Sport v Arts
Mon, 11 Sept 2000, 05:22 pmNorma4 posts in thread
Sport v Arts
Mon, 11 Sept 2000, 05:22 pmdid anyone see the page in the "100 Greatest WA sports Stars' supplement to Monday's West? see page5 , the one next to the article on Shirley de la Hunty)
Quick maths reveals that $65 million (Yes) has been spent by the Government on Sports facilities in WA over the last twelve months.
How much on the Yarts I wonder?
Incidentally Mike Board, Minister for among other things The Arts will be opening the 2000 DramaFest on Thursday September 28th at Fremantle . Polite protests only please.
Quick maths reveals that $65 million (Yes) has been spent by the Government on Sports facilities in WA over the last twelve months.
How much on the Yarts I wonder?
Incidentally Mike Board, Minister for among other things The Arts will be opening the 2000 DramaFest on Thursday September 28th at Fremantle . Polite protests only please.
RE: Sport v Arts
Tue, 12 Sept 2000, 11:59 amWalter Plinge
Hey, yeah, wow!
S28 here we come...
Is he actually staying for the session, or is he just opening it?
Do you want us to blockade his car on the way out so he can't leave rather than on the way in?
$65million on sports facilities?
And we still don't have a Soccer Stadium?
To give a good comparison of the governments performance in the arts...
The WA Opera is the largest single beneficiary of the government arts dollars, the same is true of South Australia. In fact throughout the country opera gets roughly the same percentage of the arts pie from their respective governments.
This year, the WA Opera could only manage two productions:
Madama Butterfly, an Opera Conference production (which means that it is financed and used by all 4 opera companies, WA Opera, State Opera of SA, Opera Queensland and Opera Australia) which was first produced here six or seven years ago; and
Orlando, which was produced with OzOpera, the touring arm of Opera Australia.
This week I received next years subscription brochure for the State Opera of SA, a state roughly the same as ours as far as population is concerned, but possibly poorer as far as finances.
Next year SOSA are doing:
A NEW production of The Turn of the Screw;
The Opera Conference production of Andrea Chenier;
The Australian Premiere of Wagner's Parsifal in a NEW production (their Ring cycle of a couple of years ago was borrowed from Theatre Chatelet in France);
A NEW collaboration with the Australian Ballet of Faure's Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana; and
a concert of Verdi's Requiem.
The disparity in repertoire between these two companies is, I think, one of the most telling signs of how little Arts gets funded in WA.
I know that their are many claims on the government pie (health, education, Pharaonic monuments)
And I don't think this money should be taken away from Sport.
Dammit, I WANT that Soccer Stadium!!!
BUT, how come SA can manage it, and we can't?!
If Melbourne was 'The Battle of Seattle Part II'
I say bring on 'The Fracas of Fremantle'
Paul Treasure
S28 here we come...
Is he actually staying for the session, or is he just opening it?
Do you want us to blockade his car on the way out so he can't leave rather than on the way in?
$65million on sports facilities?
And we still don't have a Soccer Stadium?
To give a good comparison of the governments performance in the arts...
The WA Opera is the largest single beneficiary of the government arts dollars, the same is true of South Australia. In fact throughout the country opera gets roughly the same percentage of the arts pie from their respective governments.
This year, the WA Opera could only manage two productions:
Madama Butterfly, an Opera Conference production (which means that it is financed and used by all 4 opera companies, WA Opera, State Opera of SA, Opera Queensland and Opera Australia) which was first produced here six or seven years ago; and
Orlando, which was produced with OzOpera, the touring arm of Opera Australia.
This week I received next years subscription brochure for the State Opera of SA, a state roughly the same as ours as far as population is concerned, but possibly poorer as far as finances.
Next year SOSA are doing:
A NEW production of The Turn of the Screw;
The Opera Conference production of Andrea Chenier;
The Australian Premiere of Wagner's Parsifal in a NEW production (their Ring cycle of a couple of years ago was borrowed from Theatre Chatelet in France);
A NEW collaboration with the Australian Ballet of Faure's Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana; and
a concert of Verdi's Requiem.
The disparity in repertoire between these two companies is, I think, one of the most telling signs of how little Arts gets funded in WA.
I know that their are many claims on the government pie (health, education, Pharaonic monuments)
And I don't think this money should be taken away from Sport.
Dammit, I WANT that Soccer Stadium!!!
BUT, how come SA can manage it, and we can't?!
If Melbourne was 'The Battle of Seattle Part II'
I say bring on 'The Fracas of Fremantle'
Paul Treasure