Arts Council Wales Equality Guide
Arts Council Wales have put together an equality guide to give practical ideas about diversity for both those who work in the arts and those who experience the arts.
Arts Council Wales have put together an equality guide to give practical ideas about diversity for both those who work in the arts and those who experience the arts.
This is a list of terms relating to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, + (LGBTQ+) definitions,
Trans Week of Awareness is observed from 13th-19th November. It’s a week to celebrate the achievements and contributions of trans people. The end of Trans Week of Awareness is marked by the Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th. This year there are a number of events happening in the United Kingdom and throughout November to raise awareness of trans issues.
Held October 11th in most countries and October 12th in the United Kingdom, National Coming Out Day was started in 1988 as a way for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community to speak out about issues that concern them and their supporters. There are an overwhelming amount of support resources on the Web … More
What and who is QFN? We are an emerging professional organisation of four Queer film programmers focused on bringing together other Queer film programmers working within film festivals, clubs and societies. Established in October 2015 after meeting in 2014 at a Film Hub Wales programming event as part of The Iris Prize Film Festival, we … More
As the lead body for film, and in our role as a public funder and a Lottery distributor, it’s essential that the BFI represents a contemporary Britain – in the films we fund and show, the audiences who watch them, and the filmmakers, actors and crews who make them. Film has the potential to be … More
Directors UK today urges the film industry to take decisive action to tackle the issue of gender inequality among film directors in the UK, calling for 50% of publicly funded films in the UK to be directed by women by 2020. This call comes off the back of a new report commissioned by Directors UK, which shows that the … More
Many women still feel invisible in the arts – underpaid and under-represented. We need to adopt more innovative ways of tracking gender balance.
Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015 is a large Arts and Humanities Research Council funded (£589,710) four-year project researching and writing the contemporary history of women working in the UK film industry.
A list of contemporary, UK feminist organisations.