{"id":696,"date":"2020-11-11T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/?p=696"},"modified":"2020-11-11T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:08:10","slug":"statement-of-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/2020\/11\/11\/statement-of-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We stand in solidarity with those at the University of Roehampton who are facing cuts in the Drama, Theatre & Performance, and Dance departments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixty per cent of Roehampton\u2019s performing arts students are Black or from other minoritised ethnic backgrounds. Cutting these programmes that have been so successful in supporting Black British and other under-represented students is especially misjudged, at a time when HE institutions should be urgently decolonising and diversifying their spaces. We condemn the Vice Chancellor\u2019s decision to cut funding in the very departments which support historically under-represented artists and cultural producers, and provide space for them to excel. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As TaPRA and others\u00a0have suggested<\/a>, these cuts are also ideological in nature, in line with the UK government\u2019s short-sighted bias against the arts and humanities and its instrumentalisation of HE to these ends.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please consider\u00a0signing the petition<\/a>\u00a0to oppose the proposed \u00a33.2 million cuts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Dr K\u00e9lina Gotman\u2019s letter in response to the proposed cuts\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read about the Vision for Roehampton\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We stand in solidarity with those at the University of Roehampton who are facing cuts in the Drama, Theatre & Performance, and Dance departments.\u00a0 Sixty per cent of Roehampton\u2019s performing arts students are Black or from other minoritised ethnic backgrounds. Cutting these programmes that have been so successful in supporting Black British and other under-represented … <\/p>\n

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