What happened to the funding for The Chocolate Martini?
(A South West Aboriginal entertainment event which was mean to be held in September) Della Rae Morrison and Jessie Lloyd from SWAE said: “Unfortunately due to the lack of support from the WA Government its Department of Culture and the Arts and its peer assessment panels, the 2009 shows will be cancelled and be taken out of WA.” Response: Since 2007 The Chocolate Martini has received $52,000 in funding from the Department of Culture and the Arts through the Contemporary Music and the Indigenous Arts grants programs. Both of these grants programs provide funding on the basis that the activity is aimed at supporting and profiling WA artists from both regional and metropolitan areas. Activities that are funded multiple times are required to demonstrate growth and sustainable practice and not dependency on government funding. Q2: One of the organisers said one of the reasons for the panels rejection of the application for funding this year was that the event didn’t support local artists en
