City to 'Investigate' management of BACC

[snoop1130]

City to 'Investigate' management of BACC

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

The Caravaggio: Opera Omnia exhibit at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in May.

 

BANGKOK — City Hall officials said Wednesday they will investigate the administration and funding of a downtown cultural venue that it recently threatened to take over, prompting a public backlash.

 

Officials with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said today they would create a committee to review how the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre manages its staffing and funding.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/bangkok/2018/05/30/city-to-investigate-management-of-bacc/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-5-30

[ChidlomDweller]

For the real reason, see here:

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1474197/convenient-amnesia

[observer90210]

What happened ? They got mixed with the ticketing and charged the Thai's with farang prices and the farang's with Thai prices ? ?

[happy chappie]

Once again the multi millions of baht funding has corruption involved.never ending and highly contagious.

[humbug]

3 hours ago, ChidlomDweller said:

For the real reason, see here:

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1474197/convenient-amnesia

exactly bangkok governor aswin is a schill, unelected and should be in prison for leading an elected administration of Bangkok. He is also following other treasonous leaders who want to stop the independence of this arts building. If Aswin and co take it over it will have 24 hr shows on the chuckle 'P' brothers and run at huge losses due to 'mis' management.

 

viva the revolution

[webfact]

BMA sets up arts centre probe

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) on Wednesday agreed to set a committee to study the management of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).
 

The 11-member committee will be selected within 90 days and will then study how the non-profit BACC Foundation should run the arts centre and maintain transparency in management.

 

Chaired by Captain Kriangsak Lohachala, the weekly council meeting also included the Bangkok Governor Aswin Khwanmuang. 

 

On May 16, Aswin withdrew his controversial proposal that the city takes over management of the BACC, after the Artists Network for Free BACC and social media pressured to scrap the controversial plan.

 

However, the council meeting today found that the management of the BACC Foundation may have contravened the law. 

 

 

Moreover, a memorandum of understanding between the BMA and BACC Foundation on financial support is not clear, so this year the BMA could not provide as much support as before. 

 

After funding the centre since it opened 10 years ago, the BMA cut its funding this year. 

 

The council said the capital comes from taxpayers, so BMA wanted transparency.

 

According to the MOU, if the foundation did not follow the rules, City Hall can terminate the contract immediately, before its conclusion in 2064.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30346627

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-31

[Lupatria]

The BMA's stand seems to be: we will get the property this way or the other.

[Juan B Tong]

Busted!

[Srikcir]

12 hours ago, observer90210 said:

What happened ? They got mixed with the ticketing and charged the Thai's with farang prices and the farang's with Thai prices ? ?

The BACC foundation is an outsider organization whose leadership consists of Thai private artists, academics and businessmen. There is no government embedded in the foundation. BMA that is currently pro-military that I believe wants to (apart from seeking potential corruption opportunities) take control of the foundation's activities and likely direct it towards state-authoritarian objectives such as focus on nationalism, tradition and Buddhism, less on freedom of artistic expression.