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1. Bring Kim Possible Back On Air! 
Kim Possible was Disney's longest running show. After season 4, it was cancelled.
We need you to sign this petition to urge Disney into producing another season. Come on, Kim Possible fans!
Anything is POSSIBLE!
2. Rethink the council cut to Eden Arts
The cut of 70% to Eden Arts funding by Eden District Council – from £49k in April 2010 to £13.5k in 2014 will all but cease the local authority’s support for arts and culture in England’s biggest and most rural district – Eden in Cumbria - rural people love culture too!
Eden Arts turns the core funding funding it receives from EDC into a five fold (+) benefit . EA’s budget forecast for 2012-13 is that against the originally intended £43k from EDC Eden Arts will undertake £220k of spending on projects. We are only able to do this because we receive core funding paying for a small staff who fund-raise and create projects and promotions for the benefit of local residents and tourists alike.
We bring big stars like Bill Bailey, Billy Bragg, Globe Theatre, Northern Sinfonia to Eden on a regular basis. We create community projects like a new rural touring cinema for villages. We create locally embedded projects like FLOCK (www.jointheflock.co.uk) that allow people to participate in a fun and creative scheme that celebrates our local sheep farming. We support writers through creating www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk.
We support Cumbrian artists through our www.c-art.org.uk. We contribute to the vibrancy of the local area and its economy by running installation projects and a pop-up cinema in empty shops.
There is no publicly funded theatre, arts centre or gallery in Eden and no local authority arts officer. Eden Arts is all that the district has by way of arts development organisations– a cross arts organisation with a 20 year history of work for and in Eden. We work with other organisations such as Highlights Rural Touring to ensure that the arts are promoted and enjoyed in Eden. Eden Arts does way more than can be listed here, it punches way above its weight in order to give to the people of Eden.
The arts are a major employer, and they generate far more revenue than they cost to fund. In addition they are a major attraction for tourism in the UK. While cutting arts funding may save money in the short term, in the long run it risks undermining what has been one of the country’s most vibrant areas of growth over the past fifteen years, and destroying one of the national achievements that we should be most proud of.
One specific disturbing area of taxpayer abuse comes from the Department of Heritage and Official Languages.
It’s budget in 2010 was 3.1 BILLION – yes billion dollars of your money. We want you to know to whom that tax money was given.
Here are some "benefactors"; a group called FACTOR received $8.7 million to funnel to friends and music type projects. Factor funded a Vancouver punk rock “band” to produce an album titled Holy S*!t which contained very offensive content and graphics.
Another organization, Telefilm, received $104 million dollars last year. In the past couple of years it has funded films most Canadians would consider objectionable, including Young people F…ing, The Masturbators and The Year of the Carnivore (1.2 million ), the latter of which we question whether it contains child pornography images.
Funding for both these groups seems to given with no proper accountability or review.
The Canadian Council for the Arts received $183 Million and the National Film Board $69 Million, both annual recipients of millions of your dollars.
The CBC also received about $1.1 billion from Heritage budget last year, with a promise of more this year.
Heritage department policy and objectives state that it funds sustainable projects. The laundry list of recipients that receive money over and over is long and objectionable. Sustainable funding of unsustainable arts projects is a violation of Heritage policy. James Moore publicly bragged about how his government had given more money to the arts community in 2010 than any other government.
Canada has record debt and a large budget deficit. Taxpayers cannot afford this kind of waste.
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WE OWN 84% of Royal Bank of Scotland
WE OWN 41% of Lloyds (Bank of Scotland)
Join the online petition to guarantee AGM control so that we stop bonuses at RBS and Lloyds and lend to deserving small businesses who can safeguard and create jobs.
ALSO
VOTE THE BAN BANKERS BONUSES PARTY
at the forthcoming Scottish Parliamentary elections on Thursday, 5 May 2011.
