
profile on the North Shore

PICK ALMOST any day of the month on the North Shore
and there is an amazingly wide selection of performing, vi-
sual and literary art shows to choose from.

Unfortunately, at many of these
events, the artist’s family and
friends. make up the bulk of the
audience. The turnout would have
been greater had there been better
planning, better promotion, and
more money.

“Most months on the North
Shore are jam-packed with recitals,
concerts, art exhibits, classes and
workshops,’’ says Oksana Dexter,

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News Reporter

cultural services coordinator for
Centennial Theatre, North Van-
couver Recreation Commission.
Dexter hopes that the newly-
formed North Shore Arts Com-
mission, set up to advise councils
on all matters concerning the arts,

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will lessen many of the obstacles
faced by locai artists.

Cathy Matheson, cultural coor-
dinator for West Vancouver, says
the public is not aware of how
much the arts community has to
offer because getting information
about what’s happening is dif-
ficult.

“It’s not a case of individual
groups not doing their job of
publicizing themselves,’’ said
Matheson, ‘‘there’s no one central
resource where people can go to
find information.”’

One of the goals of the commis-
sion is to see an information base
on focal cultural programs and
services established.

Once a central data base is set
up, ‘“‘people won’t have to play
telephone tag between North and
West Vancouver,’’ says Dexter.

Jim Felter, one of three local ar-
tists who sits on the commission,
says that many people sre unaware
of cultural events in their com-
munities, and that the problem is
not unique to the North Shore.

“It’s.a problem in B.C. par-
ticularly, as opposed to Ontario
and Quebec,’’ says Felter, ‘‘The
Arts Commission isn’t only
fighting for recognition (for the
arts) locally, but provincially and
nationally as well.”’

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