Re: The value of public funded art
 

I was editing bad quotes not commenting.
I was even bored with the thread doing that.

Re: The value of public funded art
 

Deep breath.

Out with anger, in with love.

There's quiet an art to forming the world's longest misquotation chain.

But happily...very little costs are involved.

:D

Re: The value of public funded art
 

These town centre 'artistic' escapades are so 'contrived' that they are an embarrassment to good taste. I would feel that way even if they were free. The cost just increases the embarrassment.

Re: The value of public funded art
 

Would be interesting to know what you define as good taste Margaret. Brass bands, Pavarotti type singers, Swan Lake chorus lines, Actors spouting Shakespeare ... what ?? Please let us know ... would be interesting to know what the public think up front (as mentioned earlier).

The events are all run by extremely skilled and talented people in their art .. not amateurs. Just a little further up the line in this decade.

For one, who spouts on about buying on line and not visiting our town to spend her money in the town centre .. find your remark a little hypocritical.

Re: The value of public funded art
 

Doubt if I'm alone in wondering about this, but could someone in the know please explain exactly what a "Victorian Swim Gala" is . Only mental image I can conjure up is a bunch of 'owd' civic minded wrinklies in soggy ill fitting knitted/crotched Victorian bathing costumes , out in the rain catching their death in the winter weather , don't believe there is anywhere to swim in downtown Accy so what will they be actually doing ? :confused: :confused:

Re: The value of public funded art
 

I shop online due to my physical limitations.
I have visited the town centre occasionally lately in early evening, when I can park on Dutton St and have only a short walk to my favourite restaurant. I choose not to apply for a disabled parking badge because I am not capable of meandering from shop to shop to buy what I need.

That does not mean that I do not have civic pride in what goes on in the town centre.
We have a climate which limits what can be used to attract people into town.
I have seen the US airforce band playing a Glen Millar show in a small town square in Italy.
I have seen several bands playing a wide variety of music in St Marks Square Venice.
With our climate the best we can hope for are the Sally Army and some hardy buskers.(free)

Tourist type gimmicks aren't going to work in Accrington.
Reduction of rents and business rates for small traders will attract the small specialist traders that other towns don't have.(and Accrington used to have)

Re: The value of public funded art
 

Very true.

These are professionals, who are being paid their fees from the taxes people pay.

Re: The value of public funded art
 

Apparently fishing's the most popular pastime in the country.

Perhaps we should bring a little 'colour' to their lives, by bunging them all a few grand from the public purse.

If art isn't paying comercially, with no one prepared to fund it, other than government, why should art as a hobby be any different from angling?

Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

I did suggest it, as it seems to have raised quite a bit of debate on the forum, but I think it would be of interest to know the answers to a simply worded question.

Do you, or do you not think, community art projects should receive funding from the state?

Re: Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

you could have added .. dont know .. some things might be value for money and others might not ...

Re: Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

I wanted the poll to be aery straightforward question.

If people don't know, they have the option not to vote.

Moderators, if in the interest of tidiness, you want to add the poll to the other thread, please do.

:)

Re: Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

ah well then i cant vote .. some i like ... and a good idea .. others are rubbish and not worth it ...

Re: Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

As we don't have an option in the elections to vote for 'none of the above', we'll class your's as a spoiled paper.

:D

I did suggest the other thread starter created a poll, to visibly gauge public reaction to this topic, but it wasn't taken up.

I tried in the wording to be both clear, and fair.

If people who wanted to vote 'I don't know', can't, I'm sorry.

Re: Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

Question ... What do you consider Public funded art ? Some would consider the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was publicly funded from the collection plate , think maybe a bit of co-ertion went on in those days (not much different from todays Govt taxation systems ) though the arguement could be made that the blokes in frocks (Popes and Cardinals) who commisioned it had better taste of what was considered good than todays educated "Art Kommisars".
I'm also thinking that the commitees, most probably made up of local 'Worthies/Notables' that approved the designs for many of the WW1 war memorials ,most paid for by pubic subscrition Publicly funded Art had more idea what was 'good value for money' and a and what was rubbish unlike todays troglodytes.

note to moderators ...not sure if the above should be in this thread or the other , feel free to move , thx

Re: Publicly funded art - the poll.
 

It isn't quite as black and white as the poll would suggest, although I'm swayed towards a 'no' vote at the moment because we simply don't have the resources to justify any extra money for anything which isn't absolutely essential to the borough.

If 'community arts' could be said to include preserving old film and audio recordings of times gone by as a historical record then I would definitely say yes but one man's meat...