What’s the Arts Council doing for the Coronation?
NewsThis morning’s press release:
Arts Council England is supporting communities around the country to come together through culture for the Coronation of His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen Consort.
From arts and crafts to classical music, there will be a range of exciting activities for people of all ages and backgrounds to get involved with, putting creativity at the heart of the celebrations.
As ever, our investment is about making sure that in more places, more people get the chance to experience the best in creativity and culture.
The Arts Council is pleased to support and highlight special Coronation activity taking place in May to unite the nation for this historic occasion, including:
A £165,000 award to Libraries Connected, who will distribute funds to two regional networks for work in public libraries celebrating the coronation. Funds will be shared amongst each of England’s 150 public library authorities to commission or host events that reflect or celebrate the King’s Coronation.
£250,400 of National Lottery funding has been awarded to the Coronation Bandstand Project, staged by Music for Youth, which will provide inspirational opportunities for thousands of children and young people to take part in and watch performances in public park bandstands across the country, from Penzance to North Tyneside.
Musicians from Arts Council England funded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Royal Opera House Orchestra will join members of five other world class orchestras in the Coronation Orchestra. They will perform during the coronation service a programme reflecting the King’s ’s love of music, including a number of new commissions personally selected by His Majesty.
So….they’re not doing that much then.
What. A. Waste. Of. Money.
You know Chuck is a billionaire, right?
You know his mom and him applied for and received annual European “farm” subsidies for their private estates, right?
THANK YOU GOD they are not part of the EU anymore, if one French franc had to go to their idiot coronation.
No, but the face of a workable democracy in England – where geriatrics don’t get to run government – is still pretty stunning.
Maybe not geriatrics but we have in power a bunch of crooks, enabled by the same ancient feudal system that keeps the plebs in their place and helps Chas and his tribe get richer – adding to their personal hoard on the back of “state” gifts – while many Brits struggle to make ends meet. As for a “stunning” workable democracy…. our electorate must have been stunned to vote this cabal in.
You know French francs don’t exist anymore, right? You lost those when you decided to let the Germans determine your economic policy.
Burn!
I think “samach” is a bit confused.
@samach – you know there’s been no such thing as French francs for quite some time, right? And “Mom” is such a giveaway.
Considerably more appealing and probably much cheaper than the annual car burning ceremonies in Paris.
The French franc, like the French guillotine, still exists, and one day, when the time is right, they will pulled out of storage and …
put to good use.
“…supporting communities around the country to come together through culture…”
Sounds very much like what this site achieves on a daily basis.
Except for the crafts and the Coronation Orchestra.
But we get orgasm-symphony hit lists instead.
Who are the other five World Class Orchestras? The LSO is currently on tour in Australia.
They should sponsor a performance of The Threepenny Opera, as that is about how much money the country will have left after this overblown and antiquated ceremony in the midst of a serious economic downturn.
Why on earth is the ACE involved putting cash into an event like the coronation? Next we hear will no doubt be its funding street parties for some anniversary or other. Total waste of limited available resources.
More to the point, why is ACE sponsoring a political event? Many of us are deeply affronted by the fact that Charles Windsor is being crowned head of state (alongside a wife he took after cheating on Diana Spencer in a most duplicitous manner) solely on the basis of his parentage, without any democratic due process. To my mind, this is not a cause for celebration at all.
@SVM: Oh dear. The Coronation is not a “political event” – that’s the whole point, but it’s obviously eluded you. And I’m not sure who “many of us” are, but I’d say much more of us disagree with you, particularly on your fatuous analysis of the breakdown of somebody else’s marriage.
Nothing I hope.