[cma-l] Please sign the 'Save the Arts' petition.

[Janet Jennings]

Hello

Please sign the 'Save the Arts' petition.
See info below...

Sorry for cross postings

Best wishes
Janet

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If you are working within the arts or interested in the arts in the  
UK then you might be interested in signing this petition to the  
Government to try and prevent radical cuts to current levels of arts  
funding, which will decimate what has been one of the UK's chief  
success stories over the past 20 years.

The Prime Minister has pledged to take seriously any issue backed by  
a petition with 100,000 signatures, which is a lot!! The DCMS meeting  
about the future of arts funding is taking place on Tues 14th  
September. So time is short.

Apologies if you have already ready received an email about this, and  
please pass on to colleagues, friends, family and anyone you think  
would be interested in supporting this campaign.

The petition can be signed on the website below, the original  
information I received is below if you would like to know more.

Thanks

Tamsin

www.savethearts.org.uk

ARTISTS JOIN CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUNDING CUTS

Over a hundred leading artists including David Hockney, Anthony Caro,  
Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton, Antony  
Gormley and Tracey Emin have joined the campaign to fight against the  
proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts.

The campaign is being launched today Friday 10 September 2010 with  
the release of a new video animation by artist David Shrigley  
highlighting the effect of the funding cuts. Each week the work of a  
different artist, created in response to the campaign, will be  
released. Jeremy Deller and Mark Wallinger will follow David Shrigley.

Please see link for either upload of animation via YouTube or the  
yousentit file. The poster is attached in PDF format.

Please visit the Save the Arts website (including links to Facebook,  
Vimeo and Twitter) and to sign the online petition,  
www.savethearts.org.uk

yousendit Link: https://www.yousendit.com/download/ 
UFVyYkJ1d0FTSUR2Wmc9PQ
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6rYDaORe3k

YouTube code for embedding:  <object width="560" height="340"><param  
name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6rYDaORe3k? 
fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"  
value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></ 
param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6rYDaORe3k? 
fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560"  
height="340"></embed></object>

Many thanks for your support and involvement, please forward onwards  
to all your contacts.

Suzanne Golden
Visual Arts London Strategy Group Co-ordinator
visualartslondon at gmail.com
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