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Creative NZ declines funding proposal towards Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 5:30pm
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Creative NZ declines funding proposal towards Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 5:30pm

A concern the Bard of Avon has been unfairly slandered.

Creative New Zealand has declined a funding proposal for $31,000 towards the Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival.

It's also called William Shakespeare's work part of a 'canon of Imperialism'.

Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ CEO, Dawn Sanders, says that's completely untrue.

She says the British Empire didn't exist in Shakespeare's time, so the description makes no sense.

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