Defund the arts?
Accessibility
The Blue Room Theatre is a wheelchair accessible space. The workshops are held in the upstairs theatre, which is accessible via lift. Accessible, all-gender bathrooms are located on the ground floor. The theatre will be warmly lit and spacious. The theatre may be air conditioned, and doors can be left open for improved ventilation, but the room has no windows. Chairs will be provided for seating. We will set up a quiet table in the bar space outside the theatre (the bar will not be in operation).
The workshop can be attended online: a video call link will be sent prior to the workshop to those who have registered.
The Audible Edge Festival has a dedicated accessibility budget. Please be in touch if you'd like to use this to help experience this event fully.
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6:30pm
DLGSCI grantwriting information session, with Pat McLaughlin & Allison Archer
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7:20pm
Break
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7:30pm
Defund the arts?, with Bridget Chappell
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8:30pm
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Do we need more grants, or more guts? More stipends or solidarity? When did the bewitching fizz of “fuck you, pay me” first cross your lips? Do you ever feel as an artist that whatever you got paid, it wasn’t the right amount? Bridget Chappell (author of ‘Fuck You, Don’t Pay Me’, located in sharehouse toilets across the continent) invites you on a thought experiment.
Part of Audible Edge Goes to the Bank, with DLGSCI grantwriting information session
We are not literally going to the bank, but we are accessing the collective brains-trust about relating to money; having it, wanting it, talking about it. As an artist-run initiative, a not-for-profit organisation, a charity, and a constellation of individual practicing artists, Tone List and the Audible Edge festival have inhabited all kinds of awkward positions straddling government-funded to volunteer-run. We have a staunch commitment to the rights of musicians as workers, but also to the power of the no-money networks of creative exchange. This sassy double bill hopes to bring artists together to talk about money and the agency we have in choosing how we relate to it. Within an arena that often leaves us feeling disempowered, uncomfortable, unseen, and in competition with each other, can we spark a discussion that inspires connection, problem-solving, team work and solidarity?
This session is co-presented with STRUT Dance and The Blue Room Theatre.