Weekly Mail Reporter
A NUMBER of cash-strapped Gauteng-based community arts projects have received “emergency relief” in the form of R350 000 from the regional government.
Arts projects, like other non-governmental organisations, are facing financial crises as donors redirect their money towards the reconstruction and development programme. The government funds are considered “disaster control” for the next two to three months until “adequate” support structures are put into place.
Ten organisations received just under R300 000 between them; they are Fuba, the Johannesburg Dance Foundation, Performing Arts Workers’ Equity, Congress of South African Writers, Newtown Film School, Video Suitcase Mobile Camera, National Arts Coalition, Pride of Africa, Ennerdale Dance Academy and the arts section of the SDU Education Project. The balance has yet to be distributed