#FreelanceTaskForce

Best practice for working with freelancers: I’m making a collection of notes/case studies, when working with an org/venue/company/show has been great. Little gestures, structures, systems. How they made you feel? Reply here + I’ll collate into a #FreelanceTaskForce mini-guide.

Thrilled to have a designer representing squad Scotland on the freelance Taskforce. Congrats to Becky Minto! Looking like a fierce & diverse group of people overall so far (in our social media bubble anyway). Feeling hopeful... and it feels good! #FreelanceTaskForce

#FreelanceTaskForce Weekend Update Transparency. I'm paid £100 to work four hours a week on FTF. This week (so far): Monday: 14 hours Tuesday: 8 hours Wednesday: 11 hours Thursday: 9 hours Friday: 14 hours

We can confirm today that the Freelance Task Force Representative sponsored by the RSC will be a job share partnership between Leigh Toney (Director) and Leo Wan (Actor). #FreelanceTaskForce

ANNOUNCEMENT We are delighted to announce our appointments for the #FreelanceTaskForce. Created to influence the performing arts sector’s management of the response to the Covid-19 crisis. Congratulations to Mele Broomes, Kim Simpson & Emma Jayne Park. ttps://bit.ly/3cZ0CPP

Freelance artists make up a huge part, and are the creative life-blood, of our sector. We're supporting the #FreelanceTaskForce by sponsoring Kate Waters @Kombat_Kate (Fight Director) and @preparedtobe Bethany Wells (Designer).

Ramps On The Moon is proud to be supporting the #FreelanceTaskForce initiative and are delighted that @HannahQuigley and @NadeemRules1 have agreed to share the role as our designated freelancers!

Open Letter to Arts Organisations: The brilliant @vijayrajpatel92 and @Rachaelraymck have been advocating for neurodiverse artists’ working conditions and access needs, as part of the #FreelanceTaskForce. You can show your commitment by signing up here.

(On the Cultural Recovery Board. NO FREELANCE REPRESENTATION. NO ARTISTS. NO ONE WHO HAS BEEN AN ARTIST. But they've brought in the Finance Director of Premier Inn and someone from private equity.) #FreelanceTaskForce

CALLING ALL DONNY/SOUTH YORKS BASED FREELANCERS. You're going to want to read this! 👀How to get involved with #FreelanceTaskForce with @SamuelCDunstan 👇👇 📸Ali Wright

#FreelanceTaskForce update: We held our second full meeting of the group today, attended by around 120 individuals on Zoom. That's a lot of people with limited time to be discursive. This endeavour remains an inspiring and frustrating experiment. Some progress has been...1/?

A pretty emotional & heart warming catch up with 30+ of our regular freelance team yesterday. If this was a rehearsal room we’d be making something incredible. These artists are on edge of survival unless we fund freelancers asap #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #FreelanceTaskForce

Very looking forward to working with all the other freelancers as part of #FreelanceTaskForce & thank you @boundlessabound for being one of the organisations to help better represent us!

Sooo excited to announce our appointment for the #FreelanceTaskForce. Congrats & Welcome to Boundless Beth 🤗☺️@bethsitek

Sheffield Theatres is a proud signatory of this open letter to theatre and performance makers in the UK today. #freelancetaskforce

Government Arts Support: If 72% of the arts workforce is freelance, is it appropriate to request that 72% of the cash recently made available is distributed to freelancers. Genuine question. Please add reasons below. @FreelancersMake @FedScotTheatre #FreelanceTaskForce

SO. When that investment package comes - the discourse doesn't stop. We can't go back to where we were. We can't return to a precarious workforce. Buildings can't leave artists out of decisions. And artists have to place their work in the community. #FreelanceTaskForce

Anyone know of any existing networks / spaces which are specifically for bringing together emerging / early career artists to share resources, concerns, opportunities etc? Looking to create one & wanna know what’s out there! Any leads? #FreelanceTaskForce @FreelanceTForce

Genuine question @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak What do you think all those tourists do when it's pissing down with rain and they can't go and look at your statues all day? Review the importance of Arts & Culture and do what needs to be done... #SaveTheArts #freelancetaskforce

We've put together a team of our Associate Artists to take part in the new #FreelanceTaskForce. They are Ellie Mason, David Munns, Jo Paul and Alice Theobold 1/2

I wonder how many freelancers will apply to be part of the #FreelanceTaskForce when the odds on getting accepted are so low ? All for 1 paid day per week for 3 months is just 12 days work - I know the idea is sound but at the moment it feels like a band aid for a haemorrhage