Thanks Rupert. Yes, there's time to plan and campaign.
It's time to step forward with ambitious programmes.
Even if, and this might seem a debilitating prospect,
a lot of effort goes into ideas onto paper, policy
statements and so on, lobbying, all amounting to NOUGHT -
it is still worth it. Simply because the scale of the
demand will create a groundswell of opinion that here
are constituencies that are not being well served. It
is part of raising awareness, extending profile, gathering
moss.
My sense of the way things are developing (and this is
extremely crude) is that the social redistribution of
cultural capital is being more targeted at those perceived
as being previously disenfranchised. That's why the
New Labour creation of the '6th Good Cause'.
Rupert's right about the young and so on. But we're writers
and the arguments are there to be made about previous
relative under-representation, mis-representation of work
'we' (using that advisedly) value. Arguments are there, and
begging to be made, on grounds of 'health' - health of
community and society - 'education' - 'new work' at
the ludicrously labelled 'cutting edge' - investigation
of media - 'new technologies' - 'issue-based practices'
and more.
There are proposals, on which front i am active, for serious
interventions into distribution and direct mail using the
web. Literature, Music and Combined Arts are all involved in
these discussions. Prospects there are strong.
So, what have you always wanted to publish (in the broadest sense)
but never been able to finance? Now's the time.
love and love
cris
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