BigBaribal
05-17-2005, 04:26 AM
Theatres told: meet ethnic targets or lose your funding
By Chris Hastings and Beth Jones
(Filed: 15/05/2005)
It won't be all white on the night. The Arts Council has threatened to cut the funding of hundreds of English theatres and arts organisations unless they showcase more talent by people from the ethnic minorities.
The quango has written to 1,100 grant recipients warning that funds will depend on their ability to serve the needs ethnic minority audiences. The grant recipients, who include rural theatre companies and puppeteers - some of whom are in mainly white areas - have been sent the 110-page Race Equality Plan. .......
.....It also warns rural communities that the make up of their own population does not mean that they should not encourage more artists from ethnic minorities. "Don't assume that it will be difficult to attract audiences to black and minority ethnic art in areas where there are not large black and minority ethnic communities."........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/15/narts15.xml
So, if I've understood it well, no more subvention funds for the small local theater in the deep end of Scotland, unless it fill its annual quota in Tanzanian tribal dances.
:roll:
By Chris Hastings and Beth Jones
(Filed: 15/05/2005)
It won't be all white on the night. The Arts Council has threatened to cut the funding of hundreds of English theatres and arts organisations unless they showcase more talent by people from the ethnic minorities.
The quango has written to 1,100 grant recipients warning that funds will depend on their ability to serve the needs ethnic minority audiences. The grant recipients, who include rural theatre companies and puppeteers - some of whom are in mainly white areas - have been sent the 110-page Race Equality Plan. .......
.....It also warns rural communities that the make up of their own population does not mean that they should not encourage more artists from ethnic minorities. "Don't assume that it will be difficult to attract audiences to black and minority ethnic art in areas where there are not large black and minority ethnic communities."........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/15/narts15.xml
So, if I've understood it well, no more subvention funds for the small local theater in the deep end of Scotland, unless it fill its annual quota in Tanzanian tribal dances.
:roll: