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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