{"id":73501,"date":"2022-05-08T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=73501"},"modified":"2022-05-07T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:50:32","slug":"its-like-these-guys-watched-anne-hathaway-on-wecrashed-and-convinced-themselves-they-can-elevate-the-worlds-consciousness-through-arts-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/05\/08\/its-like-these-guys-watched-anne-hathaway-on-wecrashed-and-convinced-themselves-they-can-elevate-the-worlds-consciousness-through-arts-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s like these guys watched Anne Hathaway on WeCrashed<\/em> and convinced themselves they can ‘elevate the world\u2019s consciousness’ through arts grants. “"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest SHuSH<\/em> newsletter, Kenneth Whyte<\/a> brings us up to date on the latest adventures of the Canada Council for the Arts:<\/p>\n

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The Canada Council for the Arts held its annual public meeting March 30 and a video of it is now up on YouTube where, as of Thursday night, 321 people had tuned in to see CEO Simon Brault’s new shoelaces.<\/p>\n

It’s not time for another deep dive into the ameliorative ambitions of Canada’s leading arts funding agency. We’ll just note that everything I observed in SHuSH<\/em> 139<\/a> is on abundant display in this video, from the exhaustive land grant acknowledgment to non-stop discussion of equity, climate change, and Ukraine to a (mercifully short) speech by council chairman Jesse Wente, most of it dedicated to his usual one-note Indigenous activism (you’re supposed to rep all<\/em> artists, Jesse).<\/p>\n

Cheque-mailer-in-chief Brault, who obviously finds the real work of his position boring as fuck, says his immediate and long-term priorities (at a time when most of the nation’s artists and arts organizations have been economically devastated by the pandemic) are “elimination of racism and discrimination … and focusing on decolonization in people’s minds, in systems, and in institutions.”<\/p>\n

Every square on the bureaucratic buzzword bingo card is covered: “intentionality”, “innovation”, “risk-taking”, “sustainability”, “inclusivity”, etc. <\/p>\n

It’s like these guys watched Anne Hathaway on WeCrashed<\/em> and convinced themselves they can “elevate the world’s consciousness” through arts grants.<\/p>\n

Will they succeed? Given that they can’t match the production values of local cable despite a half-billion budget, odds are long.<\/p>\n

Anyway, their not-quite-viral symphony of sanctimony is an experience. Give it a watch<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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