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Ways of hoping: variegated hope among theatre freelancers during COVID-19
No full textHope has long been articulated as an intrinsic component of creative work, used to alleviate or justify the challenging precarity and narrow pathways to success in this sector. Two key articulations of hope have emerged: a deferred economy model in which present hardship is endured as a down-payment on specific future benefits, however ultimately unlikely; and a more dispersed understanding in which the hoped-for future is unspecified but affectively felt and mobilising in the present. In this article, we draw on qualitative data from an online survey and a policy event timeline developed as part of an 18-month research project with UK theatre freelancers during 2020 and 2021. Our qualitative analysis explores different ways of hoping among this group of creative workers at a time when futures and hopes were severely inhibited. Our findings propose that multiple forms of hope co-existed and intersected with practices of care, time and the self as mechanisms for navigating interrupted lives. The ‘variegated’ model of hope that we propose moves away from totalising theories of hope and helps in the understanding of hope as a force of resilience within cultural work, adding to existing calls to realise its political potential across cultural studies
<i>Perspectives on Practice</i>: artist-led ensembles – an interview with Conor Mitchell, founder of The Belfast Ensemble
No full textIn the first Perspectives on Practice interview, Conor Mitchell speaks to Ali FitzGibbon about the challenges and opportunities of establishing artist-led The Belfast Ensemble, exploring its civic and artistic purpose and considering its identity as Belfast-based.<br/
<i>Perspectives on Practice</i>: artist-led ensembles – an interview with Conor Mitchell, founder of The Belfast Ensemble
No full textIn the first Perspectives on Practice interview, Conor Mitchell speaks to Ali FitzGibbon about the challenges and opportunities of establishing artist-led The Belfast Ensemble, exploring its civic and artistic purpose and considering its identity as Belfast-based.<br/
Artist-led ensembles – an interview with Conor Mitchell, founder of The Belfast Ensemble
Full text linkIn the first Perspectives on Practice interview, Conor Mitchell speaks to Ali FitzGibbon about the establishment of artist-led The Belfast Ensemble and its civic and artistic purpose. The discussion explores the challenges and opportunities the Ensemble have encountered in their relationships with venues, festivals and audiences. The interview also considers how the Ensemble and Mitchell himself have negotiated their identity as ‘of Belfast’ and ‘of Northern Ireland’
Sustainability in arts policy on the island of Ireland
No full textThis chapter considers how sustainability has emerged as a policy agenda in arts policy on the island of Ireland between 2015 and 2024 and the implications and challenges for an island-based and all-island creative and cultural ecosystem, nine years on from the Paris Agreement. Through interpretive policy analysis and an ecological perspective, drawing from strategies and related policy documents and a number of practitioner gatherings, it shows how dimensions of non-arts regulations and policies (e.g., freedom of movement) beyond the scope of arts policy-makers or practitioners inhibit greener more sustainable practices and policy delivery and limit the “potential” of arts as a promoter of sustainability awareness. It highlights the interdependencies between the two-polity of Ireland/Northern Ireland and between the UK and Ireland, showing the ability and responsibility of one nation to act on its climate commitments is diminished without the cooperation of other nations/jurisdictions. This exposes the fragility of treaties and how apparently “logical” cooperations in an imagined ecosystem of an island become skewed by other agendas. Moreover, it underpins the challenges of devolving global level treaties to national implementation where such delivery is clouded by political and cultural tensions, internally and in cooperation between nations and across sectors
Performing Artists in the age of COVID-19: A moment of urgent action and potential change
No full textIn this special long read, Drs Ioannis Tsioulakis and Ali FitzGibbon take an indepth look at the devastating impact the COVID pandemic is having on the performing arts sector
Follicular lymphoma, a B cell malignancy addicted to epigenetic mutations
Full text linkK Korfi, S Ali, J Heward and J Fitzgibbon are supported by Cancer Research UK Programme Grant
[C15966/A15968] and Bloodwise Programme Grant [15002]. S Ali is also a recipient of Cancer
Research UK Clinical Careers Committee research bursary [C56515/A21397]
The Future from Here: Theatre Freelancers and Planning for the Future during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Full text linkThe report details the emerging findings from our survey of theatre freelancers which ran from November 2020 until March 2021, and we would like to say a huge “thank you” to those who took part. We heard from 397 theatre freelancers, across all career stages and a variety of specialisms. We are only at the beginning of our analysis, and will continue to publish our emerging findings as we dig deeper into this data set, as well as integrate it with the data we are gathering through interviews and focus groups
Introduction: cultural policy on the island of Ireland
No full textCultural policy and the administration and management of culture on the island of Ireland constitute a process of cooperation and competition within and between polities; one that is especially influenced by translocal mobilities, networks, practices and subjectivities whether urban, rural or border situated. On the island, the production and dissemination of symbolic goods relate not only to socio-political, historical and cultural notions of identity but also to the ways in which entire industries, sectors and governments may be intertwined economically, administratively and culturally. This introduction articulates the range, depth and history of cultural policy scholarship on the island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland) from multiple disciplines. Positioning scholarship on the island as part of a broader, global field of cultural policy studies, this introduction argues for the unique contribution that the two-polity island can bring to situated study of cultural policy. It equally argues for greater questioning of how knowledge is formed in the study and making of cultural policy. It seeks to promote further exchange and dialogue among policy scholars as well as practitioners in policy, arts, culture and creativity
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