Temple Bar Cultural Trust made a submission to the European Commission in July in response to the EU Green Paper Unlocking the Potential of the Cultural and Creative Industries. This submission was made on behalf of a ‘cultural coalition’ of over 50 individuals and organisations working in this sector.
Read the submission: Submission by Temple Bar Cultural Trust
Temple Bar Cultural Trust is organising a public forum on the EU Green Paper “Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries” on 7 July at 10.30am in the Project Arts Centre.
Temple Bar Cultural Trust is leading a consultation process in Ireland which will take into account the views and opinions of those working in the culture and creative industries sector. An estimated 61,000 people work in the this sector in Ireland, and we aim to gather the responses of as many of these as possible, so that we can send a clear, coherent response back to Brussels about what needs to be done to improve the working environment for all of us.
HAVE YOUR SAY! – email us your thoughts on this/other themes of the Green Paper to cci@templebar.ie
Deadline for submissions is Friday 16th July 2010
What a ridiculous title, “Cultural & creative industries”. Arts such as literature are not “industries”. The bottom line is that literature doesn’t have a bottom line. The writer and artist is not an industry. Literature, for instance, is created by the writer. Full stop. Other people try to make money out of the work of the artist or writer, publishers, gallery owners, so-called arts managers. The gombeen attitude of money-making tries to impose its will on the artist & writer. Any artist or writer worth his or her salt ignores these philistines. Our gombeen politicians believe that “Ireland is a brand”. These are the same idiots who have wrecked the economy and bankrupted the country. Forget your “industry”. Support the creative writer and artist. The rest is rubbish.
Hugh McFadden, and 
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