In the Highlands & Islands region:
Kit Fraser, Owner of Award-Winning Pub & Live Music Venue Hootananny, Inverness
and the West of Scotland region:
Willie McLaughlin, Clydebank, Independendent Councillor West Dunbartonshire Council
Please also see the pledge to RBS & Lloyds at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/rbs-lloyds-customer-pledge/sign.html
5. QLD government support to an all ages music venue in Brisbane
Currently in Brisbane, none of the sizeable live music venues host live music for those under the age of 18, with the exception of the Old Museum Building and Powerhouse. Most deem the issues with delicensing too expensive or too much effort.
To make matters worse, dedicated all ages live music venues in Brisbane are at an extreme low, and due to government regulation, associated costs and the general lack of interest from the QLD Government, have been forced to operate illegally or close.
Currently within the Brisbane CBD (Southbank to Bowen Hills) there are five active all ages venues, Edge, The Hive, Old Museum, Powerhouse and The Alley. Recently Room 8 @ Fort closed which was the only venue of the size required to host all ages shows for more than 150 people for our more extreme alternative style acts, short of using Riverstage, which is obviously far too large for an average show.
While these three active venues are all great, The Alley is also soon to be closed, leaving Edge at the Library in South Brisbane and The Hive, both too small and too strict to run shows of any variety and Powerhouse and Old Museum. All of these venues reject heavy bands from playing in their venues.
While heavy music might not be glamorous for the types of people this petition is aimed at, it is still a large part of the music industry and some of the bands coming out of Brisbane are amazing and need support. Freezing out heavy music just because you don't like it is cruel and unfair, considering that as an experienced promoter in this town, and having dabbled in many genres, metal and hardcore remain the most outwardly popular styles of music.
This leaves a huge portion of the Brisbane live music community without a place to play. Young heavy bands have nowhere to play short of community halls in the outer suburbs, which, needless to say is a nightmare of logistics and hardly ever works out for the people putting on these shows.
Yes there are venues and options, but through costs, issues with regulations and those in positions of power simply not liking styles of music, anything heavier than Frogstomp era Silverchair is cast asunder.
The issues I hear about with behavior of heavy music crowds is way out of order. If these kids dance violently, they know what to expect. If one gets hurt in the mosh pit, they've gone in there knowing that there's a good chance of it happening. I've seen indie crowds break a venue. I've never seen a metal or hardcore crowd do it yet.
I believe the government needs to assist us with our cause. Either by opening up a new space, or encouraging the current ones to diversify.
6. Crisis in Arts and Culture Funding
On 13th March 2011 a letter signed by 46 Equity members appeared in the Observer newspaper:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/13/theatre-funding-cuts-actors
The letter speaks out about local and Government cuts to the arts and culture.
Read the letter here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/mar/13/letters-arts-spending-cuts?INTCMP=SRCH
7. Save The Arts! (Music, Theatre, Dance, etc.)
Our petition is stating that we want funds to go the arts, not just the sports.
At our school, funds are being taken out of the arts programs (Band, Show Choir, Art Classes) and being put into sports.
The Forest is a volunteer-run, collectively-owned, free arts and events space. We provide a dedicated space for people to get involved in any creative activity imaginable, and have also become a vital resource for social, political and environmental groups, providing space and equipment for events, workshops and fundraisers.
Due to the bankruptcy of our landlords, the building that the Forest currently occupies is up for sale. On the 19th of February 2011 we learned that a prospective buyer is currently in the process of closing a deal to buy the building with the estate agents, Graham and Sibbald.
So now, as well as continuing a hugely successful fundraising campaign to secure Forest's future, we're asking our friends and community to show their support: we do not want to see this listed historic building transformed into yet another generic coffee shop or sports pub, and we want to let any prospective buyer or developer know how strongly the community feels we should stay in our home. Please sign this petition to show our strength.
Up-to-date information about the campaign and details of how to donate are available at http://blog.theforest.org.uk/savetheforest and through our Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Forest-Campaign/187769714596278?ref=ts
9. Stop the cuts to Blackheath Halls
Greenwich Council is currently proposing to withdraw the whole of the Blackheath Halls’ annual grant effective from April 2011.
Blackheath Halls is in the process of appealing this decision and plans to make representations to the Council at a meeting later this month.
