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THE ARTS HUSTINGS 2024 ahead of UK General Election

22 Jun 2024 · News & Campaigns · Tags: 

THE ARTS HUSTINGS 2024 ahead of UK General Election The UK’s leading free-to-access movements for the arts and culture are joining forces to convene and livestream a hustings on arts, culture and heritage issues. Ahead of the final week of the UK General Election, THE ARTS HUSTINGS 2024 will give voters the chance to hear directly from political parties about their commitments to support and develop the arts and heritage in the UK, after an especially challenging period for the cultural sector. More

What Next? Local Authorities Briefing Paper 24/01/2024

1 Feb 2024 · News & Campaigns · Tags: 

This paper serves as a background to the conversation What Next? colleagues held in January about Local Authorities. At this current moment, the process of making the case for the arts is hugely difficult: arguments that pit culture spend against other departments and needs are unlikely to cut through in this crowded and urgent space, and arguments that rely on long-term economic growth are difficult to enact when all available funding is diverted to averting short-term crisis. In this landscape, how we make decisions about the arts and cultural provision that we want to enable and protect, and we how we take a shared and collaborative responsibility for this process becomes even more important. More

Note of What Next? Freelance Futures Session – Supporting the Freelance Cultural Workforce

10 Aug 2022 · News & Campaigns

This is a note of a one-hour Zoom session which was delivered as one of What Next?’s contributions to the Freelance: Futures symposia: www.freelancefutures.org. Meeting goal - Arts Council England (ACE): Supporting the Freelance Cultural Workforce. At this meeting, What Next? was joined by Michelle Dickson, Director Strategy at ACE, and Erica Campayne, Senior Manager, Combined Arts & Individuals to ask participants:- ‘As an individual, what do you want from your National Development Agency?’ More

#CultureisMyConstituency

4 Aug 2021 · News & Campaigns

We are calling on our members, partners and colleagues to focus any lobbying they want to do on the Spending Round on helping their local MPs to understand their local cultural ecology, and meet the people who are part of your workforce and community: from make-up artists to technicians, from youth leaders to designers, it is about helping MPs to understand that there are real jobs in their patch that are valued and important, and voters who care passionately about culture. If you are a freelancer, it is really important to make this case too. More

#BAMEOver – A Statement for the UK

16 Feb 2021 · News & Campaigns

Throughout August more than 1,000 people took Inc Arts’ #BAMEOver survey, and on 4th September 2020 over 250 people came together to reset the terms of reference for people with lived experience of racism. We set out to answer the question, ‘What do we want to be called?’ Through our discussion we’ve come up with a guide to terminology, for use by everyone who wants to be an effective ally and wants to avoid causing further harm through the use of casual and inaccurate language. More

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