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Rant of the moment when promoters/venues etc wont give you the information you need to attend an event. We're looking up Spin Gallery stuff to maybe organize a Passioneers go to the art show day BUT their website doesn't even show the hours the gallery is open. I can find the hours the parking is available across the street but the gallery hours, not so much. It's driving me crazy. And they never did email me back the first time I emailed to see if I could get any info about the Slean/Upperton art show. How do you expect people to go if you flat out avoid giving them any information?
Since Andrea needed to book the time off tomorrow I had the idea of calling the gallery now (well at 1:48am) to get their machine and see if that had the hours of operation on it. And a freaking person answered! It's almost 2am, and now someone is available?! Perhaps these crazy late hours are why no one was around when I was calling them at 11am a couple of weeks ago. Still, seriously?! So random!
I also really dislike the way Hillside (oh yes this is a leftover rant from the summer and probably an early rant for next summer) holds back the info on which days the artists are performing in order to sell more of the three day passes. So by the time they announce when everyone is playing the show is sold out. This makes no sense for the following reasons:
a. the 3 day passes are a deal, so financially you want more people buying one day passes or even two day passes
b. anyone who has any common sense knows it's not true when you say you have no idea when any of the artists are playing. A FEW might be undecided but it's a well run festival, not an crap thrown together thing, people know who is playing when well in advance.
c. clearly it is a lie that you don't know when the artists are playing when the artists themselves know and post the dates on their websites or let fans know via email.
It's just an annoying practice and it really makes me want to avoid the festival altogether. The same way that my experiences thus far with the Spin Gallery... not being able to find their hours, being all but hung up when they find out I'm not media etc makes me not want to go to exhibits there. I remember Mr. deVries talking to us once about how art gallerys were generally snobby to teenagers (this was back in highschool) and my friend Dell had just been yelled at in a gallery for no real reason. And his point was that when places do that it's terrible for buisness. Yes, right now I may not be able to help fund your gallery or buy some art but in the future I will be able to and I'll remember these experiences and give my money to someone else. Clearly if I had the cash I'd want to buy a Slean painting right now BUT if I could do that I'd be finding another way to do so, not giving the gallery any profit. It's the only thing really I as a consumer can do, take my buisness away, but I will do it.
Since Andrea needed to book the time off tomorrow I had the idea of calling the gallery now (well at 1:48am) to get their machine and see if that had the hours of operation on it. And a freaking person answered! It's almost 2am, and now someone is available?! Perhaps these crazy late hours are why no one was around when I was calling them at 11am a couple of weeks ago. Still, seriously?! So random!
I also really dislike the way Hillside (oh yes this is a leftover rant from the summer and probably an early rant for next summer) holds back the info on which days the artists are performing in order to sell more of the three day passes. So by the time they announce when everyone is playing the show is sold out. This makes no sense for the following reasons:
a. the 3 day passes are a deal, so financially you want more people buying one day passes or even two day passes
b. anyone who has any common sense knows it's not true when you say you have no idea when any of the artists are playing. A FEW might be undecided but it's a well run festival, not an crap thrown together thing, people know who is playing when well in advance.
c. clearly it is a lie that you don't know when the artists are playing when the artists themselves know and post the dates on their websites or let fans know via email.
It's just an annoying practice and it really makes me want to avoid the festival altogether. The same way that my experiences thus far with the Spin Gallery... not being able to find their hours, being all but hung up when they find out I'm not media etc makes me not want to go to exhibits there. I remember Mr. deVries talking to us once about how art gallerys were generally snobby to teenagers (this was back in highschool) and my friend Dell had just been yelled at in a gallery for no real reason. And his point was that when places do that it's terrible for buisness. Yes, right now I may not be able to help fund your gallery or buy some art but in the future I will be able to and I'll remember these experiences and give my money to someone else. Clearly if I had the cash I'd want to buy a Slean painting right now BUT if I could do that I'd be finding another way to do so, not giving the gallery any profit. It's the only thing really I as a consumer can do, take my buisness away, but I will do it.