Comments on: Arts grant applicant tells: the bureaucracy is killing us! http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/01/arts-grant-applicant-tells-the-bureaucracy-is-killing-us/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/01/arts-grant-applicant-tells-the-bureaucracy-is-killing-us/#comment-12528 Jeff Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12528 Dear Arts Industry Insider,<br /><br />Apologies for any miscommunication. Please find enclosed blank signed cheque. Do as you will. Feel free to photograph pre-pubescent kids and promote it as something "new", "innovative" and "pushing the boundries" in order to make a name for yourself.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Ye-to-be-respected-holder-of-funds Dear Arts Industry Insider,

Apologies for any miscommunication. Please find enclosed blank signed cheque. Do as you will. Feel free to photograph pre-pubescent kids and promote it as something “new”, “innovative” and “pushing the boundries” in order to make a name for yourself.

Regards,
Ye-to-be-respected-holder-of-funds

]]> By: Richard S http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/01/arts-grant-applicant-tells-the-bureaucracy-is-killing-us/#comment-12529 Richard S Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12529 "Audience numbers, box office, touring, and sponsorship are way up. The sector is an incredible success story of efficiency and entrepreneurship. The Council could do with streamling the grant process and getting out of the way so that all this activity can continue."<br /><br />An incredible success story of efficiency and entrepreneurship, yet which finds it necessary for the grants process to be streamlined at the same time so that it can continue .... ? That seems a little contradictory. If income is 'way up', entrepreneurship and efficiency would seem to make the grants a 'nice to have' rather than a necessity.<br /><br />I support public funding of the arts, but not an entitlement mentality. “Audience numbers, box office, touring, and sponsorship are way up. The sector is an incredible success story of efficiency and entrepreneurship. The Council could do with streamling the grant process and getting out of the way so that all this activity can continue.”

An incredible success story of efficiency and entrepreneurship, yet which finds it necessary for the grants process to be streamlined at the same time so that it can continue …. ? That seems a little contradictory. If income is ‘way up’, entrepreneurship and efficiency would seem to make the grants a ‘nice to have’ rather than a necessity.

I support public funding of the arts, but not an entitlement mentality.

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