🎥 Submissions for Shaping The Arts are open! What would you fix about freelancing in the arts? Share your voice in this groundbreaking new documentary. Find out more and get involved today: #FreelancersmakeTheatreWork #ShapingtheArts

'...we need to ensure that the right training opportunities are supported to unlock the huge potential of our industry, so we can contribute to the economy and the people of this country.' - Rufus Norris, Outgoing Artistic Director of The National Theatre

Free online talk + Q&A: Join CN Lester - artistic freelancer and trans researcher, educator and activist - to discuss how we can work towards true trans equality across the artistic sector. Thu, Mar 20, 5-6:30pm. Reserve your spot:

The National Theatre has called for new funding schemes to transform performing arts. Their new report concludes that business models of non-profit organisations in the arts and culture sector are ‘no longer working’. #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

📝 What’s your biggest challenge? From pay insecurity to finding work, we know freelancing isn’t easy. Shaping The Arts is giving freelancers a platform to be heard. 🎥 Film a short video holding up your challenge & be part of the documentary.

✨ More of this please 👇 Over 74,000 performers now have free access to mental health support, coaching, legal and financial advice, workshops, and more—thanks to a new partnership between Wellbeing in the Arts and Spotlight. 🔗 Read more:

"All future artists, actors, directors, writers are sitting in school right now. Find them. And make sure drama, music and the arts are funded, supported and celebrated in every school in the land." - Russell T Davies, screenwriter. #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #ArtsAndCulture

"A career in the arts should be for anyone, not just those who don’t need to worry about the rent." - Freelance Dramaturg and facilitator Emily LeQuesne Read the full interview with Emily in today's 'The Stage' #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Composer Max Richter told MPs this week that the training of AI models of copyrighted created material that could enable it to replicate human artists would “impoverish” human creators and lead to a “vanilla-isation” of music culture. Read more:

The outgoing LAMDA chair has blamed a deepening crisis for drama schools across the country on "decades of failure" by successive governments. Via @TheStage:

📢 Help Shape the Arts! We’re inviting theatre freelancers to submit a short video to Shaping The Arts, a powerful new documentary amplifying freelancer voices. Follow these 6 easy steps to get involved. Upload your video here 👉 Your voice matters. 🎥

'Creative Scotland’s announcement shows it is possible to increase funding for the arts if the political will exists' -via @thestage

🎥 Submissions for Shaping The Arts are open! What would you fix about freelancing in the arts? Share your voice in this groundbreaking new documentary. Find out more and get involved today: #FreelancersmakeTheatreWork #ShapingtheArts

"Working conditions in the performing arts are not sustainable. It’s now more difficult than five years ago to sustain a living wage.” - Professor Almuth McDowall from Birkbeck’s Department of Organizational Psychology #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Culture #Arts #ArtsAndCulture

✨ More of this please 👇 Over 74,000 performers now have free access to mental health support, coaching, legal and financial advice, workshops, and more—thanks to a new partnership between Wellbeing in the Arts and Spotlight. 🔗 Read more:

RT @bectu: From theatre to film, fashion, gaming and more – if you’re a creative working in a non-performing role, have your say in Bectu’s…

The National Youth Arts Wales has called on the Welsh government to address the ‘shameful’ state of youth arts funding after a parliamentary committee report found the country’s cultural sector to be ‘under-resourced and brittle’.

Freelancers Make Theatre Work was established to listen to the freelance community and ensure their voices are heard.

Theatre broadens children’s horizons, shaping their sense of the world and their place within it. Yet children's access to cultural education is reducing significantly. We support #TheatreForEveryChild and its aims to secure the funds to change this.

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork runs on volunteer power, but we still have essential costs—web hosting, Zoom, and part-time freelance coordinators. Every contribution helps us support the freelance theatre community. 💛 Find out how to help: