Creative Freelancers Job Juggling

Job Juggling report out now!
How do we support Creative Freelancers in the Performing Arts when current circumstances necessitate juggling several jobs?

[Creative Freelancers Job Juggling @JobJuggling]

Today we publish our report on Job Juggling: Supporting Performing Arts Creative Freelancers with several jobs.

The report, published with @FreelancersMake contains research & recommendations from @FuelTheatre & @LDN_Culture’s #CFSLR project.

https://t.co/j2utXDWqLo

[Freelancers Make Theatre Work @FreelancersMake]

🚨 Calling all arts freelancers! 🚨

Over 11,000 of us have spoken up in the last four years through The Big Freelancer Survey, and those voices have made a HUGE impact on securing funding and shaping policies.

Your input matters - TAKE THE SURVEY - https://t.co/TtkMJ1xA5x

[eve allin @EveAllin]

small reminder that Producer Gathering & @_TheUncultured_ have a wealth of free resources for producers & self-producing artists to use - just remember to credit them. we are all in this together 🤠

https://t.co/npNH8744Ag

[xanthus stan account @tobikyere]

the idea that there’s no money for the arts is a fallacy. it’s a direct, conscious choice to continue to defund cultural institutions and art forms. to strip the youth of the country of opportunity and further ostracise the underclasses. we’re in a cultural crisis.

[Freelancers Make Theatre Work @FreelancersMake]

Freelance dramaturgs are being paid well below the national minimum wage, because their role reading plays for UK theatres is "significantly undervalued", the Dramaturgs’ Network script-reading survey has found.

Via @thestage: https://t.co/0G1TsLyDDe

#FreelancersMakeThetareWork

[Beccie @thatbeccieallen]

Auditions/exposure don't pay bills. What is, are unreliable zero hours contracts for flexibility for auditions but you gotta work stupid hours to make ends meet that make you stressed to fuck

Tell the new grads this plz..being a working class jobbing actor is not glamorous🙃

[Migrants in Theatre @MigrantsTheatre]

KLAXON!!! #Migrant #theatre artists, help us prove how many/who we are! This is vital to make sure the theatre industry acknowledges the importance of involving us in casts and creative teams. Please FILL IT IN!

https://t.co/5M1TxYTxj6

[Arts Council England @ace_national]

📣 Help build a picture of the freelance workforce!

For the first time, we’re building a picture of the freelance workforce in all of the artforms and disciplines we support and we want to hear from YOU

🔗 https://t.co/Rzvu53DMhh

[Bechdel Theatre @BechdelTheatre]

Huge news!

Bechdel Circle is back, from Oct 10th

Join us for a pre-show meet-up & post-show conversation about #Melonade at @camdenPT 👇

[Bechdel Theatre @BechdelTheatre]

This eve!
Please join us if you have THOUGHTS on the future of Edinburgh Fringe 📣

[Bechdel Theatre @BechdelTheatre]

So, now #EdFringe23 is FULLY behind us. How you feeling?
Enthused? Exhausted?
Buzzing? Broke?
Fired-up? Frustrated?
All those things?
(us too)
🙃
There’s so much we love about Fringe, but we know we’re not alone feeling burned out & alienated by it.

[Island Life Productions @islandlifeprods]

Theatre sector - take note, we need to do better at supporting emerging artists to work alongside their rent-paying jobs rather than being called out for “not being serious about their craft” because they have to take other roles!

[Carl Woodward @mrcarl_woodward]

I am disgusted but not surprised at a London Theatre terminating contracts with 3 weeks notice - sending a letter addressed ‘dear staff member’ during a cost of living crisis, asking employees for a paragraph on why they should be re-hired for the next show

[Reece McMahon @reecemcmahon]

For perspective, that’s on average 800 independent artists project grants that could’ve been funded. Oh and ENO are now in receipt of more money (£12mil per year) than all the disabled-led NPO’s (£7.25mil per year) after an UNSUCCESSFUL application. Let that sink in…

[Tara Theatre @TaraTheatre]

Tara Theatre are ecstatic to announce that our freelancer database is LIVE

Whether you're an actor, designer, technician, marketeer or any other type of creative practitioner, this is for you!

Connect with us and discover new projects and opportunities

https://t.co/Ms7IgYHFye

[Freelancers Make Theatre Work @FreelancersMake]

“We should dismantle this macho culture of who can work the hardest and destroy themselves. It is unnecessary and unproductive. I’m not going to do that anymore and I’m not going to train people to do that anymore!”

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

[Equity @EquityUK]

Equity and SAG-AFTRA have this evening released a joint statement following the announcement of US industrial action below.

Our solidarity statement and full advice to members can be read here: https://t.co/ux4XIK8CXy

[Freelancers Make Theatre Work @FreelancersMake]

until the people who hold power decide to do things differently, to programme and contract differently, we won’t be living the equality our sector loves to talk about.' - @streetstephanie

https://t.co/yI87tuL534

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨 | 7 in 10 disabled workers earn less than £15 an hour.

Disabled workers are much more likely to be low paid than non-disabled people, our analysis reveals.

[Equity @EquityUK]

🗳️ It's the last week to vote in the Equity Committee Elections 2023! 🗳️

Don't miss the chance to help choose which members take forward the union's agenda.

To vote, check your inbox for an email from UK Engage. Voting closes at 12pm THIS FRIDAY 7 July 2023.

[Freelancers Make Theatre Work @FreelancersMake]

The Big Freelancer Survey Report 2023 paints a stark picture of a freelance workforce ‘under siege’, facing the perfect storm of a cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing impact of Covid and Brexit, combined with deeply embedded structural inequalities.

https://t.co/KACowdzxHx