An emergency motion at #EquityConference2024 has passed unanimously in solidarity with chorus members at the Welsh National Opera, who face salary cuts and redundancies.

The union will provide whatever support is required to amplify their campaign ✊

#SaveOurWNO #AchubOCC

Here is a person who has spent several weeks spearheading this important campaign to protect the jewel that is Welsh National Opera. Brava Elizabeth Atherton!

Elizabeth Atherton Andrew Corbett-Nolan Lesley Griffiths Kevin Brennan MP Thangam Debbonaire Lucy Frazer Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Keir Starmer Jo Stevens Alun Cairns MP Michael Berkeley Arts Council England Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales The parameters of arts funding are the arts themselves, not climate, not other cultural ‘goals’ such as language, not mental health or anything else other than the art itself. Everything else has to be byproduct,

The arts are taking hit after hit in Wales. What a moving “play-in”
This breaking apart of culture has to stop.

Excellent analysis from Richard Morrison. My forthcoming book 'Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British', from Oxford Music, will outline how we got to where we are now, explaining in detail how these debates about opera have played out over the last century.

I have tabled a Statement of Opinion in the Senedd on the future viability of the Welsh National Opera organisation.

I am grateful to fellow Members of the Senedd, from across all political parties, who have supported my statement of opinion.

record.senedd.wales/StatementOfOpi…

Did you know that all our sets and costumes are made in Wales? Or that we've supported young artists for 20 years through #WNOyouthopera ?

We need your support more than ever to continue this work, made in #Wales . Discover how your donation can help us 👉 wno.org.uk/madeinwales

Elizabeth Atherton Lesley Griffiths Kevin Brennan MP Thangam Debbonaire Lucy Frazer Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Keir Starmer Jo Stevens Alun Cairns MP Nick Trench Michael Berkeley 1/2 The root cause of Arts Council England ‘s propensity for making fools of themselves is their awful strategy #LetsCreate It ties them into the most ridiculous knotted dogma. Would they really say that Shakespeare is incapable of being ‘relevant’? ….

Channel 4 News Lack of opportunities across all of the arts are becoming a bigger issue day by day. The arts seem to be being pushed aside when they should be celebrated and encouraged no matter your background. Talent is out there in abundance, opportunities and funding is not.

Let's see if we can't influence Welsh Government policy.

(Again.)

Welsh National Opera is a real treasure. It should be nurtured and protected.

Students (present and past) and their supporters protested the planned closure of their junior department at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a play-in this afternoon.

Another week, another #SixOnSaturday .

#Flowers #Gardening #FlowerHunting

With thanks to the #ArtsShow on BBC Radio Wales & Gary Raymond for allowing me to explain the dire situation Welsh National Opera has been placed in by Arts Council England & Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales. I’m on at the top! More info below in thread…1/3🧵 #SaveWNO Lesley Griffiths

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