If you live or work in Birmingham as a musician we urge you to attend and get involved. Image credit: Shutterstock.
Members have already been alerted to the scale of the £300 million cuts being imposed by Birmingham City Council on its residents. Included in this is £3.2 million of cultural cuts, where the council reduces funding to all its cultural organisations by 50% this year leading to a 100% cut next year.
Many of the City’s most iconic cultural organisations like CBSO, BRB, Birmingham Opera, The Rep, Town Hall, Symphony Hall are affected; as will be many cultural organisations delivering community arts, diversity and education outreach programmes in vulnerable and socially deprived areas. Many of these organisations employ musicians either directly or on freelance contracts, so the impact could be devastating for our sector.
The MU has teamed up with the People’s Assembly, community campaign groups, and other unions affected to put on a public meeting under the banner of Brum Rise Up, that will address the issues and plan a strategy of resistance going forward.
Join the campaign and organising meeting for Brum Rise Up
If you are impacted by these cuts we’d urge you to attend Brum Rise Up and have your say. There will be prominent local speakers and workshops to look at the issues, and to plan how we can respond.
The event will also include an arts cuts workshop that will let members design the campaign against the cuts and have your say on it all. We want to know what members think, and what shape and style of campaign is required to put pressure on policy makers to reverse these cuts which are unprecedented in the history of the City.
If you live or work in Birmingham as a musician we urge you to attend and get involved.
- Location: Birmingham and Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham, B3 3BS
- Date: Saturday 27 April 2024
- Time: Doors at 10:00 am, with the event taking place 10:30 am to 12:00 pm.