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workshops held May 23 and 24 in conjunction with the North
Shore Art Commission's Annuai State of tne Arts Forum.

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THE GREATEST challenge
facing artists this decade
will not be issues of censor-

ship or copywright, but
finding new sources of
iunding.

By Evelyn Jacob
News Reporter

H's a topic that will take centre
stage at the North Shore Art
Commission’s second annual State
of the Arts Forum, which is being
held this vear in conjunction with
the B.C. Festival of the Arts on
May 23 in the Capilano Room of
recCentre Lonsdale.

Keynote speakers Beverly
Trifonidis, general manager of the
Vancouver Opera, and assistant
artist director Kathleen Speakman
will debate arts funding for the
90s, how artists can learn to
become self-retiant in an age of
shrinking cultura! dollars.

Carolyn Frances Lair, cultura!
development officer for the North
Shore Arts Commission, says it’s
crucial that today’s artists find
imaginative ways of dealing with
funding problems.

“People in the arts must cealize
the challenge of funding. It isn’t
going to be easy — the free-wheel-
ing days of the °70s are over and
it’s going to take real thinking and
creativity to ensure the arts are
sustained.’’

North Shore residents, local arts
and cultural groups, school boards
and polticians are all invited to at-
tend. ,

Part of the evening (the whole
forum will last about two hours)
will be devoted to the arts com-
mission’s annual report. Chairman

Wednesday, May 15,

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Judy Dennis will update the
community on specific achieve-
ments to date.

One area the commission has
been investigating, along with
North Vancouver City staff, is the
possibility of creating an Art in
Public Places Program for the
North Shore.

Long an advocate of public art,
Lair has developed anoudine for
such a program, which must first
receive consideration from alt
three North Shore councils.

North Vancouver City recently
announced an invitational com-
petition for the creation of a piece
of public art for the Rogers Plaza
site, open to all professional B.C.
artists.

City planner Frank Ducote says
he sees the project as ‘tone link in
the chain’* of a series of public art
Projects created in and around the
Rogers Plaza site.

NEWS photos Terry Peters

THIS WOOD sculpture at Ambleside has become a well-known
North Shore fixture.

Public art and the community is
one of the main topics to be
discussed at a series of workshops
held May 23 and 24 in conjunc-
tion with the arts forum.

Simon Fraser University pro-
fessor Evan Alderson kicks off the
series at 10 a.m. on May 23 with a
workshop entitled, Art, Power
and the Paradox of the Com-
munity, followed by Vancouver
Art) Gallery director Willard
Holmes at | p.m. The workshop
is already full.

The next morning Seattle-based
artist, Buster Simpson will speak
on public art in the community
and the changing role of the ar-
tist, from 10 a.m.-noon.

This year’s State of the Arts
Forum gets under way at 6 p.m.
For specific information, phone
the Arts Commission office at
980-3559.

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