Basic income for artists: ‘The idea is great, but the challenge is making sure it is going to the right people’ | Business Post

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The life of an artist can be challenging with a disrupted social life, unpredictable hours and difficulty eking out a regular income. But that could change for 2,000 artists thanks to the new basic income for the arts pilot scheme, writes aalannabanana.

Deirdre Murphy, a musician who has also worked as a choreographer, dancer, playwright, circus artist and actor, says she is ‘tremendously grateful’ that the pilot scheme is being introduced. Picture: Bryan Meade

When Robson Rocha left Brazil in 2006, he had already decided to leave music behind. A busy performance career had left him with almost no social life: weekends spent on the road gigging meant there wasn’t a lot of time for seeing friends. And so Rocha sold up all of his musical kit – or almost all. At his father’s pleading he kept a single guitar, which he brought with him across the Atlantic...

 

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Basic Income for the Arts: ‘I think it’ll give voice to people who haven’t had as much of a voice’ | Business PostA pilot scheme to pay 2,000 Irish artists a weekly allowance has been broadly welcomed for the financial security it will afford those lucky enough to get it, but there are groups, such as disabled artists, who do not feel it will solve the problems they have always faced
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