In addition to its vibrant programme of jazz, rock, folk, classical and world music, comedy, cabaret, literary events, opera, dance, exhibitions, children’s theatre and family concerts, the Halls offers a diverse range of activities and participatory events to cater for all ages, and all levels of ability.
These include a community orchestra and chorus, a youth orchestra, an annual community opera, workshops for children and adults and tea dances. The Halls also works very closely with local schools and community groups, with well over 1,500 children and young people from right across Greenwich and the local area getting the opportunity to perform in the Halls last year, including young people with special needs.
The Greenwich Council grant has specifically been used to support these areas of activity, and its withdrawal will remove the Halls’ ability to continue to deliver such a programme of work for the local community.
10. Save Visual Art in Leicester
Petition against the plans to permanently close The City Gallery in Leicester and reduce all public contemporary art provision in the city.
Leicester City Council has now drawn up it’s proposed budget for 2011/12 to 2013/14 (http://www.leicester.gov.uk/budget2011/) It has also submitted a new report to the Overview & Scrutiny Management Board (See proposal CS 05 on page 17 http://www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=24432) meeting on the 3rd February prior to proposals being potentially approved by Cabinet on 21st February and Council on 23rd February.
These new plans are similar to those submitted back in early December 2010 and result in funding for the City Gallery (and therefore contemporary art in Leicester) reducing from the current 2010/11 amount of £311,000 to £69,000 by 2012/13 – a 78% cut.
Whilst some of the details have altered slightly from the plans submitted to the Overview & Scrutiny Management Board in late November 2010, the substance of these proposals remains the same. The cut is still massive and leaves Leicester without any dedicated space for contemporary arts. Leicester is due to be the first city in the country to cut is only contemporary art gallery.
Below details the petition drawn up on 30th November 2010 based on the published proposals to the Overview & Scrutiny Management Board (30th November 2010), since withdrawn (7th December) then resubmitted with slight alterations and no other options (27 January 2011).
Our objections all these plans stand as they were with two minor alterations:
Objection point 5 has been given more clarification in the new proposal ‘CS 05’ (reduction in FTE posts from 6.24 to 2) but still does not make clear cuts to other workers (i.e. Educational project leaders & helpers).
Objection point 6 is now a £69k budget rather than the £34k budget, still a radical cut and still resulting in reduced contemporary art offer and exhibition space in New Walk Museum.
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A report has been submitted to the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board, of Leicester City Council, prior the their meeting on 7th December with a recommendation to: “Integrate contemporary visual art services within the exhibition programme and overall offer at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.”
These plans permanently close The City Gallery, provide a radically reduced (financially by 86.7%) contemporary visual art exhibition & education programme for Leicester and lose around £126,909 of inward investment from Arts Council England per year.
Details of previous plans submitted in December can be found here: http://www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=23614
We object to these cuts to services and seek clarification as to why:
• The options do not include a continuation of the current provision of exhibitions by City Gallery staff based at New Walk Museum, nor do they include cheaper development options either in the Central Lending Library or in other council or privately owned buildings. They are only options for large capital costs or large reductions in service.
• Options to work with other arts and/or education organisations within the city to provide a dedicated space for the display and education in contemporary art do not seem to have been explored.
• There appears to have been no consultation with current, previous and potential users of The City Gallery, or with other arts/education organisations within the city to determine to need and therefore the loss to the city if provision was radically reduced or completely withdrawn.
• Arts Council funding of £126,909 for 2011/12 will not be available without a robust programme of exhibitions - these proposals do not constitute a robust programme. Also and the option to apply for funding from 2012 onwards has been discounted thus loosing a potential investment into Leicester’s visual arts of £463,471 over four years (based on ACE 15% reduction on 2010/11 City Gallery funding).
• Under ‘Legal Implications’ Section 5.2.2 it states that: “Possible redeployment and redundancy issues for affected staff are identified in the report.” But these are not clearly identified in the report. The current number of staff, (full-time, part-time and sessional staff) are not referred to in the report and therefore a judgment on the implications of the loss of some or all of these by the Councilors at the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board is not possible.
