{"id":3857,"date":"2020-07-08T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2020-07-08T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:45:22","slug":"dermot-obrien-interviewed-by-kmtv-on-arts-rescue-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/07\/08\/dermot-obrien-interviewed-by-kmtv-on-arts-rescue-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot O&#8217;Brien interviewed by KMTV on arts rescue fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2148\/o-brien-dermot\">Dermot O&#8217;Brien<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/drama-and-theatre\">Drama<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\">School of Arts<\/a>, has been interviewed by local news station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/live\/\">KMTV<\/a> about the UK government&#8217;s recent announcement of a \u00a31.5 billion rescue package for the arts.<\/p>\n<p>The fund has been praised as a lifeline for the arts, which has suffered due to the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve got to be careful as to where and how [the fund] is given out and that it doesn&#8217;t just become part of the big club of people who always get the funding&#8217;, Dermot explains. &#8216;This isn&#8217;t about &#8216;the show must go on&#8217;, 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&#8217;s going on with this fund, which is a brilliant thing to have and it is going to help us survive.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The full feature can be viewed on KMTV&#8217;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/video\/more-than-a-billion-for-the-arts-but-is-it-enough-to-save-the-sector-in-kent-31689\/\">www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/video\/more-than-a-billion-for-the-arts-but-is-it-enough-to-save-the-sector-in-kent-31689\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermot O&#8217;Brien, Senior Lecturer in Drama at the School of Arts, has been interviewed by local news station KMTV about the UK government&#8217;s recent announcement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/07\/08\/dermot-obrien-interviewed-by-kmtv-on-arts-rescue-fund\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,50018,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}