Mar. 29th: Celebration Lunch

Wow!  After an epic free dinner, I was lucky enough to get a free lunch today.  Only the lunch today was actually free and did not require a sales pitch.  In fact, it was a lunch celebrating some free money! ... Well not quite, but almost.  Celebrating money we had never received before, never budgeted for, and it just showed up in our bank account.

Remember a couple of years back, when BC pretty much cuts its funding by approximately 90%.  They quickly realized that they had went a little too far so they increased the funding (meaning that the original cut was only about 60% or so).  I might be approximating a bit, but basically Arts & Culture got screwed. But somehow a miracle occurred and the government admitted that they had made a mistake in cutting the funding at all.  So they reinstated all of the funding to the same level it was at during the time it was cut.  This gave companies a month or two to get their applications in for the special intake grant for the remainder of the season.  We had never officially received the funding yet, but at the time that the grants were cut, we had just submitted our application that would have almost guaranteed us some funding had the grants not been cut.

Well here we are, and for the first time ever we have received Gaming funding.  As the one who manages our cash flow, this is one heck of a relief.  We weren't in dire straits before, but it's great knowing that we've got lots of wiggle room.  Things are going so well at the theatre right now.  Maybe a little too well.  Season launched, subscriptions coming in, monthly donations coming in.  I'm starting to feel uncomfortable. Maybe a random donation pitch will make me feel awkward enough to balance things out.

If anyone wants to donate to the theatre you can make a one-time donation here, or sign up for our monthly donations here. Even just $5-10 a month can really help our sustainability.  Remember, every little bit helps!

... much better.