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Bectu member · 27 August 2020
“Did no-one look around and stop and ask: ‘why are we so white?’”
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Andrew Pakes · 21 August 2020
The fiasco around the calculation of A-level results earlier this month clearly has huge…
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21 August 2020
As the head of Bectu, the arts and entertainment trade union, I have been in the…
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Emily Walls, self-employed freelance technical stage manager · 20 August 2020
On 28th July, the Arts Council CEO Derren Henley announced additional resources to fund…
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John Rogers, live events lighting designer/technician · 14 August 2020
The devil makes work for idle hands, or so the saying goes. In the small hours of a Sunday…
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Natalie Parsons – arts writer, activist and Bectu member · 6 August 2020
What does it mean to be a creative in lockdown? What can we learn about our practice and…
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Tracey Hunt · 6 August 2020
There have been a number of data breach incidents lately relating to emails and it seems a…
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Jai Nobes, events technician and artist · 30 July 2020
I’m Jai. I’m a freelance lighting and video technician, visual artist and circus…
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Philippa Childs, head of Bectu · 24 July 2020
We are approaching three weeks since a £1.57bn arts recovery package was announced by the…
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Paul Middleton, lighting director · 23 July 2020
I started out as a child actor 56 years ago but became increasingly fascinated by lighting…
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