Dermot O’Brien, Senior Lecturer in Drama at the School of Arts, has been interviewed by local news station KMTV about the UK government’s recent announcement of a £1.5 billion rescue package for the arts.
The fund has been praised as a lifeline for the arts, which has suffered due to the coronavirus lockdown.
‘We’ve got to be careful as to where and how [the fund] is given out and that it doesn’t just become part of the big club of people who always get the funding’, Dermot explains. ‘This isn’t about ‘the show must go on’, because there is no show to go on. This is really about livelihoods, and those people as the mainstay of it, who might not be included in what’s going on with this fund, which is a brilliant thing to have and it is going to help us survive.’
The full feature can be viewed on KMTV’s website, here:
www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/more-than-a-billion-for-the-arts-but-is-it-enough-to-save-the-sector-in-kent-31689/