IN
CASE IT ISN'T CLEAR... WE DO NOT SUPPORT THE TOBACCO FUNDED ART PROJECT
        
WE SUPPORT ARTISTS WHO TAKE
A STAND

One of the primary objectives of the tobacco industry is to frame tobacco use
as an individual and behavioural decision.The problem with this casting is that
it leaves the tobacco industry's activities and practices completely out of the
equation. It assumes that people make decisions in a state of vacuum, completely
uninfluenced by their environment including industry advertising, marketing, and
cultural funding.
Tobacco advertising and use in the entertainment, arts and sports industry projects
images of smokers as fun loving and glamorous and, most insidiously, healthy.
Attractive images and people suggest that smoking is a powerful tool for enhancing
self-image. The illusion helps the tobacco industry sell a product that kills.
The tobacco companies spend $6 billion a year enticing youth to smoke. They make
you believe that if you smoke, you're going to be sexy, attractive, successful,
accepted by your peers, rocking, and macho, cool and sassy. They project this
image in every media from daytime movies to night-time movies, magazines
and even cartoon characters. "I'll
take cigarette money for the arts," Jann Arden, an ex-smoker of five
years, told the National Post. "It's not the cigarette company that's
going to kill me...It's my choice to go in there and buy the cigarettes and
inhale them" Ummm...OK...sounds about right!
oh dear...someone "seems" to be supporting these crooked
barons of skank but the money goes to a good cause ...so maybe in
the end it's all just A-OK!! We really do Luv Jann!! "I'll
take Tootsie Tot Torpedo Company money for the arts," GiantWeed, who has
never detonated a torpedo, told the National Bost. "It's not the Torpedo
company that's going to kill me...It's a choice to go in there and buy a Torpedo
and blow the luvin' beejesus out of myself...or someone!" You said
it GW!
oh my...the state of arts funding in this country is shocking!! We just
don't know anymore!
The
New Politically Correct Funding by Tobacco Companies Continues and arts and culture
groups across this great country seem to line up with palms open to get a hold
of some of this blood money to get their sets painted and buy new microphones
for their singers! These groups saw no problem taking money in 2006.
Cranbrook
Key City Theatre Society Kootenay Chamber Orchestra Association Galiano Island
Urban Ink Productions Society Hornby Island Hornby Festival Society Kamloops Western
Canada Theatre Company Society Kelowna Sunshine Theatre Society Nanaimo Crimson
Coast Dance Society Nanaimo Festival Heritage Theatre Society The Port Theatre
Society Vancouver Island Symphony North Vancouver The British Columbia Photography
and Media Arts Society Prince George Prince George Symphony Orchestra Salmon Arm
Salmon Arm Folk Music Society Vancouver Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society
Astrid Dance Society and Kidd Pivot Performing Arts Society Battery Opera Performing
Arts Society Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver Coastal Jazz & Blues Society
Dancers Dancing Dance Society Dancing on the Edge Festival Society Electric Company
Theatre Society Firehall Theatre Society Full Circle: First Nations Performance
Society Grunt Gallery (Unit 306 Society) Vancouver (cont’d) I.E. Artspeak Gallery
Society Judith Marcuse Projects Society Kokoro Dance Theatre Society Lola MacLaughlin
Dance Society Mascall Dance Society Music in the Morning Concert Society New Orchestra
Workshop Society New Performance Works Society Neworld Theatre Society Pacific
Ballet British Columbia Pink Ink Theatre Productions Association PuSh International
Performing Arts Festival Society Ruby Slippers Production Society Rumble Productions
Society Satellite Video Exchange Society Théâtre la Seizième Touchstone Theatre
Society Vancouver Chamber Choir Vancouver East Cultural Centre Vancouver New Music
Society Vancouver Out On Screen Film and Video Society Vancouver Symphony Society
View, the Performing Arts Society Western Front Society Western Theatre Conspiracy