• The proposed Option 2 budget of £34,000 per annum for the integration of City Gallery services to: “cover the staffing costs of exhibition, learning and community engagement support at New Walk Museum and Gallery.” With: “All other costs […] would be found from New Walk Museum and Gallery’s existing budget.” Would result in a loss of exhibition space and budget for New Walk Museums traditional program of displays, as well as representing in a reduced contemporary art offer, education offer and community engagement.
This petition is to ask Leicester City Council to immediately re-think these proposals and:
• Continue with current City Gallery services maintaining the 2011/12 funding from Arts Council England whilst a plan is developed for a sustainable and permanent space for contemporary visual art provision in Leicester.
• Consult with current and past users of City Gallery services, other arts/education organisations and key potential funders to determine the need for these services and how these needs can best be met within potential resources.
• Consult with Arts Council England and apply to the ‘National portfolio funding programme’ for funding from 2012 onwards (by the advertised deadline of 22nd January 2011).
• Clearly identify the implications on staffing including numbers of permanent and sessional staff that will be moved out of the organisation or made redundant.
Whilst it is acknowledged that with large cuts to local council funding as well as Arts Council funding new ideas must be thought of, we feel that these plans to not provide adequate arts services to Leicester. We are therefore feel duty bound to request that the plans be revisited with a view to finding new ways to provide contemporary visual arts in Leicester.
11. Save Somerset Arts Funding
We have until February 2011 to save Somerset Arts Funding.
Somerset Country Council have made the decision to cut 100% of next year’s £159,000 arts development budget. If you value the arts in Somerset then have your say...
If the cut goes ahead it will mean:
Arts organisations in Somerset will not be able to continue the same levels of arts activities within communities;
Children and young people will have fewer opportunities to access arts and education;
Vulnerable people, including isolated, older and disabled people, will have limited chances to benefit from social and health related arts projects;
Somerset’s arts organisations need to produce a petition signed by at least 5,000 Somerset residents in order to generate a new debate at a full County Council meeting on February 2011. Everyone in the family can have their say by signing a form or joining the online petition by the 16 December.
AS LONG AS YOU LIVE, STUDY OR ARE EMPLOYED IN SOMERSET YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO SIGN.
Under 18s need permission from a parent or guardian. Members of a household can sign using the same email address.
12. Darlington for Culture - Save Darlington Arts
Darlington Borough Council is preparing to withdraw the subsidy from the Civic Theatre and the Arts Centre; this may lead to their closure.
Darlington needs a meeting place for clubs and societies, for arts and recreation, for activities and enjoyment, for celebration and discovery, for new partnerships and creative ideas. That is what we mean by Culture...
For 30 years Darlington Arts Centre has been that place, giving everyone a rich quality of cultural life through shared experiences.
We won’t let it go ...
13. Save the Arts
Radical cuts to current levels of arts funding will decimate what has been one of the UK's chief success stories over the past 20 years, and will bring an end to the UK's reign as a global capital for culture.
Arts organisations all accept the need to reduce their budgets. But while the arts can possibly sustain a ten percent funding cut, the 25-30% cuts that the government is currently considering would result in the closure of many smaller arts organizations and would also have a crippling effect on the functioning of the country’s leading arts venues.
The arts are a major employer, and they generate far more revenue than they cost to fund. In addition they are a major attraction for tourism in the UK. While cutting arts funding may save money in the short term, in the long run it risks undermining what has been one of the country’s most vibrant areas of growth over the past fifteen years, and destroying one of the national achievements that we should be most proud of.
14. Postponement of Changes to UT College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Toledo Strategic Planning Committee has put forth a plan which would split the College of Arts and Science into a College of Sciences and Sustainability, a College for the Study of the Human Condition, and a College for Visual and Performing Arts. The plan also creates many new directorships and deanships to administer an overall new approach to education at UT.
Though students, faculty, and all other interested bodies are very willing to hear any ideas which could improve the College of Arts and Science, more input and vetting must be done before any plans can be undertaken.
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16. Support an Arts facility for Ryde
Ryde council is well behind other Sydney councils in its support for the arts. Its very first Arts development framework (2007-12) is coming to the end of its tenure with little or no progress in its mission.
