Ask Your MPs to Support to Canadian Arts Presentation Fund
/The following is excerpted from a recent communication issued by CAPACOA.
The federal government has increased funding to the Canada Council for the Arts and has launched the Creative Export Strategy. However, the Canada Arts Presentation Fund (CAPF) remains under-funded and over-subscribed. This lack of funding affects our entire touring and presenting ecosystem.
On October 2, arts advocates were in Ottawa to thank Members of Parliament for past investments and to ask for an increase to the Canada Arts Presentation Fund. No matter how passionate and effective these advocates were, they were told that "all politics is local": MPs need to know that the increase of CAPF matters to constituents in their own riding.
Please set aside whatever is on your agenda and contact your Member of Parliament now.
Use the templates below to send an email or a letter to your MP to ask for their support to increase the CAPF;
Follow up with a phone call (MPs are in their riding this week) and, if you are up for it, ask for a meeting.
Your objective is to convince your MP to express his/her support for an increase to CAPF within his/her caucus, to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and to the Minister of Finance by the end of this month.
Resources
Template email/letter (MS Word format)
Arts Day messages (to attach to your email/letter)
Case for CAPF increase (to attach to your email/letter)
Additionally, if you are a presenter and you haven't taken the Presenters' Vitality and Impact Survey yet, you can complete it here.
