Politics & The Arts w/ Adam Golding for Ward 11 (University-Rosedale) [Ryerson Interview Preview]

In Which I Announce My ARTS PLATFORM

Here I first announce my new ARTS PLATFORM. If you support this platform please

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ARTS PLATFORM 0.1:

- Put basic needs first in the budget, which includes citizen free time to be creative

- Maintain a proper city calendar of all public events

- Maintain a city database of public event spaces

- Fund artist residencies in parks and in more libraries

- Allow communal housing

- More city-level arts grants

- Subsidize local arts education through community centres and private instruction, mentorships and apprenticeships

- Ensure neighbourhoods have sufficient spaces for dance and healthy movement "Stagnation is one thing that kills the soul"

- Expand arts programs for low-income children, and in schools, which have been slashed dramatically in recent years

- End first-come first-serve for city programs, introduce equity-based priority for eg: single parents

- LOCAL MUSIC PROMOTION SUBSIDY

- More all-ages music spaces

- END BUSKING LICENES "busking is part of the heart beat of the city and when I travel to other cities that is one of my favourite joys. It being restricted here makes Toronto seem dead."

- ELIMINATE THE OPPRESSIVE AUDITION PROCESS FOR THE TTC WHICH TAKES YEARS, BE LIKE MONTREAL

- NO DOOR COVER ON PUBLICLY FUNDED EVENTS

- LIVING-WAGE LIVE MUSIC SUBSIDY & TAX

- Tax-free live music subsidy fee on each bill, city and citizen both fund live music

- FUND PUBLIC PIANOS (You'll run into me at many of them!)

- GRANTS FOR HOMEOWNERS TO HAVE THEIR LANEWAY GARAGES PAINTED

- LIMIT PUBLIC FUNDING OF LARGE PROJECTS SO MORE ARTISTS RECIEVE FUNDING

- DRIVE TOURISM WITH LOCAL ART

- AFFORDABLE 24/7 REHEARSHAL SPACES, MUSIC SPACES

- GRANT EVENT PERMITS BY DEFAULT, PUBLISH JUSTIFICATIONS FOR ALL DENIALS FOR THE MEDIA TO INSPECT

- OPEN MIC SUBSIDY: extra funds for venues which permit any citizen to perform

- EQUITY-BASED MICROGRANTS for ongoing costs: instrument maintenance, art supplies, rehearshal time, creative space rental--mere poverty is sufficient to qualify