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Do we need an arts council? Join the debate tonight!
Have I Got News for Art blog has set up a debate at Trent University Bonnington Building Atrium, tonight, Thursday 24th May : 7pm - 8.30pm
The debate's starting point is the cut in funding to the Arts Council due to the increasing costs of the Olympics in 2012.
Have I Got News for Art says; 'How do you feel about it? Some say it a disaster, others that it may mean some common sense may at last prevail. Do we need an Arts Council anyway and do we need more or less debates on our behalf like The Arts Council Debate? A panel of experts (well some people who know a bit about it) and a chance to moan and throw sticks from the floor at Trent.'
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Yes, it would be very nice to have an Arts Council.
as a desperately emerging artist unable to find even a job as barstaff in the local pubs and getting side tracked right now from filling in my application for funding with Arts Council, i think it is a good thing that we have a body that may fund your project. it is detrimental to the arts in a world art centre such as London to have arts funding cut to filter more funds into a project that will only run for two weeks and the facilities will likely fall into stagnant waters as all past Olympic facilities have around the world for decades. as much as i understand the benefits of sporting events from inspiring young people to the joy of your team winning the champions games, arts also has it's place in society and should not be pushed aside to accomadate another spectrum and vise-versa.
I think the question is "What is the Arts Council?". It seems to be an organisation that funds arts for arts sake. Wouldn't it be better to fund arts for the public sake, they are inevitably paying for it. I don't think we need an organisation that funds arts for arts sake. So the answer is no, we don't need this current Arts Council.
I have never benefited from the arts council, and from what I hear it's an absolute nightmare trying to get any funding from them. So would it be reall
The arts council england North East has some very strange staff who have commented "photography isn't art" "recording the cultural landmarks of an area from the stone age upwards lacks imagination" "Painting the portraits of people with and without mental health issues to study how we stigmatise identity is a no go" There are also people there who resent coming and seeing artists and the spaces they want to develop, something I would have thought to be an important part of their job. One individual doesn't seem to know where a Training and Development centre is on their patch. This I fell answers the question of Who should represent the arts council? and this will help us to determine whether we need one.
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