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Freelance Rollercoaster in the Arts & DipCP5

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted March 6, 2023•0 Comment(s)

In the last few weeks our household has felt the deep disappointment of going down on the creativity rollercoaster which is the life of freelance theatremakers.  From the highs of creating the amazing When Mountains Meet as part of Glasgow…

Tags: freelance, funding, Kath Burlinson, Saudi Arabia
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Paddling hard below the surface

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted March 30, 2019•0 Comment(s)

I was at the quarterly meeting of the Federation of Scottish Theatre yesterday and was both inspired and worried by all that I was hearing. This is a meeting which allows all those at the front-line of creative delivery to…

Tags: FST, funding, Networking, Scottish Theatre
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Painful, but I should be used to it.

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 6, 2018•0 Comment(s)

Over 40 years I have had five major points in my life where I have invented an idea or project which I found nigh impossible to persuade anyone, with the power, to fund it. Sometimes I have banged my head…

Tags: arts council, funding, revelation
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