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Public cash for billionaires? The questions hanging over Oliver Dowden’s Cultural Recovery Fund
This week saw some succour for the arts. The award of £257 million in grants to British organisations has finally been announced. This money will come from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and it’s designed to tide businesses over … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, arts council, boris johnson, comedy, coronavirus, culture, David Ross, dcms, freelancer, freelancers, Frog and Bucket, funding, funds, government, grant, grants, img artists, london palladium, mission mars, money, music, nevill holt opera, oliver dowden, pandemic, Paradigm Agency, reopening, rescue fund, rescue package, secret cinema, select committee, social distancing, telegraph, theatre, west end, wigmore hall
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The government’s attitude to Fatima and the arts will put them on the wrong side of history – they just don’t know it yet
The latest tone-deaf salvo from our government to the creative sector is a CyberFirst campaign (belatedly removed after an outcry), one part of which depicts a ballet dancer called Fatima. The text reads: “Fatima’s next job could be in cyber (she just doesn’t know it … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged ad, advert, advertisement, arts, ballet, ballet dancer, campaign, culture, cyber, cyber first, dance, dancer, dancing, dido harding, economy, fatima, funding, government, independent, industry, oliver dowden, pandemic, rescue package, retrain, test and trace, theatre
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Theatre in crisis: ‘British culture is world-beating – why leave us behind?’
The Government’s new jobs plan has been met with despair – and fury – from many in the arts world. “Theatre has been viable for thousands of years,” points out leading producer Sonia Friedman. “Yesterday’s announcement from the Chancellor that our industry is … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, chancellor, culture, equity, funding, furlough, jez bond, job loss, jobs, julian bird, orange tree theatre, park theatre, paul miller, Rishi Sunak, royal court, sonia friedman, the telegraph, theatre, vicky featherstone
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UK arts leaders in despair: ‘By the time we’re allowed to reopen, we may be too decimated to do so’
Just weeks ago, Oliver Dowden announced Operation Sleeping Beauty – the panto-styled aim to get our beleaguered cultural venues refilling by Christmas. But, following the Prime Minister’s unveiling of strict new Covid-19 guidelines, it now looks like the sector will be left … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, chancellor, coronavirus, covid 19, freelance, freelancer, funding, furlough, government, oliver dowden, Rishi Sunak, self employment scheme, telegraph, theatre
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