Hot Culture TV Show - Part 1

hello this is hot culture TV the show

where we explore the latest cultural

issues in Canterbury I'm Ben Ashton and

I'm Vanessa Chalmers coming up on

today's show we'll be taking a look at

country's current hot culture including

the recent developments on busting

guidelines being proposed by the council

also we will be finding out more on how

graffiti artists operate in and around

the city but first up many young males

adopt the lifestyle and behaviors often

defined as lad culture by the media lad

ISM associated with heavy drinking

sportsmen and inappropriate behavior is

particularly rife on university campuses

however it is creating issues that some

higher education institutions are

failing to recognize Chloe flood reports

blood culture is widely defined as a

group of men who have a pack mentality

and are often accused misogyny and

homophobia more than a third of women on

University campuses have reported

suffering unwelcome advances in the form

of groping touching and verbal assault a

new study by nus has found sixty percent

of students are unaware of reporting

procedures and universities have since

been accused of not acknowledging the

growing impact of Luud culture it's not

just the unwanted sexual advances that

are a problem here in canterbury lad

culture can actually encourage a bad

attitude when it comes to drinking and

alcohol and this has led to groups of

men being banned from certain bars and

part

particularly sports teams from the local

universities when they're on their

socials at the black griffin park

manager sum up the case you think

something should be done on a wider

scale than just the usual bar and pub

regulations I wouldn't say specifically

men but I have issues with men and when

it comes to a man with being aggressive

it's quite it's okay sometimes because

you can sort of talk to them and get

them to calm down just by trying to be

on saying that love them another man

tries to get involved that's what it

always sort of takes off a little bit

when you're sort of the normalization of

this behavior is a huge part of this

problem awareness needs to be raised

before results can be seen Chloe flood

reporting from Canterbury reporter Chloe

flood is now joined live by Hannah

Cole's the president of welfare and

education at canterbury christ church

Student Union to discuss lad culture

here and if it's a recognized problem

hello Chloe hi Ben yeah I've got Anna up

here with me now and silent what

regulations does the S you actually have

in place when it comes to large behavior

so color we have these irritants and

safe space policy which has been in

place since summer of 2014 and that

helps students when they feel that

they're being bullied harassed sexually

emotionally physically or anything and

that's being put in place at the moment

we are also writing the procedures at

the moment and that will be based around

the good night out campaign which is a

sort of a it's a website at the moment

that a lot of unions use and they pay a

fee to them and it gives them all the

training purposes

so we can help student ok and you knees

have actually been criticized for not

doing enough about cases when they

reported and you think this uni does

enough I don't think it does enough

actually the shooting does a lot more

than they do personally I've spoken to

you a lot of the high levels of

university lecturers and everything and

a perp who have spoken to you personally

agrees and there could be a lot more

that we could do together as a

partnership and really push this serie

tolerance they have a zero tolerance

policy themselves but I don't really see

much sign posting or where the students

can get our support and do you think it

is males that are the problem or do you

think is the society who sort of accept

their behavior it's the problem I think

um it's a bit of both to be honest it

can be the lads especially because they

can be a little bit more bullshitting

than women but then the women are they

can both do the same sort of thing but

the community I think it's just

understanding that sometimes banter that

males may have may come across quite

bolshie or harassment but it might

simply not be the case ok thank you very

much that was really interesting back to

the studio thank you for that hella and

Chloe now busking has always contributed

to the culture and community of the city

for many years although this is recently

being threatened after the noise

location and duration of their

performances has caught the council's

attention and prompted them to focus on

more ways to restrict street performing

Katie ager investigates the streets of

Canterbury are always lined with buskers

plain a variety of instruments on a

daily basis from beatboxes to accordion

players and many associate them with the

culture of the city life Darryl Quinn

plays guitar and sings whether it be

outside of the cathedral or in the city

center itself the guidelines that have

been proposed by the Canterbury City

Council would have an impact on

musicians and the length of time they

are allowed to perform in one location

it would also mean that noise levels

would be limited and those who use

amplifiers would be majorly affected but

that doesn't bother him because he feels

it's only fair to the local community

for one it's a 94 shops you know because

they're hearing the same thing we'll

burn it over and over day and day out

and another thing it's for other buskers

it's not fair you know like today I'm

having to pick spots where I never

usually play because I know those guys

set up camp down there all day a lack a

set up camp up there all day and they're

using humps as well which means you

can't be 100 200 meters of them without

being drowned out it's not just Daryl

who feels this way as many other buskers

have complained that they cannot compete

with those using amplifiers and that it

takes away from Canterbury's natural

culture there were fears among musicians

that a possibility of new guidelines

would scare away new buses to the city

the Canterbury City Council said that no

guidelines have actually be introduced

at this stage and the attention given to

the issue to be blown out of proportion

it was only looked at in the view of

local residents and businesses in the

area following public nuisance

complaints bhaskar should continue to

thrive in the city of Canterbury and any

potential guidelines would only

encourage Buster's to interact from for

their audience if they did come into

effect a would help me and other people

like me as I don't use an up or anything

Katy Asia reporting from come to me

that's the latest update reporter Katie

ager is now joined live by Canterbury

musician been pew to discuss the current

situation on busking in the city hello

