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popularize arts and culture at the district level, and there will be more room for people to continue their development in arts after leaving school.
In the long term, one of the concrete things required for popularizing arts and culture at the district level is the provision of more local civic centres. In the meantime, the Council should strengthen step by step the outreach programmes for various types of arts and cultural activities, including the visual arts and literary programmes organized at the civic centres. In reality, the process of popularizing arts and cultural activities is a bilateral one, with the Urban Council and the public interacting with each other in bringing about a richer arts and cultural programme at local civic centres. The process allows the Council to understand better and more easily the community's preferences and demand for arts of a higher standard, as well as the general public's expectations on how quickly the Council should proceed in improving artistic standards. This may also boost and support the development of arts and cultural organisations at the district level. We can strike a proper balance by quantifying the Council's support for various types of arts and cultural activities. Otherwise, it will not only be a New Year wish of individual Councillors, but will also be the common clamour of the general public to demolish the Cultural Centre and the City Hall because in their opinion, the arts and cultural activities of the Council are held for a handful of people.
Mr. Chairman, when I was talking about arts and education just now a programme organized by the Council came back to my mind. The programme was regarded as a sex education programme. No wonder the Council was criticized by some people for ‘overstepping its own boundaries all the time'. The Council not only promotes music education and health education, but also takes up the work of the Education Department. However, perhaps not every Member is aware of what kind of sex education programme the Council has organized. Mr. Chairman, please excuse me for quoting some of the comments and contents of 5 articles appearing in cultural columns of newspapers and cultural magazines. I read them out during a Cultural Activities Sub-Committee meeting, but afterwards some people thought they were my own comments. In fact, I only read from other people's articles. The views contained in the articles do not represent my standpoint, neither do they represent the standpoint of the Urban Council.
The First Article:
PEDO
in the 'steam engine' programme, the action of one actor putting out his tongue and licking the private part of another actor was 'a bit indecent'. (I don't think the highly moralistic term 'indecent' was used aptly here. I would think the problem with putting out his tongue' was that it was an act of ‘explicit exposure' and therefore was not in keeping with the 'implicitly sensual!' tone of the title `steam engine'.)
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popularize arts and culture at the district level, and there will be more room for people to continue their development in arts after leaving school.
In the long term, one of the concrete things required for popularizing arts and culture at the district level is the provision of more local civic centres. In the meantime, the Council should strengthen step by step the outreach programmes for various types of arts and cultural activities, including the visual arts and literary programmes organized at the civic centres. In reality, the process of popularizing arts and cultural activities is a bilateral one, with the Urban Council and the public interacting with each other in bringing about a richer arts and cultural programme at local civic centres. The process allows the Council to understand better and more easily the community's preferences and demand for arts of a higher standard, as well as the general public's expectations on how quickly the Council should proceed in improving artistic standards. This may also boost and support the development of arts and cultural organisations at the district level. We can strike a proper balance by quantifying the Council's support for various types of arts and cultural activities. Otherwise, it will not only be a New Year wish of individual Councillors, but will also be the common clamour of the general public to demolish the Cultural Centre and the City Hall because in their opinion, the arts and cultural activities of the Council are held for a handful of people.
Mr. Chairman, when I was talking about arts and education just now a programme organized by the Council came back to my mind. The programme was regarded as a sex education programme. No wonder the Council was criticized by some people for ‘overstepping its own boundaries all the time'. The Council not only promotes music education and health education, but also takes up the work of the Education Department. However, perhaps not every Member is aware of what kind of sex education programme the Council has organized. Mr. Chairman, please excuse me for quoting some of the comments and contents of 5 articles appearing in cultural columns of newspapers and cultural magazines. I read them out during a Cultural Activities Sub-Committee meeting, but afterwards some people thought they were my own comments. In fact, I only read from other people's articles. The views contained in the articles do not represent my standpoint, neither do they represent the standpoint of the Urban Council.
The First Article:
PEDO
in the 'steam engine' programme, the action of one actor putting out his tongue and licking the private part of another actor was 'a bit indecent'. (I don't think the highly moralistic term 'indecent' was used aptly here. I would think the problem with putting out his tongue' was that it was an act of ‘explicit exposure' and therefore was not in keeping with the 'implicitly sensua!' tone of the title `steam engine'.)
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