Sound Symposium

The SPPAO operates on a three-year cycle in which new applicants can apply only in the first year of the cycle. The program is currently in Year Two of a granting cycle. Organizations are guaranteed at least 75% of their initial grant for the next two years, as long as they maintain the same level of activity, and funding for the program does not change.

The organizations currently funded through the SPPAO are:

Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland - $20,000
Atlantic Jazz Initiative - $15,000
Eastern Edge Gallery - $36,687
Lighthouse Productions - $15,000
Neighbourhood Dance Works - $25,000
Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Council - $20,000
Newfoundland Independent Filmmaker's Co-operative - $35,000
Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra - $55,000
Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company - $43,313
Resource Centre for the Arts Visual Gallery - $20,000
Rising Tide Theatre Association - $60,000
Sound Symposium - $20,000
Stephenville Theatre Festival - $15,000
St. Michael's Printshop - $25,000
St. John's International Women's Film Festival - $15,000
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador - $45,000
Tuckamore Festival - $15,000
Wonderbolt Productions - $20,000

"The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council is very pleased to offer continued support to these great organizations and the valuable work they do," says Reg Winsor, executive director of the NLAC.

Applications are evaluated by a committee of artistic peers based on artistic vision, production activity, and administrative management. The next application deadline for new applicants to the SPPAO is February 15, 2011.
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The NLAC is a non-profit Crown agency that promotes and supports the arts through a variety of granting programs. It receives an annual grant, appropriated by the Legislature, to finance its granting programs, office administration, and communications.