The West End Cultural Centre says it needs $50,000 by the end of the year to stay up and running.

The non-profit venue inside a former church at the corner of Ellice Avenue and Sherbrook Street is appealing to the general public for donations through a fundraising campaign.

“This $50,000 would allow us to enter the year in a safe situation where I don’t have to be thinking about laying people off or cutting people’s hours, and I don’t have to be thinking about cutting programs down,” Jorge Requena Ramos, WECC’s executive artistic director, says during a phone interview.

“This place has always been for-community, by-community place, and this is a community solution.”

Since its founding by Ava Kobrinsky and pioneering Canadian folk impresario Mitch Podolak in 1987, the WECC has become a

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