rehearsal venues plea
Sat, 26 Aug 2000, 02:54 pmMelissa Merchant13 posts in thread
rehearsal venues plea
Sat, 26 Aug 2000, 02:54 pmJust putting the word out that Blak Yak are looking for a rehearsal venue for their latest production. We need somewhere fairly central (although that's negotiable) and cheap (that's not negotiable). If you know of anywhere, or have somewhere like that yourself, please please please either reply to this plea, email me on the above address or call me on:
041 799 4544.
Much appreciated.
Melissa Merchant
(Sourcery Production Manager)
041 799 4544.
Much appreciated.
Melissa Merchant
(Sourcery Production Manager)
RE: rehearsal venues plea
Sun, 10 Sept 2000, 10:00 pmHi Ian
> Forgive me, but I thought $25 a night for access to a
> 2.4M facillity was fairly cheap.
I can't help feeling you're appealing to a sense of monetary value that has ceased to have any real meaning.
In a so called "free market", economic rationalism would dictate that nothing has any intrinsic value whatsoever, beyond what people are prepared to pay for it.
If you can find an organisation or individual prepared to pay $25 per session, you can probably find someone who can afford $45 or $65 and so on.
If you can do that, why would you let someone use the venue for $25, when you could be earning $65?
Prices become artificially inflated by some people's greater capacity to afford the higher fees.
Eventually we find the same affliction that's occuring with our major theatres. Their running costs are enormous, because they're empty so much of the year. They're empty so much of the year because they're so expensive to use.
Is a $25 fee the chicken or the egg?
> By my reckoning it is around $6.25 per hour and by
> the time you pay power and cleaning, prehaps you
> can appreciate the extent of the corporate profts you
> are rallying against.
What value a safe, welcoming community?
Our governments, local, state and federal should be investing in projects that bring communities together; empower them to realise and achieve shared goals. They should be doing everything in their power to encourage groups of like minded people in the community to come together and work cooperatively and creatively.
Whether working together on community arts projects, participating in sports or engaging in worship, all these activities are about encouraging social networks that provide support and security; that foster growth and creative development and build a society that values the contributions of all its members - not just based on their financial capacity or preparedness to pay.
Surely some of the gangs of youths hanging around the streets outside the DRPAC would benefit from something like this?
What's the value of an active community theatre company that provides a creative outlet for local community members, builds in them a sense of pride in their achievments, fosters friendships, creates a positive sense of identity and belonging?
I firmly believe that community theatre has an intrinsic value entirely separate from what we might be prepared or able to pay for it.
> We support community Theatre and absolutely
> promise to continue to do so, but there has to be a
> balance. I don't see the Trust and Ogdens hiring
> spaces for $6.25 per hour.
>
> But please be simpathetic to managements who have
> to survive on minimal funding !
I'm sympathetic, but ultimately i don't know that the interests of commercial management of community facilities are reconcilable with those of building a truly inclusive community.
Community theatre companies are under serious threat and disappearing. Our society will be very much the poorer for their loss.
Cheers
Grant
> Forgive me, but I thought $25 a night for access to a
> 2.4M facillity was fairly cheap.
I can't help feeling you're appealing to a sense of monetary value that has ceased to have any real meaning.
In a so called "free market", economic rationalism would dictate that nothing has any intrinsic value whatsoever, beyond what people are prepared to pay for it.
If you can find an organisation or individual prepared to pay $25 per session, you can probably find someone who can afford $45 or $65 and so on.
If you can do that, why would you let someone use the venue for $25, when you could be earning $65?
Prices become artificially inflated by some people's greater capacity to afford the higher fees.
Eventually we find the same affliction that's occuring with our major theatres. Their running costs are enormous, because they're empty so much of the year. They're empty so much of the year because they're so expensive to use.
Is a $25 fee the chicken or the egg?
> By my reckoning it is around $6.25 per hour and by
> the time you pay power and cleaning, prehaps you
> can appreciate the extent of the corporate profts you
> are rallying against.
What value a safe, welcoming community?
Our governments, local, state and federal should be investing in projects that bring communities together; empower them to realise and achieve shared goals. They should be doing everything in their power to encourage groups of like minded people in the community to come together and work cooperatively and creatively.
Whether working together on community arts projects, participating in sports or engaging in worship, all these activities are about encouraging social networks that provide support and security; that foster growth and creative development and build a society that values the contributions of all its members - not just based on their financial capacity or preparedness to pay.
Surely some of the gangs of youths hanging around the streets outside the DRPAC would benefit from something like this?
What's the value of an active community theatre company that provides a creative outlet for local community members, builds in them a sense of pride in their achievments, fosters friendships, creates a positive sense of identity and belonging?
I firmly believe that community theatre has an intrinsic value entirely separate from what we might be prepared or able to pay for it.
> We support community Theatre and absolutely
> promise to continue to do so, but there has to be a
> balance. I don't see the Trust and Ogdens hiring
> spaces for $6.25 per hour.
>
> But please be simpathetic to managements who have
> to survive on minimal funding !
I'm sympathetic, but ultimately i don't know that the interests of commercial management of community facilities are reconcilable with those of building a truly inclusive community.
Community theatre companies are under serious threat and disappearing. Our society will be very much the poorer for their loss.
Cheers
Grant
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