fUnD rEsOuRcES aNd NoT aRtIsTs. Fund public recording spaces, instrument libraries, shared software licenses, training, venues... instead of artists.

I’m not mad Grimes got this money. It makes sense from FACTORs mandate. But it’s the wrong mandate. https://twitter.com/disc0p/status/1326161756234915840

Their mandate ( https://www.factor.ca/about-the-foundation/our-mandate/) is not to support small musicians but to elevate Canadian artists to reach a wider level. With this mandate it always makes sense to back an established winner and make them even bigger. With this mandate it never makes sense to take risks.

Even with a different mandate, it never makes sense to pick and choose which artists you support. Juries and councils should not be making subjective decision on what “art” is appropriate to fund.

Instead they should be funding resources that allow all Canadians to make music.

If you fund a public recording studio or an instrument library, you’ve enabled _thousands_ of people to create music the otherwise would not have been able to. And if you play the odds, you will inevitably pick multiple winners while making the right moral investment.

And if you take this to the limit: a public studio, a public venue, shared software licenses, shared instruments, etc... well this is just a LIBRARY.

So defund FACTOR; put that money into a musicians library. Canadian music will be the better for it and less people will hate it.