The power of large corporations looms large over this convention - from their logos on the bags delegates receive to the expensive receptions they underwrite.
"This is a piece of art given to the community for public enjoyment," Alan Strickland, a member of the council, told the BBC, "and people will find it galling that you can only view this work at an expensive champagne reception, when it belongs with the people of north London, not a private owner".
Kirsten Dunst plays Justine, a troubled young woman who is getting married, and Charlotte Gainsbourg is her sister Claire, whose millionaire blowhard husband, played by Kiefer Sutherland, has paid for a grand and expensive wedding reception at a fancy country-house hotel.
But Wood Green councillor Alan Strickland said: "This is a piece of art given to the community for public enjoyment, and people will find it galling that you can only view this work at an expensive champagne reception, when it belongs with the people of north London, not a private owner.
She gave out the studio's phone number, but she and her employee weren't always free to handle calls, and using an outside reception service was expensive.
Talk story about a reception announcing the most expensive apartments ever built in New York City.
By Alec Wilkinson The New Yorker, April 11 , 1983P. 31 Talk story about a reception announcing the most expensive apartments ever built in New York City.
Or smoking in the reception lobby of an expensive-looking corporation (probably belonging to his dad. It's a hard life).
Receptions can be extremely expensive, sometimes over 50% of your overall budget.
Poor reception and an erratic and expensive electricity supply have not helped.TV makers are not alone in suffering this phenomenon.
