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Originally Posted by Neil
I don't see what the issue is. Gayle has stated she will tell you when the event is over as she does not want the event to be judged on cost alone as happened with the other one.
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It wasn't 'one'.
We were informed of the costs of all the other events, including the costs of the flash mob, which had yet to happen. Which makes people wonder why this event is different from the rest.
The fact that the cost of the flash mob was stated as one thousand pounds, that being the fee paid to the dance teacher, when infact it was £1,160.00, is neither here nor there.
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The 'issue is' we are supposdly, according to the government's Minister of Culture, living in a time when all publicly funded art projects should be open, and transparent about their funding.
It shouldn't be a game of peek-a-boo.
Some you see. Some you don't.
If it is, it leaves people wondering why the costs of some art events are being kept hidden, until after they've happened, and when the professional artists have banked their fees, and safely headed back over the Pennines to Yorkshire.
As for 'judging'. It seems a little odd that someone starts a thread, asking people to judge the value of publcly funded art, if they aren't to be given all the relevant information as to make that possible.
Whether those involved decide it would be wise to release the cost of funding this event now, is up to them.
It will become public knowledge.
That could be before the Victorian Swimming Gala has happened.
Doesn't sound like particularly good Google Page Ranking, not to be honest and open about it, at this present time.