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Article: Backstage and going broke
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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We have all the state-of-the-art theatres and arts centres we
need, writes GUY BARRISCALE . The problem is that there is not
enough funding to create the art to fill them
WHEN THE NEW visual arts centre in Carlow opened recently, I was
as "gobsmacked" as Martin Cullen when he opened it. But maybe my
state of "gobsmackedness" is a little different to the Minster.
I am one of the thousands of unseen workers who try to pay their
bills by labouring in the arts. I am not an artist or an actor, a
musician or director, or indeed a financially prudent though
woefully underpaid arts manager. I am not an eloquent, erudite
member of Aosdana and I don't get any tax breaks, though 20-odd per
cent tax on ...