Culture on agenda well before 1977; VOICE OF THE NORTH.THE chronology given in the publication NewcastleGateshead: The making of a cultural capital, which was distributed with The Journal (October 5), by commencing in 1977 does a significant disservice dis·ser·vice n. A harmful action; an injury. disservice Noun a harmful action Noun 1. to those who many years previously had sought to put culture and the arts at the heart of city life and city regeneration. Prime among these were Charles Bosanquet, rector of King's College, whose idea it was in 1961 to form the North East Association for the Arts (later Northern Arts), the first and most innovative regional arts association, Arthur Blenkinsop Arthur Blenkinsop (30 June 1911 – 23 September 1979) was a British Labour Party politician. Blenkinsop was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and the College of Commerce, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and became a chartered secretary. , its first secretary and T Dan Smith, one of the founder members of the association, who placed culture at the heart of his council agenda and whose policies anticipated modern "culture-led regeneration" by decades. Particularly at a time when Dan Smith's legacy is being reassessed as part of the Reinventing The City festival and in the City State exhibition at the Lit and Phil, it is hard to see how such an airbrushing from history can be justified. JOHN GRIFFITHS John Griffiths (born 1956) is a Labour and Co-operative politician and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Newport East since 1999. Education Studied law as a mature student at the University of Wales. , Gosforth, Newcastle |
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