Monday, April 16, 2007

Canada Council supplemental fund channels $550,000 to Canadian magazines

[NOTE: This posting has been updated.]

The much-anticipated special supplementary grants from the Canada Council have resulted in Canadian magazines receiving about $584,000 or about 1.7% of the new money available.

In the 2006 federal budget, the Canada Council for the Arts received a total of $50 million in additional one-time funding: $20 million for 2006-07 and $30 million for 2007-08. Of this, $33 million was to be allocated to all artistic disciplines over the two years. The one-time funding was to enhance the work of organizations which receive Canada Council operating funding. Other funds were directed to supporting individual artists and increasing public access to the arts.

Some titles were disappointed to either get much less than they applied for, or not to be successful at all. A total of 858 arts organizations (92% of the 937 that were eligible) applied and requests totaled $95.6 million – nearly three times what was available. Not every organization could receive funding, said the Council, and even most of those which were successful did not receive the total amount requested in their applications.

The magazines that received grants were:

Arc: Canada's National Poetry Magazine 10,000
BlackFlash 10,000
Border Crossings 25,000
Brick Magazine 10,600
Broken Pencil 18,000
C The Visual Arts Foundation 10,000
Canadian Art Foundation 165,000
Contemporary Verse Two 10,000
CV Ciel Variable 18,600
Descant Magazine 10,000
Event 10,000
Exile the Literary Quarterly 10,000
Fuse Magazine 10,000
Grain Magazine 10,000
Magazines Canada 86,000
Maisonneuve 10,000
Musicworks 12,500
Prefix Photo 10,700
Prism International 10,000
Queen's Quarterly 10,000
Quill and Quire 10,000
RicePaper 10,000
Spirale 21,700
The Fiddlehead 10,000
The Geist Foundation 30,000
The New Quarterly 10,000
This Magazine 11,100
Virages 15,600



584,800

UPDATE: We are informed that several magazine titles should have been included* in this list:
24 Images (31,200)
Cahier de theatres jeu (32,800)
Canadian Electroacoustic Community (6,800)
Hors Champ (4,000)
Nouvelles "vues" sur le cinéma québécois (3,000)
Penguin Eggs (10,000)
Point of View magazine (10,000)
Prairie Fire Press Inc. (10,000)
The Devil's Artisan (8,000)

The total for individual magazines was $614,600

*It would be easier, of course, if the Canada Council would list magazines separately from book publishers.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The response to this funding exercise from all the arts disciplines is a very strong measure of Canadian desire to have enhanced and stable support of arts and cultural activity. The proof is in so let's carry on with the campaign to double the Canada Council's base funding.

Mark Jamison
Magazines Canada

4:31 pm  

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