Jose Herrera’s art-and-culture policy decisions: live sex shows and three carnivals a year
I’ve put on these shades because the live sex is blinding. Chris Cardona is my new best friend.
But honestly, come on – did you expect otherwise? This is Jose Herrera we’re talking about. Of course his idea of cultural policy is sex shows and carnivals.
Not only is he completely uninterested in and cut off from developments in art and culture, but to make matters worse for the administration of this portfolio, he doesn’t want it and is seething with anger at having been pipped to the Justice (and Police) Ministry by Manuel Mallia.
He seems determined to use the PS for Culture position, which he sees as having been used to humiliate him, to humiliate in turn and as best he can the prime minister who embarrassed him and deprived him of what he thinks is rightfully his.
The Malta Independent reports tonight:
Parliamentary Secretary Jose Herrera said the government is considering holding three carnivals every year – a proposal made by carnival enthusiasts.
Addressing a government public consultation meeting with members of Cabinet at Castille, Dr Herrera said that following meetings with various people involved in the sector he would be proposing to cabinet the holding of a traditional carnival in winter, a full-carnival with floats in May and a mini-carnival in summer.
He said that Carnival was among his top priorities in the cultural sector.
Dr Herrera said that the government will also be taking initiatives where it comes to censorship, with the possibility of enacting a new law allowing for holding “adult” shows which might be objectionable to certain strata of society.
He said that “pornography” may be allowed in certain “controlled” environments.
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Pimps, scoundrels and thieves.
And lechers.
Ghanja tal-Poplu taghna Lkoll 2014
Pajjiz tal-Karnival – John Bundy
Li ghadu bla iced bun sakemm jaghtuh programm prime time il-Gimgha filghaxija minflok Xarabank.
How about a fourth carnival to be celebrated on the 11th of March for the next five years.
But he is very much in line with the Labour mentality. Malta will be in carnival mode year round.
If merrymaking is the epitome of carnival, I would agree to having it all year round.
But politicising even a section of our culture without looking at the development of art and culture on a grand scale is to say the least annoying.
There is so much more to culture that even people working in the culture office still do not comprehend. and with all the new people getting into it there seems to be no merrymaking in the way.
Malta has been in carnival mode since 11 March 2013, and the festival is bound to continue until 2018.
Well, three Carnivals a year might make sense in the new era. Carnival precedes lent – a period of sacrifice.
Three carnivals a year is an indication of the tough years ahead and will serve as a distraction to the duress of life under the new dictatorship.
I am sure that Franco will volunteer to be one of the Carnival kings, at least once a year.
How about a regatta of carnival floats? I would not mind floating this idea. We could have floating dragons made in China breathing fire of suffarelli. We have started floating in murky waters in less than a 100 days.
“Bring in the Clowns” makes so much more sense now.
Three carnivals and sex shows! Maaaa, how cultural Jose Herrera is. Astrid must surely ask for an extension of that €20,000 grant, since she would have to expand her cultural website to include these cultural events.
I wonder what Kenneth Zammit Tabona and the rest of Malta’s ‘creative society’ think about these great cultural events?
How low can they go?
We think it’s a giant farce, obviously. What’s with the ‘sneer marks’?
[Daphne – Well, TL, to misquote Margaret Thatcher, there is no such thing as a ‘creative society’. I don’t feel any connection, creative or otherwise, with many of the individuals who define themselves as being part of it. But that’s the field in which I work. I have no time for people who go about defining themselves by membership of this imaginary group, because they think it gives them some kind of special status and superiority. I mean no offence, but most of them are barely literate and poorly clued up. The ability to paint a picture (usually badly) does not make one an authority on politics, social issues or even architecture. They bore the socks off me.]
Of course you don’t feel a connection with people who define themselves as creatives – you’re a political columnist!
[Daphne – I am not only a political columnist, TL. That is only one part of what I do.]
That’s like me saying I feel no connection with builders, and using that to denigrate them. Whether you’re part of it or not, there IS a (small) society of people making their living in the creative sector. I am one of those people, so it’s naturally news to me that there is, apparently, no such thing as me.
I don’t consider myself an authority on anything, and as this exchange amply proves, you don’t gain status in Malta from what I do. I’m sorry to hear we bore you, but I don’t particularly care either.
[Daphne – I did not say that creative people do not exist. I said that there is no such thing as a ‘creative society’, and in fact there isn’t. The few painters and actors who hang about together do so because they like each other’s company, and not because they are a creative society. They are friends on the basis of their shared interests, just like people who, for example, enjoy tennis or bridge.]
At this rate by March 2018 we will be having a daily Carnival.
Moira Orfei will be Honorary President of Malta and a fitting memorial to P.T. Barnum will be erected next to Dimech on Pjazza Kastilja.
Maaaaaaaa x’inkwiet……and there I was thinking that Jose Herrera would hasten to honour the priorities listed in his party’s manifesto to establish a Museum of Contemporary Art and build a (roofed) concert hall to house the National Orchestra.
Instead we get three carnivals a year and a flurry of sex clubs. Now that’s poetic justice for you! Meanwhile Kennit spends his weekends touring village festas with Joe Demanuele and Ignatius Farrugia. All very democratic indeed.
So now we know that for Labour ‘obscene’ is synonymous with ‘liberal’.
Three King Carnivals in one year?
Tsk, Tsk.
King Jason 2018 is not going to be happy with the threat to his kingdom.
I presume that these initiatives are elaborations on the theme “Pajjiz tal-Micky Mouse”.
Next thing is three Good Fridays. I already have the names for these new holidays.
Good Friday, Better Friday and Best Friday.
Or rather, given that it’s Labour in Government – Good Friday, Bad Friday, Worse Friday.
Three carnivals a year? Send in the clowns, indeed!
Here is an Iced Bun for Kennit after all. Official Queen Carnival three times a year. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat fun.
Three carnivals a year, soirées for the high society, Jason 2018 and a Minister of Justice doing a Humpty-Dumpty impersonation at a party in the prison yard.
What a farce.
The High Society is getting Higher and Higher everyday.
So Jose Herrera’s boss, Karmenu Vella, is thinking of a little sex tourism boost for Malta, then.
The Romans had ‘pane e circensis’ to alienate the masses. Here we get ‘porno e circensis’ instead.