Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs that put writers and artists in schools.

Nova Scotia’s arts and culture sector was hit hard by cuts announced at the end of the day yesterday by the provincial government.

Of 287 cuts, more than 70 are in the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage. They include an end to the Publishers Assistance Program, which paid out $700,000 a year, the Artists in Communities program ($203,000), and the Arts Nova Scotia Artists in Schools program ($135,000).

Operating grants to arts organizations were cut by 30%, and the Community Assistance Program for museums goes from $100,000 to $50,000.

As news of the cuts broke late in the day, arts workers and administrators were in frantic contact with their colleagues, trying to take in the sheer scope of the cuts and how they would affect their organizations.

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