Access Docs for Artists
Information on writing an access document for disabled artists. An access doc, or access ‘rider’, is a document that outlines your disability access needs. You might make one so that you can give it to people…
A Primer on Working With Disabled Group Members for Feminist / Activist Groups and Organisations
12 page document aimed at feminist and activist groups to better prepare for working with disabled group members. Produced in 2018 and updated in response…
Creators Rights Alliance
A coalition of major creator led trade associations, unions and groups which exist to promote, protect and further the interests of authors and artists of creative works. Campaigns on fair contracts, pay, working conditions and intellectual property.
London Renters Union
Member led campaigning union and taking action to make sure all Londoners have a decent, affordable and secure home. Many renters are seeing their rents increase, with LRU members reporting rises as much as 50%. Includes fact…
Paying Artists Campaign
Launched to secure payment for artists who exhibit in publicly funded galleries. Consulted nearly 2,000 artists, curators, funders, arts producers, museums, galleries, local authorities and other public commissioners since 2014. Includes advice and information for artists and…
Art Not Oil
Art Not Oil mobilises against Big Oil cultural sponsorship, doing so since 2004. A coalition of autonomous organisations united around the aim of ending oil sponsorship of the arts, sharing resources as the Art Not Oil Coalition.
Taking Care: Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care
Project to include ethnographic and world cultures museums as ways to understand and challenge the interlinked crises in climate, decolonisation, democracy, and global inequality. The project explores the potential…
The Museum of British Colonialism
Network and platform for conversations about British colonialism and its legacies. Events, discussion and projects to publish suppressed and marginalised histories. No physical collection: the Museum instead creates, shares, and holds digital resources that highlight…
Rabbits Road Institute Library
Community collection of over 200 books, organised into: People & Place The Future Making it Happen. The library contains fiction, non fiction and poetry, on subjects ranging from placemaking to science fiction, immigration to regeneration, British…
Freelands Foundation
Foundation set up by Elisabeth Murdoch CBE to broaden access to art education and the visual arts. Particular focus on women artists: annual research into the representation of women artists in the UK and annual Freelands Award championing…
International Sculpture Center
Member organisation to champion the creation and understanding of sculpture and its contribution to society. Members include sculptors, collectors, patrons, architects, developers, journalists, curators, historians, critics, educators, foundries, galleries, and museums.
Culture Unstained
Research and campaigning organisation to end fossil fuel sponsorship of culture. Calls on arts and cultural organisations to cut their ties to fossil fuels to undermine social legitimacy that the industry gains from these relationships.
ArtLeaks
Collective platform of artists, curators and art historians that draws attention to cases involving politically active cultural workers and associated campaigns. Seeks to create a strong network of art whistleblowers to support and protect arts workers.
Arts&Heritage
Links contemporary artists to heritage organisations and diverse audiences for projects, residencies and commissions. Includes resources and training for artists in working with museums.
National Academy for Social Prescribing
Works to promote social prescribing which connects people to practical and emotional community support. Social prescribing link workers, based in GP practices, make a shared plan with a patient and introduce people to community support.…
Museum as Muck
Museum as Muck is a supportive network for working class museum and gallery people. They define working class as a catch all term for coming from a background with low social (who you know), economic and cultural…
An Uncomfortable Library
Selection of books, websites, and resources relating to museums, race, identity and curation. Selected by Alice Procter, historian of material culture, heritage tour guide and curator under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist.
Anti-Raids Network immigration raids data
Data and mapping on immigration raids compiled by the Anti Raids Network, made up of groups and individuals building resistance to immigration raids since 2012. Data analyses immigration raids in London by postcode area and…