The subject is a little too vague to just brush in 4 categories.. I would not even want to start listing them all here. But schools are a good start, although I have seen some wasteful ones that do nothing.
Agreed. I had to simplify it to fit it into a poll though, which is why I included the other option.
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But so many small arts programs and productions need help to keep going that its scary. Small theatre plays at the local level and not the big productions must be encouraged. Not everyone can afford to go see the big production of plays with the kids but would like them to be exposed to better then school quality acting.
But if schools provided quality arts education, at least these start up companies could save money on having to train their actors. Already a start while at the same time ensuring that everyone benefits directly from public arts funding in that all children would have access to this education. If we just fund the companies directly, then what company do we fund, and by how much. The field becomes ripe for favouristism then. And not everyone would necessarily care to go to this or that particular theatre that receives the funding. What constitutes good art is simply too subjective.
I agree schools are important as well. I meant that some school abuse the Arts funding as much as anyone else.
Also where do we start to keep Canada's identity ? We need more Museums and Art centres for our kids to learn about Canada as well. If we want to be proud of this Country, we need such places to remind us how great we are..
I do not need a museum for me to love this country. And where are we to build these museums? I live in the Capital region, and we have museums up our yingyang, but is that fair? How many museums are there in Victoria? Not even half as many yet the population is roughly the same. So how do we allocate these museums? Leave it up to the private sector to decide. Again, if a local school deems it worthwhile to take kids to a field trip to a particular museum, they can pay the ticket from their school funding, and in that way support that museum. This woudl also ensure that all towns across Canada could develop such small inexpensive museums, rather than us hogging all the museums here in Ottawa.
Our only Museum in Victoria BC is the Royal BC Museum a provincial one. Yes we could use many more. I know of none in Vancouver a city overwhelmingly bigger. Perhaps it is just I am not aware but I have looked.. It seems we could do a better job. How many in other big cities. Then again, nothing has to be built overnight..
As for loving this country, you may not need this for you to love it, but it would probably boost more peoples ego in Canada's pride if they had it..
Also while we are at it events such as Canada Day, Dragon Races, Heritage day and other such local Proud in Canada type of event depend on some form of funding from this department. However little comes from here must help build the community and shape and focus that Canada Attention at every corner.
They depend on the funding because they always got the funding. Cut the funding and they'll start fund raising.
Fact is cutting the funding has resulted in losing the events.. This is not just a theory but fact here.. raising funds may sound great in corporate America but does not happen in Canada due to the fact we do not hand out tax breaks in return.
Last but not least we need funding for great children and educational programming on TV that is not supported by big corporations..
As I've mentioned before, educational art funding should fall under general education funding, not art funding.
No it cannot be the same.. Educational funding is for school and not children not yet in the school system.. We are not talking apples to apples here..
While much of this is viewed as a Government handout, many of these events bring a lot of "tax" dollars in to the budget in the form of the GST and people coming to visit..
So if it's such a money maker for local businesses, then those businesses will be quick to organize and fill the void when government leaves, won't they? I can guarantee that if local businesses believe that this funding is profitable for them, they'll gladly fund it themselves.
Businesses that are small restaurants and such do not band or make enough profit to pull in such events.. That is why they depend on the Arts program to bring the event to them and benefit the neighbourhood.. Go to a festival and ask a small concession of they could ever bring that event over on their own.. Chances are they would not and would lose a major part of their yearly income and tax payment to the government. The sides benefits often times out weight the costs and you must look beyond what you pay.
Yes supporting stupid events is not OK.. But looked after properly this department should be doing fine..