Why it�s time for an Arts Council

The arts have a far more important role to play in society. The arts help to define our national identity, our national psyche. Not just crafts and traditional dance, as some people simplistically accept, but all dance, theatre, music, literature, sculpture, painting. Art gives us space to push to the edge of where we now are, to find the other possibilities, to have space to consider the impossible.  Art helps people develop empathy for others.

Art is where human imagination can sore and find excellence beyond the mundane confines of the economy or the drudgery of daily survival.  Art should be part and parcel of all of our lives, it should not be out there somewhere away from the community. It should be our community.