Arts Funding Inequality - Arts Nova Scotia or Arts Halifax?

Open Letter to Nova Scotia MLAs

Hello!

My name is Rod Gale and I am a resident of South Bar on Cape Breton Island.
First of all thank you for serving the people of Nova Scotia; I truly appreciate it and the personal sacrifice it takes.
Now some of you from off the island might be thinking to yourself; "Why is this Caper writing to me?" Well I'm writing to you because the issue I want to discuss has a direct effect on your constituency- especially those of you who represent rural ridings in Nova Scotia. 
The other day I was listening to a story by Tom Ayers on CBC about a group of artists who had secured $50,000.00 in funding from the #CBRM. A fantastic positive story but in that story there was one line that bothered me that out of 60 grants awarded by Arts Nova Scotia only one was awarded to an artist from CBRM and the rest of the grants were awarded to artists from primarily the Halifax region.
I thought to myself; that can't be right so I checked with Tom Ayers and he confirmed the fact and he directed me to the Arts Nova Scotia website and sure enough only one artist from the CBRM was awarded a grant from Arts Nova Scotia in 2019- 2020. I was shocked and intrigued; I thought to myself if this inequality in funding exists between artists in the CBRM and Halifax then it naturally must affect artists from the rest of the province besides artists in the HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality) proper.
Upon further investigation of past recipients of Arts Nova Scotia awards from 2016 to 2020 it became vividly apparent that the majority of Arts Nova Scotia funding is being invested in Halifax and not dispersed throughout the rest of the province. Seeing that the Arts are a major reason that tourists visit not only Cape Breton; but the Valley, Lunenburg or Yarmouth or for that matter any community in our beautiful Province, shouldn't arts funding be evenly shared all over Nova Scotia?
I'm asking you to please take 5 minutes out of your day and click on the link I've provided and scroll down the page to the list of past recipients of Arts Nova Scotia awards and see for yourself. The name of the organization is "Arts Nova Scotia" not "Arts Halifax" and its awards / monies should be distributed evenly among Nova Scotia's diverse artistic community and not centralized in Halifax.
Yours Respectfully,
Rod Gale

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Just as I've heard reference to Symphony Halifax, the Art Gallery of Halifax, etc. Really has been like that for a long time....

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