WINTER
THE FEDERATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA WRITERS NEWSLETTER
1988
Mailing
Address:
Offrce Address:
P.O. Box 2206, Main Post Office, Vancouver,
BC V6B 3W2
Ste. 706 - 402 West Pender Street. Vancouver.
BC V6B
1T6
Tel: 683-2057 for this, urging increased political action. This we have been reluctant to do, because some members of the Cultural Services Branch have been verv supportive and also, to be blunt, for fear ofjeopardizing what funding we have.
SEASON'S GREETINGS!
What makes this worse is that the grant we applied for was only for nine months, as we had to change our fiscal year - primarily to accommodate the Cultural Services Branch.
Now, Cultural Services Branch will not let
us
change our application date in accordance with our new fiscal year. They won't let us play by their own
rules. o
The gloves are off.
You are a member of a valuable organization. Please tell this to the Cultural Services Branch. Send a strongly worded letter to:
WE TAKE ON VICTORIA
G. Richard Brownsey
When is a $5,000.00 increase really a $57,000.00 decrease?
When the Cultural Services Branch ignores the fact that we have more than met the conditions given to us a year ago and gives us only $5,000.00more than last year to meet the needs of more than three times as many writers.
When we had 200 members we received
a
$25,000.00 operating grant. Now that we have 700 members we are offered $30,000.00. This increase amounts to a decrease from $125.00 to $42.86 per member. The Federation has always been polite ro the Cultural Services Branch. Some of vou have chided us
Director Cultural Services Branch Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture Parliament Buildings Victoria, BC V8V IX4 with a copy to the Federation Office. This is the first step in a continuing strategy devised by the Federation to demonstrate that BC's writers will not go away.
ZoeLandale, President Heather Glebe, 1st Vice-President Clemens Rettich, 2nd Vice-President Sheena Ashdown. Treasurer