Saturday, June 30, 2012
Bieber, TIFF and a Halifax museum: Why Tories are now friends of the arts
The Globe and Mail: As political announcements go, it wasn’t spectacular: $4,509,763 in funding for 69 Alberta arts, culture and language groups, including 64 who already rely on the same funding program. A poetry festival got $5,000, a theatre got cash for new wiring, and so on.
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It's good to see that the arts are seeing more support in Canada than they were previously. Even though, as the article stated, the announcement was not huge nor did it effect a whole lot of change regarding the arts, it's an important step in showing that the world is devoted to the arts. It's an argument that's been made time and time again, but it doesn't lose its truth -- the arts are important. In addition to the reasons mentioned in the article, the arts are important not only because the are an essential link to our human history, but also because they provide for us a form of entertainment and expression unlike any other. Art, in its many forms, allows us to say things about politics, about the problems of the modern world, even about things that "normal" society may not condone. When done properly, it makes us think about ourselves and the worlds we live in. Despite all this, it's also true, somewhat sadly, that it isn't always that we have the luxury of putting art first. I can't speak for the exact state of the Canadian economy, but sometimes it is in the best interest of the majority that the arts are not put foremost.
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