Wow Doug! Will you tell us more about what the arts are bringing to the
casino in this project, or is it just your loose change?
P
>
> I'm spending two days as one of a bunch of volunteers for the Edmonton
> Arts Council at a local Casino (first time I've ever been inside one),
> & so rushing off to 'work' in a minute. A fascinating place, & perhaps
> a snap will ensue. Certainly the sense of being out of time inside is
> palpable, in other words marvelously constructed. In our province, just
> the richest in the country right now, due to oil deposits, arts &
> community groups are granted the possibility of making some money this
> way (& we do even as we know that it's really a tax on the poor &
> others too easily parted from their money). AH, the wonders of the age
> of high capitalism.
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
> Perhaps, after all,
> there is no polite way to withdraw
> from the privilege of the first person.
>
> Méira Cook
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