Tuesday 2 November 2010
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Thursday 21 October 2010
The End of Culture?
Good God, what will happen to the people of this country?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUzOHckX-Ns
Is this the end of the arts culture too, with the cuts devastating the funding pots of Arts Councils up and down the country?
As a former volunteer Youth/Arts Worker, I understand (from a volunteer prospective) the strain local councils are under (already), to keep organisations alive and kicking which provide vital support to local communities. Youth schemes and community projects are in place to improve the areas affected by poverty, crime and unemployment. Without these schemes what will these young people have to strive for?
What are the long-term repercussions of these cuts, which have been made so 'carefully' by the Conservative government?
What's being cut: Local Government - current spending down 27%; capital spending down 100%: Communities - current spending down 51%; capital spending down 74%
Councils will see a 7.1% annual fall in their budgets. But ring-fencing of local authority revenue grants will end and councils will have freedom to borrow against their assets. Funding for social housing to be cut by more than 60%, with new tenants having to pay higher rents. But the government hopes these changes will free up funds to build 150,000 new affordable homes over the next four years."
What's being cut: Current spending down 24%; capital spending down 32%
Administration costs to be cut 41% while core arts programmes will see a 15% fall in funding. Free museum entry to remain in place. BBC licence fee to be frozen for next six years. Corporation will also fund World Service and BBC Monitoring. Adds up to equivalent of 16% savings over the period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUzOHckX-Ns
Is this the end of the arts culture too, with the cuts devastating the funding pots of Arts Councils up and down the country?
As a former volunteer Youth/Arts Worker, I understand (from a volunteer prospective) the strain local councils are under (already), to keep organisations alive and kicking which provide vital support to local communities. Youth schemes and community projects are in place to improve the areas affected by poverty, crime and unemployment. Without these schemes what will these young people have to strive for?
What are the long-term repercussions of these cuts, which have been made so 'carefully' by the Conservative government?
From the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11569160
Communities and Local Government
Annual budget: £33.6bnWhat's being cut: Local Government - current spending down 27%; capital spending down 100%: Communities - current spending down 51%; capital spending down 74%
Councils will see a 7.1% annual fall in their budgets. But ring-fencing of local authority revenue grants will end and councils will have freedom to borrow against their assets. Funding for social housing to be cut by more than 60%, with new tenants having to pay higher rents. But the government hopes these changes will free up funds to build 150,000 new affordable homes over the next four years."
Culture, Media and Sport
Annual budget: £2bnWhat's being cut: Current spending down 24%; capital spending down 32%
Administration costs to be cut 41% while core arts programmes will see a 15% fall in funding. Free museum entry to remain in place. BBC licence fee to be frozen for next six years. Corporation will also fund World Service and BBC Monitoring. Adds up to equivalent of 16% savings over the period.
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Granny Got a Mobile and Didn't Get Killed by the Hitch-Hiker
Welcome to my blog!
I have finally decided to join the online world (aside from Facebook, which doesn't really count)! All the cool kids are doing it, so I accepted I must evolve with the rest of the world.
For years I approached technology, like an old granny with a mobile phone "it's too complicated for me; I don't need it!" What happens when granny runs out of petrol on a country lane (on a dark misty night) and needs to call someone, to save herself from the killer 'hitch-hiker'? YOU NEED A PHONE GRANNY!
For someone merely born in the seventies and not of that actual age, I have no excuse at all...
Maxie
I have finally decided to join the online world (aside from Facebook, which doesn't really count)! All the cool kids are doing it, so I accepted I must evolve with the rest of the world.
For years I approached technology, like an old granny with a mobile phone "it's too complicated for me; I don't need it!" What happens when granny runs out of petrol on a country lane (on a dark misty night) and needs to call someone, to save herself from the killer 'hitch-hiker'? YOU NEED A PHONE GRANNY!
For someone merely born in the seventies and not of that actual age, I have no excuse at all...
Maxie
Monday 18 October 2010
Hell: The Dark Side of Life
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| Reflections on Hell 2010 |
"There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain." - Bayard Taylor
"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other."
Laurence Sterne
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
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| Schizophrenic |
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| Raging Bull 2010 |
My pieces evolved from playing around with oil paint, using white-spirit to create a layered effect when the oil had dried. I abandoned the use of oil following this collection (for a while), as my impatience and love of immediate gratification was no marriage for something that requires patience and time
Max da Silva
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