A Basildon arts group responsible for promoting creativity in the town has been divided by infighting.Oh, my giddy aunt…
Members of the Basildon Arts Collective are in a state of confusion after feuding led to a splinter group, bearing the same name, being set up.
There’s art in Basildon? Enough to justify one group, never mind two?…a war of words has since erupted between the collective’s elected chairman, Liz Grant, and founding member Steve Waters, one of the puppeteers behind internet-star Old Man Stan.
Mrs Grant, 52, claims Mr Waters, responsible for the group’s website, and some of his supporters have carried out a coup by blocking her and others from the website.In response, she has set up a new website which she says is the new home for the legitimate Basildon Arts Collective.
"Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour?"
ReplyDelete"I've told you once...."
Shades of Peter Simple and the housewives' fan clubs.
ReplyDeleteBasildon Arts Centre used to be quite radical (for S.E. Essex). When I was a lot younger they used to put on a lot of good movies that you couldn't have seen anywhere else (outside of London), e.g. The War Game, Mr. Hulot's Holiday. Ideal for that tricky first date!
ReplyDeleteOf course, that's before the word "Arts" became an excuse for large subsidies.