Katie I'm here with Ben now so then you

perform with Davy Jones's Locker so tell

us more about that what do you do

exactly um well I'm merely a performer I

basically just perform and I to pieces

with other people so I do for example

today I'm doing a gig with them with

them and basically i'm doing this piece

called five impressions for flute and

tuba and bailey well basically there's a

florist playing alongside me and then

i'm doing a solo piece and thats that's

all there really is to it really for me

in terms of I don't actually organized

the events so anything I love that's all

up to Tonya but yeah I only perform so

do people approach you to make a booking

or do you make your own inquiries um I

was actually approached by the organizer

because I went to one of their concerts

before like one of the living room

concerts and I told the I told the

organizer that I was a tube up there and

you know she was she was saying that she

was interested in doing work me and she

would get back to me to it and of course

you got back to me eventually so what do

you think of the buskers in cancer do

you think they have a positive or

negative impact on the city I think a

very positive impact on the city because

i think the culture in canterbury really

relies on the smaller things rather than

the bigger things and i think having

music all around us as a very i think it

is very good because it is it just

incorporates a really positive culture

thanks very much for joining us today

they and I'm afraid that's all we've got

time for that's okay back to the studio

with Vanessa and Men thank you very much

to Katie and also to bend for coming in

to discuss the ongoing issue tell us

what you think by about busting by

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it a nuisance or what brings life to

Canterbury Jen Ives says there are some

buskers that are part of the city and it

would be sad to see them leave and

Elliot Deakin says don't mind in the

slightest it's nice to hear music as you

walk through the town now the debate as

to whether graffiti

is art or vandalism has been going on

for many years with more than a third of

people believing that police should be

harsh or an offending artist according

to research by hot culture helping us to

shed some light on the debate in

Canterbury Alex Duggan reports graffiti

is defined as writing or drawings

scribbled scratched or sprayed illicitly

in a public place covering darkened

corners of canterbury to some it is an

eyesore to others these the starting

points of artists in the making

according to the law graffiti is illegal

under the criminal damage act of 1971

graffiti artists can be fined up to

5,000 pounds or face a jail sentence of

10 years however there's one place in

Canterbury where artists graffiti

without fear of prosecution Canterbury

City Council has provided a legal

graffiti wall just outside of wind chief

although exists it's almost impossible

to find

this is Canterbury's only legal graffiti

wall as you can see from the point of

view shot we took earlier is quite hard

to get here you have to climb through a

field offense and getting here in the

first place is complicated however we

came here two weeks ago and the walk has

changed completely since then it's been

used many times and this shows that it's

popular and in demand that so the

council took up more projects like this

we would have less of a problem with

illegal graffiti in Canterbury based in

the Milo arcade is the RT gallery that

holds work showcasing artist who began

on the streets such as Gabe Leonard

gareth williams gallery manager believes

that if there were more outlets for

graffiti it may just take it off of the

streets if the street artist did know

then maybe they'd use that rather than

actually doing on a building that

doesn't want the off time but the

council could work with what's happening

in society and give them avenues to

release it so my clients and skate parks

as soon as they built a few of those all

the kids went up the streets with their

skateboarding and runway so give them

money and having you to go down there

little fella music this is alex duggan

reporting for hop culture in canterbury

thank you to Alex for that insight into

graffiti around canterbury reporter Alex

Duggan is now joined live by

christchurch senior art lecturer Brian

Hawkins to discuss how he believes

graffiti is perceived by society hello

Alex I left thanks Ben and thank you

very much for joining us pleasure my

first question for you is to what extent

would you say the graffiti is now being

accepted as a form of modern art yes

well I think it comes from quite a long

way back I think it comes from the early

20th century when artists began to be

interested in outside of the Academy

that began interested in non

professional artists in direct

expression but I think it's really been

cemented probably around the 1980s by

artists like jean-michel basquiat in New

York who was initially a graffiti artist

but became a gallery artists

and his work moved as it were from the

street into the gallery that and the

graffiti nature's art was seen as a

fundamental characteristic of his art

and I went to a show of his in London

and a serpentine gallery and it wasn't

going to be lively interesting event so

I think it's it is established as part

of the kind of vocabulary of

contemporary art yeah and what would you

say it distinguishes then factors that

distinguish between your feet of being

our or vandalism is in place is it photo

I suppose easy answer is attitude what

different people have different

attitudes towards it and I suppose

another 30 of easy answer is that our

will tend to be associated with

galleries and museums I have the feeling

that a lot of graffiti artists don't

participate with us so i think it's not

up to our to just claim graffiti art I

think Kofi TR claims his own

independence to some extent as well what

would you say the council's could do to

help like get artists from the street

into galleries so is there anything they

could do to encourage that yeah that's

assuming that they want to go into

galleries but i think in relation to

this is probably dialogue i think that

generally speaking perhaps you know the

authorities and the the young

authorities tend to do things for the

young but I think it'd be better to have

a meaningful dialogue okay thank you

very much that's oh my gosh I'm force a

first pitch coming in and thank you

actually studio with you been

interesting opinion there from Brian

Hawkins very interesting indeed thank

you for sharing with us we will be

hearing more about this debate in our

next show with Nikki and Callum

unfortunately that's all from us here at

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Vanessa charmers

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