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Merith's Miscellany retweeted
The Government has announced plans to impose a catastrophic 50% funding cut to arts subjects at higher education (HE) level in England, including music.
Have your say in the consultation before 6 May 👇
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/m…
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Well played @LidlGB, whose new catalogue for their own wooden toy brand #Playtive features girls with cars, boys with dolls houses and doing ironing, and both having tea together.
And all unisex clothes. No pink and blue anywhere. It’s the future @LetToysBeToys @letclothesbe
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Dear @NickGibbUK
We're disappointed to hear @educationgovuk has withdrawn bursaries for music teacher trainees from 2021-22 academic year. Opportunities to teach and access #MusicEducation should be at the heart of our schools curriculum & gov policy.
rhinegold.co.uk/classical_mu…
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Following yesterday's very impressive protest by @WeAreTheMU in Parliament Square I have written to the Chancellor demanding fairness in the Government's treatment of musicians and other freelancers in the creative industries suffering due to Covid-19 #letmusiclive #WeMakeEvents
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Today we started our campaign outside Parliament to ask for targeted investment.
Arts sector makes £10.8bn, events makes £84bn. For every £1 spent on us, £2 is spent on wider economy. Yet 87% of musicians are facing hardship, 1/3 are #excludeduk from support.
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400 socially-distanced musicians play outside the Houses of Parliament in a powerful musical protest. 🎶 📣
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This is what musicians can achieve in just a week of organising on our own. Safe, structured, socially distanced performance of 400 people. What else can we achieve if given the chance. Dear @RishiSunak @OliverDowden we are viable! #letmusiclive #wemakeevents
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Unimaginably moving #freelancers #letmusiclive
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90 seconds of Holst's Mars will be performed by 400 musicians in Parliament Square today to highlight the plight of freelance musicians right now.
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"We're not just failing hobbyists looking for a handout, we're all highly-skilled, successful, small businesses"
Cellist Susie Winkworth tells @timesradio when Covid-19 hits the arts, and musicians are gone, they won't be able to come back.
@alexisconran | @WinkMusicUK
Merith's Miscellany retweeted
You’d be hard pressed to find someone more skilled or more viable than a pro musician. You’d also be hard pressed to find a non-musician who fully understands the skill and viability inherent in a pro musician. There’s a reason our world is filled with music, and it isn’t magic.
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Hi #RishiSunak. I've been thinking about what makes a viable business. Here's a little story for you.
Barbara is a clarinettist. After 20 yrs' training & highly competitive auditions, she won a job in a prestigious London orchestra. As well as playing at the Royal Albert Hall 1/
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Freelance Musicians are Staring Into a Hopeless Abyss medium.com/@cheryllaw/freela…
@FreelancersMake @WeAreTheMU #freelance #musician
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Welcome to Britain, a country where the use of home heating systems is not determined by indoor temperature, but by calendar month and a matter of principle.
Merith's Miscellany retweeted
We try really hard to keep gender stereotypes at a minimum and gender-based assumptions about our boys make me quite cross. Its lovely to see our approach apparently working when they play "girly" games.
I wrote this a year ago, nothing's changed.
smellysocksandgardenpeas.wor…
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“There are no boys’ books, or girls’ books. There are just books. Writers write books for readers, and if you are reading a book and enjoying it, then the author wrote it for you.” Children’s author, poet & songwriter John Dougherty #LetBooksBeBooks
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“Well said - where did it all go wrong?” Thanks Jonet B (on FB) via @HistoryHustle
