The Elora Centre for the Arts (ECFTA) and supporters of the organization packed the council gallery in Elora earlier this week for a delegation from Executive Director Lianne Carter.<\/p>\n
Hoping for more funding to maintain the heritage building with frequent repairs, Carter shared figures with staff she says she believes show a gap in funding. Carter explained to council there is currently a \u201clack of core funding.\"<\/p>\n
The building,<\/a> located in the heart of downtown Elora, was originally erected in 1856, serving as a girls' school. Carter explained various repairs happen often to maintain the aging structure. The centre's delegation form<\/a> outlined more \"very considerable repair and maintenance costs\" over the next half-decade.<\/p>\n Earned revenue sources, she went on to say, are the only source of funding for the centre that showcases local artists and performances.<\/p>\n She added council funding would help her group with more than just the arts side of things.<\/p>\n \"It would really free our staff and our resources up to just grow and deliver community-based programming that addresses needs in our community,\" Carter stated.<\/p>\n \"It would provide things for our growing community, and not just in the art gallery, but in the pavilion, in the yard, live music,\" she added.<\/p>\n Carter also mentioned the first step in her mind was achieved when council showed a willingness to work with ECFTA.<\/p>\n \"Our biggest thing is that they've just said 'we acknowledge the importance of our arts centre,\" Carter explained.<\/p>\n \"That to me is music to my ears. I think if we all believe that as a starting point, we'll figure something out,\" she went on to mention.<\/p>\n Carter didn\u2019t ask for a specific dollar value from council. When asked for a figure, she said she would leave that step to councillors to discuss as they begin to work through their budget process for 2024.<\/p>\n Listen to the CICW story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Elora Centre for the Arts (ECFTA) and supporters of the organization packed the council gallery in Elora earlier this week for a delegation from Executive Director Lianne Carter. Hoping for more funding to maintain the heritage building with frequent repairs, Carter shared figures with staff she says she believes show a gap in funding.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":187597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[1503,1454,12073,2315,31561,31562,31563],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,25404,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188208,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187571\/revisions\/188208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187571"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=187571"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=187571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}