TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1988
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ART GROUPS URGED TO BE MORE BUSINESS-MINDED
AND CULTURE, MR CLIVE
THE ARTS GROUPS DO NOT BECOME
BUSINESS-MINDED,
OXLEY SAID
THAT IMPORTANT IT IS OVER-RELIANT ON PUBLIC FUNDS AND THEY SHOULD BE MORE THE COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION TODAY (TUESDAY).
AND DONATIONS NON-BOX-OFFICE INCOME,
"IN USA, THE PERCENTAGE OF BUSINESS SPONSORSHIP TO THE ARTS ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 95 PER CENT OF WITH THE BALANCE COMING FROM STATE OR FEDERAL SOURCES.
EIGHT SUBSTANTIAL
"IN HONG KONG, IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND WITH ONLY ABOUT
PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE VERY PER CENT COMING FROM THE BALANCE FROM THE PUBLIC PURSE," HE NOTED.
MEETING ADDRESSING A JOINT DINNER
OF THREE LIONS CLUBS OF AND
MR BAUHINIA;
OXLEY SAID KOWLOON CENTRAL, LION ROCK
IT WAS, A VARIETY THEREFORE, INCUMBENT UPON ARTS BODIES TO SEEK FUNDING FROM OF SOURCES INCLUDING SPONSORSHIP.
HE SAID THE HONG
KONG
BUSINES5 COMMUNITY REMAINED SOMEWHAT SCEPTICAL OF THE MANAGEMENT QUALITIES OF SOME ARTS ADMINISTRATORS.
BEFORE SPONSORSHIP
A
ORGANISATIONS WHICH WHICH HONG KONG
RECENTLY,
THEM WILL BE "A MAJOR EFFORT BY ALL OF
NECESSARY CHANGE IN ATTITUDES WILL OCCUR TO COUNTER THE VIEW THAT OF THE ARTS MEANS THROWING MONEY AT POORLY-RUN
THE CONSTRAINTS UNDER HAVE NO APPRECIATION
ME AS ONE CHIEF EXECUTIVE TOLD BUSINESS HOUSES OPERATE' HE ADDED.
OF
GOVERNOR
MR OXLEY SAID THAT ALTHOUGH IN HIS POLICY ADDRESS THE HAD STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE HE ATTACHED TO THE PARTICIPATION OF THE MESSAGE MUST BUSINESS AND THE COMMUNITY IN SUPPORTING THE ARTS, BE THAT THE ARTS COMMUNITY MUST NOT SIMPLY EXPECT MONEY TO TO IT ON A PLATE.
BE HANDED
"THEY HAVE TO MARKET THEIR PRODUCT PROFESSIONAL AND COMPETITIVE MANNER.
IN
A
THOROUGHLY
RELATIONS IMAGE AND "THEY NEED TO WORK ON THEIR PUBLIC
FUNDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NEED TO BECOME ULTRA-RESPONSIBLE WHICH THEY ARE ENTRUSTED, HE POINTED OUT.
E
THEY WITH
MACHINATIONS OF
MR OXLEY STRONGLY REFUTED CRITICISM THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS DOING TOO LITTLE, HAD LITTLE INTENTION TO COMMIT GREATER RESOURCES
AND THAT THE ARTS
DECISIONS MADE WERE BASED ON THE DILETTANTE A FEW ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
WHO HAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE HONG KONG ARTS SCENE.
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NO
/HE EXPLAINED ............