"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop the Chancellor from using lottery money to fund the Olympics in 2012."
(Legalised Theft - Ed)
Read the Government's response
The decision to take a further share from the Lottery was taken only after very careful consideration. The Government is determined to ensure that the temporary diversion of funding from the existing good causes to the Olympic good cause is done with the least possible disruption. As such, the then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport announced in Parliament on 15 March that no existing lottery projects will be affected by this decision.
In addition, the Minister for the Olympics and the Mayor of London have reached an agreement on the sharing of profits from the sale of remediated land in the Olympic Park after the Games, with some returning to the Lottery to compensate for its additional contribution.
The Government continues to value the important contribution of the arts, cultural and heritage sectors in broadening access and bringing high-quality cultural experiences to a wide number of people.
Possibly the biggest cuts in the Arts Council’s 61-year history. One in five of the organisations currently supported – will have their funding cut in April
Under threat:
Bristol Old Vic, already shut in August for an 18-month Re-Fit Exeter Northcott, Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and London’s Drill Hall
1 Cameron Mackintosh
2 Andrew Lloyd Webber
3 Howard Panter/Rosemary Squire (Ambassador Theatre Group)
4 Nicholas Hytner (National Theatre)
5 Nica Burns/Max Weitzenhoffer (Nimax)
6 Bill Kenwright (producer)
7 David Ian (Live Nation)
8 Michael Boyd (Royal Shakespeare Company)
9 Nick Thomas/Jon Conway (Qdos Entertainment)
10 Vicky Featherstone/John Tiffany (National Theatre of Scotland
10 Most Influential People In UK Theatre 2007
TOPOL RETURNS
GIGI
Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park
6 Aug to 13 Sept
New Musical
Features Music by the Gipsy Kings
After Numerous Technical Problems Including Tour Performance Cancelations
Now Playing
Garrick Theatre
Receiving Pretty Good Reviews
The Music Man Now - 30 Aug
The Circle 22 July - 29 Aug
Calendar Girls 5 - 27 Sept
FESTIVAL THEATRE
Six Characters in Search....... Now - 23 Aug
Collaboration / Taking Sides 21 July - 30 Aug
Aristo 11 Sept - 11 Oct
MINERVA THEATRE
CHICHESTER
THE SCISSOR SISTERS
Provide The Songs For Stage Musical
Armistead Maupin's
TALES OF THE CITY
Opens On Broadway 2009
To Be Produced By The Team Behind The
Award-Winning Puppetry Musical AVENUE Q
HOW OBSCENE IS THIS??
Guildford's YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE is about to have it's funding wihdrawn by The Arts Council beyond 31st March, 2009
They will all be fighting back
This Column Endorses
Maybe The Arts Coucil's future Should Be Questioned
NUMBER ONE
MOVE OUT OF THEIR OBSCENELY EXTRAVAGANT PREMISES AND USE THE SAVINGS FOR THE ARTS
Lionel Bart’s OLIVER!
To Star Rowan Atkinson As Fagin
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
14 Jan '09 Prevs 12 Dec
Rodgers and Hammerstein's
CAROUSEL
26 Sept Bromley’s Churchill Theatre
Runs 'til 4 Oct on a six-week tour
Then The Savoy Theatre
2 Dec Prevs 22 Nov
Booking until 25 July '09
Alan Ayckbourn’s Trilogy
THE NORMAN CONQUESTS
Matthew Warchus’ Productions Of The Three Plays Not Seen In London For 34 years
Run In Rep 6 Oct to 20 Dec Prevs 11 Sept
To Be Performed In A Specially Reconfigured In-The-Round Old Vic Auditorium
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