Music festivals are supposed to be a place where everyone can have fun, and while, yes, it's great to let your freak flag fly, sometimes you simply need to respect other patrons by keeping your ahem baggage to yourself.
The Museum of Arts and Design mourns the passing of our dear friend, respected colleague, and dedicated patron of the arts, education, and health related fields.
By questioning the maintenance of a house elsewhere, Ms. Sills, a consummate fund-raiser who is widely respected by many wealthy arts patrons, is not making any future fund-raising campaign easier for an endeavor estimated to cost $240 million or more.
In the end, the rights of the artist and patron must be respected.
They are guests at a public venue and these animal ambassadors deserve some respect from patrons.
A compromise is being discussed, almost certainly with the help of the theatre's patron, Trevor Manuel, the ANC's emollient and highly respected former finance minister.
"At this time of greater awareness, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival would like to ask our patrons to respect First Nations cultures and to not wear any type of First Nations headdresses during the festival," the folk fest posted on its Facebook page Tuesday.
While he was old enough, experienced enough and widely respected, the presence of Lord Camden as Lord Chancellor and Blackstone's lack of aristocratic patrons at the time hindered his chances.
The bottom line is respected in Old Greenwich, home to many in the financial services and corporate worlds, but many patrons don't want to see Just Books, Too disappear.
These respected figures have seemed all too happy to oblige, in exchange for fees, notwithstanding the mounting accusations that the patron schools have engaged in widespread fraud.
None of this is to suggest that the patron saint of modern American conservatism was some sort of flaming liberal, just that he was a pragmatist who respected objective reality.