Arts Society Wild Excursions Productions Society Victoria Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria Victoria Jazz Society Category total 339,550 Burnaby Burnaby Mental Health
Society 1,000 United Way of the Lower Mainland 10,000 Victoria Friends of the
Royal BC Museum Society 5,000 Category total 16,000 POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION Vancouver
Minerva Foundation for BC Women 35,000 The Fraser Institute 25,000
Calgary
Calgary Opera Association One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre Theatre Junction
Society Edmonton Catalyst Theatre Society Edmonton New Shadow Theatre Society
Latitude 53 Society of Artists The Brian Webb Dance Company Theatre Network Society
Lethbridge Blackfoot Canadian Cultural Society Calgary Calgary Seniors' Resource
Society 5,000 Category total 5,000 POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION Edmonton University
of Alberta Writer-in-Residence Program
Meacham Dancing Sky Theatre Regina
Opera Saskatchewan Regina Symphony Orchestra Saskatoon La Troupe du Jour Saskatchewan
Jazz Festival Saskatoon Opera Association Saskatoon Symphony Society Shakespeare
on the Saskatchewan Yorkton Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival
Saint-Boniface
Le Cercle Molière Winnipeg Jazz Winnipeg Manitoba Opera Association Manitoba Theatre
Centre Royal Winnipeg Ballet The Winnipeg Art Gallery TRIP dance company Virtuosi
Concerts West End Cultural Centre Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
Fondation Santé Notre-Dame Health Foundation 11,500
Belleville Quinte
Arts Council Blyth Blyth Festival (Blyth Centre for the Arts) Campbellford Westben
Arts Festival Theatre Elora Three Centuries Festival (The Elora Festival) Guelph
Guelph Chamber Orchestra Hamilton Brott Music Festival Kingston Kingston Jazz
Society London London Fanshawe Symphonic Chorus Board Niagara-on-the-Lake Shaw
Festival Theatre Foundation Oakville Oakville Galleries Ottawa Canada Dance Festival
Society Canadian Film Institute-Ottawa International Animation Magnetic North
Theatre Festival National Gallery of Canada Foundation Ottawa Jazz Festival Théâtre
la Catapulte Sudbury Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario Toronto Atelier Theatre Society
- Opera Atelier Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Cahoots Theatre Projects Canadian
Museum of Carpets and Textiles CanAsian Dance Festival Chamber Concerts Canada
(Soundstreams Canada) Crow's Theatre Dancemakers DANCE ONTARIO Association Factory
Theatre Lab Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists George R. Gardiner Museum
of Ceramic Art Harbourfront Corporation Hot Docs Janak Khendry Dance Company Kaeja
d'Dance MacBeck Studios Modern Times Stage Company Moonhorse Dance Theatre Music
Toronto Native Earth Performing Arts Native Women in the Arts Nightwood Theatre
Open Studio Toronto (cont’d) Puppetmongers Theatre PVAC Red Sky Performance Soulpepper
Theatre Company Talisker Players Chamber Music Tapestry Music Theatre Tarragon
Theatre The Hannaford Street Silver Band The Images Festival The Nathaniel Dett
Chorale Théâtre français de Toronto Theatre Smith-Gilmour Tiger Princess Dance
Projects Toronto Dance Theatre Toronto International Film Festival Toronto Symphony
Orchestra Via Salzburg Virgil Gallery Players Of Niagara Windsor Windsor Symphony
Orchestra Category total 483,050 Brantford St. Joseph's Lifecare Foundation 10,000
Burlington Sîan Bradwell Fund 5,000 Cambridge Saint Luke's Place 20,000 Erin East
Wellington Advisory Group Community Support Services 1,500 Fergus Crime Stoppers
of Wellington County 1,000 Guelph Alzheimer Society of Guelph-Wellington 500 Community
Living Guelph Wellington 5,000 Community Torchlight 2,500 Guelph Arts Council
5,000 The Elliott Campaign 50,000 United Way Community Services of Guelph & Wellington
85,000 Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington 5,000 Kapuskasing North Centennial
Manor 2,000 Kitchener Waterloo Region Hospitals Foundation 20,000 London Horton
Street Seniors' Centre 3,000 Salvation Army - Ontario West Division 20,000 St.
