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A Letter to Artists

There's been a lot of hooplah all up in my news feed lately regarding the suspended intake of little baby actors into the theatre program that gave birth to me. Now, I'm not going to lie to you: THIS ENRAGES ME! But apart from angry letter writing and the general, all around stickin' to the man I do on the daily, there isn't much else to be done. This may come as a shock to you, but I don't have the $12 000 000 required* to reinstate the funding cut by our provincial government. A decision I can only imagine they came to while sitting around an enormous marble table, asses resting heavily on chairs fashioned from the arms and legs of struggling artists while sipping bitumen out of champagne flutes. It's the only image that comes to mind. *lol "required" So, instead of getting all self-righteous, and writing an entire blog post trying to preach the benefits of art and culture to an establishment that frankly, will never read this and more importantly...