Summary
After a two-night break, David Bintley will once again mount the stage at Birmingham Hippodrome tomorrow night to beg for money.
Birmingham Royal Ballet's director is providing the warm-up act at each performance during the current season to make an appeal for cash to fund new productions. His Director's Appeal is looking for 1,000 supporters who will each chip in pounds 150.See the full content of this document
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Culture: Funding Drought Calls for Creative Thinking ; New Work Is the Lifeblood of the Arts. But with Cuts in Public Funding and the Era of Major Commercial Sponsorship Seemingly Over, We May See More Appeals Like the One Launched by David Bintley Last Week Writes Terry Grimley
It is a response to a triple funding whammy which will see grants from the Arts Council and Birmingham City Council frozen and the end of the major sponsorship relationship with Powergen.
This comes at a time when BRB has only recently shrugged off the disastrous impact of the unexpectedly prolonged c...See the full content of this document
