Hi purpleness will be gone soon enough. I don't think he's running again, and if he did he'd lose anyhow, so either way he's tomorrow's fertilizer.
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Originally Posted by jawagord
Seems in our City Councils rush to embrace the latest Cause Celebre they've stirred up another "arts" hornets nest by proposing to paint over an long standing Calgary mural with a BLM message. His Purpleness has been running this ship of fools for almost a decade and now suddenly we need to have 4 BLM murals? This group would paint over the Sistine Chapel if it ran the Vatican, hopefully the public backlash saves the doves!
To say that Calgary city council tends to botch its public art policy would be an understatement. The botch job continues.
Council voted in favour of paying to have the beloved and uplifting mural on the old Calgary Urban Projects Society (CUPS) building downtown at 1st Street and 7th Avenue S.E. to be painted over with a mural revolving around systemic racism and Black Lives Matter.
The “Giving Wings to the Dream” mural of multi-coloured arms and hands releasing a dove of peace into a bright blue Alberta sky is so popular it is highlighted online by international travellers as a “destination” to see and photograph in Calgary.
But now it’s to replaced and that is leading to controversy. An online petition has been started by Maka Onwudiwe on Change.org to stop the destruction of the mural that is still in remarkable condition.
The act of covering a historical and racially inclusive mural about disenfranchised Calgarians with one that only directly recognizes one group is a contradiction of what the BLM movement stands for,” she wrote.
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...-025590ab524e/ |