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Apparently, around 5% of the population of East Lancashire is employed in some creative means - the definition includes web designers, film and media industries as well as freelance artists, actors, workshop tutors, etc - so it's a really broad definition.

What it means is that around about 26,000 people (I got rough population figures off the Lancashire County Council website) are earning their livings through being creative. For Hyndburn that means around about 4,000 people if my calculations are ok.

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Would a barber/hairdresser be classified as working in the "creative" sector? Not that I use 'em much, but I would guess that there must be a good few hundred of 'em around Accy.

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Doubt it very much!

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If it is, why doesn't your arts venues put on more and better quality shows, events etc, why does it struggle to get people to a museum, why do they keep changing it's direction. I think it's true, and I don't think it's offensive, because it's the product of a vicious circle created in the first place by cut backs, lack of arts in all areas, lack of promotion of those arts. Other town smaller than accy have a civic centre that puts on some great shows, bedworth civic hall in warwickshire is probably my nearsest, but even then that isn't advertised as it should be.
If you deprive people of the arts, your going to get people who don't even know what it means, some people have never been to a theatre in their life. I don't consider that to be entirely their fault.

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Said The Accrington Observer's equivalent to Kenneth Clarke. Okay dillon, let's see you stand up for the insulted mass of Accrington's culturally aware. I am looking forward to reading of the inaccuracies (note sp.: one n, three c's) in my offending post, and I just can't wait to see you get your sleeves rolled up and get stuck into The Fight for the Arts in Accrington. Do you perhaps intend selling tickets? If so, may I reserve a ringside seat?

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Dillon works for the LET I think. Used to work for Acc Obs.

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Thanks Gayle, that would explain a great deal.