Why can’t every town in America have a mini-Greenwich Village section with counter culture art?

Posted by admin on March 7th, 2010 and filed under community arts theatre | 3 Comments »

Why can’t the people who think outside the box unite together in every city and town in the USA and not necessarily for political purposes,

but to rejuvenate a renaissance of sidestream art, theatre, independent film, fuse multiple cultures together, exercise their pets, create a sense of community for kids without siblings, stuff like that.

Like on Sundays. Why can’t we try to make this happen? Not with money, but with willpower and heart and soul?

Because artists have to eat too?
I live in a small town, around three thousand people.
Its a fairly lower middle class area, without much money for extras. But we do have a few things at the library, there are a pretty homogeneous bunch, you would be hard put to find different cultures here, maybe in a few years.
Truthfully, most of the kids here have two or more siblings and schools are where the parents get together.
There is a dancing/acting school, but its not available for adults.
We also have farmers markets on Thursday in front of the library.
We aren’t in really bad shape for such a small community.

There just isn’t enough people with money to support the artists or the arts to make it viable, and for renting films, paying for electricity and heat, keeping up a theater. You need more than willpower, you do need that money.

3 Responses

  1. madskier1 Says:

    "create a sense of community for kids "

    My kids would rather play baseball, you know…. manly stuff.
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  2. infidel_louie Says:

    Because thinking like this is detrimental to the good of society.
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  3. justagrandma Says:

    Because artists have to eat too?
    I live in a small town, around three thousand people.
    Its a fairly lower middle class area, without much money for extras. But we do have a few things at the library, there are a pretty homogeneous bunch, you would be hard put to find different cultures here, maybe in a few years.
    Truthfully, most of the kids here have two or more siblings and schools are where the parents get together.
    There is a dancing/acting school, but its not available for adults.
    We also have farmers markets on Thursday in front of the library.
    We aren’t in really bad shape for such a small community.

    There just isn’t enough people with money to support the artists or the arts to make it viable, and for renting films, paying for electricity and heat, keeping up a theater. You need more than willpower, you do need that money.
    References :

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