National Arts Festival faces financial fiasco weeks before 50th anniversary as NLC cuts funding
Festival patrons gather for free performances at the 1820 Settlers Monument foyer during the 2023 National Arts Festival .
The NLC took nine months before telling the festival, which has to organise stages, exhibitions, and international artists, that its funding application had been declined.One of the major funders of arts and culture organisations in the country, the National Lotteries Commission , has declined to provide funding for the National Arts Festival , which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. The festival also did not receive NLC funding for its 11-day event last year.
But on 21 May, nine months later and a month before the festival is set to start, Newton said the NLC informed them that funding had been declined.Newton said their application was declined “due to an apparent compliance matter”, which the festival disputes. On 22 May, the day after getting the bad news, the festival lodged an appeal in accordance with the NLC’s review guidelines.
She said if conditions for compliance were not met despite reminder letters, the matter was referred to the NLC’s Non-Compliance Grantee Committee to rule on whether the organisation should be listed or not. Regarding the time it took between the festival applying for the grant and being told it was declined, Scholtz said extra compliance checks had been introduced in the grant funding process in the last financial year. These new fraud prevention measures, along with “internal constraints”, had affected turnaround times. A public notice to this effect had been published in March.
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