Independent artist tells Senate enquiry why NPEA is a bad idea
Sep 09, 2015
The Senate enquiry into arts funding has met with groups around Australia as a result of the setting up of the new National Program for Excellence in the Arts in the last budget. This took $104.7 million in funding from the Australia Council.
The group most affected are independent artists - that is, artists not in companies funded through government. Watch independent artist, David Pledger, suberbly express the problem with the whole notion of this NPEA and it's limited view.
"NPEA will get a program that guts the Australian arts because it excludes the independent voices that define us.." Watch his impressive response to the enquiry here
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