Extract from an address by Helen Goodman MP, part of the Shadow Culture Media and Sport ministerial team, to members of Equity at the recent Labour Party Conference on the subject of performing arts; "I did a survey in the summer of my constituents and my party members to ask them what things they would like to do in this area and what things they couldn’t do and what the barriers were. And one of the things that was very interesting was that everybody, virtually everybody, who answered had bought a book. And virtually everybody who answered had been to the cinema, but people would really like to go to the theatre more but they can’t afford the tickets. It’s no good if we add on to the cost of this ticket, a train ticket half way across the country. Plainly, we have to be doing things in peoples’ communities. And we have to be doing things which, as you were saying, relate to their life experience and their social issues and their particular heritage. " In 2012 the Department of Culture, Media and Sport told us "We certainly support your vision for the site"
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