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[VicHockeyFan]

True, but they do all right in donations at the event. If I recall, it actually works out to more than $2 a person!

The "free" performances draw traffic to the city and raise the profile of the various groups involved. I think that it is a win-win for everyone.

8/15/2007

Bayview Residences Victoria Symphony Splash reaches new fundraising levels!

Victoria, BC – On Sunday, August 5, 2007 more than 40,000 people gathered in Victoria’s Inner Harbour to enjoy the 18th annual Victoria Symphony Splash presented this year by Bayview Residences. The concert is both a community event and fundraiser for the Victoria Symphony.

Several fundraising initiatives helped secure Splash as a financially viable community event and ensure that the Symphony continues to offer superior orchestral music to audiences in Victoria and throughout the island. The combined generousity of numerous sponsors, including title sponsor Bayview Residences, increased sponsorship revenues by 47% to $156,500. Onsite donation totals increased by 50% to $60,000. A new fundraising initiative, introduced this year, the Splash Grandstand, was a success with 147 seats sold raising almost $10,000.

http://www.victorias...rticleIndex=232

So I guess it's up to $1.50 or so now. However 147 people paid $10,000 total. So only 39,853 people cheaped out. That's a 99.6% cheap-out-rate. Projecting that percentage over the entire regions population, that means we have 328,680 cheapos in our midst.

[Nparker]

That's a 99.6% cheap-out-rate. Projecting that percentage over the entire regions population, that means we have 328,680 cheapos in our midst.

I suspect your numbers might even be a bit low VHF. Victorians are a cheap, cheap lot.

[G-Man]

To go to something like that event and not even to throw a twoonie in the bucket is so indicative of cultural cheapness.

Despite what Ms. b said i think it is a Victoria thing. A large proportion of the pop thinks that they are by divine right entitled to certain things just by moving to Victoria:

- A complete stop to all development once you have arrived.

- Events that existed before you arrived will continue in perpituity and since they have always been here in the past there is no need for your financial contribution.

- That you can drive into town at anytime of day and find a parking spot directly in front of your desitination. (If you don't you must write a scathing oped on how you will never leave the confines of Central Saanich again)

-Homeless people will not look at you and never ever speak to you. (If they do you must write a scathing oped on how you will never leave the confines of Central Saanich again)

- To begin gloating to relatives back east about how you can golf all year round (even if don't play golf).

There are more

[Ms. B. Havin]

^ Ok, so you guys are agreeing that Victorians are a cheap cheap cheap lot.

But why is that so? I agree with G-man's points (and they're funny, too), but it's not like we pass through some Star Trek style transporter when we get beamed over here (whether in the womb if born here, or later) -- we're still the same as people, as people anywhere else.

So what are the cultural and economic factors that make Victorians cheap?

I put out some suggestions on the previous page (or somewhere above/ earlier). Thoughts?

If we say it just is, then we say it can't change. I'm saying it can change (and it is changing ...a bit), and I gave examples of where it's changing.

You guys just go back to "it is," as if it's a state of nature.

Is our city not a cultural and political construct?

[G-Man]

AHH I see what you are saying. Ok I misunderstood. I think that with some heavy medication and several years of reahb we may make some progress.

[Ms. B. Havin]

I think that with some heavy medication ...

So, does this mean that our drug addicts are a helpful adjunct in our path to accepting the costs of high-end culture?

[Ms. B. Havin]

I'm eating my words about Victorians not being cheap, just not culturally-enabled. I guess they are cheap... sadly:

Slow ticket sales kill concert series
Organizer says Euphonia staff will be paid
Grania Litwin, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, August 21, 2008

Simon Capet's ambitious Euphonia summer music festival has folded due to poor ticket sales after only two weeks. (more...)

Capet does say that it may have been "a tactical error" to hold the concerts at UVic, because it's "too far off the beaten track for tourists."

[Nparker]

I'm eating my words about Victorians not being cheap, just not culturally-enabled. I guess they are cheap...:Slow ticket sales kill concert series Organizer says Euphonia staff will be paid"

Sadly this does not surprise me at all. Look at the crowds for Symphony Splash, the BC 150 celebrations and the Canada day fireworks, all huge, all free. Unless it's a "classic rock performer" at the Save-on-Foods centre, Victorians do NOT like to have to pay for their entertainment. And the small town mentality goes on...

[Baro]

"..unless it's a "classic rock performer" at the Save-on-Foods centre.."

Baby boomers!!! *shakes fist*

Maybe once they all die off we can appreciate better music and culture when they aren't all busy going into massive debt living a non-stop midlife crisis.
Ha sorry boomers... I know you aren't all bad!

[VicHockeyFan]

I'm eating my words about Victorians not being cheap, just not culturally-enabled. I guess they are cheap... sadly:

Slow ticket sales kill concert series
Organizer says Euphonia staff will be paid
Grania Litwin, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, August 21, 2008

Simon Capet's ambitious Euphonia summer music festival has folded due to poor ticket sales after only two weeks. (more...)

Capet does say that it may have been "a tactical error" to hold the concerts at UVic, because it's "too far off the beaten track for tourists."

I was reading the ad in Monday Magazine today (too late to cancel
I guess) and nowhere did it say "UVic". It did say Farquar Auditorium,and most of us know what that is, but I'm sure 96% of Victorians do not know what / where that is. They might have thought it was Nanaimo or the Mainland for all I know.

[Nparker]

For the record, I want to make it clear that I was in no way intending to denegrate Baby Boomers when I spoke of "classic rock performers". Although such performers may very well draw a disproportionately large number of post-war folk to their concerts, if I was casting aspersions on anything it was the lack of contemporary acts that play Victoria. Demographics I am sure play a large role in which acts come to the region. I have no particular beefs with Boomers, as I only "escaped" being one myself by a couple of years.