Monday, June 13, 2011

Website to catalogue impact of arts funding cuts (Guardian)

Lost Arts will record projects, events, initiatives, performances,
organisations and companies that will be lost due to cuts

An online initiative to catalogue the impact of arts funding cuts is being
launched on Wednesday by the Federation of Entertainment Unions (FEU),
comprising the Musicians' Union, Equity, the Writers' Guild, the NUJ, Bectu,
Unite, Prospect and PCS.

Entitled Lost Arts, the website will record and catalogue all the projects,
events, initiatives, performances, organisations and companies that will be
lost due to cuts in public funding.

It will also keep a running total of the revenue lost to the arts and the
Treasury, as well as the jobs under threat over the three years to 2015.

The site has been set up to combat a situation in which cuts to arts funding
are not fully recognised, or could be forgotten in time.

The FEU's main concern is that the level of funding for arts and culture that
existed prior to the change in government will not be reinstated at the end of
the current period of reduced funding.

Anyone who wants to submit a report to Lost Arts can do so via an online form,
which will allow them ...
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