Arts Council funds
Sir, —The Arts Council blames the meagre rewards to artists working here for the increasing rate of emigration of professional artists. We are told that Governmental funding in recent years has only compensated the council for the effects of inflation. Therefore, the increasing dissatisfaction among its clients must be the result of the council’s distribution of its funds. One of its biggest clients is the Canterbury Orchestra Trust, which received §25,000, $75,000 and $118,852 respectively in the last three years. Proportionately, these increases are far larger than those of the Arts Council funding. This period also witnessed the public rejection of the C.O.T. annual report, and the trust board’s application to the Appeal Court to annul its democratic character. So the Arts Council multiplies its funding of a trust which the public disowns, and which is administered unconstitutionally because the board members do not resign, in rotation, as specified —Yours, etc., ROBERT A. SMITHAM. November 4, 1978.
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