The City of Ryde Arts Development Framework 2007-2012 states that Ryde council will develop arts resources and infrastructure, will develop arts initiatives, create exhibition spaces and build social connectivity through the arts as well as building arts audiences. It states that Ryde council will develop arts projects, attract arts service providers, develop an artists’ network, webpage and database. It states that Ryde council will develop an exhibition and performance program, increase visibility of local arts and creative product, attract key institutions to assist in developing creative industries, create partnership opportunities with private industries to deliver arts facilities, and develop partnerships with state and federal government funding bodies for arts projects.
These are just a few of the many key points published in the Ryde Arts Development Framework on the council’s website.
It is acknowledged that some mission statements are being honoured, such as the engagement of public artists to create works along the new developments at Parramatta River, Meadowbank. This is to be applauded, as public artworks greatly enhance the area’s identity.
Yet, whilst Eastwood’s Brush Farm House was developed as an arts facility, it will no longer hold exhibitions (from early 2011), and is being handed over to the private sector.
This appalling track record is unacceptable for a large and wealthy council such as Ryde, who itself has stated “a key sign of a vibrant City is the health of its arts scene…arts products and services contribute to the growth of the economy.”
Ryde has maintained little or no support for the arts for way too long. We want Ryde City Council to honour its promises, to stop wasting the community’s valuable time by asking them to contribute to policies and promises council has no intention of honouring, and to start delivering on its Arts Development Framework.
http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/WEB/SITE/RESOURCES/DOCUMENTS/Community/Canvas_CityofRyde_Arts_Development_Framework_20072012.pdf
17. Let the One-Act-Play team preform for the school!
Our One-Act-Play team worked for a month preparing to represent our school in the One-Act-Play Festival and we won superior. Now we want Mr. Keever to let us preform it for our classmates.
18. No Sales Tax on Concert and Theatre Tickets
On September 22nd the associated press published an article outlining the proposed final budget plan for the state of Pennsylvania. This proposed budget among other things calls for the addition of a 6% sales tax to concert and theater tickets.
From The PA Budget Website
"$100 million from lifting the sales tax exemption on admissions costs for theater, dance, concerts and performing arts, as well as museums, historical sites, zoos and parks."
There is a specific singling out of the performance arts in this proposal. Sporting events and other forms of entertainment are not slated to receive any additional taxation in the budget proposal.
This proposal has been confirmed with the Governor's office of public liaison. As of Sept 23rd 2009 the proposal is slated to be on the Governor's desk in to weeks time in bill form for signing.
In an already crippled live performance industry and an era of limited household incomes it is important to act quickly to keep entertainment outlets affordable.
The City of New Westminster intends to sell the Burr Theatre.
For many years we have enjoyed excellent theatre at the Burr. Local business enjoyed increased business that came as a result of the theatre.
Based on the above experience, we believe that the needs of the people of New Westminster would be better served if the Burr Theatre is retained as a City-owned multi-disciplinary arts facility.
Cuppacumbalong Homestead Precinct, in Tharwa, is a significant place, listed in the ACT Heritage Register due to its historical, aesthetic, and social values. The farm was resumed by the Commonwealth of Australia in the 1970’s. In 1975 the homestead precinct was leased with the purpose to promote Australian arts and crafts.
Cuppacumbalong was a destination, with public access to the homestead, heritage gardens and picnic area, with a restaurant, an arts gallery, craft shop and artists’ studios. Part of the Tourist Drive 5, Cuppacumbalong had a national and international reputation of being one of Australia’s best arts and craft destinations.
Visitors once flocked to enjoy café fare and regional crafts in the main rooms of the majestic principal homestead. Later, shunted to outbuildings to make way for the failed reception centre, visitors’ numbers dwindled. Closing the gates indefinitely, the owner meanwhile lodged unsuccessful applications to change the homestead to domestic residential use.
Today the place is permanently closed, electric fenced, without public access, no restaurant open, no arts and craft shop or exhibitions, signs of Cuppacumbalong removed. Local, national and international visitors following the promotion still available in various tourist information sites are greatly disappointed when they find the place shut.
