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Petition against Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics
The Manifesto Club is coordinating a campaign against these regulations. The campaign is led by Manick Govinda, artists' adviser at Artsadmin, and has won support from artists, musicians, gallery directors, academics and students. Together we call for these parochial and suspicious regulations to be reconsidered, and affirm the vital contribution made by global artists and scholars to UK cultural and intellectual life. NEW: Petition nears 10,000! Please sign and pass it on. Read and sign the petition! Forward to your friends and colleagues. Help build support for the petition on Facebook. PUBLICATION: UK ARTS AND CULTURE - CANCELLED, BY ORDER OF THE HOME OFFICE These case studies have been submitted to us over the past few months, after the launch of our Visiting Artists Campaign in February 2009. We will send the report and petition to the UK Home Office, and call on it to reconsider these pointless and suspicious regulations - before more damage is done to UK cultural life. The report is launched at our Cabaret Without Borders, on Wednesday 3 June. See the report in The Times. Download the report: UK Arts and Culture: Cancelled, by Order of the Home Office
Talks and performances include: Maureen Duffy (talk), Harold Offeh (performance intervention), Susannah Hewlett (performance intervention), Mark McGowan with Jaemini Kim (performance intervention), Cyril LePetit (sound piece & photograph/poster based on a project with Asylum Seekers), Andrew Mitchelson (travels to Kurdistan-Iraq), Josie Appleton (on why free movement matters). See the Video of the Cabaret Without Borders Event, on WorldBytes. This is part of the Manifesto Club events series, Freedom Summer. Supported by A Foundation. TAKE ACTION! 1. Help us reach 10,000 The petition is growing fast. Our aim is to reach 10,000 signatories to force politicians to take notice. So please get the petition out everywhere you can. Send it around friends and colleagues; get it on mailing lists; post on websites and facebook groups; get it discussed in organisations. 2. Write to your MP MPs do pay attention to constituents’ mail, so writing a letter is a good way to raise our issue’s political profile. You can easily write to your MP using the message service, Write to them. Your message will be faxed or emailed directly to your local MP.
- Tell them your concerns about the issue, and how it’s effecting artists, scholars and many other professions. If you have been personally/professionally affected give them a brief account of what happened; - Let them know that the points-based system could have a potentially detrimental effect on the UK’s arts and cultural sector, and it may affect local arts groups and festivals in his/her constituency; - Ask your MP to consider raising a question of clarification with the home secretary and/or home office ministers If you have been (or will be) affected by these regulations, please do complete our campaign’s online survey. This will provide a rich source of material for us to better argue the case and gain more publicity for our campaign. Accounts of cancelled concerts and exhibitions, and other problems that these regulations are causing for organisations who work with international artists and academics. To post a comment, email: visitingartists@manifestoclub.com FURTHER READING
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The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists' residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive proceedures to get their visa, and then more bureaucratic controls when they are in the UK. Already a series of concerts and residencies have been cancelled.
The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists' residencies. The Manifesto Club has launched a report, 