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Name: Martha Stylianou on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Celia Greenwood on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Robert on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is too precious to et goFlag
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Name: Jitendra Kulkarni on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Phivos Christofides on Mar 31, 2011Comments: Without WAC I would not have started my journey in the arts and without them providing a caring, nurturing, environment for me to explore that side of myself, I would not be I where I am today, following my passion & doing what I love... WAC changed my life, and the lives of many others. I love you guys... It CANNOT be allowed to close down.Flag
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Name: Charlotte Burke on Mar 31, 2011Comments: This is one of the most important places for young people today..I am very shocked to see that the funding has been cut and very sad to think that such a great place for young people will be in trouble if we do not get the funding for it to continue.Flag
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Name: Gavin Bedford on Mar 31, 2011Comments: Hugely important.Flag
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Name: Ishmael Pamphille on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Natalie Khoshnevis on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: John Sandberg on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Kate Child on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is a most wonderful arts and media resource that supports and develops young people of all backgrounds, to develop to their full potential, to become caring and most positive contributors to society. Young people who can attend Junior and Senior WAC are set up for a productive and positive life with a great love of arts as performers, participants and appreciators. They are instilled with an ethos of 'family', sharing, caring and making a difference to others. It is a Centre with a proven track record of producing talented artists. WAC nurtures performing arts and media talent that might otherwise have been overlooked; channels youthful energy down the most positive routes. This organisation makes a difference. Funding should not only NOT be cut it should be increased.Flag
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Name: Erran Baron Cohen on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is a fantastic organisation that has educated thousands of kids over the years, many of whom have gone on to achieve great success in the arts. Do not deny new generations of kids the chance to benefit from everything WAC has to give to themFlag
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Name: Professor David Buckingham on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is a long-running, extremely successful youth and community arts project, which has had an enormously positive impact on the lives of generations of disadvantaged young people in our area. Cutting its core programme is an act of cultural vandalism - the Arts Council should be ashamed of itself!Flag
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Name: Victoria Fellows on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Nancy Shakerley on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Anna Bennett on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC raised me. It was an integral part of my life, socially, emotionally and creatively since I was 6. It would be devastating to the progression of the youth of today and tomorrow if the programs were unable to continue. Save WAC!!!!!Flag
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Name: Gerry Hunt on Mar 31, 2011Comments: I agree with all of the above. WAC has probably saved many people's lives. It must survive!Flag
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Name: N Carless on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jonathan Petherbridge on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Julian Sefton-Green on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Rachel Bennett on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is an exemplary organisation in all of its dealings. Young people and artistes/tutors alike are inspired, safe, celebrated, facilitated in the arts to a high standard and supported to progress within its walls. London, the country and the world at large need organisations like WAC to grow better people and a better worldFlag
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Name: Liesbeth De Block on Mar 31, 2011Comments: This organisation has developed expertise in its staffing and students. For many it has become the launching pad for successfukl careers. For others it has priovided opportunities for enjoyment and development theiy would not otherwise have had access to. For yet others it has become a stable base during difficult times. All round - academically, socially and emotionally it is a much needed and loved centre deserving of consistent funding.Flag
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Name: Stuart Bennett on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC prepares the next generation of arts practitioners - and provides an invaluable community service.Flag
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Name: Fabricio Chavarro on Mar 31, 2011Comments: How on earth the Arts Concil is cutting the funding for these projects when they are having such a positive impact in the life of so many children and young people in London? It doesn't make sense at all!Flag
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Name: Adisa on Mar 31, 2011Comments: The work WAC is delivering is crucial to this generation and the generations to come.Flag
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Name: Rebekah Willett on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Benedict Caleo Green on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC provides positive educational experiences for hundreds of youths. To cut such a self-evidently worthwhile institution and remove the support it provides is an act of cultural vandalism. Such a move would be destructive and ultimately, counterproductive.Flag
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Name: Harriet Cox on Mar 31, 2011Comments: These projects are extremely valuable not only to individuals and the local community but as a springboard for future artistes and performers, musicians, directors, singers, actors who, without these projects may not only not have a chance at discovering the artistry within them but not having the opportunity to grow and develop their craft into a career. WAC provides open access programmes which do not depend upon financial status for entry. As such their ehtos and programmes are of major value. Therefore i am petitioning for the Arts council to review their decision and reinstate WAC's funding for these programmes.Flag
