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Community Services Committee
May 12, 2008
Pauline Houston, General Manager, Community Services
Renate Willms, Supervisor of Administration (ext. 2395)
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April 30, 2008
CSD-08-041
GENERAL PROVISION GRANT REQUEST - OUR WORLD
FESTIVAL OF MUSIC
RECOMMENDATION:
That a general provision grant in the amount of $7,250 not be approved for "Our World
Festival of Music 2008" to be held at Kitchener City Hall on June 6-7, 2008.
REPORT:
The Community Services Department has received a grant application from the "Our World
Festival of Music" organizers in the amount of $7,250 to assist with expenses for the June 2008
event.
Our World Festival was developed in 2006 "to celebrate through music the cultural diversity of
Kitchener". The festival launches the City of Kitchener's annual Tapestry Festival. The event,
free of charge, "features a wide variety of world music, performed by musicians from Kitchener
and Ontario, whose cultural origins and musical backgrounds reflect the many ethnic
communities which make Kitchener home to the world".
Further details regarding the event are provided in the attached grant application.
The grant request was reviewed by the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee (ACAC) at their
April 15, 2008 meeting, who passed the following motion:
"The Arts and Culture Advisory Committee recommends that Our World Festival of
Music receives a one-time only grant of $7,250 to enable expansion of the event. "
Further details regarding this recommendation are noted in the attached ACAC resolution.
Staff has reviewed the grant request and recommends that the grant not be approved since the
organizers do not have formal, non profit status and do not have a board of directors or
executive committee in place. Therefore, the request does not meet the grant criteria.
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Further, the City of Kitchener is already providing funding in the amount of $9,500 for this event,
as follows:
Special Events operating budget (Tapestry Festival):
Marketing $3,500
Staffing $1 ,000
Production equipment $3~500
Total $8,000
Arts & Culture operating budget:
Total
$1 ~500
$9,500
Total:
It is also expected that residents from throughout the Region will be attending the event. The
grant applicant has indicated that they have not applied for funding from other local
municipalities. Other than City of Kitchener funding, the only other revenue source for the
event, as noted in the grant application, is a $5,000 Celebrate the Artist grant from the Ontario
Arts Council.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
COMMUNICATIONS:
The grant applicant has received a copy of this report.
Renate Willms
Supervisor of Administration
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City of Kitchener
City Hall, 200 King St. West
P.O. Box 1118
Kitchener, ON N2G 4G7
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April 17, 2008
Renate Willms, Supervisor, Administration
Cheryl York, Co-ordinator, Arts/Culture
Grant Application - Our World Festival of Music
Please be advised that the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee passed the following resolution
on Thursday, April 17, 2008:
Motion: The Arts and Culture Advisory Committee recommends that Our World Festival
of Music receives a one-time only grant of $7,250 to enable expansion of the event.
The Committee notes that as an event under the Tapestry Festival program, Our World Festival
of Music will be part of the launch event of "Celebrate Our Artists!" weekend. This inaugural
"Celebrate Our Artists!" Project is being funded by the Province of Ontario. The event will
include the unveiling of Ernest Daetwyler's new public sculpture at the Gaukel Street entrance
to Victoria Park. The themes of diversity and public access to the arts are a hallmark of our
community's culture.
Cheryl York
Arts/Culture Co-ordinator