🚨 Massive Arts & Culture Cuts + this week's events

Hey Halifax!

You may have noticed a lot of talk about budget cuts this week. The province cut $14.3M from arts and culture — 24 programs completely eliminated, festival funding halved, the only provincial touring program for musicians cut 40%. All while federal arts
funding to NS has dropped 48% in four years. The music scene that makes this province special is getting squeezed from every direction.

Here's the thing: that $14.3M is 1.2% of the deficit. A rounding error. This after the government chose to give up $345 million a year in HST and toll revenue. They didn't run out of money they just decided culture wasn't worth keeping.

Culture is what makes people want to live here. It's $1B in GDP and 13,000+ jobs. We built a tool that lets you email your MLA about this in one click.

Please take a moment to email your MLA.

There are only a few days of Dine Around left, which means you still have time to enter our contest to win one of our grand prizes, plus a guaranteed free Halifamous x Burnside pint glass.

1. Register your passport.

2. Check in to restaurants all month to earn entries into our grand prize draws.

3. Earn a free Halifamous x Burnside pint glass after 3 check-ins.

2 Grand Prize Draws:
🍻 Beer For a Year from Burnside Brewing
🎟️ Tickets to the sold out Rankin’s Winter Warmers finale in March

We wanted to keep the focus on these insane budget cuts this week, but once you’ve emailed your MLA at the link above, head over to halifamous.ca for our full event listings and our first two original articles:

• Goldie Boutilier: The Queen of Possibility

• Cole Chalifoux: Clearing The Archives

That’s it for this week!

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