#funding of the arts

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The National Theatre has just announced it will ‘reduce activity’ over the next four years due to ‘financial challenges’. English National Opera is on its final year of funding. The BBC Singers have been abolished. Britten Sinfonia has launched a £1 million appeal to enable it to survive Arts Council cuts. A quarter of the seats in BBC orchestras are to be unwaged. Cities the size of Liverpool, Norwich and Southampton have been left without opera. The post-1945 English artistic renaissance has gone into abrupt reverse, without much political debate. Darkness descends. Discuss.

- Norman Lebrecht

The axe of cultural vandalism is in full swing against anything classical. The BBC is the biggest employer of musicians in the UK, and to lose one in five of their orchestral players will create a black hole for musicians already stymied by visa restrictions and thus wider opportunities traditionally afforded them. The end of the BBC Singers, in particular, is heartbreaking - founded nearly 100 years ago, they have given both comfort and joy to the nation. 

Photo: The BBC Singers.

#lebrecht #norman lebrecht #quote #arts #BBC #culture #britain #cuts in funding #funding of the arts #BBC singers #national theatre #britten sinfonia #arts council #BBC orchestras #decline and fall

[thornshadowwolf]

In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more "wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the 'download now' overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately)." This should literally be illegal to do.

Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my "reasonable request" I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.

#ThornShadow.said #advertising #edit: I also have this sick pin on my jacket that has a “no” symbol with ads #and text that says 'abolish advertising in the media // replace this source of funding with government funding based on independent ratings' #not my idea but now that it's been presented to me it doesn't sound bad #like there are film funds and art funds and whatnot

[halfa-failure]

how it probably went

#danny phantom #digital art #art #dp #danny fenton #cackling #shenanigans #Maddie: WHY DID YOU BLEACH YOUR HAIR #Danny: FYM BLEACH #bro woke up and magically grew a mullet #sad guy #dp fanart #comic I think #ITS NOT BLEACCHEDDDD #ITS NATURAL #trust #I need Matthias Czernin Funds

[nevesceramics]

Comfort

2024

cone 02 red earthenware, underglaze

available in one hour! (noon CST)

#boosts very appreciated because selling these dudes would be a MASSIVE help for studio renovation funds #hope yall love these trans wolves as much as I do <3 just straightfrom the heart #ceramics #clay #sculpture #animal art #finished work #pottery #figural sculpture #werewolf #trans #trans pride #transmasc #anthro #furry

[syea-say]

The finale of a never-ending masquerade.

AQ 4.2 spoilers.

#fontaine writing cooked so hard #furina...my love... i'll give you all the hugs and macaroni that you ever wanted #ok maybe not all macaroni my funds are limited #genshin impact #genshin #digital art #my art #genshin furina #furina #neuvillette #focalors #genshin 4.2 #I CRIED #another one to the speedrun pile i am so swamped #i hope everyone enjoys the 4.2 story T_T #blessing your furina pulls

[noodles-and-tea]

Woodworms…

#just a silly thing I made for fun… #unless someone wants to fund me dropping out of uni and making a Merthur visual novel #/dating sim #but I do now have a BUNCH of Arthur sprites sitting around for now reason so :( #making a visual novel/dating sim has always been a dream of mine bro #I got carried away making these lol #anyways enjoy #my art #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #Merthur

[leafaske]

the proposal was *checks entry 17* not accepted he definitely isn't soliciting the government for resources to build a portal gun for funsies, no sir

referencing this amazing photoset of weird al (thank you @thefloatingstone for putting this on my dash)

#can't spell funding without fun or ding #i'll see myself out #undertale #gaster #leafs gaster bros #wingdings #sans #alphys #grillby #science #undertale fanart #undertale art #ut #utdr #fan art #my art #weird al #weird al yankovic #the legend

[nukednick]

of course you have a military rank and a plastic crack addiction

#nukednick #fan art #fanart #mass effect #commander shepard #femshep #jane shepard #this is what all that alliance funding goes into #this and the fish tank #she is literally me

[figmentforms]

★ Art Auction for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund ★

Auction has closed! The winning donation was $1,234!!!! Thank you, Jeff!!!

