The Yarts
Tue, 14 Dec 1999, 10:01 amNorma3 posts in thread
The Yarts
Tue, 14 Dec 1999, 10:01 amHas anybody seen page 7 of Tuesday's 'West'?
Item headed "WA tops nation in cultural pursuits"
"Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics showed that, on a per capita basis, more people in WA attended the theatre, dance, classical concerts, and operas or musicals than in any other state "
Nationally 16.6% attended theatre while in WA the figure is 17.9%
Rest of figures too long to quote but look them up, they are very interesting.
Next time your local Council indicates that allocating money to "culture" is a waste of time show them this!
Item headed "WA tops nation in cultural pursuits"
"Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics showed that, on a per capita basis, more people in WA attended the theatre, dance, classical concerts, and operas or musicals than in any other state "
Nationally 16.6% attended theatre while in WA the figure is 17.9%
Rest of figures too long to quote but look them up, they are very interesting.
Next time your local Council indicates that allocating money to "culture" is a waste of time show them this!
RE: The Yarts
Wed, 15 Dec 1999, 05:09 pmJeff Watkins wrote:
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>CUT IT OUT. PASTE IT ON YOUR FRIDGE. MAIL COPIES OF TO YOUR FRIENDS >AND THE COMMUNITY POLICY MAKERS!
hehe
I have to admire your passion, Jeff.
I considered the most telling aspect of The West report (good on you Nick Miller!) to be the surprised reaction from Ricky Burges, director-general of WA's Ministry for Culture and the Arts.
"The past year has generally held bad news for Perth's arts community, with the near closure of Effie Crump Theatre..."
"'It is great that the public and community are interested in and supporting the industry,' Ms Burges said. 'Unfortunately, that doesn't translate into the costs related to running the industry.'"
Clearly ArtsWA was not expecting these sorts of figures given attendance and takings at funded performances.
I wonder what percentage of the ABS figure was made up by people not attending ArtsWA funded theatre, but community theatre instead?
If anyone is interested the actual Australian Bureau of Statistics release can be found here:
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3110122.NSF/66b4effdf36063e24a25648300177cd5/a6c8cec3d81491f3ca2568460000492f?OpenDocument
People may also like to check out just where the last round of ArtsWA dollars went:
http://www.imago.com.au/artswa/artsum1.htm#_1006
(it's right down the bottom of the page)
Cheers
Grant
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>CUT IT OUT. PASTE IT ON YOUR FRIDGE. MAIL COPIES OF TO YOUR FRIENDS >AND THE COMMUNITY POLICY MAKERS!
hehe
I have to admire your passion, Jeff.
I considered the most telling aspect of The West report (good on you Nick Miller!) to be the surprised reaction from Ricky Burges, director-general of WA's Ministry for Culture and the Arts.
"The past year has generally held bad news for Perth's arts community, with the near closure of Effie Crump Theatre..."
"'It is great that the public and community are interested in and supporting the industry,' Ms Burges said. 'Unfortunately, that doesn't translate into the costs related to running the industry.'"
Clearly ArtsWA was not expecting these sorts of figures given attendance and takings at funded performances.
I wonder what percentage of the ABS figure was made up by people not attending ArtsWA funded theatre, but community theatre instead?
If anyone is interested the actual Australian Bureau of Statistics release can be found here:
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3110122.NSF/66b4effdf36063e24a25648300177cd5/a6c8cec3d81491f3ca2568460000492f?OpenDocument
People may also like to check out just where the last round of ArtsWA dollars went:
http://www.imago.com.au/artswa/artsum1.htm#_1006
(it's right down the bottom of the page)
Cheers
Grant