A new Development Application has been lodged demanding changes to the lease purpose clauses, from promoting Australian arts and crafts to operating one (or more, no guarantees) of various uses including agriculture (in previous applications the agriculture activity proposed was chicken farming), tourism, or residential accommodation linked to the other uses.
The new development application also strips the ACT government from determining public access times and to charge entry fees. (You can see the application at http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/pubnote/pubnoteDetail_new.asp?DA_no=200915227
Public comments about the DA were invited by the ACT Land and Planning Authority until the 4th of September. We have submitted the signatures and comments as objections to the change of the lease on behalf of 150 who signed the petition by the 4th of September.
We will keep the petition going until we have an answer from ACT Planning and Land Authority.
ACTION:
Sign this letter and forward to people who believe this unique heritage place should continue to be publicly accessible and used for the purpose of promoting Australian arts and crafts.
21. Keep Cafe 1001's Backroom Open
On Thursday 30th July, the Tower Hamlets council were called to Cafe 1001 for a noise complaint and subsequently did a sound check on Brick Lane to see if the noise levels were too high. Unluckily for Cafe1001, there happened to be a huge photography show (Rankin) opening upstairs as well as a random live band playing on the street.
Unfortunately, the Local Council assumed ALL noise was caused by the Cafe and imposed a ban for a minimum of 28 days during August, with a likelihood of keeping our backroom closed for as long as possible. Please do not let this become a reality!
We implore you to support us and sign this petition or the physical petition, found in the cafe itself. DO NOT let the council rob you of your local creative hub!
22. Bring Back 13 The Musical !
13 The Musical ! is a inspiring musical about what it meant to turn 13 and the struggles that we all go and went through. It is a musical that everyone no matter how old you are can relate to.
It is family friendly, and a great show. It only lasted two years & was wrongfully shut down, I don't know why it closed, but the reviews it received clearly show that this musical is one of a kind.
To learn more about this show, you can search on iTunes, or google search the musical.
23. Bring MCM Expo's Cosplay Roadshow to Norwich/Norfolk/East Anglia
There are various anime/manga, videogame, cosplay and media conventions around the country, but nothing substantial in East Anglia.
This petition is to gather support for such an event happening in this region, and also in support of the MCM Expo Group and its events.
The MCM Expo group is willing to bring their recently announced Cosplay Roadshow to this region if enough interest is generated.
This petition also serves as information about the fan base level in the region for other events to hopefully happen as well.
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24. Keep Federal Support of Literary, Scholarly and Arts Magazines
Canadian literary, arts, and scholarly magazines publishing in either English and French are in danger of losing a key federal funding source.
Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announced in a speech he made in Montreal (http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/moore/disc-spch/20090217-eng.cfm) that the Canada Magazine Fund and Publishing Assistance Program will be merged to create the Canada Periodical Fund. Eligibility for funding could potentially be restricted to those magazines with an annual circulation above 5000.
With notable exceptions, the circulation of virtually every Canadian literary, arts, and scholarly magazine, large and small, is below 5000.
25. Support the arts in Yarra – an open letter to City of Yarra councillors
Please sign on to this open letter to the City of Yarra.
At the March 2009 meeting of the City of Yarra, a majority of councillors (6 vs 3) voted to remove funding from two arts initiatives already in the current budget.
Council (17/3/09) referred the funding of the two projects to this year’s (2009/2010) budget discussions. This means:
• The $80,000 allocated to the arts is lost and goes back to consolidated revenue;
• These two projects will have to compete (again) against other budget priorities in this years budget;
• The funding is almost certainly lost.
The councillors voting to cut this funding were ALP councillors Josh Funder (member of the Yarra Arts Committee), Jane Garrett and Geoff Barbour, Socialist Party Councillor Steve Jolly, and independent Councillors Dale Smedley and Jackie Fristacky. The three Greens councillors, Mayor Cr Amanda Stone, Cr Alison Clarke and Cr Sam Gaylard opposed this move and supported the maintenance of this funding.
Action:
Sign this letter, and ask fellow artists and supporters of the arts to also sign on. The letter will be presented to councillors at the April council meeting.
