Anybody who cares about the arts in New Brunswick needs to read this Letter To The Editor appearing in todays Telegraph Journal: SALON CHANGES NOT APPRECIATED We urge you to reconsider recent changes to Salon, the Telegraph-Journals excellent Saturday arts section, whose focus is now general human-interest stories. Creativity is New Brunswicks greatest natural resource -- and Salon got that. It is not only the intellectual elite that are interested in arts, culture and heritage -- 99.7 per cent of New Brunswickers participate in arts and culture activities, according to Hill Strategies Research -- far exceeding participation in sports events, including spectatorship. More than 12,000 New Brunswickers work in the culture sector, which includes creative and performing arts, and the industries that support them, such as festivals, filmmaking, publishing, music recording, galleries, museums, historic sites, design firms, and much more. This is more than those working in fisheries, mining, and oil and gas combined. The culture sector contributed $190 million to this provinces GDP in 2010 (MQO Research), up from over $72.3 million in 2000. Salon offered a cross-culture intersection that fostered cohesion and mutual appreciation between anglophone, Acadian, Aboriginal and New Brunswickers. It was a showcase that elevated our provincial profile. Since 2007, Salon features have won three National Newspaper Awards in the Arts and Entertainment categories, beating out larger papers like the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. These were first ever wins for the Telegraph-Journal in this category, and account for nearly half of the total seven NNAs the paper has won. Arts and Culture reflect who we are to ourselves and the rest of the world. The Telegraph-Journal got Salon right the first time. Akoulina Connell Executive Director, artsnb Kathy Harner President, ArtsLink Phillippe Beaulieu President, AAAPNB artsnb
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:31:04 +0000
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