by Neil Nisbet Like many individuals and a lot of established groups working in the arts today Article19 has to do as much as possible with the limited resources at our disposal. You can’t always do everything you want to do and you can’t always do everything as well as you want to do it. […]
Choreographer Ben Wright was invited to be part of a government initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation to launch a special arts program to develop and support contemporary culture in smaller Russian cities. In light of recent violent suppression of the rights of the LGBT community and the passing of an […]
by Neil Nisbet Over the last couple of years the talk in the wide world of culture has almost incessantly been about funding cuts. Alongside that has been some fairly muted counterpoint from a few, some would say, privileged members of the arts community. Every time we read about the case for arts funding it’s […]
by Neil Nisbet More than five years ago we published a piece entitled “10 Things That Need To Happen in 2008”. As the dance profession, en masse, moves into another new year what better time to take a look back and see if any of the things we discussed actually happened. “ACE needs to support […]
On January 17th Equity, the performing arts union, will be holding an open meeting for actors and dancers so they can discuss the issues that are important to them. Writer and Editor Francis Richard sent a letter to that organisation, we have copied it below, in full, with the author’s permission, outlining issues that need […]