What is the sound of one hand clapping? Local arts organizations have to learn that nothing is accomplished by preaching to the converted. A good example of this syndrome, which leads artists to believe an exercise in self-pity is the equivalent of effective activism, was the press conference held at the Sutton Place Hotel during the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. At this even luminaries from the film community, including the young, eloquen Sarah Polley, complained to a roomful of sympathetic yet starving and utlimately powerless filmmakers. This is the wrong way to go about it. Polley's effective, touching speech ashould have been delivered to the Premier, or perhaps filmed and delivered to the public on something besides public access television. We have to be like Karen Kain and lobby the Legislature, even if we don't actually make it into the lobby of the building.