We hear that our application for Arts Queensland funding has been successful – fantastic!
This will allow us to pay people some money – guaranteed.
We – Umber – regard this as critical – that artists should be paid for their work - that the creation of ‘cultural product’ in this society is regarded as work, not someone’s hobby, or pastime, not an activity to which time is devoted when people have nothing better to do, but the undertaking of trained, skilled professionals who reflect on the issues of the day and allow us, the audience, access to a different way of seeing