NEWS ITEM: Feds give $500Gs for Stratford Fest
8 Apr'10

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

It was a good news day at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Wednesday as the federal government loosened its purse strings and sprinkled an additional $500,000 into the Festival's coffers.

In an announcement made by Gary Schellenberger, Member of Parliament for Perth—Wellington, on behalf of Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore, the federal government pledged not only $150,000 from the Canada Arts Training fund, but an additional $350,000 from the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund.

The money from the Canadian Arts Training Fund doubles the fed's contribution to artist training through the Festival's Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training and the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction this year, while the money from the Cultural Spaces Fund is earmarked for upgrading sound and speaker systems within the Festival's three main theatres.