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Originally Posted by Gayle
A-B - we didn't get the £1.6m funding. It is only the ground floor that is being refurbished with HBC capital investment.
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Oh I see, the bid failed and we don't qualify for "great art for all". Why does that not surprise me.
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It will be run like a business so will in time make profit for HBC - in the same way that other public buildings are supposed to.
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Run for profit. I can't criticise the hope but I do think that it is a pretty forlorn one. the words HBC, Business and Profit do not naturally follow one another in anything like logical association.
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Whilst I agree that you could give a talentless oik a video camera and you will not create Ingmar Bergman, the opposite also applies that if you give someone with talent a camera there is the outside possibility that you might create the next Danny Boyle.
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I would have thought that the odds are better in playing the Lottery.
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We have a lot of talent in the area and to nurture it is a good thing. Whether people like it or not, there is a lot of money in the Arts for actors, directors, designers, lighting, sound engineers etc (and not all Arts Council funding). Just because we live in Oswaldtwistle it doesn't mean that some of our young people shouldn't have the best possible opportunities available.
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Are you offering Vocational Qualifications?
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It is nothing like we 'had before' A-B. We don't have anything like this facility and this provision already. There are a few good youth groups but they don't offer training in behind the scenes skills - directing, sound, lighting, video etc that this facility will be offering.
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How do you think Local Drama have managed to put shows on for the last century without passing on stage management and production skills? Of course it is every bit the same old, same old. except with a bit of new equipment
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As for the name - Civic Arts Centre and Civic Theatre I think - Oswaldtwistle is part of the address.
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Call it what you like and tie yourself up in knots over wehther it is correctly inclusive enough, but it won't change what it is. Short changed again.