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6pm Culture Hour The Last Laugh - play Jack Gamble on Lisa Nandy arts funding announcement Stig Abell says 👋🏻 Glorious - new play about amateur opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins based on the movie w Meryl Streep Theatre critic David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎

Jennie Lee's trailblazing white paper for the arts was published 60 years ago today. It insisted that the arts should be central to everyday life and publicly supported for the benefit of all. campaignforthearts.org/news/jennie-le…

"We did do more than any previous government." Jennie Lee reflects on her time as Britain's first Minister for the Arts, and what it taught her about "how much we owe to the artist". Her trailblazing white paper was published 60 years ago today. (Source: The Open University)

"We trebled the amount of money to the arts." Despite a challenging economic backdrop, Jennie Lee transformed public funding and access over her 6 years as Minister for the Arts. Read more about her trailblazing white paper on this, its 60th anniversary: campaignforthearts.org/news/jennie-le…

Stunning performance by Wynton Marsalis⁩ and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at ⁦Barbican Centre⁩ tonight. #TheDemocracySuite

If you're a freelancer working in the arts, please take the #BigFreelancerSurvey to help Freelancers Make Theatre Work continue their important advocacy 👇

Over 20,000 people have signed our petition in less than a week! ✍️💥 Thank you for your support. Together we can urge the UK Government to protect and grow investment in the arts and culture. Let's keep it going 👇🌱 campaignforthearts.org/petitions/spen…

👀 We're #hiring! 👀 The Campaign for the Arts is looking for a new Research & Analysis Lead to help us produce robust evidence, timely insights and a more informed public debate 🗣️ Find out more → campaignforthearts.org/about/jobs/

“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM Gordon Brown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston

I love this play. Excited to see it in rupertgoold's final season at Almeida Theatre 🥊🎻 almeida.co.uk/whats-on/golde…

The arts make us happier and healthier! We're not even joking. 😂 Campaign for the Arts Director Jack Gamble will be joining Dr Simon Opher MP, Louisa Jackson & Jonathan Pie for a conversation about comedy as healthcare! Next Thursday 5 June at sxswlondon. sxswlondon.com/session/comedy…

“If there’s an opportunity, why wouldn’t you be bold?” Lord @NeilFMendoza has told the Financial Times that this is a "brilliant moment to increase spending" on the arts, science and higher education – areas in which the UK is a "leader in the world". ft.com/content/2981be…

We are now just 250 short of 37,000 signatures on our petition 🤏 That's tens of thousands of voices from every part of the UK delivering one clear message: if the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 📈🌱 HELP US HIT 37K 👉

🥁 Today, we delivered our petition to the Chancellor – signed by over 37,000 citizens from every one of the UK’s 650 constituencies 🥁 💜 Thank you to everyone who signed, shared, and shouted about the petition. Rachel Reeves — over to you ⌛️

Citizens from every parliamentary constituency in the UK have come together, ahead of the forthcoming Spending Review, to urge the Chancellor to protect and grow public investment in the arts and culture. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️ campaignforthearts.org/news/citizens-…

Much of the Government's intention for cutting PIP and UC is to motivate people to find a job But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold