Byrne, TUSC, 4Columns
arts
Monica Byrne proposes a better model for funding theatre:
A recent review in American Theatre sourced predictions for the field entirely from administrators, executives, donors, fundraisers and audience members. Artists themselves aren’t even mentioned — how they envision the future of theater, how they’re surviving, or even whether they’re surviving. […]
For theater, as we know it, to have any future at all, a new economic model must take its place, founded on a simple principle: fund artists directly. Then let the artists produce their own work, rent their own venues and pay their own collaborators.
labor
Read about The Union Solidarity Coalition:
Though the [WGA] strike is the catalyst for creating TUSC, we feel this is just the beginning of a larger, urgent movement of solidarity between all of the industry unions, and also our coworkers who aren’t part of a union. We want to think big about how we can support each other in the face of a national labor crisis. Right now, our focus is to offer direct financial support to crew members who have lost health insurance due to strike-related shutdowns.
media
4Columns’ summer reading list of fiction in translation
