We don't want this industry to go "back to normal". so we're proposing an experiment to test a different model. What happens if you pay an artist to just…*be* an artist, in a community, full-time, for 1 year? https://strikealight.org.uk/let-artists-be-artists/

This summer, we have contracted 3 artists to work with no ‘targets’, no pre-defined outcome and no pressure for 4 months with 3 different communities in #Gloucester. Their brief is simply to work with the community to make people’s lives better through the arts.

We want to rapidly extend this idea of longer-term, deeper-rooted employment for artists to work in and with local communities. So we are reallocating some of our programming budget for 2021 to employ artists, full-time, for a year.

We want to run this as a national collaboration, to see what difference it would make if more arts organisations were to adopt this model – for it to be part of their ‘new normal’. https://strikealight.org.uk/let-artists-be-artists/

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