hi there
we will be going to this
hope you consider coming too
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From: "Grunts for the Arts ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's time to face up to the inevitable. Time to acknowledge the true
nature of what we face. Time to stare at the naked forces of life.
We will have to lay down the pens and the paintbrushes. Have to buy
sports shower gel and knee supports. We will have to turn off the
computers, the studio lights and the PA systems. I-Pods and pedometers
will be turned on. Some us will even need to buy sports bras.
It is inevitable, but we must be honest and embrace the truth. For
with the massive reduction of funds to the Grants for the Arts scheme
so that the Olympics can be properly funded, artists, and thousands of
them, are going to have to retrain as sports people to ensure balance
is maintained in our society, the world, perhaps even the entire
cosmos.
To assist with the retraining of thought and body that will be
essential in facilitating this shift, an artistic sports day is being
organised for the 26th May, on Hackney Marshes in East London (large
parts of which are being developed for the Olympic site).
We need competitors, equipment and ideas for sports along the line of
dry-land synchronised swimming, the fifteen-legged race and
tranny-boxing. We need bunting and stewards, poster-makers and banner
painters, publicists, musicians and photographers.
If you think you might be able to help, stop wondering cos you bloody well
can.
Let us know how you can contribute, promise us you will come, share
your excitement at the forthcoming change in career, write to us
please, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's embrace this time
together, enjoy the sunshine and let the non-artists amongst us
appreciate quite what is happening with this cut.
See
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2007/03/this_arts_council_cut_will_dev.h
tml
for Lyn Gardner's thoughts on the matter.
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