Creative Freelancers: Shaping London’s Recovery
As our performing arts industry recovers from the pandemic, how can we make London better for creative freelancers? ODAC is delighted to be part of the Mayor of London’s scheme to work it out.
Managed by Fuel Theatre, Creative Freelancers: Shaping London’s Recovery is a scheme in which 50 freelancers in the performing arts collaborate with cultural organisations on how to improve working practices for freelancers in London.
Old Diorama is paired with freelance theatre director and dramaturg Emily Collins as part of the cohort. We’ve been meeting weekly since July, exploring the difficulties and benefits of self-sufficient working in the arts, and hatching plans on how best support freelancers with the resources we have (and would like to have!).
We’re in great company, as part of this group of fantastic London arts organisations…
A New Direction, Actors Touring Company, Akademi, artsdepot Ltd, Barbican, Battersea Arts Centre, Boundless Theatre, Bush Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, English Touring Opera, Fitzrovia Noir CIC, Grand Union, Headlong Theatre Company, LIFT, Little Angel Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Music Halls Project, National Theatre, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, Old Diorama Arts Centre, Paddington Development Trust, Parents and Carers in Performing Arts, Polka Theatre, Rambert, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Roundhouse, Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, Serious, Serpentine Gallery, Siobhan Davies Dance, Sound and Music, Spare Tyre, Stratford Circus, Studio Wayne McGregor, Talawa Theatre Company, Tamasha Theatre Company, The Old Vic, The Place, The Yard Theatre, Theatre Centre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Tiata Fahodzi, Turtle Key Arts, UK Music, VAULT Festival, Vital Xposure, We Make Events, Young Vic Theatre.
