Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:32:38 -0400
From: Robert Smythe <robertsmythe-AT-mumpuppet.org>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Maybe They're Right . . .


That's the way government is. Here in Philadelphia the Mayor has 
"pledged his support" behind efforts to save the city's only 
remaining movie palace. What this actually mean,s I've learned from 
my friends in the Mayor's Office for Arts and Culture (don't get me 
started there) is that IF someone actually does something, the Mayor 
will be there to get credit. But no one is actually taking a single 
step to do anything.

Oy vey.

>Robert Smythe wrote:
>>
>>
>>  On the other hand, companies like Faulty Optic seem to be doing quite
>>  well, although I heard that the Little Angel theatre had closed. Is
>>  this true?
>
>Dear Robert,
>It has indeed.  Ironically, earlier this year a meeting was held at the
>Little Angel with people from the Arts Council who called for a greater
>recognition of puppetry as an art form.  Unfortunately, the Arts
>Council, a government body, didn't back up its words with deeds.  The
>local Labour council of Islington slashed its funding to the Little
>Angel and it was forced to close.  The whole affair is a paradigm of New
>Labour's approach in general: give the masses BS, put the trite and
>conventional before all else and marginalize anything that's interesting
>or genuinely creative.
>
>Regards,
>Mark
>
>
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Philadelphia, PA 19106-2000

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