Re: support for the arts in the US

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From: Alan Barclay
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:03

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RE: Support for the arts is control

Canada seems to have a reasonable system of seperating government from the
arts they fund.  I'm not sure about Canada Council, but the Alberta
Foundation for Literary Arts was a body of established authors which
distributed government funds.  The sitting boardmembers elected the next
year's members and each board set their own criteria for grant awards.
Boardmembers recieved no money for their part in all this.  (Though some
argued their favorite psychophants did).

If Canada's literary funding is guilty of anything, it's encouraging
"Frontier Stories", "immigrant stories" and other "cultural" literature and
ignoring genre work.  Apparently they don't believe genre literature can
express any Canadian Character.
--
Alan


alan_barclay@mindlink.bc.ca

"When is a leg of lamb like a poet?"

Answer: "When it's browning."

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