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Name: Rachel Saracoglu on Mar 31, 2011Comments: This important area needs to be funded at this time more than any other time; there is so much good work going on- the government is very short-sighted to continue with these needless spending cuts.Flag
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Name: Shakuntala Banaji on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is one of the most effective and creative community-based education initiatives I have seen in the UK. It trains smart young people from underprivileged backgrounds and gives opportunities to those who would not otherwise have them. It is completely shocking that it is set to lose its Arts Council funding. I urge the Arts Council to reconsider.Flag
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Name: Avril Gearing on Mar 31, 2011Comments: Most children and young people have very limited access to training in the arts - we need more of it, not less, to help more of them fulfil their potential.Flag
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Name: Jade O'Sullivan on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC has helped so many young people who wouldn't have been able to access the arts. And be able to full express themselves! We need to save these amazing projects!!!! WAC has helped me through my journey and need to be there to help many more young people!!Flag
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Name: Alison Clixby on Mar 31, 2011Comments: Junior and Senior WAC are the arts at grass roots level - where it all begins. These are projects that should be treasured and nutured by the Arts Council - not cut.Flag
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Name: Charley Portet on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Rayna Nadeem on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Paula Chadwick on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Steve Medlin on Mar 31, 2011Comments: I been associated with WAC for almost the entire 32 yrs they have been running, first as a student who they took from a closed and unsupported education and offered genuine pathways into both a prof training and then the industry at large, this followed by me often returning in various guises such as teacher, consultant, director and project coordinator across a 20 yr period. Throughout this time i also worked within stage, T.V, Film and education on a regular basis both throughout britain and across the world, and whilst i have worked alongside some of britains leading artists and within some of the worlds most famous establishments i have never met an organisation that matches WAC,s consistant delivery of ever widening, high quality innovative arts education, and most certainly never worked alongside a more commited staff team dedicated to the imrovement of the young person. The fact that the funding for this program has been cut after 32yrs of publicly recognised and professionally celebrated success is not just a shame but a bloody travesty.Flag
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Name: Olivia Warner on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2011Comments: This course is too important not to be saved. With all what's going on right now, you either save something productive that helps others less fortunate (and i'll say again, these times don't help) or you aid society in getting worse. This course has saved souls. Too many people have come out ONTOP for WAC to be shut down. Make it happen.Flag
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Name: Isaac Stanley on Mar 31, 2011Comments: Participating as first a student and later a workshop facilitator in WAC was an absolutely formative part of my youth. WAC nurtured my interest in the arts, especially music, and community education, as ways of engaging with important political issues relating to culture and equality, and undoubtedly gave me the confidence to pursue my interests and later go on to study Social Sciences and Anthropology at Cambridge University. WAC is an inspiring institution which not only has provided many generations of young people opportunities to gain confidence and to express themselves, but is also unique as a space where young people from a genuinely diverse range of social and cultural backgrounds come together to explore important questions and issues facing young people in Britain today. I cannot overstate how much of a loss the closure of WAC will represent to the next generation of young londoners, the potential leaders and artists of tomorrow. I urge the arts council and any other funding bodies not to overlook this institution, which for years has made a unique contribution not only to the arts, especially Jazz, in the UK, but to the engagement of the less privileged members of British society in this field.Flag
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Name: Rick Parkes on Mar 31, 2011Comments: What a disaster - its too good to let go.Flag
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Name: Ashley Smith on Mar 31, 2011Comments: WAC is an essential part of the community. Without the training and support that this establishment provides thousands of young and disadvantaged children will lose the opportunity to learn and be supported in the troubles and disadvantages that they face.Flag
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Name: Sophie Burge on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Gary on Mar 31, 2011Comments: I feel that the creative arts lessons supplied by WAC are quite important to me and a lot of people around me. WAC has been a very important part of my life. I know for a fact it continues daily to supply people/families with a low income to use and borrow top quality equipment to further ambitions within the performing arts.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Raf Bogan on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Tara O'Connor on Mar 31, 2011Comments: This is a great place, where I learned so much about the arts, and about my abilities as a person and a performer. I really developed some great skills at this place and I met some really great and inspiring people. I don't think I would be where I am today without WAC.Flag
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Name: Nena on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Niccola Da-silva on Mar 31, 2011Comments: I THINK IT DISSAPOINTING THAT THIS IS HAPPENING, THEY REALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW MANY LIVES THIS COLLEGE SAVES THROUGH WHAT THEY DO. MISS NICCOLA DA-SILVAFlag
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Name: Tyler Saunders on Mar 31, 2011Comments:Flag