Actors and Artists Ethics and Social Issues Series

Among the many questions  we are infinitely fascinated by at a2ethics.org, and would like to discuss and learn about from others  who have thought about the issue too: after committing a really appalling action, what kinds of remorse and your ways of showing it diminish the feelings of anger and betrayal? And more importantly for this discussion at least, should a musical composition of haunting beauty, an expression of unique talent or the writing of  a treatise on a new way to see the world by that very same  transgressive bad one, be enough to forgive the immoral

BY BARTON BUND, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, THE BLACKBIRD THEATRE

An article in this month's American Theatre Magazine lays out where McCain, Obama and other third-party candidates stand on supporting the Arts. Vist the Theare Communications Group online at www.tcg.org.

Obama's got a plan: big increases to the National Endowment for the Arts, increases to Arts programs in schools, and neat projects like bringing artists into low-income schools for workshops and residences.

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