What do you think about the cuts in arts funding?

[flashy]

Exactly my reaction in my post John

[garinda]

Originally Posted by SamF

Methinks that this question on a messageboard where the majority of users were brought up in a northern impoverished old mill town is pretty pointless, the answer is a resounding couldn't care less

Er...that sounds like the idiocy of youth speaking.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Especially when it's their taxes funding the garbage maquerading as art.

As someone who's proud to come from a nothern mill town, but who also happens to be public school educated, with an honours degree in art, and who worked in a creative, yet commercial world, in the capital and throughout the world, for the majority of his life, I can quite happily say that cuts in funding won't affect the arts that are wanted, and appreciated, but happily it will see the end of much of the dross that's funded from the public purse, and supposedly has artistic merit.

Come back when you've left full time education, and you're working....and funding this crud.

In the meantime congratulations on the stupidest post of the month.

Jolly well done you.

[SamF]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Or who gives a flying

I got a warning for swearing the other week, thought best not

[garinda]

Originally Posted by SamF

I got a warning for swearing the other week, thought best not

Now you've been warned for being a bit thick.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Well, I am the product of a northern Mill town......during my childhood we listened to classical music....including opera. My mother was an accomplished pianist, my father played the violin and both of them worked in the weaving mill......this despite the fact that my mother speaks 13 languages(7 of them fluently).
Art is a very personal thing....some people like Ballet, some opera......some like to view sculptures/visual art....but in the real world, we sometimes have to choose necessities over luxuries.

Let me pose a question to you......If you were the father/mother of a sick or disabled child, where would you like to see the funding go? To a childrens facility/hospice/respite centre or to some Art project??
To me, the answer is a no-brainer.

Don't make assumptions about the good folk of this town......just because we are from an industrial area, which over the years has not had the funding for the luxuries of Art,(and what has been funded has bordered on the ludicrous) does not automatically mean we are all philistines.

[gynn]

Originally Posted by SamF

Methinks that this question on a messageboard where the majority of users were brought up in a northern impoverished old mill town is pretty pointless

Probably the silliest and most juvenile post I've seen on this site.

Presumably the responses from a south east prosperous new town would be more worthwhile?

Grow up you little tit.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by gynn

Grow up you little tit.

I'm sorry Gynn...I have to ask this......do you mean blue, or mammary?

[SamF]

Originally Posted by garinda

Er...that sounds like the idiocy of youth speaking.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Especially when it's their taxes funding the garbage maquerading as art.

As someone who's proud to come from a nothern mill town, but who also happens to be public school educated, with an honours degree in art, and who worked in a creative, yet commercial world, in the capital and throughout the world, for the majority of his life, I can quite happily say that cuts in funding won't affect the arts that are wanted, and appreciated, but happily it will see the end of much of the dross that's funded from the public purse, and supposedly has artistic merit.

Come back when you've left full time education, and you're working....and funding this crud.

In the meantime congratulations on the stupidest post of the month.

Jolly well done you.

Eurgh calm yourself - I didn't say anything for or against I simply stated that the opinion held by most from the area would be that they couldn't care less. How is that in any way stupid, surely you would agree that it is fact ?

[gynn]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I'm sorry Gynn...I have to ask this......do you mean blue, or mammary?

Neither. It was a term of abuse

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Well, I am the product of a northern Mill town......during my childhood we listened to classical music....including opera. My mother was an accomplished pianist, my father played the violin and both of them worked in the weaving mill......this despite the fact that my mother speaks 13 languages(7 of them fluently).
Art is a very personal thing....some people like Ballet, some opera......some like to view sculptures/visual art....but in the real world, we sometimes have to choose necessities over luxuries.

Let me pose a question to you......If you were the father/mother of a sick or disabled child, where would you like to see the funding go? To a childrens facility/hospice/respite centre or to some Art project??
To me, the answer is a no-brainer.

Don't make assumptions about the good folk of this town......just because we are from an industrial area, which over the years has not had the funding for the luxuries of Art,(and what has been funded has bordered on the ludicrous) does not automatically mean we are all philistines.

Exactly, not forgetting two of the twentieth century's most successful artists, both critically and commercially, who were both products of impoverished northern mill towns, Lowry and Henry Moore.

As you say Margaret, there's also the musical choirs, bands, and amateur dramatical societies, who have helped many people with talent to go on to world renown, and massive acclaim. Many from this borough.

[SamF]

And again, all I said was that the majority opinion in a poorer area such as ours that art is not a priority how can anyone refute that ?

[Margaret Pilkington]

SamF..... that is the problem with the internet, the nuances fail to get across, and if you read it back to yourself, surely you will see that it sounds ever so patronising.

[gynn]

Originally Posted by SamF

Eurgh calm yourself - I didn't say anything for or against I simply stated that the opinion held by most from the area would be that they couldn't care less. How is that in any way stupid, surely you would agree that it is fact ?

Why would the opinion of people from that area be so obvious? Can't they think for themselves?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Art is not a priority while other more important things are going to the wall for lack of funding....wouldn't we be seen as a laughing stock if we spent money we can't afford on Art projects, while not being able to fund vital services.

Arts are the luxuries you buy when you are flush.......you don't buy when you can't pay the rent.

[Margaret Pilkington]

The only obvious thing is that making assumptions is generally not a good idea.