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Quality of life and support for cultural experiences
The arts make a major contribution to quality of life for many people. Beyond school, the arts can:
- provide leisure and entertainment;
- explore personal and social issues;
- provide opportunities for lifelong learning;
- improve the quality of the environment;
- have a positive impact on physical and mental well-being;
- contribute to economic and social regeneration.
The arts are not an elitist activity. In the latest national survey carried out by Arts Council England, 'Arts in England: attendance, participation and attitudes in 2001' (PDF 371Kb), 73% of the people interviewed (over 6,000) believed that the arts play an important role in the life of the country. More than three-quarters of the adults interviewed had attended at least one arts event in the past year, and more than four out of five had taken part in artistic or cultural activity:
- 55% had seen a film at the cinema;
- 27% had seen a play or drama;
- 24% had been to a musical event;
- 23% had attended a carnival or street arts event;
- 19% had been to an art, photography or sculpture exhibition;
- 17% had been to a crafts exhibition;
- 13% had been to a pantomime;
- 10% had attended a cultural festival.
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