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View Poll Results: Should public money fund community art projects?
Yes, it should. I value them. 3 11.54%
No, it shouldn't. I don't see their value. 23 88.46%
Voters: 26. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-11-2010, 07:38   #496
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I wanted the poll to be aery straightforward question.

If people don't know, they have the option not to vote.

Moderators, if in the interest of tidiness, you want to add the poll to the other thread, please do.

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Old 03-11-2010, 08:24   #497
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Thank you.

So skillfully was it achieved, it could be described as an art form.

You should be receiving funding.

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Old 03-11-2010, 08:54   #498
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Any news as to the costs of the under house parlour-maid 100 yard freestyle...yet?
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Old 03-11-2010, 09:05   #499
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Thank you.

So skillfully was it achieved, it could be described as an art form.

You should be receiving funding.

Shhh, or Roy will have to declare the Grant he's had, (according to rumour Grant is a 30 year old ginger mop top, but I wouldn't believe that if I was you, I've just made it up).

Erm' is lying an art form? Could I get a grant or would I have to wait until Roys finished with him?
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Old 03-11-2010, 09:08   #500
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Shhh, or Roy will have to declare the Grant he's had, (according to rumour Grant is a 30 year old ginger mop top, but I wouldn't believe that if I was you, I've just made it up).




I'll go and see the nurse now, to have my gash packed, in a state of mirth.

If comedy is an art form, you are an (occasional) genius.

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Old 03-11-2010, 09:10   #501
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I'll go and see the nurse now, to have my gash packed, in a state of mirth.

If comedy is an art form, you are an (occasional) genius.


Sorry, I was going to mention the word priceless in the quoted post, to keep us all on thread.

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Old 03-11-2010, 11:52   #502
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As we don't have an option in the elections to vote for 'none of the above', we'll class your's as a spoiled paper.
The elections are private though not public votes
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Old 03-11-2010, 12:08   #503
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well ya can tell which way i voted, cos all the same.
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Old 03-11-2010, 12:13   #504
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The elections are private though not public votes
I see Accy Web as a little virtual village.

This poll is like sitting in the village hall, having a show of hands, after having a discussion, following the question about the funding of community art projects.

I'm a great believer in transparency, just like the culture minister.

Talking of which, anyone heard how much the Victorian Swimming Gala has been awarded in funding costs...yet?

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Old 03-11-2010, 12:20   #505
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Difficult one that G, think gayles either sinking or swimming.
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Old 03-11-2010, 12:46   #506
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....anyone heard how much the Victorian Swimming Gala has been awarded in funding costs...yet?

Yes I have

I posted before that I will tell you after the event.
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Old 03-11-2010, 13:12   #507
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Yes I have

I posted before that I will tell you after the event.

Must be great to have friends in such exalted positions of power.

But it still doesn't answer the question as to why the funding costs of the flash mob were 'released', before the event had taken place.

Which rather makes a mockery of the excuse that the event's worth to us should be decided upon after it has taken place.

If, as the culture minister said last weekend, that there should be transparency regarding publicly funded arts, it seems rather churlish not to give the tax payer who've funded it, all the information now.

Instead the information has to be requested under the Freedom of Information Act, Taking up the valuable time of some poor sod at H.B.C., and with the probability that the costings might be in the public arena before the event, anyway.

There's nothing like transparency.

Sadly, this is nothing like it.
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Must be great to have friends in such exalted positions of power.
Nothing like that at all.
A friend told me about it privately so it will stay private.
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Old 03-11-2010, 14:34   #509
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I don't know whether it would be classed as 'art' but I'm also looking at the cost of Christmas switch-ons across the borough. We've got the Mayor to do ours but some other wards are rumoured to have celebrities and I'd like to know how much they're being paid if that's true.
I have just been informed that Area Councils have no intention of paying anyone to switch on any Christmas lights in Hyndburn.
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Old 03-11-2010, 16:48   #510
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Nothing like that at all.
A friend told me about it privately so it will stay private.
Oh to have such friends.

Ones willing to pass on information to other friends, but no one beyond the hallowed circle.

The fact that the government said last weekend that there should be transparency, regarding publicly funded art schemes, is neither here nor there, apparently.

When some over worked council employee has scurried about long enough, and supplied the information people want to know, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, which might well be before the event has happened, then we will ALL be in a position to decide the worth, and value to us, of the Victorian Swimming Gala.

As an exercise in good P.R., the continued scilence is one more badly thought out idea.
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