<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Hello</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Please sign the 'Save the Arts' petition.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">See info below...</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Sorry for cross postings</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Best wishes</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Janet </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">----</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">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.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">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 <b>Tues 14th September</b>. So time is short.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">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.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">The petition can be signed on the website below, the original information I received is below if you would like to know more.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#2a5072" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #2a5072"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#2a5072" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #2a5072">Thanks</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#2a5072" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #2a5072"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#2a5072" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #2a5072">Tamsin</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#002fd7" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.savethearts.org.uk/"><b>www.savethearts.org.uk</b><b></b></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b>ARTISTS JOIN CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUNDING CUTS</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">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.<br> <br> 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.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b>Please see link for either upload of animation via YouTube or the yousentit file. The poster is attached in PDF format. </b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b>Please visit the Save the Arts website (including links to Facebook, Vimeo and Twitter) and to sign the online petition, </b><a href="http://www.savethearts.org.uk/"><font color="#0045d1" style="color: #0045d1"><b>www.savethearts.org.uk</b></font></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b>yousendit Link:</b> <a href="https://www.yousendit.com/download/UFVyYkJ1d0FTSUR2Wmc9PQ"><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0038a9" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0038a9">https://www.yousendit.com/download/UFVyYkJ1d0FTSUR2Wmc9PQ</font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b>YouTube Link:</b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6rYDaORe3k"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0038a9" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0038a9">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6rYDaORe3k</font></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">YouTube code for embedding: <font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6rYDaORe3k?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"><font color="#0038a9" style="color: #0038a9">http://www.youtube.com/v/T6rYDaORe3k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0</font></a>"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6rYDaORe3k?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"><font color="#0038a9" style="color: #0038a9">http://www.youtube.com/v/T6rYDaORe3k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0</font></a>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></font></font></div><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Many thanks for your support and involvement, please forward onwards to all your contacts.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b>Suzanne Golden</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Visual Arts London Strategy Group Co-ordinator</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#002fd7" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="mailto:visualartslondon@gmail.com"><u>visualartslondon@gmail.com</u></a></font></div></font></body></html>