Members are meeting next week to decide the fate of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society.

The organization, which has been dedicated to the promotion and preservation of traditional music and culture in Newfoundland and Labrador for the last half century, is on the brink of collapse.

This coming summer would be the annual folk festival’s 50th year if the board members can find a way forward.

A meeting has been called for the evening of December 17th to make a decision on one of two options; to move forward as a volunteer-run organization, or to dissolve the Folk Arts Society.

The organization, which announced last month that it was facing a “crisis of significant proportions,” closed its office and laid off its administrative coordinator. Executive director Julie Vogt resigned.