Mark Wilde wrote:
> Here in Northeast we are looking at the arts as a
> driver for economic development, not a by-product. A
> multicultural festival would be great, but don't
> mistake it for anything of substance.
>
> Mark Wilde
> Windom Park
>
As a resident of ne, I'm not forcing the arts to be anything other than what
the arts are, fun, bizarre, liberating, beauty, healing, senseless, and
irreverent. To throw a leash on it is counter productive. We should want it
for more than economic reasons. How art changes us is why we do it and value
it.
Trust me the arts will only continue to grow here in ne, and inmho, a
multicultural festival is anything but insubstantial.
I think about how much is missed by the mainstream generation of all ages,
that chronically play it safe when it comes to the arts, or integrating the
arts in their lives. Or integrating arts into meaningful political change.
And because arts are held within cultures how could one be of substance and
the other not. Because I took the losing side on highway 55, I experienced
the whole range of a deliberate life and artful resistance to pow wows and
ceremonies. More art in sixteen months of occupation than sixteen years of
post school-life education.
Robert Yorga
St. Anthony West
"Why do you believe the letters and arts superior to the pursuits of the bow
and arrow?
Do they more truly fulfill the ambitions of the human heart, according to the
measure of light and knowledge, which determine the actual conditions of the
different races of men."
Chief Aupaumut, Mohican, c. 1725
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