KATHLEEN STRINGER’S frugal ways have brought in a balanced budget for Presentation House for the past

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— Artists show works

ARTISTS FROM Lions Bay to Deep Cove are displaying their works in public buildings around the North Shere to celebrate April Arts month.

Lions Bay artist Ann Hurst's oil paintings are or display at North Vancouver City Hall Gallery, 127 West 14th Street, until May 16.

Kal Opre, a Capilano resident, is showing his watercolors of Edgemont Viliage at the North

Vancouver provincial courthouse, 0 East 23rd. Street, until May

Deep Cove artist Una Prangley’s “‘North Shore Com- memorative ‘89,” a series of pastels and paintings, is at North Vancouver District Hzll, 335 West Queens Road until April 26.

More information can be ob- tained by phoning the North Vancouver Arts Council, 988-

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two years. This summer, the arts centre presents its first own summer theatre season.

The buck’s the bottom line} for Presentation House’s busy managing director

PRESENTATION HOUSE, like all art venues, is preoccupied with attracting top-of- the-line acts. Kathleen Stringer, how- ever, is more concerned with Presentation House's bottom ine

Since she took over as managing director 2% years ago, the North Vancouver arts centre has brought in a balanced budget every year, after suffering a history of slashes and cutbacks.

A former Carson Graham stu- dent, Stringer says she’s not a business whiz — just extremely

With a bare-bones operating budget of about $200,000, nothing is fixed without being carefully scrutinized.

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frugal. “Everybody watches the pen-

nies. It comes down to this,’’ says

Stringer, pulling out a desk drawer

and pointing to a pile of scrap

paper: “This is our notepaper,

we don’t use fancy pads.”’ Penny-pinching may not sound

as impressive as Reaganomics, but

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The glory days of balanced budgets, however, were not at- tained without a major struggle.

After putting in 16-hour days for two years, Stringer came close to

collapsing last fall from sheer ex- haustion.

cutting corners has puiled Pres- entation House out of the deficit doldrums, which was in excess of $80,000 at the beginning of the

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“That's what happens to arts people — after about two years they burn out. | was right on time — it was like an alarm clock went off in my head.”

Back at work for now for three months, Stringer seems to have beat the statistics.

Like its managing director, Pres- entation House has undergone the stresses of change in the past two years.

The 85-year-old structure has gone through extensive renova- tions, both inside and out. The photography gallery, housed on the second floor, is building an impressive reputation with recent shows like William Claxton’s Jazz

exhibit and Photographic Memory.

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CRAFTS PEOPLE are invited by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council to submit applications for table space at the 10th annual juried craft fair in conjunction with the North Vancouver Folkfest celebraticn.

This is a nine-day outdoor event at Civic Plaza at 14th and Lons- dale.

The dates are June 15 to 24 ex- cept for Sunday, and space is limited to 40 crafts people.

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