Filed under: Calls for Assistance
Upset about the Grants for the Arts cuts?
Disappointed at the redirection of money from art to sport?
Confused by the fact that Sport England is getting its funding cut as well? (To fund sport. In England.)
Coming to take part in the Grunts for the Arts Artist’s Sports Day on the 26th May, but wondering what else you can do?
Signed the petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lotteryolympics and still wondering what else you can do?
Well, Grunters and Gruntettes – that’s where your ever-helpful friends at Grunts for the Arts might be able to assist. We want your stories about Grants for the Arts – tell us about funding applications successful and funding applications failed, spill the beans on the huge sums of money that you have been given, and remind us of the time that you waited 6 weeks to be told that you’d been awarded the bus fare home.
We want to know about applications you’ve made, and applications you’ve been an indirect beneficiary of.
We haven’t got a clue how much of you rather lovely artistic types have benefited in some way from Grants for the Arts, but it’s probably quite a bloody lot. Maybe even most of you.
So tell us about it. Share your stories. Go on. It only need be a few words. Say fifteen or so (though don’t hold back either).
We want to spread the word to the man and woman on the street who’s only heard about Grants for the Arts when The Sun’s got excited because someone’s pretending to be a dead soldier or wanted to kick a kebab packet down the street in the name of art. We think they’d want to know about how his community has been brought closer, her life more beautiful, and all our worlds that much more smiley.
We want the real story. For the web. For print. For the world outside this pantheon of artiness we all inhabit.
And of course, if you feel you need to, be anonymous – we won’t say who you are unless you want us to.
(Though we will wonder why you’re such a lily-livered, pussy-whipped pile of quivering mush.)
Send your stories to gruntsforthearts@googlemail.com please, and we’ll stick them online and give out copies to everyone we can find….
