It’s a tough world out there for artists. Sustainable support for the arts has been literally non-existent in the past, in Sri Lanka.
There is a general feeling that stage artists and other forms of art aren’t worth paying for because the gains for the society cannot be computed in monetary terms. In other words the jobs in theatre, drama and the like are not marketable jobs and the artists are more or less pushed into a corner where they have to self-fund productions or spend valuable time fundraising which they would have otherwise spent on creating their […]
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