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– we go up and down. We see a phenomenal amount of money wasted on stupid ventures – like Afghanistan – and we see the government almost attacking the arts. This is totally inappropriate and stupid and there is a mind-set that seems a bit disturbing. We need to keep doing what we are doing and keep promoting the arts. You touch beliefs and make people aware of the potential in their own community. People just have to be touched and supported a bit. But I don’t know if we can ever convince our government. The BC government has really never supported the arts.
JH: I must say the changes in some municipalities have been significant. Many communities now have a public art committee in an official sense – so that change has been happening in the last 15 years or so.
BK: True – yes – and take a look at Kelowna and how they’ve tried to help the arts – the mural I have at the Performing Arts Centre – or the pieces by the library – or anything else around town. Someone had the insight that the arts give substance to a community and enrich it. People come here for the wine, of course, but then they spread out to the cultural aspects of the community. When Mary Ann and I go travelling we go straight to art galleries and museums. That’s the way we function and I don’t think we’re abnormal because when we go to those places they are well attended.
JH: Yeah – as a matter of fact we just did an article on the sculpture garden at Stanford in our last edition of SculpturesPacific. BK: That’s not a bad place. I love that place.
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