12 stories by "Fin Kennedy"
Playwright Fin Kennedy says for the arts sector to survive and thrive, it is time to leave it less up to fate,
We've given the government the facts about theatre and the arts. They haven't listened and just made further cuts. Maybe it's time to get more politicalAt the start of 2013, I unexpectedly f…
Councils are caught in an austerity trap. But the enlightened ones have a defiant, nay patriotic, faith in the value of the artsMy girlfriend and I are expecting our first child. We're delig…
The theatre company I've inherited, Tamasha, produces work by and about the UK's culturally diverse communities. Our focus is on empowering diverse artists to respond to the world around the…
(These remarks were originally given at the Westminster Media Forum on June 5, 2014, and are here reprinted with Fin Kennedy’s permission. This post is part of the 2014 TCG Natio…
In the run-up to the next round of arts funding, we must look beyond notions of profit and loss, writes Fin KennedyIn 2013 I wrote a research-led report, In Battalions, about the effect of g…
(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). [The following essay is an ed…
The theatre world is fighting back against cuts from the government and local authorities, not only through campaigns but via the medium of new, political writing, argues playwright Fin Kenn…
Fin Kennedy looks at the forthcoming Offies awards which give the theatre industry a chance to celebrate both funded and unfunded theatres, and explain to policymakers how interconnected - a…
From digital characters to plays set on Facebook ... playwrights could do with young people's technical supportFor the past week, I've been captivated by Rockstar Games' latest release LA No…
Do the combination of arts cuts and the government's changes to schools provide an opportunity for writers? A pilot scheme I'm launching aims to prove the answer is yesThere's something of a…
