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History and Paraphrase of the ‘ ea an apparent on the North Shore. (This in HORSESHOE BAY sincs 1946

Facilities Study undertaken by alert was the aim of the document

North Shore Arts Commission. aor ha released last Octoher.) . a © expires March 4/93
; In the second stage, the objec: : d ; :

ay F tive was to provide concrete pro- AR e Mon.-Thurs. only ;
ARLY IN October Ae #  posals on the basis of the recom- re /Apmioclosing
last year, the North . 4% mendations made, to realize those oF : ® Horseshoe Bay
Shore Arts Commis- facilities through the development j _ of "* location enly,

arn , of (1) site options, (2) cost pro-
sion released the first part of Ron Faleioni sosals, (3) operating plans and . ne

its Regional Facilities study. budgets and (4) definition of facili-

e a
To say that it was anxiously ART REVIEW * + ty programming. ° _ : _ Duy the first entree, and receive a
awaited by various arts groups This phase was slated for release Ca en pee
would clearly be an understate- mountain of data being compiled early this year. ; : second entree of equal or lesser. value,
ment. ; on the subject. ' ~ After going to considerable ° ee ks
But no one in the Arts Commis- The study process antecedent to _ lengths to reiterate the obvious z FREE! :
sion or the three municipalities the realization of these facilities need for such facilities, specific NT = -
could have foreseen the repercus- — was to occur in two stages under- _ principles were formulated to mt At 6408 Bay Streetig
Sions its release was to have onthe — taken by the Arts Commission guide the proposal of options to tam -
_ North and West Vancouver _ through agency of the Cornerstone the municipalities. Dos oti West Vancouver
Community Arts Councils, Planning Group. Participation of all three :
In North Vancouver, the direc-° in the first stage, the objective municipalities was regarded as
tors of the local Arts Council were —_ was to establish directions (or rec- — fundamental, although details of
officially quick to condemn the ommendations) based on analysis —_ funding, location, and so on,
document for a variety of reasons. —_of gaps and opportunities already See Frailties pageAS = —__....
in West Vancouver the only two .
Arts Council directors who even
_ took the time to,procure and scru-
tinize the study.when it first ap-
peared were Jim Hazel and myself,
_ both pariahs in the eyes of the
council.
"(As private individuals whose
public art initiatives had been
callously ill-treated by the Arts
: ‘Commission, we could hardly be
” perceived as favorably predispos-
_ed to the commission’s stucly.)
> Because.she Facilities Study has
: caused so: much controversy, it
may be of interest to provide a
concise paraphrase of the docu-
ment and briefly explore its
origins.
e North Shore Arts Commis-
sion’s Regional Facilities Study is
. an outgrowth of the Cultural Plan
’, for The North Shore developed at
_considerable expense in 1988 by
. , the Cultural Policy Committee for
“*. “the three North Shore
municipalities.
The purpose of the current facil-
ities study is to assess conditions
‘and identity directiors for a master
plan to expedite the creation of ..
.three long-overdue arts facilities
on the North Shore: a major art
gallery, a major performance cen- : no ;
tre and a major museum. ; cos mts ; ,

In fact, the need for arts facilities ! o . ; : : oe
has tong been a foregone conclu. | |i . 7 . . ; 7 we
- ,, Cultural Plan; but the point of |. f i ICO O1 ' 1eO ; ae
proceeding with the current study : : I :
seems to have been dictated by : ; PME nh 8 noe
the fact that a convincing case a iz el
needed, to be.made for the politi-
cians — as if they would be im-
pervious to the obvious without a

.. Sion as already evidenced by the * ~

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