The best entertainment has ties to the real world, things we can relate to. The TV. sitcom families are good examples: the Archie Bunker family in the seventies, the Cosby family in the eighties, and the Bundies in the nineties. The best music, drama, movies, literature and art, make us laugh and cry, and wind us up in their spell. We love to be entertained.

Nature, or the outdoors, is one of our favourite forms of entertainment. So are sports.

If art seems to fail miserably compared to the others, it's probably because I'm just more conscious of it. And if the odd time, upon attending an opening nite show, I notice that most of the people are more impressed with each other, than with the art, perhaps my disappointment is due to high expectations. And now, if I notice artists being side-tracked by becoming carnival acts, I hope it is because they are would-be-actors and comedians and I am just too serious about art.



"It's Painters and Players, a Vancouver arts celebration that combines the spectacle of carnival with artistic experimentation in a single evening. As local painters put brush to canvas, working in watercolour, oil and multi-media, entertainers perform simultaneously." (150)




I CANNOT IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT DR. SEUSS AND WALT DISNEY.




150. Arts celebration combines carnival atmosphere with artistic experimentation, North Shore News, (Vancouver Canada, pub. by Peter Speck, 1992)