Ottawa Arts Presentations

November 19, 2008

Humanyms Blog post: 18-November-2008

City of Ottawa Council Chambers, pagehalffull on Flickr

City of Ottawa Council Chambers, pagehalffull on Flickr

The Ottawa City Hall Council chamber is a large room. Here’s about a third of it; all of it filled for the Arts Cut presentations from 8 speakers. Bottom line, returns on spending makes it more of an investment than an outlay. Festivals, fairs, museums, outreach programs, literary and drama programs rely heavily on volunteers. Meg Hamilton executive director of the Council of Heritage Organizations in Ottawa said that in her programs alone there were 42,000 volunteer hours last year.

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