LOOKING FORWARD TO AN ENERGIZING 2017!

LOOKING FORWARD TO AN ENERGIZING 2017!

Our Annual General Meeting was held this past Monday, December 19.

We have just reached a milestone; our first anniversary at 41 Victoria Street East which has been a fantastic and exciting year: a year of enormous changes!

It has brought more and more new people in the door and it has expanded our horizons to work with more people on initiatives outside of our original arena.

Going forward, we expect to continue to grow, facilitate more innovative arts activities, improving the quality, timeliness of both our advertising and programming, to accommodate our growing communities and continually encourage new, high, calibre and unique artworks in the Gift Shop.

We have been thrilled with our experience in 2016 and are very excited to embark upon 2017:
• membership has increased by 10% over last year at this time.
• we have been blessed with 133 volunteers, contributing 1,800 volunteer hours October 2015 – October 2016
• Service providers coordinated 25 workshops, a significant milestone in our history
• we have met great success in our new location showcasing 2,500 pieces of Artworks in the Gift Shop, realizing over $15,000 worth of Sales for our local Artists; $4,000 revenue for SSAC
• SSAC’s Annual Music Festival continues to raise awareness of our local talent. For information on the 2017 Music Festival go to our ArtsETalk and save those Dates!

Our sincere thanks to our volunteers. Your time and efforts are truly appreciated!

Please note that we will be closed as follows:

Friday, December 23 @ 5:00 pm through to Tuesday, January 3 @ 10:00 am.

Emails will be checked during this time to ensure any urgent matters are looked after.

On behalf of the Board of Directors; I convey our very best wishes to each of you and your families for the upcoming holiday season.

Lynda Mitchell Reynolds
Executive Director
lyndamitchell@Rogers.com
705-716-6394