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National Campaign for the Arts Petition
The National Campaign for the Arts is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations and individual artists in the visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music, literature, architecture and the collaborative arts.
<title>Re: ep005a - Maintnenace job update</title>The National Campaign for the Arts is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations and individual artists in the visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music, literature, architecture and the collaborative arts.
Please take the time to click on the link http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petition.html to sign the petition to maintain current levels of funding within the arts. Please pass this e-mail on to anyone who you feel would like to show their support. Thank you.
The National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) has organised a petition to Government to ensure that the arts are on national and local government agendas. The NCFA is calling for the following:
- Maintenance of current levels of funding to the Arts Council
- Retention of Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide
- Retention of The Irish Film Board, development agency of the Irish film industry
- Retention of the Artists' Tax Exemption Scheme
- Commitment to retain the Arts portfolio at cabinet as part of a senior ministerial portfolio
This petition went live on Wednesday 28 October 2009. Already more than 3,100 people have signed the petition (as of 10am on Monday 2 November 2009).
Visual Artists Ireland encourages all to support this campaign and to sign the petition as soon as possible. To sign the National Campaign for the Arts petition please go to:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petition.html