Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
AEA, SAG-AFTRA and Local 802 AFM Release Joint Statement on the Need for Harassment-Free Workplaces in the Arts
www.broadwayworld.com: SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris, Actors' Equity Association President Kate Shindle and American Federation of Musicians Local 802 President and Executive Director Adam Krauthamer released the following joint statement: "Every worker deserves to do their job in an environment free of harassment of any kind, whether that harassment creates a toxic workplace or, certainly in the case of sexual harassment, when that behavior is also against the law.
‘The heat is on’: top theatres act to root out ‘system failure’ of racism
Theatre | The Guardian: The Young Vic and Royal Court theatres have entered into a pioneering consultation process that aims to identify and root out systemic racism from their venues. The artistic directors of both London institutions have signed up to a two-year partnership with the social enterprise Sour Lemons that will interrogate the internal structures that uphold institutional racism, raise awareness and accountability, and listen to staff’s experiences of racism inside the buildings.
As some S.F. artists get guaranteed income, how do we head off bad-faith arguments against it?
Datebook: When the city announced last month that it planned to launch a pilot program to give 100 artists $1,000 monthly payments for six months, my hope for all the performers I write about and love was tinged with worry. I frequently see a couple of bad-faith arguments in response to the idea of state support of the arts, and I didn’t want them to hijack the conversation about a promising idea
Show them the money
Ghost Light | Chicago Reader: Back in 2019, I interviewed Chicago set designer Arnel Sancianco for a short Reader profile. In the course of our discussion, he mentioned that, while creating a sustainable career as a designer is never easy, he felt that his peers in costume design (a profession that tends to have more women in its ranks than other design fields) had a harder road. They frequently work without the benefit of full crews, leaving the designer to do a lot of the hands-on work of making and even sometimes maintaining costumes during a show's run. And they tended to be paid less overall.
Guild of Music Supervisors Aims to Correct Deficiencies in Diversity
Variety: As an intense spotlight shines over Hollywood and the greater entertainment industry related to issues of parity when it comes to hiring practices, the Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS), whose board is made up of six women and five men, has proven to be the rare outlier.
