Freelancers Make Theatre Work are an inclusive, independent community for the 200,000+ self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of theatre, opera and live performance, who make up 70% of the UK theatre workforce.
Inc Arts champion the creative, contractual and economic rights of the UK's African, Asian, Caribbean and ethnically diverse arts sector workforce. We make inclusive change in the arts and cultural sector. Our vision is to create a thriving cultural community that allows everyone to do their best work.
Migrants in Culture is a network of migrants organising to create the conditions of safety, agency and solidarity in the culture sector for migrants, people of colour and all others impacted by the UK’s immigration regime.
MAX Musician and Artist Exchange is a network of practitioners drawn from classical music and the arts throughout the UK founded on a core belief in promoting diversity and equality. MAX advocates for artist-led work and a drive for greater equality between independent artists and the organisations with whom they work. MAX will collaborate with artists and organisations to challenge existing orthodoxies and develop new practices.
people make it work is a group of 60 freelance cultural workers, who have come together with a shared mission to support the cultural sector to change, develop and transform. We do that with organisations, cities, leaders and creative individuals with free tools, guidance, advice as well as peer-based programmes.
Something To Aim For works at the intersection of the arts, learning, health and wellbeing sectors to provide advocacy and capacity building for artists who are at the margins of mainstream culture, the creative industries and wider society.
What Next? is a free-to-access UK-wide movement for arts and culture. With chapters across the country, we bring together freelancers, and small and large arts organisations to inform, debate and shape the future of the arts and culture.
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture, investing public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver our strategy, Let’s Create. We believe the creative and cultural sector is only as strong as the talent of the individuals that work in it. We need to retain the best talent as well as bringing in new talent that reflects the wide range of backgrounds that make England such a vibrant place to live. We therefore have to make creativity and culture a viable and attractive place to work for all.
FOUNDER & ARTISTIC LEAD, CULTURED MONGREL
CONSORTIUM PARTNER, FREELANCE : FUTURES
Emma Jayne is a dancer, theatre maker, collaborator, facilitator, movement director, trainee intimacy coordinator, choreographer, advocate, activist and occasional drag king.
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VISUAL ARTIST
Cherelle Sappleton is a Healing Sound Practitioner and Visual Artist based in Ramsgate.
Read MoreCREATIVE LEARNING DIRECTOR
GRAEAE THEATRE COMPANY
Jodi-Alissa Bickerton is the Creative Learning Director at Graeae Theatre Company.
Read MoreSENIOR CULTURE EQUITY DIVERSITY INCLUSION
PRACTICE MANAGER, THE WELLCOME
Teresa Cisneros is a Chicanx Londoner. Originally from the Mexico-Texas border, ‘La Frontera’, she practices from where she is from not where she is.
Read MoreINDEPENDENT PERFORMANCE MAKER
CULTURAL WORKER
Xavier de Sousa (he/they) is an independent performance maker and culture worker, whose practice explores personal and political heritage, belonging and migration.
Read MoreARTS & CULTURAL PRODUCER,
CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGER
Shwmae, I’m Laura Drane and I’m an arts and cultural producer, consultant and project manager…
Read MoreARTIST
Jade Montserrat is an artist based in Whitby, England, and was a recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship…
Read MoreCREATIVE DIRECTOR / CEO, SOMETHING TO AIM FOR
CONSORTIUM PARTNER, FREELANCE : FUTURES
Tracy Gentles is the founding Creative Director / CEO of Something To Aim For (STAF), a charity set up to build on the work of previous organisations In Company Collective and The Sick of the Fringe…
Read MoreDIRECTOR OF STRATEGY
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
Michelle Dickson is the Director, Strategy at Arts Council England.
Read MoreDIRECTOR FOR CHANGE
RAMPS ON THE MOON
Michèle Taylor is Director for Change for the Ramps on the Moon, the Arts Council England funded consortium…
Read MoreFOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
MAOKWO
Born and raised in Zimbabwe. Laura Nyahuye, is a creative visionary & artist helping migrant…
Read MoreCULTURAL ORGANISER, JOON-LYN GOH
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, FREELANCE : FUTURES
Joon-Lynn Goh organises with art and community infrastructures to nurture a collective imagination…
Read MoreARTIST & CONSULTANT
JONNY COTSON
Jonny Cotsen is a qualified Art teacher but left his professional career to develop himself as a performance artist…
Read MoreTOURING PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER
NATIONAL THEATRE
Jenna Omeltschenko has worked in the theatre industry for over 16 years…
Read MoreEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DIVERSE CITY
Becky started her professional theatre career as a performer, touring the beaches, pubs and schools of South Devon.
Read MoreUK STRATEGIC LEAD, WHAT NEXT?
CONSORTIUM PARTNER, FREELANCE : FUTURES
Lizzie Crump is the UK Strategic Lead at What Next?; a national cultural movement which brings people together…
Read MoreFREELANCE ARTIST & CREATIVE
PRACTITIONER, YEWANDE 103
Alexandrina’s creative practice lands in the fluid spaces of dance, choreography, writing, facilitating and advocacy.
Read MoreDIRECTOR, people make it work
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, FREELANCE : FUTURES
Richard Watts is a Director at people make it work, and one of the Programme Directors for Freelance:Futures.
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