26. Petition for a National U.S. Cultural Policy
The existing resources, capabilities, and expertise of the arts and cultural sector should be recognized and developed as a prime resource for national recovery and regeneration. Maximizing this resource to rebuild and sustain our cities and advance our nation, with a policy aimed at integrating arts, culture and their professionals into a wide range of initiatives, should be the charge of a dedicated department within the newly established Office of Urban Policy.
REQUEST 2
Artistic creation is the primary activity of the $166 billion U.S. arts and culture sector, and we as a nation should support it with an integrated strategy. The federal government should establish a Secretary of Culture and a Cultural Policy Agency that can understand current research and trends and set strategies and guidelines for the optimal allocation of cultural development funds.
REQUEST 3
An effective arts policy must understand that the non-profit arts and culture sector is an integral component of the highly lucrative creative industries sector, and therefore eligible to participate in small business and economic development stimulus programs and strategies.
27. • BATTLEFIELD3™ • BF3™ // PETITION //
Battlefield 2™ (abbreviated to BF2™) is a computer game by the Swedish developer Digital Illusions™ in which players fight in a modern battlefield™ using modern weapon systems. Battlefield 2™ is a first-person shooter with some strategy and RPG elements.
Battlefield 2™ was developed by Digital Illusions™ CE (DICE™) with a custom game engine. During development, Trauma Studios™ contributed to the development of the game after it was acquired by Digital Illusions™ CE. BF2™ is published by Electronic Arts™ as the third full game of the Battlefield series™, released in late June 2005. The first two installments were Battlefield 1942™ and Battlefield Vietnam™.
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Battlefield 2™ was a great game that millions of people around the world have played and still playing! The succes of this game is not to describe! This petition has been launched for fans and gamers to push it to EA™ to continue so that they come with an announcement of Battlefield 3™!
It is very important that you supported this petition! With more votes there is a better chance that EA responds! Names all the fans thank you very much!
28. TMSA's Scottish Traditional Arts Declaration
Scottish traditional art forms are intrinsic to defining the uniqueness of Scotland as a nation. The recent major funding decisions by the Scottish Arts Council resulted in many traditional arts and voluntary organisations losing funding.
The Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland (TMSA) and other organisations are campaigning to have the intrinsic value of Scottish Traditional Art forms recognised and to secure current and future funding for them.
29. Huntersville Supports the Arts & Science Council North
Arts & Science Council (ASC) North is the regional office of the cultural development for the North Mecklenburg County towns of Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville. ASC North provides grant opportunities for non-profit groups to implement arts, science, or history projects in North Mecklenburg through the ASC Cultural Project Grant Program (CPG).
The ASC CPG Program has helped fund organizations such as the Catawba Valley Scottish Society, which attracts nearly thirty-thousand visitors to Huntersville with the Amazing Maize Maze and the Loch Norman Highland Games. The CPG program has also supported Huntersville’s Park & Recreation after-school dance programs and the Huntersville Latino Festival. Additionally, ASC provides Operating Support Grants to the Carolina Raptor Center and Historic Latta Plantation, both located in Huntersville. In total, ASC has invested over a million dollars in North Mecklenburg since 2006.
As a result, the region establishes and maintains a cultural identity and area businesses enjoy the economic impact that result from an influx of visitors to these and other cultural organizations’ programs and events. Hotels are booked, meals are eaten, gas tanks are filled, and visitors learn about a region they otherwise may not have known about.
In June, The Huntersville Town Board will be voting on whether or not to renew an appropriation of $15,140 to ASC North. Support the arts and culture in Huntersville as well as its economic development by petitioning to renew the appropriation of said funds to ASC North.
30. Berlin Performing Arts Center Initiative
The purpose of the Berlin Performing Arts Center Initiative is to bring a much needed venue for cultural events to the people of the Northern Worcester County.
The Initiative seeks to positively impact the quality of life on the whole of the Delmarva Peninsula by providing a place to present a broad spectrum of exciting and vibrant national and regional performance art events while offering a home for local musical, theatrical, cultural, and educational groups.