And thank you so much to everyone that placed bids and got the donation to be this high! You're all very much appreciated! <3

★ Winning Bid: $1,234 * Ended April 15th, 2024 at 8:22 am ★

Auction will go until April 15th, 2024 at 7pm, Eastern Standard Time

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) is a non-political organization established in 1991 by concerned people in the U.S. to address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian youth in the Middle East. The main objective of the PCRF is to identify and treat every child in the Middle East in need of specialized surgery not available to them locally. We locate, sponsor and run volunteer medical missions to the Middle East in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, pediatric cardiology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, maxillofacial surgery, pediatric urology, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, and other specialties. They also have a fantastic 4-star rating on Charity Navigator ( https://www.pcrf.net/ )

★ Details About the Set of Paintings:

• Painted with acrylic on stretched canvas over wood triangle frames.

• Each of the three canvasses are 26 cm tall, 30 cm wide, 3.5 cm thick. (10 1/4 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and about 1 1/2 inches thick)

★ How to participate is below:

• To bid: email me at  [email protected] and let me know how much you want to bid.

• If the top bidder backs out, the paintings will go to the next highest bidder.

• The highest bid will be kept current at the top of this post (as best as I can keep up. I'm human).

• Bidding ends on April 15th, 2024 at 7pm, Eastern Standard Time.

• If you win, make your donation directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund ( https://www.pcrf.net/ ). Then email me a screenshot of your donation confirmation as proof. (feel free to blur out any personal info you would like.)

• Then let me know what address you would like your package shipped to. Free shipping within the United States. If outside that area, let me know and we can figure out something that works for us both.

Best wishes and hopefully this will do some good!

#a tale of two rulers #Zelda #Ganondorf #Link #PCRF #Palestine Children’s Relief Fund #charity art auction

[twiggybeing]

if we had cyberpunk style body augmentation shit I would ship of theseus myself as performance art piece

in a transgender way of course

#lgbtq #transgender #trans #mtf trans #trans woman #transgirl #lesbian #art #art ideas #I wonder if you could get a government to fund your transtition with reeasoning like this #ship of theseus #cyborg #cyberpunk #solarpunk #performance art #four arms would be cool #robot girl #robot art #cyborg art #robot hrt #body augmentation

[gal-o-guacamole]

●Radiant is Gabriel●

Feb.2024 (stained and artistic glass, copper, lead, gold and silver paint)

Process pics + vid ↷

#im pretty sure i gave myself lead poisoning #but it was kinda worth it #i was making this piece for like 2 months #lets pretend it looks fine so i can justify all the time i lost on making it #he is incredibly scuffed but oh well #i might sell it to fund my surgery if it gains some attention #anyway #guac art #gabriel ultrakill #ultrakill #stained glass #ultrakill gabriel

[kordeliiius]

made this portrait of @drshahd to help promote her GFM! she's a young dentistry student from Gaza who needs funds to escape with her family and resume her education! Follow her blog linked above, and learn how you can help here:

https://gofund.me/d31cc0fc

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #fundraiser #mutual aid #mutual funds #gofundme #BOOST #illustration #drawing #digital artist #digital painting #art study #photo study #life drawing #original art #thanks for letting me draw you btw!!! i havent painted a real person in forever aaaa #keiArt

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is #a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good #personal #“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry #that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign #also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg #i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant #parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice #this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah #i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li #i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive #so they have to find temporary housing around the area #last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis #during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences #and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too? #this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either. #this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first #reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!” #newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know. #why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed

[sharkboyry]

hi everyone! I’m an autistic nonbinary lesbian and I need help paying my phone bill! I’ve been struggling financially since a house fire last month so anything helps! Thank you for your time!

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#mutual aid #black trans lives matter #black lives matter #black autistic lives matter #blm #art #mutual funds #polls

[kankuroplease]

He tried to kill her granddaddy, so what’s a few million Ryō?

#my art #naruto crackship #lady tsunade #tsunade senju #kakuzu #KakuTsuna #kakutsu #I still laugh about this ship because she would win any argument bringing up Hashirama #why does he stay? is it the booty? probably 💀 #most expensive ass he’s ever had because of her bad luck 💀 #why is she with him? he can fund her gambling addiction 💀

[unexpectedbrickattack]

🔪

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #peppino #the noise #noise #arts #mine #peppino is like #i fucked up this fucking trust fund brat with my bare hands; hes lucky I didnt have a fucking shiv on me #its just funny to me #peppino is amicable with literally everyone now #and if not #just a little annoyed but tolerant #but the noise just pokes and pokes at this bear (hehe) in such a way #that makes peppino want to bash his skull in #so now everytime the noise wants to be a little menace and sneak around the pizzeria hes gotta stay on his toes #bc whenever he THINKS peppino is busy; theres a fucking weapon being flung at him from nowhere