Center benefits from streaming video ticket sales | Letter

Published 4:31 pm Monday, February 27, 2012

Those who enjoyed last Sunday’s streaming video at the Orcas Center on the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and those who did not enjoy this same video should all rest easy that money donated to the center in the form of membership fees did not go to the providers of said video.

The service providers of this video and of the plays and operas also streamed to the center are paid half of the money collected for each ticket at each performance with the other half of the money collected for each ticket going to the center.

The Orcas Center thus offers a free market in art, opera, and, stage plays. The merits of every event can be discussed calmly or with wild abandon without putting Orcas Center funds at stake. Consensus art, appealing to the least common denominator would be boring and art chosen by an elite would be boring and chilling.

In other words you buy your ticket and you take your chances as in the real world. Don’t forget con trooov ersy (as one Brit twit pronounced it) keeps the blood circulating.

Terrel Kaplan

Orcas Island