Is financial insecurity the biggest threat to the performing arts?
There is an exodus of freelance theatre professionals – particularly in areas like stage management and wardrobe. To address this,…
There is an exodus of freelance theatre professionals – particularly in areas like stage management and wardrobe. To address this,…
Women in the arts are finding work “incompatible” with caregiving responsibilities, a report by the Creative Industries Policy and…
Freelancers are too often treated as bolt-ons to institutional plans but, as Minoti Parikh argues, the sector is structurally depe…
Although freelance work is a term used widely in the sector and in government debates, it is not recognised in policy terms which,…
Experts and “proven leaders” have been invited to apply to evaluate UK City of Culture bids – prompting criticism for its unpaid s…
What are the challenges of life as a touring musician? Is it possible to develop sustainable income streams on the road? Daniel Gr…
Behind every performance, exhibition and education or community project, significant numbers of undervalued freelancers are making…
Increasingly, artists and academics inhabit overlapping terrains. Supporting their precarity demands new infrastructure, argue NCA…
The performers’ union Equity held a meeting yesterday (22 October) for performers and creatives affected by Manchester Pride’s…
The Philharmonia has pushed back against complaints from musicians over recent contract changes that allow it to retain media fees…
Ahead of this year’s Governance Now 2025 conference, producer Rowena Price talks to Arts Council England’s Yasmin Khan about h…
Creative industries union leader Philippa Childs has suggested a forthcoming freelance champion could develop into a more fulsome…
Council leaders who don’t understand the power of culture to grow the local economy are “really missing a trick,” Mayor of Wes…
Nearly 20% of full-time arts workers say they would experience “serious difficulty” if they were suddenly forced to cover an unexp…
The incoming creative freelance champion must “strengthen” the voice of those outside of traditional salaried roles in government,…
An organisation that manages more than 45 million works of music is to pay artists monthly rather than quarterly when their tracks…
Freelance arts workers are earning an average annual salary 20.5% less than the benchmark set by the Living Wage Foundation’s �…
44% of performing arts freelancers earned less than the national living wage in the 2023-24 financial year, compared to 34% the ye…
A programme for people from working-class backgrounds in theatre is exploring new ways to help creative freelancers get paid while…