Additionally; a depressing fact I scrawled down at SotA (I think from David Edgar) about the hugely over-budget Olympic opening cermony. The excess cost could have provided funding twice over for all the organisations that were cut from RFO funding last year.
What would you rather have? Extra fireworks or some real long-term investment in the arts. Priorities ALL WRONG.
Lastly, I sat next to a poet during the middle part of the day. He wondered if the logo had been designed to indicate the State of the Arts – peeling and crusty with old layers of paint.
