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Culture Minister Alun Pugh should keep his hands off direct control of the arts if Wales is ever to produce Oscar-nominated films like Solomon a Gaenor and Hedd Wyn again, an academic argues. Professor Phil Cooke, director of the Centre for Advanced Studies at Cardiff University, claims in a hard-hitting report for the Institute of Welsh Affairs that the Assembly Government and its Culture Ministry 'are principally interested in exerting control upon rather than inducing innovation in the arts in Wales'. The professor cites the example of the National Eisteddfod, accusing the Assembly Government of using 'institutional bullying' to enforce change. 'Exertion of financial controls to get a more 'inclusive' arts festival, with 'value for money' and 'accessibility' as guiding principles, seems questionable on at least two grounds. First, it requires of a fundamentally oral, linguistic cultural festival that it becomes something it was not designed to be, essentially in the name of getting a more diverse output from a diminishing input. Read the full story by following the link below.. |
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