🎭 Theatres, galleries and museums are being hit hard by the fallout from Covid-19 We and many other organisations are calling on government to support the creative industries with urgent funding #OurWorldWithout culture is no place to be Creative Federation (Archive)

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It can be done - a great orchestral concert with everyone on the same platform thetimes.co.uk/article/europe…

Before today’s European Concert by a chamber-size Berlin Phil, the German president speaks eloquently about freelance musicians and their struggle

This is an astonishing speech. The German President frankly acknowledging Germany once as a source of evil. Now a permanent champion of good - in particular of holding Europe together. I’m sorry. The comparison with Johnson, Gove, Francois and Farage et al is just too painful

Genau das! #kultur

@Rupechri With little or no guidance from our government towards what the arts should or should not be doing, we have to look to other countries with a more embedded respect for their arts institutions for the way forward. Let’s hope some brave moves elsewhere engender a review of ‘risk’.

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Go ⁦Kronberg Academy⁩ !!Reaktionen der Kronberg Academy auf die Corona-Pandemie faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

So far today Downing Street has undermined the lockdown; the health secretary has undermined public health efforts; the attorney general has undermined respect for the law. All to protect one powerful aide.

Just off up to Durham to visit Mrs Durham Cathedral Organ.

We’re absolutely disgusted that Boris Johnson has put protecting Dominic Cummings above the health of this country Please RT if you are too

This is what happens in a country whose government and politicians think arts subsidy is at best a guilty pleasure, and will easily leave great artistic institutions to the wolves. Compare with the support to artists in many European countries. theguardian.com/culture/2020/m…

Do they think we’re not going to notice?

Cummings and Johnson own this disastrous year for the UK. We’re heading for the catastrophe of a hard Brexit, leaving the EU with the highest COVID-19 death rate, and highest healthcare worker deaths. The Sick Man of Europe, literally. And all by their design.

Vested interests have convinced many to believe that human beings are basically shallow & self-interested. It's a lie But the courage & compassion shown by so many is in stark contrast to the leadership we've suffered I share the fury at their incompetence & dishonesty

Without government help for freelancers, coronavirus will destroy the theatre theguardian.com/commentisfree/…