Campaign for the Arts
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We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
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"There's very few things in this world that are 100% good and positive. Art is one of them." #ArtMatters TONIGHT at 8pm on Sky Arts Awards & NOW Armando Iannucci #AntonyGormley lemn sissay OBE FRSL Lenny Henry #MaxinePeake #MelvynBragg Sheku Kanneh-Mason Tracey Emin
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“We must keep our theatres, music venues and libraries open. They are not luxuries.” Michael Cashman (@mcashmanCBE) said that the arts have a transformational impact on people's lives, and "speak of the kind of civilised, open country that we are – or could become".
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"I'm really glad the report's come out. It gives us a job of work to do, and we're going to take that very seriously" Department for Culture, Media and Sport Arts Minister Sir Chris Bryant (Chris Bryant) gives his initial response to the #TheStateoftheArts report findings. CCMPS Warwick Uni University of Warwick
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"Arts aren't a luxury. They are actually what makes life worth living in this city, and they are a reason to keep going." –Liz Clements There were emotional scenes at yesterday's Birmingham Council meeting. The UK's second city is set to lose all council investment in the arts.
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Bristol City Council's culture budget is already 40% smaller than in 2018. Now some of the city's most cherished organisations are set to lose their council funding entirely, including Bristol Old Vic and Watershed. Minnie Stephenson reports for Channel 4 News.
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"The Government isn't allowing state pupils to have access to art." In 2016, James McAvoy warned a 'class ceiling' was stopping millions of British children from accessing the arts. Provision has been increasing in private schools but decreasing in state schools. It's wrong.
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“We must all, whatever our party and our preferences, call time on the neglect, the austerity, the politicisation and the prejudice towards our arts.” Stewart Wood said that attacks on the arts risk making them "a preserve of the rich" instead of "a daily staple for everyone".
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"In our league table of culture spending, the UK is in the relegation zone." Actor, director and Campaign for the Arts trustee Samuel West (Samuel West 💙💛) discussed #TheStateOfTheArts with Tom Sutcliffe (Tom Sutcliffe) on BBC Front Row. 🎧 Listen in full:
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"If this is a health check for the arts, then the patient is very sick indeed." Actor, director and Campaign for the Arts trustee Samuel West (Samuel West 💙💛) discussed #TheStateOfTheArts with Tom Sutcliffe (Tom Sutcliffe) on BBC Front Row. 🎧 Listen in full:
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"We did do more than any previous government." Jennie Lee reflects on her time as Britain's first Minister for the Arts, and what it taught her about "how much we owe to the artist". Her trailblazing white paper was published 60 years ago today. (Source: The Open University)
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"The arts budget is effectively a rounding error." Lord Lord Ed Vaizey acknowledged government support for the arts, including Lord Neil Mendoza's work during Covid, but said funding "could be increased substantially for the arts, insignificantly for what government spends overall".
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