Stephen Fry, Paloma Faith & Nick Cave Sign Letter Warning UK Could Become “Cultural Wasteland” Post COVID-19
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deadline.comBy Tom Grater International Film Reporter More than 400 figures in the UK’s creative industries have signed a letter sent to the Chancellor and Culture Secretary warning that the country come become a “cultural wasteland” if more is not done to help creative workers during the coronavirus crisis.
Signatories include Stephen Fry, Grayson Perry, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Simon Callow, Anish Kapoor, Meera Syal, Jamie Cullum, Jeremy Deller, Paloma Faith, Johnny Marr, Imogen Heap, Jonathan Pryce, PJ Harvey, Stephen Hough, Katie Melua, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sophie Dahl.
The letter has been penned by the Creative Industries Federation (CIF), the body repping the country’s creative sector. It claims that “more than 50% of creative organisations
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