On being fully freelance
I finally left my part-time day job on 31 August. Exactly 12 years to the day that I moved to Leeds to start working at Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre. It was a very exciting decision to [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
In Art, arts cuts, creativity, Devoted and Disgruntled, funding, Leeds, Open Space Technologies, performance, performance making, playing, West Yorkshire Playhouse
Posted An invitation
I was asked to write an invitation for Devoted & Disgruntled’s event in Leeds this coming week. So I did. It comes from a place of worrying that we just keep talking to the same people [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
Posted If you cut us, do we not bleed?
So Newcastle Council have announced a proposal to cut 100% of their arts funding… This news sends chills down my spine. That a city that has had culture at the heart of it’s massively [...]
My One And Only?
So I’ve been talking to a couple of people about the state of the arts recently; about the fragility of local government funding and venues within larger organisations with differing [...]
A virtual protest
I am not much of a drawer but this (sadly the image has been lost in the transfer from my old blog to this one – sorry) is my pitiful attempt at a #virtualprotest banner. Uploaded to [...]
