“j, leic

`The only thing I confront is pomposity and arrogance. I am a freedom fighter for people...'

That's humour? Sounds more like self-regarding adolescent one-upmanship, to me.”

“Sorry, was my humour a little too subtle for you there?! Would you prefer something more "end of the pier"?!”

“Anon of Anon,

I am sorry that I didn't think of that one. Well done.”

“"I am a freedom fighter for people" lol! does that make you j guevara??”

“J,

Thanks for the information although why you need to be so personal is beyond me.

You may feel insignificant. I for one think that everyone is important. An opposing view but that is how it is. Why you think Tracey Anne Miller falls into one of your categories that makes her deserves your 'wrath' is beyond me. I read it as someone who has time on her hands and has offered the skills that would seem to be sorely lacking at the Phoenix only to be rejected out of hand. Despite the rejection, she is again offering her skills to help this ailing cinema/digital media centre.

Anyway, thanks to your post I shall now think of Rik Mayall in the Young Ones whenever I see your posts in the future.....”

“Kulgan, the only thing I confront is pomposity and arrogance. I am a freedom fighter for people who recognise that, ultimately, we are all insignificant. Anyone lacking self awareness and humility will feel my wrath.”

“Red, you are correct in that I wasn't aware of the credentials of the board, and thanks to your link I now have read up, and very impressive they are... However, gaining academic recognition and public position, and converting that into a successful commercial venture are two different kettles of fish. Notwithstanding the City councils' intention to "create" a cultural quarter that determined it's location, I can't help but feel the board were hamstrung to start with - this kind of social engineering does not work; All the greatest centres of this type, large and small, all over the world, evolved naturally due to the whim of the patrons, not some civic dignitaries' plan...”

“This is a time of crisis for Phoenix Square.

The major issue is that the creative team has been stripped from the Phoenix with no forethought by the Chair of the Board as to how in-house creative programming and film education will be done in the future. These are the functions of the organization that have the best chance of ensuring the success of Phoenix Square.

We need to ask serious questions about how many of the Board (including the Chair) know the slightest thing about the film industry, or realise that independent cinemas like the Phoenix receive European funding for showing the kind of diverse range of films that cannot simply be booked by an external agency (which will, inevitably, be outside the region).

The Phoenix has been through two CEOs in the last three years, and they and the Board are responsible for the financial situation by setting over-ambitious targets for audiences (in fact, in this respect the Phoenix compares very well regionally and nationally), and also for failing to adequately market the new venue in the city and the region.

These are serious senior management failings that have not been redressed with these redundancies. Indeed, the redundancies of creative staff only serve to mask the lack of informed leadership of the senior management.”

“Tracey Anne Miller,

Just to let you know that J is one of the very few people who comment on here that are confrontational and carry out personal comments as a norm.

Most of us treat his comments with the respect they deserve, i.e. not a lot.

Whilst I fully support and respect people's right to their own opinion and to voice that opinion, J is renknowned as a personal confrontationalist that normally, does not add anything to the thread.

Manners cost nothing and some people unfortunately, do not have them.

I hope you are able to brush his comments off your shoulders without too much difficulty and let them fall into the bin, where his vociferous personal attacks belong.

No doubt he will start an attack on me (again...YAWN) for posting this.”

“What point are you trying to make ?

Not that it's any business of yours, but I do not claim any benefits, I just no longer work & am financially independent so my time is my own.

This has become tedious & irrelevant. Please feel free to continue with the personal attacks, but I am DONE.”