Province Boosts Support for Ontario Arts Council!

Ontario is increasing funding to the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) to support the continued success of the province’s thriving arts sector.

Premier Kathleen Wynne and Eleanor McMahon, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, were at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto last week to announce that Ontario is committing $50 million in additional funding to the OAC. Funds will be distributed over the next four years, increasing provincial funding to the OAC to $80 million annually by 2020-21.

With this funding, Ontario will help increase supports for arts programs province-wide and across a wide range of disciplines and activities, including arts education, community arts, dance, literature, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts, as well as Indigenous and Francophone arts.

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