50 - Friday, February 22, 1985 -

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sold about one-third of the
initial pressing of 1,000,
largely through sales after
concerts, and is enjoying
some radio airplay. One
Seattle station, in fact, has
added the band to its play
list.

The album, and a series of
appearances (including on

Feb. 28 at the Square Rigger -

in West Van) are ainied at

number of
they hope,

expanding the
listeners and,
fans.

The challenge will be to go
beyond the traditional folk
marker. Knutson is en-
couraged by the history of
Canadian music in that ae-
tists from Gordon Lightfoot
to Bruce Cockburn have
risen from folk roots to
become major acts.

What clearly counts most
for Kautson, is building

new band

Spire of the West into a
band with staying power.
“When I was playing with
the Bobby Curtola Show it
was great. The moncy was
good, | was stating in first-
class hotels. But | realized
that i wasn't really doing
anything, that this wasn't

getting me anywhere in the |

long run.

“With Spirit of the West,
this is our project. We're in
control,”’

Artists rally to fight
gov't funding cuts

A RALLY for the arts will be
held Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8
p.m. at Vancouver’s Queen
’ Elizabeth Theatre. The rally
invites a show of public sup-
port for the arts, and will

provide a forum for protest -

against recent federal govern-
ment cutbacks of funds .to
arts organizations.

The rally is sponsored by
the B.C. Coalition for the
Arts, a diverse group, rang-
ing from artists and arts
organizations to consumers,
formed in response to the

- cutbacks.

Speakers at the rally will
include individual artists,
among them Jack Shadbolt
and John Gray, as well as
representatives of arts
organizations touched in
many different ways by re-
cent cuts in federal funds.

People who attend the ral-
ly, taking place while federal
Communications

Marcel Masse is in Van-
;

Minister

couver to meet with his pro-
vincial counterparts, will
have an opportunity to signa
telegram expressing concern
about the effects of federal
cutbacks to the CBC, the Na-
tional Film Board, and the
Canada Council.

The B.C. Coalition for the
Arts wishes to unite per-
formers, writers, artists,
business people, unions, arts

administrators,

consumers
and others concerned with the
future of Canadian culture.
The B.C. Coalition for the
Arts wants a renewed com-
mitment to the public funds
for the arts, uncompromised
support for cultural

sovereignty, a fe-vitalization’

of public broadasting and
development of a federal
cultural policy.

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Photo exhibit:

The Personal Best
by Four North Shore News Photographers

Tan Smith

A new exhibit of photographs by North Shore
News photographers Ellsworth Dickson, Stuart
Davis, Terry Peters, and tan Smith. will be on display
for one month at the North Vancouver City Hall.

Time: 9 am - 4:30 pm

Date: Thursday February 14
through Tuesday March 12
Readers of the North Shore News are already
familiar with the high quality of professional work
by these photographers — among them they have
won 18 newspaper indtistry awards in the past five
{wars — and this exhibit wall give people of North
| and West Vancouver the opportunity to see their
, per sonal best, the photography done on their own
| free time.

North Vancouver City Hall
14] West 14th Street,
North Vancouver

Place:

Admission is free.
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