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Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
The number of applications and their value, as at 11 June 2020, are shown in the table below. Due to low numbers in some suburbs, the information is shown by district.
|
District |
Number of approved applications |
Value of approved applications |
|
Inner South |
25 |
$31,035 |
|
Woden |
24 |
$27,305 |
|
Tuggeranong |
21 |
$25,053 |
|
Weston/Molonglo |
12 |
$13,751 |
|
Inner North |
53 |
$57,076 |
|
Belconnen |
63 |
$68,552 |
|
Gungahlin |
44 |
$52,802 |
|
TOTAL |
242 |
$275,573 |
Arts—local artists and performers
(Question No 3036)
Ms Le Couteur asked the Minister for Tourism and Special Events, upon notice, on 5 June 2020:
(1) What proportion of entertainment and art was provided by local artists and performers at this year’s Enlighten festival.
(2) What proportion of the entertainment and art program for Floriade this year had been planned to be provided by local artists.
(3) What measures, if any, have been undertaken to support paid entertainers and artists who may have been originally booked for Floriade 2020 prior to the decision to cancel it
(4) What formula, if any, is used to calculate the payment to artists and entertainers who perform at ACT Government-funded events and does this differ across different types of events; if so, how.
Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) Across the 2020 Enlighten Festival program, 88 per cent of artists and performers were from the ACT.
(2) Floriade and NightFest annually engage 96 school and community groups – with more than 4,853 individual artists, school group performers, community group performers, workshop providers and professional performers over the 30 days.
Approximately 80 per cent of these performers are from the ACT, with the remainder from the surrounding region or elsewhere in NSW.
(3) As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Floriade will not proceed in its traditional format in Commonwealth Park this year. However, the event has not been cancelled. It will be delivered via a re-imagined format, including garden bed plantings and potted sites at locations across Canberra, along with online programming. Work on revised programming for the 2020 event is currently underway.
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