The value of public funded art

[Less]

Originally Posted by cashman

No you look fer em. its you says theres been none.

Tsk, you want a woman you claim to be blinkered to go wandering alone in a thread 24 pages long?

Until now I thought you a gentleman.

[garinda]

Is fashion art?

No?

Still, I'll share this anyway.

Chap was approached by a 'local fundraiser'

They'd secured funding to hold a Wimmin's Day event at a Town Hall.

Part of the funding was one thousand pounds, purely to stage and produce a fashion show.

Chap, with some past experience in this sort of nonsense, was asked to help put on the fashion show, having choreographed such things in the past, professionally.

Chap turns up at the allotted time, hangs about a bit, then is informed that because of religious beliefs, and him having a winky, the wimmin would not be going in any room with him, to practice walking about like a model etc.

Fair enough.

Chap goes home.

Chap's later informed, by a friend who took part the 'fashion show', who didn't have a winky, it was just a few wimmin, walking about the stage for a few moments, in hats they'd trimmed up.

Chap thinks blimey! That sounds a bit like what old ladies do in community centres at Easter, after they've sewn some daffs and a few fluffy chicks on a bonnet, and happens across the land, and costs nowt. No funding required.

Chap's left wondering about the worth to the community of such events, and the value of an 'event' that cost a thousand quid, to only partly put on.

[katex]

Originally Posted by Less

Tsk, you want a woman you claim to be blinkered to go wandering alone in a thread 24 pages long?

Until now I thought you a gentleman.

Wandering alone has never been a problem for me Less. Cashy is a gentleman and probably tired like myself. If I can face this onslaught of verbal, wandering a labyrinth of pages on the Internnet is child's play.

Will pick up this discussion tomorrow .. sleep well Citizens ...hope I don't see a guillotine and a row of knitters (hmmm .. idea springs to mind) in the centre next week with my name on the head basket. xx

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

Is fashion art?

No?

Still, I'll share this anyway.

Chap was approached by a 'local fundraiser'

They'd secured funding to hold a Wimmin's Day event at a Town Hall.

Part of the funding was one thousand pounds, purely to stage and produce a fashion show.

Chap, with some past experience in this sort of nonsense, was asked to help put on the fashion show, having choreographed such things in the past, professionally.

Chap turns up at the allotted time, hangs about a bit, then is informed that because of religious beliefs, and him having a winky, the wimmin would not be going in any room with him, to practice walking about like a model etc.

Fair enough.

Chap goes home.

Chap's later informed, by a friend who took part the 'fashion show', who didn't have a winky, it was just a few wimmin, walking about the stage for a few moments, in hats they'd trimmed up.

Chap thinks blimey! That sounds a bit like what old ladies do in community centres at Easter, after they've sewn some daffs and a few fluffy chicks on a bonnet, and happens across the land, and costs nowt. No funding required.

Chap's left wondering about the worth to the community of such events, and the value of an 'event' that cost a thousand quid, to only partly put on.

Sounds right up your street, if only equality of the sexes could be extended to men I think you could have been in there!

[garinda]

Originally Posted by katex

Wasn't a valid opinion ... was just downright offensive.
Stop sidetracking.

I'd suggest that's subjective.

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

If they want to learn to dance let them pay for it like I did out of my paper round money instead of freeloading and providing you with - what should we call it? Satisfaction? salary? self gratification? or just abuse from the majority of people that have responded to this thread, in which case you must be in serious danger of becoming a serial masochist.

Strongly worded perhaps, but seems genuine and heartfelt to me, even if I disagreed with it.

Though not something I'd so rudely and dismissevly label as 'disgusting' myself.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

Sounds right up your street, if only equality of the sexes could be extended to men I think you could have been in there!

I'm only passing on this information, from a 'close friend', to illustrate the amount of funding that is availavle to produce these wonderful community extravaganzas.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by katex

Wandering alone has never been a problem for me Less. Cashy is a gentleman and probably tired like myself. If I can face this onslaught of verbal, wandering a labyrinth of pages on the Internnet is child's play.

Will pick up this discussion tomorrow .. sleep well Citizens ...hope I don't see a guillotine and a row of knitters (hmmm .. idea springs to mind) in the centre next week with my name on the head basket. xx

French Revolutionary knitters were mentioned weeks ago, along with someone else farting about, doing his hobby.

Oh yes, it was Nero fiddling, whilst Rome burned.

Do keep up.

Sweet dreams x.

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

I'm only passing on this information, from a 'close friend', to illustrate the amount of funding that is availavle to produce these wonderful community extravaganzas.

Good heavens, you mean this sort of thing happens in real life?

Well, who would have thought it?

Still at least we can sleep peacefully in our beds knowing that such a thing would never happen in our little patch of nirvana.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by garinda

I'd suggest that's subjective.



Strongly worded perhaps, but seems genuine and heartfelt to me, even if I disagreed with it.

Though not something I'd so rudely and dismissevly label as 'disgusting' myself.

Serious about quoted post, but on a less serious note, just because we'll never agree on this, as I don't with Gayle, and has happened on other occasions, it doesn't mean I think any less of anyone.

I do (like and) admire Gayle's dogged determination to get things done, and I still think you're a sweetheart.

Sleep well.

I hope your dreams are beautifully choreographed x

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

Good heavens, you mean this sort of thing happens in real life?

Well, who would have thought it?

Still at least we can sleep peacefully in our beds knowing that such a thing would never happen in our little patch of nirvana.

Tis true.

Id trust this 'close friend' with my life.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

Still at least we can sleep peacefully in our beds knowing that such a thing would never happen in our little patch of nirvana.

Yes, we must be thankful for small mercies.

It could never happen here.

Folks round here aren't that daft.

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

religious beliefs,

I'd be almost tempted to accuse you of being your own close friend except that I know from other threads you don't have any religious beliefs, so you couldn't have been that winky.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

I'd be almost tempted to accuse you of being your own close friend except that I know from other threads you don't have any

I do have 'close friends'!

How very dare you.

You know full well I, whoops, we, are schizophrenic.


me-us-us-us

[garinda]

useyourhead, great harwood says...

'Maybe they could crochet some hats to hand out to our elderly who can no longer afford to heat their houses!'

Hyndburn arts scheme spends £2,500 on crochet sculpture (From Lancashire Telegraph)

All very well coming up with fancy ways in which wool can be used.

But is it art, and would that simplistic approach secure funding?

[yerself]

Originally Posted by katex

Cynicism ought to be the eighth deadly sin; a very unpleasant characteristic.

Or, as beardyman put it:

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~George Bernard Shaw