Key points for Artists in Budget 2024: Arts Council funding €134m, up €4m from last year  €1.9m initiative for regional arts infrastructure Sustained funding for Basic Income for the Arts Increased funding of €1.5m for Screen Ireland €7.6m for Culture Ireland Source: https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/5a08e-details-of-budget-2024-announced-for-the-department-of-tourism-culture-arts-gaeltacht-sport-and-media/ https://www.cultureireland.ie/news/article/culture-ireland-budget-2024 Praxis Artist Union of Ireland broadly welcomes the sustained public investment…

The Campaign for Living Wage is a movement advocating for artists to be paid a wage that allows them to afford a socially acceptable minimum standard of living. Unlike the National Minimum Wage, the Living Wage is based on social consensus and is currently valued at 13.85 euros per hour in Ireland. However, this rate…

  [Edited 05/09/22] ‘We acknowledge all the work that Temple Bar Gallery & Studios have done this year by improving the conditions for mediators at this year’s biennale and are pleased to hear that the workers are receiving an equivalent to the living wage for 26hrs work. This position was originally advertised in January as…

  Praxis: The Artists’ Union of Ireland are celebrating a policy success, as several changes put forward by our members to the Basic Income for the Arts scheme were implemented by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts and the Gaeltacht. Regarding the aims of the scheme, we find that the focus has rightly shifted to…

  Aramark is an American corporation that operates three Direct Provision centres for the State in Cork, Clare and Westmeath, and are commercially involved in the US prison system and ICE. The Direct Provision system is an oppressive and dysfunctional migrant prison system which has successfully enriched private companies like Aramark over many years.  …

On the 24th of May, Praxis had its first meeting with the Arts Council of Ireland.   As part of our ongoing campaign to build an artist-led public funding applications system, Praxis’ Chairperson, Kerry Guinan, and Outreach Officer, Ruairí ó Donnabháin, met with Arts Council’s Director, Maureen Kennelly, and Strategic Development Manager, Toby Dennett. We…

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), similar to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the European Union–Mercosur agreement, is an EU free trade business agreement that was negotiated in secret between the EU and Canada over five years from 2009 to 2014. The European Parliament approved the deal in February 2017 and…