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SAYING THANK you to
200 volunteers isn’t easy.

By EVELYN JACOB
News Reporter

That's what the North Shore
Cultural Policy Committee
discovered when it wanted to
thank the people who spent thou-
sands of hours developing the
North Shore’s first cultural pian.

On April 21, those people, in-
cluding others who helped hammer
out the pla: ~- about 400 in all —
will be thanked in an opening night
reception at Centennial Theatre.

Featuring well-known local ar-
tists, the evening includes perfor-
tances by choreographer Judith
Marcuse, singer-dancer Ann Mor-
tifee, Norman Foote, Gene
Ramsbottom, Melinda Coffey, the
Handsworth Jazz Band and more.

The evening is also to celebrate
the formation of an Arts Commis-
sion, set up to advise councils on
all matters concerning the arts.
Establishing an Arts Commission
was a cornerstone recommendation
of the committee, which met for
the first time on Jan. 26.

“Over the past two years there
have been numerous interviews,
meetings, public forums and
briefs. The evening celebration is
to say thank you to all the volun-

teers and members of the com-
munity who were interviewed,
surveyed, who presented briefs,
who worked on policy committees,
task forces and sub task forces,”’
said Oksana Dexter, cultural ser-
vices coordinator for Centennial
Theatre, North Vancouver Recre-
ation Commission.

The Cultural Policy Plan Com-
mittee was formed two years ago
in response to an explosion in the
arts dating back to 1971 — repre-
sentatives from the North Shore’s
three municipalities, the North
Vancouver Chamber of Com-
merce, Recreation Commission,
North and West Vancouver school
boards, Capilano College and
other bodies banded together to
develop a long range plan to en-
sure the growth of the local arts
and support of artistic resources.

The Cultural Policy Plan con-
tains 68 recommendations in
specific areas, some of which in-
clude:
¢ Creating an enabling and sup-
portive attitude towards existing
cultural activities and towards the
development of new arts;
¢ Setting up an administrative arts
system;
¢ Coordination of municipal
grants to cultural organizations;
© Creating an advocacy role for
municipal government in seeking

LOCAL MUSICIAN Gene Ramsbottom and Judy Dennis, both of whom sit on the newly-f

tural plan volunteers

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Arts Commission, put tke letters in Centennial Theatre’s information sign for an opening night performance ort -

April 21.

funding from provincial and fed-
eral sources;

¢ Establishing and maintaining a
local arts information base; and

© Coordinating arts promotion ef-
forts.

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