Art vs Sports
As a teacher of the arts, who has to often struggle to get funding (mainly against the sports department sadly), this piece of writing by Brett Debritz made me smile:
"Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have, once again, shown that Australians prefer cultural pursuits to sport. While 2.5 million went to see an AFL game in 2005-06, 2.7 million went to the theatre, 3.6 million went to an art gallery, 3.6 million went to a museum, 4 million went to a popular music concert and a whopping 10.4 million went to the cinema. Rugby league got 1.5 million people through the turnstiles, but so did classical music concerts, while dance performances attracted 1.6 million, and musicals and operas attracted 2.7 million. Of course, somebody’s bound to make the argument that sport is popular on television - and so it is. But what takes up most of the TV schedules and attracts the most viewers in total? Movies, dramas, comedies and variety shows - all of which are arts and entertainment events. The next time somebody tells you Australians are a sports-mad lot, be sure to correct them and say: “Actually, we like our cultural pursuits more.”"
"Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have, once again, shown that Australians prefer cultural pursuits to sport. While 2.5 million went to see an AFL game in 2005-06, 2.7 million went to the theatre, 3.6 million went to an art gallery, 3.6 million went to a museum, 4 million went to a popular music concert and a whopping 10.4 million went to the cinema. Rugby league got 1.5 million people through the turnstiles, but so did classical music concerts, while dance performances attracted 1.6 million, and musicals and operas attracted 2.7 million. Of course, somebody’s bound to make the argument that sport is popular on television - and so it is. But what takes up most of the TV schedules and attracts the most viewers in total? Movies, dramas, comedies and variety shows - all of which are arts and entertainment events. The next time somebody tells you Australians are a sports-mad lot, be sure to correct them and say: “Actually, we like our cultural pursuits more.”"
posted by E at 5:37 pm
2 Comments:
But one is discouraged from yelling "go you good thing" during a classical music concert, no matter how much one wishes to ;p . Kidding, I fully understand and agree, but unfortunately the ABC won't let me do the programming.
Ha! Love it.
Hope your back to school went well
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