Alex warns that cutting arts funding is a false economy that will damage Birmingham’s cultural identity and economic appeal
Plans by Birmingham City Council to cut £1 million of funding from the city’s arts venues prompted a sharp response from Alex, who warned the Birmingham Mail that the proposals put the city’s world-class cultural reputation at serious risk. Birmingham’s arts sector, its theatres, galleries and music venues, is not a luxury. It employs thousands of people, attracts visitors and investment, and forms a central part of what makes the city a place people want to live and work in. Cutting that funding to plug a financial gap created by years of financial mismanagement was, in Alex’s view, short-sighted and damaging.
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