Thanks for the reminder and I agree, it’s the movement that we need. I just have a hard time figuring out how to start that or take part in that with everything else going on.

Small steps, I suppose.

I agree that we in the ARTS need to have people advocate for their support of the arts and we will do well to empower them with experience and knowledge.

It takes a politician to know a politician and to speak – “politician”.

There is a much larger and powerful voice out there, and we in the ARTS have not gone far enough to empower or even involve them – it is all the “attendees” who “buy” into our product.

I have said this before and I shall say it again; whining is just that whining, anger gets people angrier; but by speaking from the heart words come out as “truth”.

Build our strength in alliances, collaborate, communicate, and create a powerful audience to speak with us, about us, and then about their support for the ARTS.

Yes, there is a great deal to be done, but, why not start a movement and move on and forward.