Are you interested in creating a solidarity syndicate but need more members? Tag @keepitcomplex in your Instagram posts or stories and we’ll share it with other creatives looking to syndicate. Easy. #solsyn

Today applications open for the Arts Council England’s “emergency fund”. Are you ready to make a solidarity syndicate but still have questions how to make it happen? FAQs are now on our website: makeitclear.eu/posts/solidar… #solsyn #acegrams

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Not everyone is going to be able to apply for this @acegrams ‘emergency’ funding. Let’s join up and play the lottery together. Why? To support your peers! Refuse competition! It’s all of us or none of us! Take back the economy! Full instructions: makeitclear.eu/posts/sol-syn…

Darren Henley gets £178,000 a year. Think he could manage on a one off grant of £2,500 for the foreseeable future?

We are unable to pay bills, meet rent or maintain our expenses; within weeks incomes have vanished. @aceagrams responds by reducing our funding and making us compete in an impossible lottery. We need support and care and access, not competition and austerity.

This is not an emergency response. This is Business as usual. Playing the Art Gods with our projects. makeitclear.eu/posts/sol-syn…

@aceagrams scrapped all the funds normally available for creative individuals and small organisations in order to provide this “emergency fund”. Those grants used to provide a whole ecosystem with work, but now £90K of that money has been re-allocated to the big bois,...

Applications in process were terminated by @aceagrams for this “emergency fund”. @aceagrams wants to silo us off from one another; letting the individual rise to the top or fall to the bottom.

@artistsunionengland tells us there are 60,000 artists working in the UK. If every artist applied for £2500 only 6,400 would get it… that’s 10%. But we’re not just artists; we’re writers, translators, producers, editors, educators, directors, designers, choreographers...