Comment 33610

By highwater (registered) | Posted September 16, 2009 at 01:19:38

Shadow Shopper wrote:

Have we buried the "living wage for artists" campaign? Wouldn't the average local artist/musician/crafter qualify as being "working poor"? If this was about the Connaught becoming a creative class co-op, would people be as sickened?

You're probably right that there wouldn't be the opposition to an artists' co-op, but in all our emphasis in the arts, we're forgetting a key piece of the puzzle. Who is going to buy all the art? If we don't do more to bring people with disposable incomes into the downtown, our burgeoning arts community is going to wither and die.

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