When? Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 6:30-8:00 PM UK GMT
Where? Online (Zoom)
Please join us for the seventh in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can learn from the Irish Basic Income for the Arts Pilot Scheme.
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In September 2020, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine Martin set up the Arts and Culture Taskforce which was tasked with producing a report on how the arts and culture sector could adapt and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time she was also the deputy leader of the Green Party which is supportive of the Basic Income (BI) concept. The number one recommendation from the task force report Life Worth Living was to pilot a Basic Income scheme for a 3-year period in the in the arts, culture, audio-visual and live performance and events sectors. As part of the National Economic Recovery Plan launched on 1 June 2021, Minister Martin secured a commitment from Government for a Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) Pilot Scheme.
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When? Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:30-8:00 PM UK GMT
Where? Online (Zoom)
Please join us for the fifth in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can learn from the Irish Basic Income for the Arts Pilot Scheme, as it unfolds. The Government of Ireland is running a Basic Income pilot that began in September 2022. 2000 artists and cultural workers will receive a weekly unconditional income of €325 weekly for a period of three years. This fifth session will be an opportunity to check-in with some of the artists involved in the pilot scheme and learn from them about how it is affecting them and their creative communities.
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