Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 07:53 amGrant Malcolm8 posts in thread
Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 07:53 amWhen you commit to working on a community theatre production, are you volunteering or recreating?
We don't generally expect that volunteers should have to pay for the privilege of donating their efforts to the community.
On the other hand, as the user-pays principle permeates every facet of our society, recreation has been commoditised and we're paying more and more for it.
How would you counter an argument that community theatre companies are providing recreation opportunities not volunteer services and as such members should be paying fees commensurate with membership of a health club?
Cheers
Grant
We don't generally expect that volunteers should have to pay for the privilege of donating their efforts to the community.
On the other hand, as the user-pays principle permeates every facet of our society, recreation has been commoditised and we're paying more and more for it.
How would you counter an argument that community theatre companies are providing recreation opportunities not volunteer services and as such members should be paying fees commensurate with membership of a health club?
Cheers
Grant
RE: Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 02:58 pmWhere'd this one come from Grant?
When you commit to something, anything, there must be a certain amount of volunteering otherwise you're simply lying to yourself.
In terms of theatre, and certain other pass-times (and employments for that matter) there is also a percentage of Creating not so much re-creating.
There is also a portion of Giving when you commit yourself, be that the giving of yourself in terms of hard work and time, and/or financial. I don't see it as "Paying for a Privilege." More "Supporting a Cause."
As regards to the Recreational aspects of you posting, Well yes, Local Theatre is providing a Recreation of sorts, but not so much for those involved as for those watching.
I'm not sure where you are heading in terms of Helth Membership Fees. To my knowledge, they are really high. Local Theatre Membership fees aren't that much are they?
Jeff "For the Experience" Watkins
When you commit to something, anything, there must be a certain amount of volunteering otherwise you're simply lying to yourself.
In terms of theatre, and certain other pass-times (and employments for that matter) there is also a percentage of Creating not so much re-creating.
There is also a portion of Giving when you commit yourself, be that the giving of yourself in terms of hard work and time, and/or financial. I don't see it as "Paying for a Privilege." More "Supporting a Cause."
As regards to the Recreational aspects of you posting, Well yes, Local Theatre is providing a Recreation of sorts, but not so much for those involved as for those watching.
I'm not sure where you are heading in terms of Helth Membership Fees. To my knowledge, they are really high. Local Theatre Membership fees aren't that much are they?
Jeff "For the Experience" Watkins
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