.... but is this actually likely to happen in the review's short time-scale? How will the mainly exasperated arts sector navigate desire to express how artistically debilitating the infrastructural layering and hoop jumping are without putting future arts resourcing at risk?

Friends, we're looking to work with more authors! If you/someone you know likes to dictate their work, drop us a message! We've helped some fantastic writers bring their creations to life.

Some poverty commentators, fail to consider economic model and system that is poverty producing. They too often shy away from calling out financialisation and institutionalised greed/excess. And they fall short of demanding an end to austerity or advancing economic democracy.

Oh Verso Books - you must be reading my mind versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

Let's shout about 'growth' in 'creative industries'. It's all about the arts and culture, which we should 'grow'. But all the stats show is that 60% of employment and GVA is in software/ computing and advertising and marketing.
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As he says - these must surely be aimed at those for whom £ and adequate time to practice aren’t a big deal

'Most artists want to find the golden thread - to eat, make work and practice their art,' says Simon Poulter, but they often get a raw deal artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/artic…

If I never see another 'micro' opportunity for #artists - ie far too little £, scope and time but loads of competitive application guff - it will be too soon.......
Where's the #payparity in that?

Simon Poulter’s research for Arts Professional a sobering read as regards constraints to #artists ’ development through funders’ preferences and infrastructural power patterns artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/artic…

'Power structures must be disrupted in order to be changed, but, to paraphrase James Baldwin, we can only change those things we are willing to face.' Prof. Crystal Fleming (@alwaystheself), How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, & the Racial Divide, 2018.

Are creative subjects surplus to the requirements of the sector and the economy? Should they be capped like medical degrees? Dr Orian Brook thinks this argument is based on flawed data @orianbrook/School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh
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HMRC Customer Support I have tried twice now to try to contact you to settle some tax issues. (1/4/24 and today 15/4/24). I am no further forward either online or by telephone in attempting to contact you to resolve these matters. What alternative route do you suggest? 😕😕😕

Really interesting event full of important conversations - we watched online. Big love to everyone that made it happen & contributed their voices. 💜

Leeds UNLIMITED training for creatives tomorrow (2-4pm) 2 hrs of disability equality basics
Why not book on?
'Great overall length of workshop and a mixture of information and activities'
West Yorkshire Combined Authority @LeedsArt Leeds Playhouse LEEDS 2023 Pls RT
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I'm looking for women who worked on Spare Rib (for @jamtomorrow) and efforts so far have drawn a blank! Can anyone help? And if you were a reader and have any back copies stashed away, I'd also love to hear from you.

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

Yup - dog eat dog etc

ICYMI: Susan Dr Jones on the precarity of artists' livelihoods. Here she explains why, after years of 'jam tomorrow', artists deserve better
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English devolution if it is really about 'taking back control' and rebalancing of power has to be about economic democracy. Without that, control will broadly remain in the hands of exsiting power and wealth.

excellent, well-argued and referenced contribution to the ending #artistsexploitation debate from Alistair Gentry