The Privatisation of the BBC
The promised arts package devised by Oliver Dowden and the Tories was delivered too late, as suggested by the Guardian “‘Government's...
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The Case of Lincoln Drill Hall
Last week, the City of Lincoln Council decided not to renew the funding for the Lincoln Drill Hall. This has led to feelings of anger and...
Channel 4 dramatisation of Grenfell Inquiry - Mark Langabeer
Grenfell is a play brought to Channel 4, but it is a dramatization based on the verbatim record of words spoken in the Grenfell Tower...
Let's Get Political - Enya Menichini
Although I do not normally use social media actively and I struggle with overcoming the anxiety that such public platforms gives me, I...
Challenging Arts Council: The Case for Socialism
The Arts Council is a subsidy package for arts venues. It provides the money to all types of artistic ventures and does that by adhering...
Revival for Survival: The Crisis in British Theatres
As Britain enters its third Lockdown, many people ask how this will affect theatre and whether new packages will be introduced in the...
Art-Rising's 2020 Year in Review
Well, what a year it has been! It is a tumultuous time for people. From panic buying to most of Britain’s economy shutting down for...
The Crisis of British Theatres… Volume 2
Art-Rising has been away for a while, and we apologise for that. As the second lockdown has come, we have been busy creating work that we...
The Rise & Fall of Streaming Services
From theatre to tv, from the film industry to the gaming world. The online subscription service is beginning to dominate the world....
The Producers: “Essential” redundancies, leading to “essential” profits.
Cameron Mackintosh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ambassador Theatre Group and Netherlander Theatres. In the last couple of months all these...
Hamilton The Musical: A Celebration of Neo-Liberalism
With the original Broadway production recently making its debut on Disney+, another confirmation of its continuing popularity and...
The White Creative’s Privilege: Misconceptions of BAME opportunities.
Before the horrible murder of George Floyd and the BLM protests, many white actors expressed a certain exasperation with the amount of...
‘CAPITALIST THEATRE’: THE EXPLOITATION OF COMMERCIALISED THEATRE
In an interview for the Daily Telegraph dated 21st May, Sonia Friedman announced that the theatre sector has lost £330 million in revenue...
CORONAVIRUS & THE WORKFORCE: TIME TO JOIN A TRADE UNION
Coronavirus has exposed massive holes in the artistic industry, and the government has offered little support, as reported by The Stage...
LABOUR PARTY AND THE ARTS: A VISION TOGETHER
The Labour movement has had a fascinating and historically healthy relationship with the Arts. In 2019 the Labour Party, led by Jeremy...
“MY INDUSTRY HAS BEEN DECIMATED AND THE AFTERMATH WILL BE CATASTROPHIC.”
BY JOE LANGABEER, CO-FOUNDER OF ART-RISING The Guardian article ‘'Stressed, sick and skint': how coronavirus is hitting arts workers’...
SOCIALISM WITHIN THE ARTS: THE NEED FOR A 21ST CENTURY MOVEMENT
Joe Langabeer & Enya Menichini, Founders of Art-Rising A spectre is haunting the arts, the spectre of socialism. The Arts, especially in...
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