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Orgs angry over handling of Arts Vic funding

Does political interference account for the odd timing of the long-awaited Organisations Investment Program recipients?

24 Sep 2013

Richard Watts

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Many Victorian arts organisations had reason to celebrate this week as 88 arts and cultural organisations received $26 million in the first year of funding through the Organisations Investment Program (OIP).

But instead the sector was rife with dissatisfaction at the way the long-awaited announcement occurred: a month late and at 11am on Sunday.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts