Posts by Sacha
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our culture
For a local creative life probably deprived of the 'best' concertos, ballet and oil paintings, check this photo essay. Libraries do get a mention, however.
“Every group here has its own culture, its own art and we can bring it together for everyone with our art… Take the designs you get in Tapa… Or like Maori has a flowing style, Rarotongan has a natural style wit flowers, hibiscus – You could use Hibiscus instead of clouds and the Samoans have a formal style, straight organised style… All these styles we could use. Do Koru instead of arrows.” -Claude Iusitini/Street Action Aotearoa
Thanks for the pointer, Mr Grigg.
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Perfect
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Or do you mean a reflection of a stereotype of what everyone should be...?
Tells us more about what's in Paul's head than mine.
More than Midnight Youth or whatever they're called? I'd say so. More than Shihad? I'd say so. More than Smashproof? Lyrically? No. Musically? Hmmm.
Oh, and Christopher's it seems.
Anyone wonder why lefty intellectuals get stereotyped as elitist?
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Dunedin: Rated Highly
No mucking around there
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the City Council logo might be different from the 'tourism brand'
Which is why I was describing functions of the new unitary Council rather than characteristics of the place
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I carefully avoided including dog control in that list, lest Barnes's earlier offering seemed apt. :)
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You're right, there is a sense of entitlement at work in this whole discussion: I think the entire population is entitled to access great culture over the airwaves, for free -- with classical music as just one part of it -- and I absolutely think government should be in the business of funding it.
Elitist might well be one word for that. Another would be "radically egalitarian."
Though I have to say it would seem more "radically egalitarian" if the "great culture" made available to everyone actually reflected.. everyone
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Couldn't quite figure out whether to follow up with deckchairs and something about an iceberg, or point to the horizon and exclaim about the whiteness of the whale.
Then I found myself humming the theme from the Love Boat, and feeling mutinous.
Aaaaarrrrrrrrrrr!!
I like the way your mind works
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Would that make a difference?
Might stop some resentful whining
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anyone from NatRad or Concert FM following this discussion (reveal thyself!)
..and tell us some audience composition figures, perhaps.
They can hardly be commercially sensitive, can they?