Joseph's Health Care Foundation 10,000 (cont’d) Ottawa Ottawa Hospital Foundation
50,000 Richmond Hill York Central Hospital Foundation 16,000 Simcoe The United
Way of Haldimand and Norfolk 1,500 St. Thomas Elgin-St. Thomas United Way Services
28,000 St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital Foundation 5,000 Toronto B'Nai Brith
Canada 5,000 Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation 2,000 Canadian National Institute
for the Blind 50,000 CIBC Mellon 500 Mon Sheong Foundation 25,000 Renascent Foundation
4,500 United Way of Greater Toronto 15,000 Welland Welland Hospital Foundation
5,000 Category total 454,000 POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION Guelph University of Guelph
100,000 Hamilton McMaster University 60,000 London Fanshawe College 5,000 University
of Western Ontario 20,000 Ottawa Hnatyshyn Foundation 15,000 Toronto Learning
Disabilities Association of Ontario 2,000 York University Foundation 2,000 Category
total 204,000 Category total 5,743 Aylmer East Elgin Community Complex 200,000
Guelph Trees for Guelph 5,000 Category total 205,000
Beauport Harmonie
des Cascades de Beauport Chicoutimi Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
L'Assomption Orchestre La Sinfonia de Lanaudière Lévis Diffusion culturelle de
Lévis Montréal bjm_danse Les ballets jazz de Montréal Blue Metropolis Foundation
Centre d'art visuel Danse-Cité Dulcinée Langfelder & cie Écomusée de la maison
du fier monde Ensemble Arion Ensemble Caprice Ensemble contemporain de Montréal
Espace Libre Festival de musique de chambre de Montréal Festival International
du Film sur l'Art Festival Orgue et couleurs Fondation Centaur pour les arts d'interprétation
Fondation de danse Margie Gillis Fondation de la cinémathèque québécoise Galerie
Liane et Danny Taran au Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman Imago Théâtre Infinithéâtre
KOBOL marionnettes La Corporation de l'Opéra de Montréal La Vie des arts Le Festival
International de Jazz de Montréal Le Groupe de la Veillée Le Nouveau Théâtre Anglais
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Le Quatuor Bozzini Le Théâtre de l'Opsis Le Théâtre
Petit à Petit Le Théâtre UBU Les Filles électriques Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
Les Idées heureuses Les Productions Nathalie Derome Les Productions Super Mémé
Les sortilèges-Danses du monde L'orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal Montréal
Baroque Montréal Danse Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal MUTEK O Vertigo Danse
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Playwrights'
Workshop Montréal Montréal (cont’d) PPS Danse Productions Traquen'art Quatuor
Molinari Répercussion Théâtre Sibyllines Sinha Danse Société de musique contemporaine
du Québec Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal Tangente Theatre B.T.W. Théâtre
de La Manufacture Théâtre du Grand Jour Théâtre ESPACE GO Théâtre La Chapelle
Théâtre Pigeons International Théâtre Q Art Usine C (Carbone 14) VOX, centre de
l'image contemporaine Vues d'Afrique Orford Centre d'arts Orford (J.M.C.) Québec
Carrefour international de théâtre de Québec Le Groupe Danse Partout Les Violons
du Roy Maison de production artistique et culturelle africaine Théâtre de la Bordée
Théâtre du Trident Rimouski Festi Jazz Rimouski Sainte-Geneviève Centre des arts
de la scène Pauline-Julien Saint-Sauveur Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur Sherbrooke
Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke Sillery Ensemble vocal André Martin Saint
Laurent Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie Sainte-Irénée Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix
Saint-Valérien-de-Rimouski Société des Concerts Bic St-Fabien Trois-Rivières L'International
de l'art vocal de Trois-Rivières Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières Vaudreuil-Dorion
Fondation de la Maison Trestler Victoriaville Productions Plateforme Westmount
Fondation Allegra Category total 721,100 Greenfield Park Fondation Hôpital Charles
LeMoyne 16,000 Lachine Fondation du Centre hospitalier de Lachine 5,000 Laval
Maison de Soins Palliatifs de Laval 20,000 Société Alzheimer Laval 10,000 Longueuil
D'un couvert à l'autre 2,000 Fondation du Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher 15,000
Société Alzheimer Rive-Sud et Maison au Campanile 5,000 Montréal Accueil Bonneau
2,000 Action Centre-Ville 1,000 Action-Santé de Pointe St-Charles 500 Alternatives
communautaires d'habitation et d'intervention de milieu 10,000 Ambassadeurs du
3e Âge St-Henri/Petite Bourgogne 2,000 Armée du salut - Montréal 125,000 Association
des paraplégiques du Québec 500 Association québécoise de gérontologie 10,000
Association québécoise des centres communautaires pour aînés 1,200 Association
sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud 1,500 Auberge communautaire Sud-Ouest
1,000 Baluchon Alzheimer 10,000 Centraide du Grand Montréal 225,000 Centrami 250
Centre communautaire Bon Pasteur 250 Centre Communautaire Tyndale St-Georges 3,500
Centre de Loisirs Mgr Pigeon 1,000 Centre international de résolution de conflits
et de médiation 3,000 Clinique communautaire de Pointe St-Charles 500 Club Kiwanis
de Montréal St-George 250 Conseil Régional des Personnes Âgées Italo-Canadiennes
500 Corporation de l'Étincelle (St-Henri) 2,500 Corporation Étoile du sud-ouest
de Montréal 250 Entraide Ahuntsic Nord 500 Fondation canadienne du foie 2,000
Fondation Centre de santé et services sociaux Jeanne-Mance 50,000 Fondation Constance-Lethbridge
10,000 Fondation de la Résidence Louis-Riel 400 Fondation de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-
Rosemont 20,000
Caraquet Productions de l'Étoile Dalhousie Festival de
musique de chambre de la Baie des Chaleurs Fredericton Atlantic Sinfonia Harvest
Jazz and Blues Festival New Brunswick Summer Music Festival The Fredericton Playhouse
Theatre New Brunswick Foundation Grand-Barachois Comité culturel de l'Église historique
de Barachois Johnville Carleton-Victoria Arts Council Lamèque Festival international
de musique baroque de Lamèque Moncton La coopérative de théâtre l'Escaouette Sackville
Live Bait Theatre Saint John Saint John Theatre Company Fredericton Partners For
Youth 5,000 Miramichi Miramichi Regional Hospital Foundation 20,000 Saint John
Loch Lomond Villa Foundation 10,000 Category total 35,000 Fredericton St. Thomas
University 10,000 Sackville Mount Allison University 125,000 Category total 135,000
Antigonish
Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre Canning The CoastArts Association Clementsport
Société Musique Saint-Bernard Dartmouth Eastern Front Theatre Society Halifax
Debut Atlantic Society JazzEast Rising Association Musique Royale St. Cecilia
Concert Society Symphony Nova Scotia Parrsboro Ship's Company Theatre Society
Dartmouth United Way of Halifax Region 10,000 Category total 10,000
Kensington
The Indian River Festival Association Victoria Victoria Playhouse
St. John's
Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company
Arts and Culture 25,000 A
Whitehorse Nakai Theatre Ensemble Whitehorse Concerts Yukon Arts Centre Corporation
Yukon International Storytelling Festival Arts and Culture 7,200 Yellowknife Northern
Arts and Cultural Centre Category total 7,200
PEACE
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