Northant Saint Posted 6 April, 2009 Share Posted 6 April, 2009 bit like your contribution...... If a football club is TRUELY part of a community's culture, then is the council/community owning a part of it that allows the club to survive any less valid than Art? Not quite sure what your objection would be...... His objection is Southampton Football Club... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northant Saint Posted 6 April, 2009 Share Posted 6 April, 2009 Spectacular. Really.... Makes you proud to hail from Southampton :rolleyes: A private venture gets into trouble, and the lunatic fringe call for the city's art gallery to be looted... ...and finally he admits what the club means to him. art or saints alps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guan 2.0 Posted 7 April, 2009 Share Posted 7 April, 2009 I 100% agree with alpine. Bloody Hell, did I really say that?! (I am, though) +1 "Bernard, subsidy is for art...for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want, it is for what the people don't want but ought to have" In all seriousness though, I'm leaving Livepool for the Easter Break in a couple of hours, and I will miss the amount of Art projects and Galleries we have up here... The BlueCoat, FACT, The Tate, Walker Art gallery etc... It seems horrifying that Southampton would gladly do away with long term acquisition by firesales and short-termisim. Now where have I seen that before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 7 April, 2009 Author Share Posted 7 April, 2009 art or saints alps... What a thoroughly twaaaty attitude. When does skool start again ? Dont want you to fail your Jade Goody GCSE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 7 April, 2009 Author Share Posted 7 April, 2009 Highly relevant : http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4271533.Millais_Gallery_faces_closure/ Art is already under the kybosch in Southampton, so it seems, Southampton Solent "University" needs the space to give even more throughly incapable teenagers pieces of paper, that says they are clever after 3 years of doing nothing but piissing the city's residents off with their boorish behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 7 April, 2009 Share Posted 7 April, 2009 With Aviva looking like they are going to accept between 5-10mill for the stadium it looks like it could well be a simple choice between: A. An art gallery with 150mill worth of art and no football club. B. An art gallery with 140-45mill worth of art and a football club and Communitee Stadium. Now which option would most benefit the city of Southampton? It's nothing to do with choosing between art and football or thick footie fan vs cultured art lover. Southampton needs both, football is as much part of the culture and heritage of Southampton as art, flogging art to save a football club is no ones prefered option, no one wants to lose any art but it may come down to the choice between A and B and for me it's an easy one. The effects of losing a fraction of the galleries art, which is mainly not even in view is negligable. The effects of losing a football club would be severe for the City. It's not just about the jobs lost at the stadium, or losing all the good work SITC do but also the knock on effects of not having 15-20,00 people visiting the city and spending money on parking, transport, food, drink, in the shops and hotels every other weekend. Plus there are the suppliers of SFC that would get hit, the Echo (which is already struggling) would get hit and may just vanish like many other local papers have been. And there is the profile of the city which would be harmed. The money gained through rent could be used to improve the gallery in the long term anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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