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The Parties' Stance on the Arts: the Green Party
Values and Principles:
- We value artistic expression for its honesty, openness, daring, insight, spontaneity, imagination, instinctiveness, integrity, independence and importance in education. We do not value artistic expression primarily for its role in the economy, nor primarily for its contribution to fantasies of national grandeur.
- We respect individual and group creativity in all its diversity and value freedom of expression. A list of examples of the type of activity to which this statement relates would include painting, sculpture, drama, music, dance, photography, film, writing, crafts and design, and other types of creative activity not specifically mentioned here.
- We value participation as well as excellence in the arts: we do not value hierarchy.
- Artistic expression permeates all human activity and can be thought of holistically as part of, not separate from, people’s lives.
- Decisions about the arts should be made at the most local level.
- Financial support does not entail a right to intervene in other people’s self-expression. Arts policy-making, where it is needed, should be organisational in nature and empowering in character.
Objectives
- To enable people to participate by extending opportunities to enjoy the arts.
- To develop more relevant structures of support for the arts
Short term policies
- To review existing government legislation as it affects the arts and create where necessary specific, more appropriate and less burdensome legislation.
- To shift responsibility for arts funding, where appropriate, from national to regional levels.
- To encourage the growth of local arts associations made up of practising artists.
- To require the representation of local arts associations, where they exist, rather than local government, on regional arts boards.
- To bring the level of per capita funding for other regions up to that currently received by London.
- To ensure levels of financial support for buildings housing cultural collections are such as to render admission charges unnecessary.
- To zero-rate live performance for VAT purposes.
Long term policies
- To shift responsibility for arts funding, where appropriate, from
regional to local levels.
- To develop more autonomous and less dependent forms of financial
support for the arts.
- To reduce to a minimum the need for bureaucratic intervention in
the arts.
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