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VIDEO about Arts posted on September 9, 2009 by dawn

BC Budget Visualization

Vancouver media artist and education Jer Thorp has posted an excellent series of visualizations of the BC Budget announcements earlier this month.

He writes: "In the images above and below, we see the 114 items in the budget with expenditures of $1M or higher (bars represent money spent). Arts & Culture funding moves from the 57th highest expenditure at 19.5M in 2008/2009 to the 100th highest expenditure in 2009/2010 with less than 3.7M in funding. This is clearly a significant drop. Not only does Arts & Culture lose a lot of money, it loses much more money in comparison to other programs."

Thorp has also created a video through which to understand the visualizations. 

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