Rising costs, dwindling volunteer base cited as contributing factors
After screening more than 530 films and documentaries for local audiences over the last 23 years, the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival committee has reached the difficult decision to dissolve the organization.Citing rising costs and a dwindling volunteer base as contributing factors, Shadows of the Mind plans to screen one last farewell film on Friday, April 12. Details of this screening will be released once finalized.
The committee wishes to be clear on its decision so that our patrons know it was not made lightly. Shadows of the Mind has outlasted all the small film festivals that were launched around the same time in Ontario. It began in the late 1990’s with an idea floated by festival founder Mike O’Shea to local mental health and addictions colleagues to screen films that would shine a light on mental health and addictions. The first film screened at the Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre on Feb.
While industry challenges such as the immediacy of streaming services, technology, and rising costs of films and cinema rentals contribute to the decision to dissolve, the primary factor is an aging team of volunteers who are ready to step down and like many volunteer driven organizations today, Shadows of the Mind does not have a succession plan.
As a non-profit organization Shadows of the Mind concludes in good standing financially. In keeping with the Festival’s community focus the dissolution of the non-profit will be conducted over the coming months with festival assets to be dispersed to organizations in the mental health, addictions and social service sectors.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Trans Mountain says 'worst-case' could see pipeline completion delayed to end of 2024CALGARY — The crown corporation behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says it may not complete the project before December 2024 if a regulator does not approve its request for a route deviation. Trans Mountain Corp. says the new time frame is a worst-case scenario that could add close to $86 million in cost overruns to the final project price tag. Trans Mountain Corp. had hoped to have the pipeline in service in early 2024 but has run into engineering difficulties related to the drilling
Lire la suite »
Halifax woman's trial on human trafficking charges set for April 2024Chloe Wile, 20, will be tried by a N.S. Supreme Court judge and jury
Lire la suite »
Halifax woman's trial on human trafficking charges set for April 2024Chloe Wile, 20, will be tried by a N.S. Supreme Court judge and jury
Lire la suite »
Trans Mountain says 'worst-case' could see pipeline completion delayed to end of 2024CALGARY — The crown corporation behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says it may not complete the project before December 2024 if a regulator does not approve its request for a route deviation. Trans Mountain Corp.
Lire la suite »
Fed to leave rates unchanged on Sept. 20; cut unlikely before Q2 2024: Reuters pollThe Federal Reserve will leave its benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged at the end of its Sept. 19-20 policy meeting and probably wait until the April-June period of 2024 or later before cutting it, according to economists in a Reuters poll. Fed Chair Jerome Powell underscored the 'higher-for-longer' mantra for rates in a speech at the annual Jackson Hole central banking symposium in August and maintained another rate hike might still be needed to bring inflation down to the 2% target. But other members of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), including some of the more hawkish ones, have raised the possibility of holding off on another rate hike to allow more time to gauge the impact of the cumulative 525 basis points of tightening delivered by the Fed since March 2022.
Lire la suite »
Trans Mountain says 'worst-case' could see pipeline completion delayed to end of 2024CALGARY — The crown corporation behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says it may not complete the project before December 2024 if a regulator does not approve its request for a route deviation. Trans Mountain Corp.
Lire la suite »