Lees in het Nederlands The Corona crisis is putting enormous constraints on the entire social and economic life. Also the cultural sector is greatly affected. Will our society look the…
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Hotline COVID-19: the results
Lees in het Nederlands by Wouter Hillaert On the 14th of March, 24h after the start of the lockdown, State of the Arts (SOTA) launched a hotline where individual cultural…
We vergeten een paar kwetsbare groepen
‘Flexwerkers’ zoals poetsvrouwen en kunstenaars worden dubbel getroffen door de coronacrisis. Niet alleen zitten ze zonder werk, ze krijgen geen enkele compensatie van de overheid. Door Wouter Hillaert en Kobe…
The financial battlefield called Corona
Published in rekto:verso on 21 March 2020 Lees in het Nederlands ‘I have no income. Zero. Zilch’. This cry of distress from a singer-cabaret artist is by no means the…
A COVID-19 emergency fund for the cultural sector
Lees in het NederlandsLire en français Give priority to the fragile statutes of cultural freelancers. On Friday 13 March, the Belgian government announced a number of drastic measures to curb…
How’s COVID-19 effecting you?
Monday, 16 March 2020 Dear State of the Artists How are you doing now that public life has taken a halt? Tens of thousands of artists and cultural workers are…
After the silence, wait for the storm
Dear State of the Artists, It’s not because you don’t hear us, that we’re not there. SOTA took a bit of time to listen around and reorganise. And we have some information…
Jan Jambon, thank you!
Dear all, This morning, about 30 artists attended the meeting of the Cultural Commission of the Flemish Parliament, where minister Jambon commented his most recent decisions. What we remember from…
Let’s show some guts
Dear all, Last Tuesday more than 80 people from all corners of our #stateofthearts came together to kickstart 2020. It was wonderful to see how everybody reaffirmed their commitment to…
Thank you for your commitment
Dear friends, cool lovers and activists, Tired, but also strengthened by the enormous solidarity that we feel, we look back on the events that have awakened our recent protest: 09/11/19:…