Huron-Bruce M-P-P, Lisa Thompson recently met with representatives from the Blyth Centre for the Arts to congratulate them on what they were able accomplish with two grants from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Blyth Festival Artistic Director, Gil Garratt said the support from the Province has been amazing and they were successful in getting two grants.
“One was to Resilient Communities, one was Community Building and really what we were able to do is, both, be able to keep Blyth Festival healthy and hale and whole and running and be able to keep building what we’re building with the Harvest Stage,” Garratt said.
Garratt said the Harvest Stage has really become a beautiful new piece of outdoor infrastructure that now allows them to offer the Blyth Festival outdoors and they’re very excited about the prospect of being able to offer performances indoors and outdoors on the same night.
“The potential for the two to compliment each other so well is amazing. And then, on top of that we are starting to have conversations with other groups like the Threshers or Rutabaga Festival, going here’s an opportunity if you want to try to use this stage, if it can be part of your event too, then great.”
Garratt added, if it serves the whole community, that’s really what they’re trying to do. One of the grants from the Ontario Trillium Foundation was for 150-thousand dollars and the other was for 250-thousand dollars.
