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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.
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many childrens' facilities/hospices/respite centres use creative therapy to help those children, this will be affected as well with funding for arts being cut where do you think they will get their funding for the resources from?
Many are allocated a certain amount of funding for creative resources, this has been cut down to minimal amounts. The funding cuts affect many people including children. I didn't specify this at first because I wanted to see whether people would just assume I meant art- as in painting. I have got a very clear impression that people are ignorant about the impact of these cuts and have a pretty narrowed opinion.